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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Notes: FIN 303 Spring 09‚ Part 8 – Topics in Capital Budgeting Professor James P. Dow‚ Jr. Part 8. Topics in Capital Budgeting In part 7 we learned the basics of capital budgeting. However‚ we ignored some of the complications that can arise when evaluating projects. In this section we look at a few of those issues. How Uncertainty Affects the Capital Budgeting Decision Every project has uncertainty and so we need to determine how risk affects how we make decisions. Large corporations often use
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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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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 STUDY ON “CAPITAL BUDGETING” WITH REFEREENCE TO BHARAT HEAVY ELECTRICIAL LIMITED A project report submitted in partial fulfillment of requirments for the awards of degree of MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION BY DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS MANAGEMENT SRI INDU INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT (AFFILIATED TO OSMANIA UNIVERSITY) 2007-2009 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT My sincere thanks are due to all who have helped me in various ways in the course of the project. I am deeply grateful to MR.P.V.ARUN KUMAR for giving
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Capital Budgeting Mini Case There are many different methods business owners use to efficiently analyze business investment. One of these effective methods is the calculation of the net present value or NPV. The second most effective method would be the calculations of the internal rate of return or IRR. There are also other useful methods as well‚ for example‚ the payback rule and the profitability index. Many business owners use the above procedures to help them in their decision making of acquiring
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Multinational Capital Budgeting International Financial Management Dr. A. DeMaskey Learning Objectives How does domestic capital budgeting differ from multinational capital budgeting? How do incremental cash flows differ from total project cash flows? What is the difference between foreign project cash flows and parent cash flows? How does APV analysis differ from NPV analysis? How is the capital budgeting analysis adjusted for the additional economic and political risks
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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 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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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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