Prepared for The Journal of Applied Corporate Finance Vol. 15‚ No. 1‚ 2002 How do CFOs make capital budgeting and capital structure decisions?1 John R. Graham Associate Professor of Finance‚ Fuqua School of Business‚ Duke University‚ Durham‚ NC 27708 USA Campbell R. Harvey Professor of Finance‚ Fuqua School of Business‚ Duke University‚ Durham‚ NC 27708 USA National Bureau of Economic Research‚ Cambridge‚ MA 02912 USA March 8‚ 2002 1A longer and more detailed version of this paper is published
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viewpoints together and make best budget. Compromising: Decisions which will at least partly satisfy everyone is made by the decision team Accommodating: This style specifies a willingness to meet other UWL member’s needs at the expense of the member’s own needs. Mostly this style won’t help to get good outcome in budget decision. Avoiding: Normally it is not acceptable in real. According to Mind Tools (2011)‚ “Interest-Based Relational Approach” theory is giving good
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GLOBALIZING THE COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL BUDGETING AT AES 1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? 2. If you implemented the methodology suggested by Venerus‚ what would be the range of discount rates one would use around the world? 3. Does this make sense as a way to do capital budgeting? 4. How big a value difference does this new approach make to the Pakistan project? 5. How do these cost of capital modifications translate into changed probabilities
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capital budgeting decision both real and nominal concepts must be considered. The purpose of this paper is to continue the discussion of the role of inflation in capital budgeting‚ and to focus on the individual components of the process to draw specific conclusions with respect to the interaction between the cost of capital‚ inflation‚ and the cash flow variables within a DCF - IRR framework. Much research has been published examining the impact of inflation on the capital budgeting decision
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Budgeting is the systematic method of allocating financial‚ physical‚ and human resources to achieve an organization ’s strategic goals. Budgets are utilized by for-profit and non-profit organizations to monitor the progress towards the goals‚ assist in the control of spending‚ and help predict cash flow for the organization. The central challenge that budget developers encounter is predicting what the future holds for the internal business and external factors. Reading the future is something
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Brain Enterprises Budget Proposal For Papa Geo’s Restaurant BUSN-278 SUMB11 Sec B Professor Marie Main DeVry University ------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Section | Title | Subsection | Title | Page Number | 1.0 | Executive summary | | | 3 | 2.0 | Sales Forecast | | | 3 | | | 2.1 | Sales Forecast | 3 | | | 2.2 | Methods and Assumptions | 4 | 3.0 | Capital Expenditure Budget | | | 4 | 4.0 | Investment Analysis | | | 6 |
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Capital Budgeting Methods and Cash Flow Estimation Tasty Foods Corporation (Part A) November 5‚ 2012 Executive Summary: Tasty Foods has seen phenomenal growth throughout its lifetime in large part due to a continuous development of innovative new products. Although prosperous for Tasty Foods from its birth‚ this is a business initiative that in the past years‚ Tasty Foods has not maintained. Consumers are shifting towards a more health conscious lifestyle and until now Tasty Foods has not presented
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Week 9 Assignment 2 Submission Assignment 2: Capital Budgeting Futronics‚ Inc. $2 billion company‚ reducing costs and corporate overhead to use outside vendor resources. Initial investment costs $1 billion. There is 0 salvage value and cost of capital at 8%. Yield cash flows $450‚000 year 1 $350‚000 year 2 $300‚000 year 3 $250‚000 year 4 Internal rate of return Average net return = (450‚000 + 350‚000 + 300‚000 + 250‚000)/4= 1‚350‚000/4 = 337‚500 Average investment = (Investment at beginning
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: CAPITAL BUDGETING MINI CASE 1 CAPITAL BUDGETING (MINI CASE) QUESTION A What is capital budgeting? Solution: Capital budgeting is a required managerial tool. One duty of a financial manager is to choose investments with satisfactory cash flows and rates of return. Therefore‚ a financial manager must be able to decide whether an investment is worth undertaking and be able to choose intelligently between two or more alternatives. To do this‚ a sound procedure to evaluate
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How many people can say that they were offered and all-expense paid trip to Hawaii for two weeks? Last summer my grandparents paid for my whole family to come to Hawaii with them and stay on the island of Oahu for one week and The Big Island for another week. Many people say that being away from home for so long makes you homesick. However‚ from my personal experience I miss Hawaii everyday now that I am back in Oklahoma. In fact‚ my goal is to one day go back to Hawaii for college and to start my
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