The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: capital structure‚ valuation‚ and cost of capital Teaching Note Synopsis In June 2002‚ a managing director of an active-investor hedge fund was considering the possible gains from increasing the debt capitalization of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Wrigley had been conservatively financed and at the date of the case‚ carried no debt. The tasks for the student are to: Estimate the potential change in value from relevering Wrigley using adjusted present value analysis
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wishes to finance all fixed assets and half of its permanent current assets with long-term financing costing 10 percent. Short-term financing currently costs 5 percent. Lear’s earnings before interest and taxes are $200‚000. Determine Lear’s earnings after taxes under this financing plan. The tax rate is 30 percent. - All fixed assets= $600‚000 - Half of its permanent current assets = $175‚000 - Long-term financing cost= 10% - Earnings before interest and taxes = $200‚000 - Tax rate= 30% Long-term
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------------------------------------------------- Risk Analysis in Capital Budgeting Capital budgeting is used to ascertain the requirements of the long-term investments of a company. Examples of long-term investments are those required for replacement of equipments and machinery‚ purchase of new equipments and machinery‚ new products‚ and new business premises or factory buildings‚ as well as those required for R&D plans. The different techniques used for capital budgeting include: Profitability index
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Impacts of Profitability and Financial Leverage on Firm’s Capital Structure By [Your Name] [Instructor’s Name] [Institution’s Name] [Date] Declaration While conducting the proposed research work‚ I‚ being a hard-working‚ innovative and conscientious researcher‚ come up with the factual severity of consequences allied with an act of plagiarising content from others’ work. Moreover‚ I do comprehend the rules and regulations my university encompasses against submitting a plagiarised document
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MM with capital structure In 1958‚ Modigliani and Merton Miller in their classical paper “The Cost of Capital‚ Corporation Finance and the Theory of Investment”‚ talked something about capital structure as follow: Consider any company j and let Xj stand as before for the expected return on the assets owned by the company (that is‚ its expected profit before deduction of interest). Denote by Di the market value of the debts of the company; by Sj the market value of its common shares; and by V j
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The debentures are having a great significance as a means of corporate financing. Through debentures‚ the company is enabled to have the capital without giving any control over their holders. There is a certainty of finance for a specific period and the company can adjust its financial plan accordingly By issuing the debentures‚ the company gets an opportunity to trade on equity. Consequently‚ it results in increasing the return for the equity shareholders. There are certain individuals and institutional
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DEBT AND EQUITY FINANCING PAPER JACQUELYN CREAGH ACCOUNTING 400 THERESA PEKRON August 1‚ 2011 Debt Financing Debt is when one party‚ the debtor‚ owes to a second party‚ the creditor. This usually refers to assets owed but the term can also be used figuratively to cover moral obligations and other interactions not based on economic value. Debt is usually granted with expected repayment of the original sum plus interest. The advantages of debt financing are that the company and/or
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The Structure of a Business Decision Executive Summary The Nakamura Company of Kyoto‚ Japan is famous for making quality and for middle class lacquer containers for the daily table. The company started selling the product under the brand Chrysanthemum which eventually became the leader in the market. The product became famous with the American GI’s after the World War 2 back when Japan was under rehabilitation with assistance of the United States. Aside from the purchases made by the GI’s
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Asian Journal of Finance & Accounting ISSN 1946-052X 2012‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 1 Capital Structure and Firm Performance in the Financial Sector: Evidence from Australia Vedran Skopljak School of Economics and Finance‚ La Trobe University Kingsbury Drive‚ Bundoora‚ Vic 3086‚ Australia Tel: 61-3-9479-1111 E-mail: vedran.skopljak@latrobe.edu.au Robin H. Luo (Corresponding author) Department of Finance‚ Wuhan University Luojia Hill‚ Wuhan 430072‚ China Tel: 86-27-6875-2740 E-mail: robin.h.luo@gmail.com
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and Economics Available online at www.managementjournal.info RESEARCH ARTICLE An Empirical Analysis of Capital Structure on Firms’ Performance in Nigeria Taiwo Adewale Muritala* Department of Economics and Financial Studies‚ Fountain University Osogbo‚ Osun State‚ Nigeria. *Correspondence E-mail: muritaiwo@yahoo.com Abstract This paper examines the optimum level of capital structure through which a firm can increase its financial performance using annual data of ten firms spanning a five-year
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