achieve an optimal capital strategy and repurchase undervalued shares. To accomplish all these goals the company has asked Janet Mortensen‚ Vice President of finance for Midland energy resources‚ to calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the company as a whole. Formula: WACC = rd (D/V) (1-t) + re (E/V) Where‚ rd = cost of debt; re= cost of equity; D = Market value of debt; E= Market value of equity; V= Market Value of the company (D+E); t= Tax rate. Risk Free Rate‚ rf: Midland’s
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Nike‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital Case 14 A Case Brief Submitted to Submitted by In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Date Submitted September 28‚ 2011 Summary This case highlights Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager with NorthPoint Group‚ a mutual-fund management firm. She managed the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund‚ and in July of 2001‚ was looking at the possibility of taking a position in Nike for her fund. Nike stock had declined significantly over the previous year‚ and it appeared
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personal tax returns. In addition to a process map indicating the process that the staff is required to go through and time each process takes‚ discussion on how such process can be reengineered will follow. Finally‚ under the assumption that the concurrent technological support is available‚ an analysis on the cost and benefits of new information technology will be provided. EVALUATION OF PROCESS Although Ernst &Young believes that extra checks in the office to prepare personal tax returns build
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Risk and Return: Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing Models Portfolio Theory Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) Efficient frontier Capital Market Line (CML) Security Market Line (SML) Beta calculation Arbitrage pricing theory Fama-French 3-factor model Portfolio Theory • Suppose Asset A has an expected return of 10 percent and a standard deviation of 20 percent. Asset B has an expected return of 16 percent and a standard deviation of 40 percent. If the correlation between A and B is 0.6
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disadvantages and some of them are: Advantages: • It may reduce operation cost in the long run. • RFID Equipment damage occurs much less frequently as compared to other magnetic strips or bar code systems. • An individual can potentially be identified and charged with right fare by simply carrying the RFID smart-card. • RFID scan time is much less as compared to old fashioned bar code scanning time. Disadvantages: • Cost of diffusion and implementation for an RFID System can be high. • RFID has
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total cost and the total benefits of any activity. To choose the better option one of the tools provided by the managerial economics is marginal analysis. By weighing the marginal benefits against the marginal costs one can take the best decision. Marginal Costs- Marginal cost is the change in total cost when one more unit is produced. Marginal cost occurs when an activity increases by one unit. When the firm increases its production the total cost always increases even though the marginal costs
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Capital Account Liberalization and the Exchange Rate Regimes Corresponding author: Associate Prof. Dr. Sule L. Aker Faculty of Business and Economics Eastern Mediterranean University Gazi Magusa‚ Mersin 10‚ Turkey sule.aker@emu.edu.tr tel: 00903926301260 fax: 00903923651017 Co-author: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ahmet H. Aker Cyprus International University Nicosia‚ Mersin 10‚ Turkey Abstract In this study‚ the relationship
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FINANCIAL LEVERAGE ON COST OF CAPITAL AND VALUATION OF FIRM: A STUDY OF CEMENT INDUSTRY NAME- DIPANNITA GHOSH DEPT- MBA ROLL- 11 INTRODUCTION In corporate finance‚ financing decisions has greater importance because the optimal capital structure can be created trough proper mix of finance. Corporate managers generally prefer borrowings over other means of financing. Management of a company has to be very careful while deciding the extent of financing leverage in its capital structure because
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Marginal Analysis A. Marginal Revenue: The increase in revenue generated from the sale of one additional unit of output 1. If there is a positive value associated with the marginal revenue there is an increase in the total revenue. Once the marginal revenue reaches or arrives at 0 then the total revenue is maximized. A decrease or negative in marginal revenue will cause the total revenue to go down. B. Marginal Cost: The additional‚ extra cost involved
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Estimating the Cost of Capital: Survey and Synthesis Case 13 Teaching Notes Introduction “Each year in the US‚ corporations undertake more than $500 billion in capital spending” (Bruner 184). This case presents a reasonably analyzed set of teaching notes describing how these financially sophisticated corporations estimate their capital costs. Understanding the estimation of capital costs helps identify the uncertainty of the cost-of-capital theory‚ sets a benchmark for cost-of-capital‚ helps
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