CASE STUDY HOMEWORK CORPORATE FINANCE PROFESSOR: G. BERTINETTI STUDENT Albert Maurer 1 The Situation: In 2010 a new company was created in order to enter into the food industry. They spent many months in studying the market‚ engineering the products and the commercial strategy‚ find out the production plants. At the end of 2010 the business plan is ready and the company has already participated to an exhibition where many potential customers said to be very interested to the project
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wages;suppliers‚ who want to be paid for goods or services; the government‚ which wants the firm to pay taxes; and creditors‚ who want to be paid interest and principal. Stakeholders may have interests that differ from those of the owners. When this is the case‚ they may exert pressure on management to make decisions that benefit them. We will return to these types of conflicts of interest later in the book. For now‚ though‚ we are primarily concerned with the overall flow of cash between the firm and its
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Chapter 10 The Cost of Capital LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: • Explain what is meant by a firm’s weighted average cost of capital. • Define and calculate the component costs of debt and preferred stock. • Explain why retained earnings are not free and use three approaches to estimate the component cost of retained earnings. • Briefly explain why the cost of new equity is higher than the cost of retained earnings‚ calculate the
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CONCEPT QUESTIONS - CHAPTER 1 1.1 ( What are the three basic questions of corporate finance? a. Investment decision (capital budgeting): What long-term investment strategy should a firm adopt? b. Financing decision (capital structure): How much cash must be raised for the required investments? c. Short-term finance decision (working capital): How much short-term cash flow does company need to pay its bills. ( Describe capital structure. Capital structure
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understanding of Finance function of a corporation and build capacity to apply theory in real world situations. The course will present the ‘Big Picture’ of Corporate Finance so that students understand how things fit together. After successfully completing the course‚ students should be able to take optimal decisions in a corporate setting‚ when working as professionals in the field. COURSE OUTLINE Introduction to Corporate Finance: Financial Management; Corporate Finance; Corporate Finance vs. Financial
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CORPORATE FINANCE Formative Assessment Some reading: Adams‚ R. B.‚ Hermalin‚ B. E.‚ and Weisbach M. S. (2010) The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: A Conceptual Framework and Survey‚ Journal of Economic Literature‚ Vol 48‚ No.1‚ pp. 58–107. Aggarwal‚ R. et al (2009) Differences in governance practices between US and foreign firms: measurement‚ causes and consequences‚ Review of Financial Studies‚ Vol. Bhagat‚ S.‚ and Bolton B. (2008) Corporate Governance and Firm
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iMINICASE STUDY #2 Unforeseen Opportunity in an Election You are in charge of the advertising staff for Cindy Smith ’s election campaign. Cindy is trying to prevent the eight term incumbent‚ Jesse Jones‚ from getting another term in the U.S. House of Representatives. Cindy decided to run against Jesse because he wrote 150 bad checks in the House banking scandal‚ voted to not disclose the names of the people involved in the scandal‚ and voted to give himself a substantial pay raise at taxpayers’
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CORPORATE FINANCE EXERCISE 2012-2013 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CHAPTER 4. ASSETS IN A COMPANY EXERCISE 1 In order to run the business effectively‚ Enterprise X purchased a set of 4 computers by the beginning of Year N+1. Its purchasing price is 15 million VND per item (excluding VAT). The total transportation and testing cost is 5 million VND. Their estimated useful life is 5 years. Required:
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CORPORATE FINANCE – CONCEPT QUESTIONS Class Notes - Introduction to Corporate Finance 1. Finance point of view: Corporation: a money processing machine? * Product markets: everything what corporates make (lead with customers‚ suppliers‚ labor) * Capital markets: generic term for the entities which supply cash to this money processing machine‚ and the processing machine uses the money to do things and then periodic sends money back to the capital market there are inflows from the
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http://helpyoustudy.info Chapter 01 - Introduction to Corporate Finance Chapter 01 Introduction to Corporate Finance Answer Key Multiple Choice Questions 1. Which one of the following terms is defined as the management of a firm ’s long-term investments? A. working capital management B. financial allocation C. agency cost analysis D. capital budgeting E. capital structure Refer to section 1.1 AACSB: N/A Difficulty: Basic Learning Objective: 1-1 Section: 1.1 Topic: Capital budgeting
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