Dell’s Working Capital Substantive Issues Dell manufactures‚ sells‚ and services personal computers. The company markets directly to its customers and builds computers after receiving a customer order. This build-to-order model enables Dell to have much smaller investments in working capital than its competitors. It also enables Dell to enjoy more fully the benefits of reductions in component prices and to introduce new products more rapidly. Dell has grown quickly and has been able to finance
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Managerial Finance – Problem Review Set – Capital Structure and Leverage 1) If a firm utilizes debt financing‚ an X% decline in earnings before interest and taxes (EBIT) will result in a decline in earnings per share that is larger than X. a. True b. False 2) Firm A has a higher degree of business risk than Firm B. Firm A can offset this by using less financial leverage. Therefore‚ the variability of both firms ’ expected EBITs could
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Du Pont Case Study Capital Structure Statement of the Problem Determine a capital structure policy suitable for Du Pont in the 1980s and beyond. This paper will consider the history of the company and the turbulent times of the 1960s and 1970s‚ weigh the advantages and disadvantages associated with higher and lower levels of debt‚ and develop a strategy for the future after the merger with Conoco Inc. in 1983. Executive Summary Du Pont has been historically known for its
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Case Analysis of Nike‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital Apparently‚ the issue of Nike’s case is to control and check the calculation cost of capital done by Joanna Cohen who is the assistant of a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group. But I am willing to tell you that it can be a complex case in which we can doubt about sensitivity analysis done by Kimi Ford (portfolio manager) because her assumptions such as Revenue Growth Rate‚ COGS / Sales‚ S &A / Sales‚ Current Assets / Sales‚ and Current Liability
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CHAPTER 13: CAPITAL STRUCTURE AND LEVERAGE 1. A firm’s business risk is largely determined by the financial characteristics of its industry‚ especially by the amount of debt the average firm in the industry uses. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 2. Financial risk refers to the extra risk borne by stockholders as a result of a firm’s use of debt as compared with their risk if the firm had used no debt. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 3. A firm’s capital structure does not affect its free cash
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THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LIII‚ NO. 4 • AUGUST 1998 Agency Costs‚ Risk Management‚ and Capital Structure HAYNE E. LELAND* ABSTRACT The joint determination of capital structure and investment risk is examined. Optimal capital structure ref lects both the tax advantages of debt less default costs ~Modigliani and Miller ~1958‚ 1963!!‚ and the agency costs resulting from asset substitution ~Jensen and Meckling ~1976!!. Agency costs restrict leverage and debt maturity and increase yield
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B.A. 142 CASE 2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY E. I. du Pont de Nemours is an American chemical company that has recently acquired the major oil company of Conoco Inc. and is becoming one of the largest chemical manufacturers in the United States. Its financial conservatism has pushed Du Pont to the forefront of the industry as its profitability soared‚ providing it with the liquidity to readily finance its cash needs. But several competitive conditions posed a challenge to its risk averse financial
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Case 1-1: Ribbons an’ Bows‚ Inc. Note: This case is unchanged from the Twelfth Edition. Approach This is an introductory case and it should be taught as an introductory case. There will be plenty of time in the course for the students to learn the correct form of financial statements and details of accounting standards. In short‚ the instructor should be prepared to allow a variety of formats for the financial statements and tolerate some “not quite correct” accounting. The instructor
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UNIVERSITY On Capital Structure - Trends‚ Determinants & Issues in India with reference to banking sector: A case study of YES Bank. BY Shalini Shashidharan. M.Com. June 2013 Introduction – Background study The theory of capital structure is an important reference theory in any enterprise’s financing policy. The capital structure includes mixture of debt and equity financing and finding an optimal capital structure is one of the most important and
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high‚ relative to book and past market values‚ and to repurchase equity when their market values are low. We document that the resulting effects on capital structure are very persistent. As a consequence‚ current capital structure is strongly related to historical market values. The results suggest the theory that capital structure is the cumulative outcome of past attempts to time the equity market. Introduction “Equity market timing” refers to the practice of issuing shares at
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