University of Stirling | Report on Northumbrian Water Group plc | | | * Content 1 Introduction 2 2 Assessment of Strategic Capability 2 2.1 General strategy 2 2.2 Expansion strategy 3 2.3 Lifecycle 3 2.4 Key Change Factors (PEST) 4 Political 4 Economic 4 Social 4 Technology 4 2.5 SWOT analysis 5 Strength 5 Weakness 5 Opportunity 5 Threat 5 2.6 Overall 6 3 Cash flow statement 6 3.1 Cash flow from operating activities (£231.9m in 2011:
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WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL FOR DELL COMPUTER 1) From the SEC website‚ the balance sheet of Dell Computer reveals a Book value of debt = $3‚394‚000‚000 and Book value of equity = $4‚625‚000‚000 The same balance shows the breakdown of the long-term debt (book values) in table 1. Table 1 Coupon Rate (%) Maturity Book Value (Face Value in million $) 3.38 06/15/2012 400 4.70 04/15/2013 599 5.63 04/15/2014 500 5.65 04/15/2018 499 5.88 06/15/2019 600 7.10 04/15/2028 396 6
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CHAPTER 15 (COST OF CAPITAL) 1.) The Wind Rider Company has just issued a dividend of $2.10 per share on its common stock. The company is expected to maintain a constant 7% growth rate on its dividends indefinitely. If the stock sells for $40 a share‚ what is the company’s cost of equity? 2.) The Ball Corporation’s common stock has a beta of 1.15. If the risk free rate is 5% and the expected return on the market is 12%‚ what is Ball Corp.’s cost of equity capital? 3.) Stock
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Capital Punishment: Moral‚ Effective‚ or Barbaric? Debra Johnson PHI103 Informal Logic Instructor: Philip Bence June 11‚ 2013 Capital Punishment: Moral‚ Effective‚ or Barbaric? Public support for capital punishment has eroded across the nation‚ largely because Americans are ambivalent. Many think that capital punishment is acceptable‚ but they are apprehensive about innocent people being executed. As the political debate of the past two decades centered on wrongful convictions and
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Meaning of Working Capital– Orking capital refers to the part of total capital which is required for day to day working of the business. The funds are required by the business for conducting its regular operations such as purchase of raw materials of finished goods‚ payment of wages & manufacturing expenses‚ office and administrative expenses‚ selling & distribution expenses. The funds necessary for making such regular payments of business is called Working Capital therefore have been defined
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Foreign capital: The capital available to any country other than the domestic capital in order to finance any domestic purpose is called foreign capital. Need for Foreign Capital 1.Capital investment requirements – Since underdeveloped countries want to industrialize themselves within a short period of time‚ it becomes necessary to increase capital investment substantially. This requires a high level of savings. However‚ because of general poverty‚ the savings are very low. This creates a
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CAPITAL FORMATION CAPITAL: Capital is defined as a physical reproducible factor of production. FOUR FACTORS OF PRODUCTION: LAND‚ LABOUR‚ CAPITAL & ORGINIZATION LAND Gets Rent==►LABOUR Gets Wages==►CAPITAL Gets Interest‚ ==►ORGANIZATION Gets Profit. CAPITAL FORMATION: is the act in which society dose not consume all of its income in day to day expenses but manages to save some of its income for farther investment (Output‚ Yield)Y = Consumption (C) + Saving (S) ==► (Investment) I Y =
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a number of techniques of capital budgeting. Some of the methods are based on the concept of incremental cash flows from the projects or potential investments. There are some other techniques of capital budgeting that are based on the accounting rules and accounting earnings. However‚ the techniques based on the accounting rules are considered to be improper by the economists. The hybrid and simplified techniques of capital budgeting are also used in practice. Capital budgeting is the process of
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Capital Budgeting Introduction Capital budgeting is the process of evaluating and selecting long-term investments that are consistent with the firm’s goal of maximizing owner wealth. A firm using capital budgeting‚ their goal is to see if there fixed income will cover itself for profit. Fixed incomes are things such as land‚ plant and equipment. When a firm using a machine to produce its good or service. They most of the time what the machine to produce the amount that they paid for the machine
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FINC421 – Case Study in Corporate Finance Case Report Diamond Chemicals plc. : The Merseyside Project Introduction The goal of this report is to analyze and evaluate the capital budgeting decision of Ms. Morris and suggestion to the senior management of Diamond Chemicals PLC if sufficient capital should be allocated for the proposed £12 million expenditure to modernize and rationalize the polypropylene production line at the Merseyside Plant. The project
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