Subject: Corporate Finance (3 credits) Reference book: 1. Essentials of managerial Finance: Harcourt College 2000 2. Fundamentals of financial management: Mc Graw Hill 2007 Chapter 01: An overview of Finance What is finance? Finance is concerned with decisions about money (cash flows) Finance decisions deal with how money is raised and used Everything else being equal: * More vale is preferred to less * The sooner cash is received the more value it has * Less risky
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gratitude to our employees worldwide‚ who aggressively brought costs down— even as they continued to bring exciting new products to market. The statement would not appear to be telling you enough. For example‚ McNealy says the year was a mixed bag with revenue growth of 16 percent. But what about earnings? You can delve further by examining the income statement in Exhibit 1. Also‚ for additional analysis of other factors‚ consolidated balance sheet(s) are presented in Exhibit 2 below. 1. Referring
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Financing HBS Case 9-287-057 The case is set in the context of RJR’s 1985 financing of its $4.9 billion acquisition of Nabisco Brands Inc. To finance the acquisition‚ RJR was proposing the issue of $1.2 billion of 12 year notes and the same amount in preferred stock. It had already funded $1.5 billion of the acquisition leaving $1 billion more to finance. Challenges facing RJR: Of the $1.5 billion that had been funded‚ $500 million came from cash and the remaining was through bank borrowings
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FINC2011 Tutorial 1 BMA Ch.1 Problems 1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 4‚ 7‚ 9‚ 10‚ 11‚ 12 |1.| |Read the following passage: “Companies usually buy (a) assets. These include both tangible assets such as (b) and | | | |intangible assets such as (c). To pay for these assets‚ they sell (d) assets such as (e). The decision about which | | | |assets to buy is usually termed the (f) or (g) decision. The decision about how to raise the money is usually termed | | | |the (h) decision.” Now fit each of the following
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derivatives. a. How is open interest different than trading volume? On a trading day‚ can trading volume exceed open interest? b. Why does the open interest usually decline during the month preceding the delivery month? Question 2 Use the Black-Scholes model to value a call option on the following stock: Time to expiration 6 months Standard deviation 50% per year Exercise price $50 Stock price $50 Interest rate 3% You can solve this question either by formula or by Excel
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no debt. Its cost of capital is 5%. It has a perpetual random CF with mean $40 million and it pays no taxes. Northrop plans a leveraged recapitalization‚ in which it will issue $300 million in perpetual debt at an interest rate of 2% per year and use the proceeds to repurchase shares. The firm operates in the Modigliani-Miller world with no taxes. a) What are Northrop’s firm value‚ cost of equity‚ and WACC before the recapitalization? b) What are Northrop’s firm value‚ equity value‚ debt value
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| Reducing Domestic Water use in Residential Gardens| Issue and Stakeholder Briefing| | | | To the desk of Hon. Bill Marmion. Minister for Water and Environment This policy brief brings to light the issue of household water consumption in Perth‚ particularly the need to examine the potential for large scale water savings in the domestic sphere. Domestic water use is nearly double that of Melbourne and Brisbane‚ whilst local water supplies are critically low. This brief summarises the
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INTRODUCTION Companies need to choose from among various sources of finance depending on the amount of capital required and the term for which it is needed. Finance sources can be divided into three categories‚ namely traditional sources‚ ownership capital and non-ownership capital. Traditional sources are the internally generated capital (retained earnings); ownership capital is the capital owned by shareholders of the company (ordinary shares) while non-ownership capital includes funds from lenders
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Samantha opened a savings account this morning. Her money will earn 5 percent interest‚ compounded annually. After five years‚ her savings account will be worth $5000. Assume she will not make any withdrawals. Given this‚ which one of the following statements is true? A) Samantha deposited more than $5600 this morning. B) The present value of Samantha’s account is $5600 C) Samantha could have deposited less money and still had $5600 in five years if she could have earned 5.5 percent interest. D)
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EMBA Theme IIICorporate IT Management Assignment 3: None of Our Business‚ Roberta A. Fusaro‚ a 2004 HBR Case Study I. RFID Definition Radio Frequency Identification RFID is an established data-carrying technology used throughout industry. Data relating to an item is stored on a tag‚ which is attached to the item. The tag is activated by radio waves emitted from a reader. Once activated‚ the tag sends data stored in its memory relating to the item back to the reader. This data can then
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