CHAPTER 4 PART II: VALUATION AND CAPITAL BUDGETING Discounted Cash Flow Valuation The signing of big-name athletes is often accompanied by great fanfare‚ but the numbers are often misleading. For example‚ in late 2010‚ catcher Victor Martinez reached a deal with the Detroit Tigers‚ signing a contract with a reported value of $50 million. Not bad‚ especially for someone who makes a living using the “tools of ignorance” (jock jargon for a catcher’s equipment). Another example is the contract signed
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TIME VALUE OF MONEY Time value of money refers to an individual preference of a given amount of cash now rather than the same amount at some future time. The reasons why an individual would prefer cash now: i) Subjective preference for present consumption – one may prefer present consumption over future consumption of goods and services because of the urgency of present wants or the risk of not being in a position to enjoy future consumption. ii) Availability of investment opportunities –
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Management Accounting: Capital Budgeting and Qualitative Measures. “One of the key areas of long-term decision-making that firms must tackle is that of investment - the need to commit funds by purchasing land‚ buildings‚ machinery and so on‚ in anticipation of being able to earn an income greater than the funds committed”. (Investment Appraisal sheet). A Capital Budgeting Process essentially defined as‚ “the process by which the financial manager decides whether to invest in specific capital projects or assets”
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Assignment | Cost of Capital‚ Capital Budgeting and Financial Planning | Chapter(s) | 9‚ 10‚ 12 | Group Name | | Student Name(s) | | Date | | Instructions: HW Assignments will be uploaded to Kean Blackboard and must be accessed from there. You must work in groups where assigned (or independently if not assigned to groups) on homework assignments. Points are noted against each question. You are required to submit Home Work assignments electronically on Kean Blackboard using MS-Office
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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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The Society for Financial Studies Decision Processes‚ Agency Problems‚ and Information: An Economic Analysis of Capital Budgeting Procedures Author(s): Anthony M. Marino and John G. Matsusaka Source: The Review of Financial Studies‚ Vol. 18‚ No. 1 (Spring‚ 2005)‚ pp. 301-325 Published by: Oxford University Press. Sponsor: The Society for Financial Studies. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3598074 . Accessed: 15/11/2013 17:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance
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What are the primary strengths and weakness of the current system? How should the performance of such a system be evaluated? The capital budgeting system at Stryker Corporation made use of formalized CER forms by which individual divisions within Stryker documented the goals for revenue‚ operating profit and cash flow across in a way that were deliverable and consistent with global corporate targets. The CER system is a rigorous one requiring thorough documentation before the divisions obtain
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Capital investment decisions are those decisions that involve current outlays in return for a stream of benefits in future years. It is true to say that all the firm ’s expenditures are made in expectation of realizing future benefits. Investment decisions are extremely important because they have a major long term effect on a firm ’s operations. For example‚ when BMW decided to build some of its cars in Greece‚ South Carolina‚ it made an investment in additional productive capacity that will affect
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importance of capital budgeting cannot be exaggerated. Some of the reasons for this importance are mentioned below: • Capital budgeting involves a greater amount of risk on account of unforeseen situations. Capital is generally invested with the expectation of future benefits which are likely to accrue over a long period of time. Therefore‚ a right decision has to be taken to ensure a favorable impact on the profitability and competitive position of the firm. • Capital budgeting decisions are
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decision(s) about which capital projects will be undertaken by a firm. Nominal cash flows determine its degree of profitability. However‚ in making the 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
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