place with the combination of factors of production called as land‚ labor‚ capital and organization. In modern economics‚ enterprise has come to occupy a very important role in production so as to deal with that on a separate footing as an agent of production. Production‚ according to Hicks‚ is "any activity directed to the satisfaction of other people’s wants through exchange". Production in economics means creation of economic utilities‚ as man cannot produce matter. He can only work upon matter so
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Economic development generally refers to the sustained‚ concerted actions of policymakers and communities that promote the standard of living and economic health of a specific area. Economic development can also be referred to as the quantitative and qualitative changes in the economy. Such actions can involve multiple areas including development of human capital‚ critical infrastructure‚ regional competitiveness‚ environmental sustainability‚ social inclusion‚ health‚ safety‚ literacy‚ and other
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1) Using pertinent information from the case text‚ prepare a capital budgeting analysis of the wind turbine project using the payback and net presentation value or internal rate of return models. Costs for Wind Turbine include: SEDs Fee - Grant ($157‚000 - 15‚000) $142000 Purchase and Installationn - Grant ($3‚900‚000 - $582‚000) $3‚318‚000 · Loan for $3‚300‚000 for 10 years and 7.3 interest rate $465‚935.76 per year (10 years) · Cash $18‚000 Insurance and Maintance Fee $75000 per year
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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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THE PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS OF MANPOWER DEVELOPMENT IN NIGERIA. Omotosho Fatimah Olamide Department of Economics‚ University of Lagos INTRODUCTION The development of indigenous manpower to serve as the propelling force for national growth and development is no doubt a key to Nigeria’s socioeconomic and political development. Manpower utilization could be defined as “the existence of skilled
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CHAPTER 18 VALUATION AND CAPITAL BUDGETING FOR THE LEVERED FIRM Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. APV is equal to the NPV of the project (i.e. the value of the project for an unlevered firm) plus the NPV of financing side effects. 2. The WACC is based on a target debt level while the APV is based on the amount of debt. 3. FTE uses levered cash flow and other methods use unlevered cash flow. 4. The WACC method does not explicitly include the interest cash
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Capital Budgeting Methods for Corporate Project Selection In a 2001 Graham and Harvey survey of 392 chief financial officers (CFOs) asked “how frequently they used different capital budgeting methods?” Approximately 75% of the CFOs replied that they use net present value (NPV) or Internal Rate of Return (IRR) always or almost always (Smart‚ Megginson & Gitman‚ 2004‚ pg. 251). Projects are viewed as capital investments in the corporate world‚ and as such‚ are evaluated closely for their possible
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Management of Working Capital James Ward Instructor: Leon Daniel BUS 650 Managerial Finance November 17‚ 2014 Management of Working Capital A financial metric that ensures operating liquidity of a firm‚ business organization or any other entity including governmental entities is known as working capital. Working capital is the difference between the current assets and liabilities of an organization determining the amount of debt acquired to finance its assets. George had also borrowed
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of financial intermediation in the economic growth process was recognised as far back as the 17th century when Walter Bagehot‚ in his classic Lombard Street‚ argued that it was England’s efficient capital markets that made the industrial revolution possible. Centuries later‚ modern day economists hold largely the same view that access to investment capital‚ through well functioning financial markets‚ is crucial for growth and development‚ particularly in capital-scarce developing countries. They
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Sustainable development From Wikipedia‚ the free encyclopedia See also: Sustainability Solar power towers utilize the natural resource of the Sun‚ and are a renewable energy source. From left: PS10 and PS20 solar towers. Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of resource use‚ that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present‚ but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF-Environment‚ Local people‚ Future). The
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