Bethesda Mining Company 02/24/2011 Introduction Bethesda Mining is a midsized coal mining company with 20 mines located in Ohio‚ Pennsylvania‚ West Virginia‚ and Kentucky. Recently the coal mining industry has been impacted by environmental regulations that have presented challenges for the industry. However‚ a combination of increased demand for coal and new pollution reduction technologies has led to an improved market demand for high-sulfur coal. Bethesda is considering operating a new strip
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Pearson Education Limited. Glen Arnold‚ (2007) Essentials of cooperate finance management‚ Pearson Education BNET Investopedia‚ URL: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/a/arr.acp‚ Accessed on (06/11/2008) Pike‚ R Stephen Keef‚ Melvin Roush‚ NPV and IRR discounted cash flow methods are widely used‚ but they can create conflicting signals‚ 1995‚ pg 2. David Brookfield‚ 1995‚ Management Decision‚ Vol 33‚ No 8‚ Pg 2. Leslie Chadwick‚ 2007‚ management accounting‚ 2nd edition‚ elements of business‚ pg 159
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Infomercial Entertainment‚ INC Project Appraisals Depreciation Rates of MACRS | Year | Recovery Percentage | 1 | 20% | 2 | 32% | 3 | 19% | 4 | 12% | 5 | 11% | 6 | 6% | Question 1 Infomercial Project Selling Price of Infomercial $10 Total Production of 1993 (Units) 5000 Production Cost (%age of SP) 50% Labor Cost (%age of SP) 12% Sales Growth Rate per Year 5% Working Capital Required $10‚000 Initial Cost of Equipment $200‚000 Delivery Cost $25‚000 Total Cost
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Introduction to Standard Costing Standard costing is an important subtopic of cost accounting. Standard costs are usually associated with a manufacturing company’s costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead. Rather than assigning the actual costs of direct material‚ direct labor‚ and manufacturing overhead to a product‚ many manufacturers assign the expected or standard cost. This means that a manufacturer’s inventories and cost of goods sold will begin with amounts reflecting
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salvage value. Compared to this‚ the cost of branching out online grocery shopping includes up-front investments‚ additional investments and rent for warehouse. We think opening a traditional grocery store is better according to comparison of NVP‚ IRR‚ and discounted payback period. Statement As shown in the Pro-forma Income Statements‚ the relevant cash flows include Traditional Grocery Store that consists Incremental Cash Flow‚ up-front renovation costs‚ rent expense‚ salaries‚ other operating
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corporate governance stance has started to shift in order to include some elements of the Anglo-American way of corporate governance. It appears that a final decision has been made to build Disney Sea Park (despite unattractive ARR‚ but attractive NPV/IRR and ACFR) not only for the potential profits reaped for the company but also due to their responsibility to keep uphold the interests of its stakeholders (which would include its parent company‚ stockholders‚ landowners‚ suppliers‚ creditors‚ the local
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1. Under certain conditions‚ a particular project may have more than one IRR. One condition under which this situation can occur is if‚ in addition to the initial investment at time = 0‚ a negative cash flow occurs at the end of the project’s life. a. True b. False 2. The modified IRR (MIRR) method has wide appeal to professors‚ but most business executives prefer the NPV method to either the regular or modified IRR. a. True b. False 3. A firm should never undertake an investment if
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SAP for ATLAM MAF 680 INTEGRATED CASE STUDY EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ATLAM is the maritime industry’s diverse workforces establish on 15TH August 1981 and become private on 1st January 1997. ATLAM is a subsidiary of Petra Group Companies. Before 2001‚ ATLAM relied on a customised single-user system which only for recording accounting entries purposes and facing deficit cash flow. End of year 2001‚ Zulkifli Osman‚ Finance Manager of ATLAM has been responsible to organize new project on accounting
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researchers in finance and accounting have examined corporate capital budgeting practices. Many of these articles survey corporate managers and report the frequency with which various evaluation methods‚ such as payback‚ internal rate of return (IRR)‚ net present value (NPV)‚ discounted payback‚ profitability index (PI)‚ or average return on book value are used. The best known field studies about the practices of corporate finance are Gitman and Forrester’s (1977) study of Capital Budgeting
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About Whirlpool Corporation: 1989: Whirlpool entered European Markey by buying a 53% stake in the appliance division of Dutch based Philips Electronic for $ 470 million .Formed a joint venture firm named Whirlpool International BV (WIBV). 1990: Added the whirlpool brand name to the Philips product line. 1991: whirlpool bought the rest of the Philips stake (47%) for $ 600 million to become the sole owner of Whirlpool International BV. 1991-1999: WIBV developed three pan European brands
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