1. The process of determining whether an entrepreneur’s idea is a viable foundation for creating a successful business is known as a: 2. Porter’s five forces model assess industry attractiveness by surveying these five factors: 3. The strongest of the five forces in most industries is: 4. The force from the five forces model that considers economies of scale‚ initial capital requirements‚ cost advantages relevant to company size‚ and lack of brand loyalty is the: 5. The primary purpose of the
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to fund overseas growth‚ invest in value-creating project‚ achieve an optimal capital strategy and repurchase undervalued shares. To accomplish all these goals the company has asked Janet Mortensen‚ Vice President of finance for Midland energy resources‚ to calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for the company as a whole. Formula: WACC = rd (D/V) (1-t) + re (E/V) Where‚ rd = cost of debt; re= cost of equity; D = Market value of debt; E= Market value of equity; V= Market Value
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WACC Weighted Average Cost of Capital Formula The WACC Weighted Average Cost of Capital formula is complex‚ and can be broken into several components. The individual component costs are provided in the following sections. WACC Weighted Average Cost of Capital Variables V=Firm Total Value (Debt + Preferred Shares + Common Equity + Retained Earnings) Md=Market Value of Debt Mp=Market Value of Preferred Shares Mc=Market Value of Common Equity Mr=Market Value of Retained Earnings K=Current
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HBR.ORG Do You Know Your Cost of Capital? Probably not‚ if your company is like most by Michael T. Jacobs and Anil Shivdasani July–AuGust 2012 reprinT r1207L For arTicLe reprinTs caLL 800-988-0886 or 617-783-7500‚ or visiT hbr.org Do You Know Your Cost Of Capital? probably not‚ if your company is like most by Michael T. Jacobs and Anil Shivdasani W With trillions of dollars in cash sitting on their balance sheets‚ corporations have never had so much money. How executives
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agency problems on the cost of capital Tung-Hsiao Yang* Current Version: September 10‚ 2008 * Assistant Professor of Finance‚ National Chung Hsing University‚ Department of Finance‚ No. 250‚ Kuo Kuang Rd.‚ Taichung 40227‚ Taiwan‚ tyang1@nchu.edu.tw. The author thanks National Science Council for financial support in this project‚ NSC96-2416-H-005-026. The Impact of two agency problems on the cost of capital Abstract We test the relation between the cost of capital and two agency problems
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JOURNAL OF FINANCE • VOL. LIII‚ NO. 4 • AUGUST 1998 Agency Costs‚ Risk Management‚ and Capital Structure HAYNE E. LELAND* ABSTRACT The joint determination of capital structure and investment risk is examined. Optimal capital structure ref lects both the tax advantages of debt less default costs ~Modigliani and Miller ~1958‚ 1963!!‚ and the agency costs resulting from asset substitution ~Jensen and Meckling ~1976!!. Agency costs restrict leverage and debt maturity and increase yield spreads
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installment lending. So consumer lending‚ a major part of the asset side of banking‚ is all flowing toward national consolidators like Capital One. -RICHARD D. FAIRBANK‚ CEO AND CHAIRMAN‚ CAPITAL ONE FINANCIAL CORPORATION ’ United Kingdom‚ the Hfs Group‚ to strengthen its Global Financial services (GFS) subsidiary in the British market. As of April 2005‚ it possessed sufficient liquidity ($21 billion) and capital ($9.2 billion)4 to enable its famous brand to expand into new markets and seize the
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PRACTICES” IN ESTIMATING THE COST OF CAPITAL: AN UPDATE 15 “Best Practices” in Estimating the Cost of Capital: An Update W. Todd Brotherson‚ Kenneth M. Eades‚ Robert S. Harris‚ and Robert C. Higgins “Cost of capital is so critical to things we do‚ and CAPM has so many holes in it—and the books don’t tell you which numbers to use… so at the end of the day‚ you wonder a bit if you’ve got a solid number. Am I fooling myself with this Theories on cost of capital have been around for decades
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ACT 510 November 19‚ 2013 Do You Know Your Cost of Capital? Investing capital dollars drives the corporate strategy to newer heights in this age‚ where the business is dependent upon making sound decisions that financially intertwine for further growth and development. Within any financial team‚ analyses should be conducted uniformly across the board‚ arriving at a conducive return on investments to solidify the reasoning behind completing the future project. As Jacobs & Shivdasani point
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The Case Interview • What is a case interview? The Case Interview • What specific skills does it assess? • How to prepare for a case interview? • An interactive example. What is a “Case Interview” anyway? The Case Interview Simulation of a business problem. Similar to what our associates encounter every day. Series of open-ended questions. They’re designed to stimulate your conceptual‚ quantitative‚ analytical and – most importantly – creative abilities. The Case Interview There are
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