WORKING CAPITAL AND FIXED CAPITAL AND ITS ADVANTAGES Introduction: A firm requires funds to acquire two types of assets : fixed assets and current assets .Fixed assets include land biulding ‚ plant‚ and machinary ‚ vehicles ‚ equipment etc.These assets relatively permanent in nature and are necessary for carrying on the bussiness .Current assets ‚on the other hand ‚are kept for supporting day-to-day operations and keep changing during the course of the business.They liquidated within short period
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UGANDA MANGEMENT INSTITUTE Public Policy and Governance Module: Public Budgeting and Good Governance QUESTION: Budgeting process is a waste of time and valuable resources. Evaluate this statement. A budget is a plan for financing an enterprise or government during a definite period‚ which is prepared and submitted by a responsible executive to a representative body (or other duly constituted agent) whose approval and authorization are necessary before the plan may be executed. In the
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I will be the first to admit that there are people in this world that has done some pretty terrible things. Maybe to themselves or to other people! Even though those people may have no remorse over the things they have done us as human beings have to be the ones to say when enough is enough. The history of the death penalty is a long and brutal one. From the stoning and crucifixion killings of the B.C. era to today’s methods of the electric chair and lethal injection‚ governments of one kind or
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What’s your real cost of capital? By James J. McNulty‚ Tony D. Yeh‚ William s. Schulze‚ and Michael H. Lubatkin Harvard Business Review‚ October 2002 Issue of the article: valuing investment projects Number of pages: 12 Daniel Miravet Campos Part 1. Executive summary This article is fundamentally based on the exposition of a new method to calculate the cost of capital for a company (MCPM)‚ to meet the inefficiencies of the current one (CAPM). In valuing any investment project or
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Issues in Accounting Education Vol. 15‚ No. 2 May 2000 Budgeting and Performance Evaluation at the Berkshire Toy Company Dean Crawford and Eleanor G. Henry ABSTRACT: This case1 provides an opportunity to study budgets‚ budget variances‚ and performance evaluation at several levels. As a purely mechanical problem‚ the case asks for calculations of various price‚ efficiency‚ spending‚ and volume variances from a set of budgets and actual results. The case is also an interpretive exercise. After the
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Business 441: In-class Example 7 Optimal Capital Budget The following are some of the data related to Maness Mining Company (MMC): 1) Target capital structure: 40% debt‚ 10% preferred stock‚ and 50% equity. 2) Projected net income available to common stockholders for next year is $10 million‚ and the dividend payout ratio is 40%. Preferred stock consists of $10 million face value of 10% preferred. Depreciation for next year is expected to be$1 million. 3) The firm is a constant growth company
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Capital Budget Recommendation Managerial Accounting and Legal Aspect of Business/ACC 543 May 24‚ 2010 Capital Budget Recommendation Guillermo Navallez is the owner of Guillermo Furniture‚ a company that
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Cost of Capital Definition: cost of capital is the rate of return that a company must earn on its project investments to maintain its market value and attract funds. The cost of capital to a company is the minimum rate of return that is must earn on its investments in order to satisfy the various categories of investors‚ who have made investments in the form of shares ‚ debentures and loans. The cost of capital in operational terms refers to the discount rate that would be used in determining the
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l. In a 1‚050-1‚500-word memo‚ define‚ analyze‚ and interpret the answers to items (c) through (h). Present the rationale behind each item and why it supports your decision stated in item (i). Also‚ attempt to describe the relationship between NPV and IRR. (Hint: The key factor here is the discount rate used.) In this memo‚ explain how you would analyze projects differently if they
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Planning and Budgeting in Developing Countries – “Shrinking the P” Posted by Richard Allen[1] In most advanced western countries‚ the use of a national development plan as the primary tool of policy-making died out two generations ago‚ as it largely did in countries of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s. However‚ national development planning continues to be a dominant policy instrument in many low-income and emerging market economies. Similarly‚ public investment plans (PIPs)‚ which
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