Working capital management is crucial to a company’s goals and planning function. Proper management of working capital can mean that difference between a company’s ability to carry out pre-planned strategic goals and becoming stagnant and losing its competitive edge. A company’s current assets typically end up being its most liquid assets‚ which makes them some of the most valuable when it comes to making corporate decisions. Working capital management is defined as a “managerial strategy focusing
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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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Venture capital (VC) is financial capital provided to early-stage‚ high-potential‚ high risk‚ growth startup companies. The venture capital fund makes money by owning equity in the companies it invests in‚ which usually have a novel technology or business model in high technology industries‚ such as biotechnology‚ IT‚ software‚ etc. The typical venture capital investment occurs after the seed funding round as growth funding round (also referred to as Series A round) in the interest of generating
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE DECISIONS OF NEW FIRMS Alicia M. Robb David T. Robinson Working Paper 16272 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16272 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 August 2010 The authors are grateful to the Kauffman Foundation for generous financial support. Malcolm Baker‚ Thomas Hellmann‚ Antoinette Schoar‚ Ivo Welch‚ and seminar participants at the Kauffman/Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank Entrepreneurial Finance
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Should They Invest or Not? Table of contents: I. Executive summary II. Statement of Problem III. Analysis & Methodology IV. Discussion of Results V. Conclusion VI. Attachments I. Executive Summary The objective of financial management is to always make decisions in order to maximize shareholder wealth. They do this by different methods; one of them is by investing in projects that
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The Oceanic Corporation (Determining the Cost of Capital) Larry Stone wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate because it is a benchmark for how well the company needs to do on a project in order to at least break even. The higher the hurdle rate‚ the riskier the project will have to be and the lower the hurdle rate is‚ the safer the project will be for a company. A company should strive for a financing mix that minimizes the hurdle rate and matches the assets being financed. If there
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When companies invest their money they need to earn a rate of return that exceeds their cost of capital. We can estimate a company’s cost of capital in the following way: WACC = (rD)(1-T)(WD) + (rS)(WS) Go to one of the databases from Part 1 of the Course Project and look up the most recent 10-K for your company‚ paying special attention to the balance sheet and the footnotes. Although we should use market value weights when determining a firm’s cost of capital‚ this may be difficult to
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Chapter 10- Derivative Securities Markets LG 10-1. Distinguish between forwards and futures contracts LG 10-2. Understand how a futures transaction is conducted LG 10-3. Identify information that can be found in a futures quote LG 10-4. Recognize what option contracts are. LG 10-5. Examine information found in an option quote. LG 10-6. Know the main regulators of futures and option markets LG 10-7. Describe an interest rate swap LG 10-8. Understand caps‚ floors‚ and collars LG 10-9. Identify
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FOREWORD The Venture capital sector is the most vibrant industry in the financial market today. Venture capital is money provided by professionals who invest alongside management in young‚ rapidly growing companies that have the potential to develop into significant economic contributors. Venture capital is an important source of equity for start-up companies. Venture capital can be visualized as “your ideas and our money” concept of developing business. Venture capitalists are people who pool
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How venture capital funding works It is popularly believed that venture capitalists fund only established players and proven products. There is a lot of cynicism amongst many about all the hype that private equity and venture capital is getting in India of late. However‚ the truth is that‚ in recent times in India‚ the VCs have actually provided capital to relatively new‚ start-up companies that have a reasonable‚ though not certain‚ prospects to develop into highly profitable ventures. Travelguru
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