The Importance of Budgeting Budgeting‚ both as a form of planning and a decision-making tool‚ is vital to a company. It provides a detailed estimate of how the company expects to spend money in the following period. Budgeting helps firms to prepare themselves and make alterations‚ if needed‚ in order to achieve the desired results. Budgets allow firms to better utilize the financial resources available to them. Most companies create their budgets on an annual basis‚ aiming to obtain a more precise
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QUESTION 1 – Budgeting Process and Budgetary Control I have been asked to advise two entirely different businesses about the benefits and problems associated with what is termed the “traditional approach to budgeting and budgetary control”. One of the businesses operates in a very stable and static market place‚ where there is little change in either products or demand year on year‚ whereas the other business operates in a very dynamic‚ rapidly changing‚ innovative environment. If my findings
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HUMAN AND SOCIAL CAPITAL BY: JOSEPH KIOKO REG. NO: D80/61281/2011 DATE: 05/06/2013 LECTURER: PROF. P. O. K’OBONYO Introduction and Definitions: Human capital is defined by the OECD (1998‚ p9) as “the knowledge‚ skills and competences and other attributes embodied in individuals that are relevant to economic activity.” While Duration of schooling and levels of qualification are the standard measures used to measure human capital the OECD itself
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Corporate Finance and Investment 1. Define “Working Capital” Working Capital=Current Assets-Current Liabilities =Accounts Receivable + Inventory - Accounts Payable “Working capital is how much in liquid assets that a company has on hand. Working capital is needed to pay for planned and unexpected expenses‚ meet the short-term obligations of the business‚ and to build the business.” 2. Give concrete measures how w.c. can be optimized (receivable‚ inventories (JIT
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Chapter 8 The Cost of Capital 236 CHAPTER 8—THE COST OF CAPITAL TRUE/FALSE 1. Capital refers to items on the right-hand side of a firm’s balance sheet. 2. The component costs of capital are market-determined variables in as much as they are based on investors’ required returns. 3. The cost of debt is equal to one minus the marginal tax rate multiplied by the coupon rate on outstanding debt. 4. The cost of issuing preferred stock by a corporation must be adjusted to an after-tax
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an organization over a specific period. Budgeting describes the overall process of preparing and using a budget. Since budgets are such valuable tools for planning and control of finances‚ budgeting affects nearly every type of organization from governments and large corporations to small businesses. A small business generally engages in budgeting to determine the most efficient and effective strategies for making money and expanding its asset base. Budgeting can help a company use its limited financial
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The budgeting process and the end product‚ the budget‚ comprise two essential elements of multinational management: planning and control. Planning is the primary function of the budgeting process and the result‚ the budget‚ provides the basis for subsequent monitoring and control of activities. For a multinational firm‚ with geographically dispersed subsidiaries to coordinate and control‚ an ineffective planning and control system can be disastrous. For the typical multinational firm‚ the budgeting
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future." Budgeting actually refers to the process that‚ after the strategic plan of the business has been made‚ companies made a short term plan (usually one year) to meet the strategic purpose. Traditional budgeting has offered a lot of contributions in so many years’ practice. But it seems it is more and more unsuitable for the modern business. In this paper‚ I will give a brief induction for traditional budgeting; and then discuss the strengths and weaknesses of the traditional budgeting; last I
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investments in a variety of capital projects. Whether it is the need to purchase new machinery‚ expanding the production facility‚ or even buying new transport‚ all these projects require firms to make high investment now. In all these projects‚ the cash flow or the benefit is expected to be received for several years. A company at any time may have many capital projects in foresight. It is the responsibility of the finance manager to evaluate these projects through the capital budgeting process which involves
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Cases and Exercises for Value and Capital Budgeting Corporate Finance Academic Year 2012/2013 1. The treasurer of Amaro Canned Fruits has projected the cash flows of projects A‚ B and C as follows (measured in e): Year 0 Project A Project B Project C Year 1 70‚ 000 130‚ 000 75‚ 000 Year 2 70‚ 000 130‚ 000 60‚ 000 −100‚ 000 −200‚ 000 −100‚ 000 Suppose the relevant discount rate is 12% per annum. (a) Compute the profitability index for each of the three projects. (b) Compute the NPV for each
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