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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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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A SUMMARY OF CAPITAL BUDGETING TECHNIQUES E A G C EDIRISINGHE - FGS/02/25/01/2012/044 COURSE MBA 61043- CORPORATE FINANCE SECOND YEAR SEMESTER ONE – 2013 Master of Business Administration Faculty of Commerce and Management Studies University of Kelaniya Course Instructors : Dr.P.M.C. Thilkarathne Dr.D.K.Y. Abeyawardena Corporate Finance - MBA 61043 CAPITAL BUDGETING TECHNIQUES Faced with limited sources of capital‚ management should carefully decide whether a particular project
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“CAPITAL BUDGETING INAIR-INDIA” PROJECT REPORT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF MANAGEMENT STUDIES. MUMBAI UNIVERSITY SUBMITTED BY: - Mr. VISHAL D. JADHAV M.M.S 09-11 (Finance) SUBMITTED TO: - AIR- INDIA LTD. UNDER THE GUIDANCE: - Mr. SHOBHAN A. TALAVDEKAR DECLARATION I HEREBY DECLARE THAT I HAVE COMPLETED THIS PROJECT ON “CAPITAL BUDGETING” IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2010-2011. THIS INFORMATION IS TRUE AND ORIGINAL TO
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Week 5 Case Study Capital Budgeting Case Capital Budgeting Case This week‚ Learning Team C‚ has completed capital budgeting on Corporation A and Corporation B. We were given $250‚000.000 to acquire a corporation. We decided to choose Corporation B. To ensure that our decision was the best‚ this week‚ we defined‚ analyzed‚ and interpreted the Net Present Value and the Internal Rate of Return for both Corporations. We made the decision based on more financial sense. Below‚ we have outlined our
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9-204-109 REV: OCTOBER 23‚ 2006 MIHIR DESAI Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES In June 2003‚ Rob Venerus‚ director of the newly created Corporate Analysis & Planning group at The AES Corporation‚ thumbed through the five-inch stack of financial results from subsidiaries and considered the breadth and scale of AES. In the 12 years since it had gone public‚ AES had become a leading independent supplier of electricity in the world with more than $33 billion in assets
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According to Attrill and Mclaney‚ 2009‚ there are four (4) approaches to capital budgeting. The net present value (NPV) is one of such and is a summation of all discounted cash flows(Present Value) associated with whichever project(s) are undergoing appraisal. Every appraisal method have decision rules‚ examples include the Payback Period(PBP) which stipulates the approval of projects that pays back the initial investments within a specific period. For this method (Net Present Value) to be most
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issued by small company and that bond also pays annual interest of 5%. Virtually all investors would buy the government bond the first is less risky while paying the same interest rate as the riskier second bond. Furthermore‚ in order to attract capital from investors‚ the small firm issuing the second bond must pay an interest rate higher than 5% that the government bond pays otherwise no investor is likely to buy that bond. If the firm offering to pay an interest rate more than than 5%‚ it gives
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Capital budgeting refers to the total process of generating‚ evaluating‚ selecting and following up on capital expenditure alternatives. The firm allocates or budgets financial resources to new investment proposals. Basically‚ the firm may be confronted with three types of capital budgeting decisions i) the accept/reject decision‚ ii) the mutually exclusively choice decision and iii) the capital rationing decision. i) Asset – reject decision: This is a fundamental decision in capital budgeting
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Capital Budgeting: Decision Criteria Brigham and Daves Ch. 12 Christopher B. Alt CFA PhD What Is Capital Budgeting? Analysis of potential additions to fixed assets Long-term decisions typically involving large $ expenditures Making the ‘right’ capital budgeting decisions is enormously important to a firm’s future Should we build this plant? All rights reserved - Christopher B. Alt 2 Key Steps in Capital Budgeting Estimate CFs (inflows & outflows) Assess riskiness of CFs Determine
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