Worldwide Paper Case Study Incorporated in 2001‚ Worldwide Paper Company (WPC) is a corporation which is always focus on providing finest paper products to its clients and stakeholders. Headquartered in UAE‚ WPC’s most sales are distributed from the regions of Middle East‚ Asia‚ Africa and Levant. As a global company nowadays‚ the area of operation of WPC includes paper trading-commodity and conventional grads‚ indenting and custom order-commodity and conventional grades‚ merchanting and stock
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Target Case EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Target Corporation‚ originally Dayton Dry Goods Company‚ was founded in 1902 and headquartered in Minnesota. The first Target store was opened in 1962 with the purpose of providing customers with discounted values. Currently there are 1888 stores in the US and Canada and in 2004 Target Corporation sold all of their subsidiaries in order to focus on the Target stores. Today they are the second largest discount retailer in the world but are in continuous competition
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capital planning? Why is IRR important to an organization? Why is NPV important to a project? How would you select from multiple projects presented to your organization? Capital Planning is a set of plans that a company uses in order to determine if long-term assets are worth their value. It is also a form of budgeting. IRR is important because the higher it is‚ the more a certain project can be considered. Every organization have plans for certain projects and the IRR is considered when trying
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decide which are worth undertaking. (Kidwell and Parrino‚ 2009) There are many techniques used in the process of capital budgeting. The most common methods are payback‚ discounted payback period‚ net present value (NPV)‚ internal rate of return (IRR)‚ accounting rate of return (ARR) and modified internal rate of return (MIRR). Payback Period The payback period is defined as the number of years that it will take a project to recover the initial investment of a company. This period can be easily
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returns and related risks. The analysis will include the necessary financial models NPV‚IRR and Sensitivity by calculating the discounted cash flows‚ but also take into consideration economic characteristics (PESTLE) as well as other driving forces in relevant to the mobile phone industry such as competition (Porter’s Five Forces ) 2 Recommendations (See Figures 1 & 2 for visual representation of NPV and IRR) The ethos of Sky-Blue’s business activities are based on technological advances and
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Investment Banking Interview Guide Access the Rest of the Interview Guide Investment Banking Interview Guide‚ Advanced LBO Model – Quiz Questions Answers in bold. Table of Contents: • • • Types of Debt and Financing Methods Financial Statement Adjustments and Debt Schedules Calculating Returns Types of Debt and Financing Methods 1. All of the following types of debt are typically “floating-rate” instruments used to finance an LBO EXCEPT: a. Subordinated Notes b. Term Loan A c. Term Loan B d. Revolver
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structure. However‚ the riskiness of their assets and cash flows are somewhat different‚ resulting in Safeco having a WACC of 10% and Risco a 12% WACC. Safeco is considering Project X‚ which has an IRR of 10.5% and is of the same risk as a typical Safeco project. Risco is considering Project Y‚ which has an IRR of 11.5% and is of the same risk as a typical Risco project.
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Methods: Net Present Value (NPV): the present value of the future after-tax cash flow minus the investment outlay made initially. The decision rule for the NPV as follows: invest if NPV> 0‚ do not invest if NPV< 0 Internal Rate of Return (IRR): calculates the interest rate that equates the present value of the future after-tax cash flows equal that investment outlay; then compared to the required rate of return‚ or hurdle rate‚ to determine the viability of the capital projects. The higher
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CHAPTER 7‚ Case #1 BETHESDA MINING To analyze this project‚ we must calculate the incremental cash flows generated by the project. Since net working capital is built up ahead of sales‚ the initial cash flow depends in part on this cash outflow. So‚ we will begin by calculating sales. Each year‚ the company will sell 600‚000 tons under contract‚ and the rest on the spot market. The total sales revenue is the price per ton under contract times 600‚000 tons‚ plus the spot market sales times the
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depth. The project proposals (CPRs) are owned and presented by the real estate managers. There is a lot of pre-work that goes into the project before it’s presented. Typically 12-24 months of work is done to collect various data such as NPV‚ IRR‚ demographics‚ brand awareness‚ and sensitivity analysis. The sales projections are provided by the Research and Planning group and all project metrics are summarized into a standardized
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