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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CHAPTER 17 Capital Budgeting for the Multinational Corporation EASY (definitional) 17.1 The _______ is defined as the present value of future cash flows discounted at the project’s cost of capital minus the initial net cash outlay for the project. a) net present value b) equity-adjusted present value c) cost of capital d) value additive principle Ans: a Section: Net present value Level: Easy 17.2 The most desirable property of the NPV criterion is that it evaluates a) investments
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Revised Fall 2012 CHAPTER 12 STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS Key Terms and Concepts to Know Basic Concepts The statement of cash flows highlights the major activities that impact cash flows and hence‚ affect the overall cash balance. Cash flows are important because they finance operations‚ pay bills‚ pay employees‚ pay dividends‚ repay loans and make investments. The statement analyzes the changes in the non-cash balance sheet from the perspective of whether the changes provided or used cash
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Capital budgeting is the process of evaluating and selecting long-term investments that are in line with the goal of investors’ wealth maximization. When a business makes a capital investment (assets such as equipment‚ building‚ land etc.) it incurs a cash outlay in the expectation of future benefits. The expected benefits generally extend beyond one year in the future. Out of different investment proposals available to a business‚ it has to choose a proposal that provides the best return and the
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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 Surveys: The Future is Now Richard M. Burns and Joe Walker This research is motivated by two major factors: (1) the over twenty year hiatus since the last thorough review ofthe capital budgeting survey literature‚ and (2) past appeals to the finance academic community by researchers to explore neglected areas ofthe capital budgeting process. In response‚ and using a four-stage capital budgeting process as a guide‚ the authors review the capital budgeting survey literature
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Part I A. Present Value with Discount rate of 7% = 15000/(1+7%) = 15000/1.07 = $14‚018.69 Present Value with Discount rate of 4% = 15000/(1+4%) = 15000/1.04 = $14‚423.08 B. Account A - Present Value with Discount rate of 6% = 6500/(1+6%) = 6500/1.06 = $6‚132.08 Account B - Present Value with Discount rate of 6% = 12600/(1+6%)^2 = 12600/1.1236 = $11‚213.96 C. Present Value of Gold Mine 7% = 4900000/1.07 + 61‚000‚000/(1.07)^2 + 85‚000‚000/(1.07)^3 = 45‚794‚392.52 + 61‚000‚000/1.1449 + 85
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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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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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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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