Subject: Corporate Finance (3 credits) Reference book: 1. Essentials of managerial Finance: Harcourt College 2000 2. Fundamentals of financial management: Mc Graw Hill 2007 Chapter 01: An overview of Finance What is finance? Finance is concerned with decisions about money (cash flows) Finance decisions deal with how money is raised and used Everything else being equal: * More vale is preferred to less * The sooner cash is received the more value it has * Less risky
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Today marks the three year anniversary of the collapse of Rana Plaza. Before the structurally flawed factory crumbled‚ Rana Plaza produced fashions for companies such as Joe Fresh‚ Primark‚ Walmart and the Gap. Over 1‚130 people died when the building caved and 2‚500 more were pulled from the rubble alive but injured and mentally scarred. Rana Plaza is just one example of how workers in the garment industry are being exploited. We don’t think about where the clothes we buy come from; we ignore the
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Introduction: A discussion on corporate regulation and governance is of great importance in today’s economic world. A number of high profile collapses such as HIH‚ One Tel‚ Harris Scarfe‚ Ansett‚ focuses ones attention on governance issues. Nevertheless‚ corporate governance is not a static thing and even if basic structures remain the same‚ policies and procedures surrounding those structures should constantly be reviewed to ensure that the structure is working properly. Globalisation yields challenges
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reinvesting the second year dividends for the final year. Mean = Ṝ = (R1 + … + RT) / T Risk premium = Difference between risky returns and Riskfree return Real return = Ṝ minus inflation Return = mean Risk = standard deviation Chapter 13: Corporate Financing Decisions and Efficient Markets There are three ways to create valuable financing opportunities: 1. Investors lack an understanding of the risk an d valuation of complex securities. But as investors are not that easy to fool‚ the complex
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Trends of Leverage 7 2.3 Comparison of capital structure with similar companies 9 2.4 Capital expenditures and its financing 10 2.5 Important factors influencing the use of debt financing 10 2.5.1 Tax Advantage 10 2.5.2 Corporate Tax Rate 11 2.5.3 Credit rating 11 2.5.4 Interest rate 11 2.5.5 Company’s Industry 12 2.5.6 Company’s growth rate 12 2.5.7 Some other arguments about Harvey Norman 12 2.6 Evidence of financial distress 13
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Eric Sandler Ethical Disaster of the Hyatt Regency Collapse Construction on the 40-story Hyat Regency Crown Center began in 1978‚ and the hotel opened on July 1‚ 1980‚ after construction delays including an incident on October 14‚ 1979‚ when 2‚700 square feet of the atrium roof collapsed because one of the roof connections on the north end of the atrium failed. The collapse was the second major structural failure in Kansas City in a little more than two years. On June 4‚ 1979‚ the roof
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Corporate Governance is a concept in which it has been existence for decades; although not in the exact form that it has come to be understood today (Anandarajah‚ 2001). The term corporate governance was introduced in Malaysia in 1997 during the Asian Financial Crisis. It also drew the public’s attention on the weaknesses of the Malaysian corporate governance practice (Nor Azizah Zainal Abidin‚ 2007). Besides that‚ the downfall of Sime Bank‚ the Bumiputera Malaysian Finance (BMF) scandal‚ the irregularities
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BLO 2205 Corporate Law Assignment Semester 1 2013 INTRODUCTION Under the Corporations Act 20011‚ all the directors and officers must be under Common Law duties and Statutory Law duties to exercise their powers in order to carry on one company. It is essential for officers and directors to impose the legal duties for purposes of minimizing wrongful or illegal behaviors’ risks. Briefly‚ the main fiduciary duties and statutory duties contains duty to act in good faith in the interests
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CORPORATE HISTORY. Akio Morita‚ Masaru Ibuka‚ and Tamon Maeda (Ibuka’s father- in- law) started Tokyo telecommunications Engineering in 1946 with funding from Morita’s father’s sake business. The company produced the first Japanese tape recorder in 1950. Three years later‚ Morita paid Western Electric (US) $25‚000 for transistor technology licenses‚ which sparked a consumer electronics revolution in Japan. His firm launched one of the first transistor radios in 1955‚ followed by the first
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Corporate Finance Lecture Note Packet 2 Capital Structure‚ Dividend Policy and Valuation B40.2302 Aswath Damodaran Aswath Damodaran! 1! Capital Structure: The Choices and the Trade off Neither a borrower nor a lender be Someone who obviously hated this part of corporate finance Aswath Damodaran! 2! First Principles Aswath Damodaran! 3! The Choices in Financing There are only two ways in which a business can make money.
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