Problem set 2 16-1. Gladstone Corporation is about to launch a new product. Depending on the success of the new product‚ Gladstone may have one of four values next year: $150 million‚ $135 million‚ $95 million‚ and $80 million. These outcomes are all equally likely‚ and this risk is diversifiable. Gladstone will not make any payouts to investors during the year. Suppose the risk-free interest rate is 5% and assume perfect capital markets. a. What is the initial value of Gladstone’s equity
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Corporate finance chapter 1 Concept questions: 1.Agency Problems Who owns a corporation? Describe the process whereby the owners control the firm’s management. What is the main reason that an agency relationship exists in the corporate form of organization? In this context‚ what kinds of problems can arise? 2.Not-for-Profit Firm Goals .Suppose you were the financial manager of a not-for-profit business (a not-for-profit hospital‚ perhaps). What kinds of goals do you think would be appropriate
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“INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE FINANCE” “Where is This Slide From”? • Most of the slides we use in this unit are provided by the Publisher of the required text “…as down-loaded from Connect…” • Sometimes we modify slides by adding or removing content. Other times we use slides from other sources. Occasionally we ‘make’ slides. • Note that lecture slides are not numbered sequentially. • Slides are identified in the lower RHS corner. • Identifier “1-3” refers to text chapter 1 slide 3. •
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Lecture 1 （Chapter 1） Introduction to Corporate Finance McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2010 by the McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. 会计循环 会计循环过程 原始凭证 记账凭证 记账 过账结算 试算平衡 报表编制 总账 分类账 明细账 基本原则：账证相符、账账相符、账表相符、账实相符 1-1 财务管理的基本框架 企业规模 理财环境 目标利润 筹资渠道 财务策略 财务预算 筹资方式 财务目标 短期投资 股利理论 总体分析 营运资金管理 股利政策 指标分析 成本控制 股利方式 综合分析 资金预测 资金筹集 资金投放 收益分配 财务分析 时间价值 资金成本 财务关系 风险分析 资金结构 实业投资 税务政策 分析方法 证券投资 发展规模 分析报告 财务关系 财务管理制度 1-2 财会管理的构架
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BBMF2093 CORPORATE FINANCE DEGREE IN BUSINESS STUDIES (Finance and Investment) ACADEMIC YEAR 2013/14 COURSEWORK Submitted by: Caleb Chan Yeung Zen 13WBR11358 Chin Yong Hao 13WBR11575 Chuah Zheng Hong 13WBR10041 Leong Wai Hong 13WBR11033 TUTOR: AP Dr. Wong Pik Har TUTORIAL GROUP: 2 RFI 4 TITLE: YTL Power Financing Analyst DATE OF SUBMISSION: 4th July 2014 Plagiarism Statement Read‚ complete and sign this statement to be submitted with your written work. We confirm that the submitted
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of a firm’s owners and its managers” (Megginson & Smart‚ 2009). It then defines agency costs as dollar costs that arise because of this conflict. In the corporate structure‚ stockholders are the owners of the firm‚ and they elect a board of directors to oversee the firm and help protect their investment. The board then hires the right corporate managers to run the firm with the goal of maximizing the wealth of the shareholders. In a vacuum‚ this is a perfect framework by which to run a corporation;
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Chapter 2 -CAPM: how risk affects return -Expected Return (on investment): mean value of its probability distribution of returns; greater the probability return will be below expected‚ greater the stand-alone risk -Risk Averse: he/she must be compensated for holding risky assets -Asset has 2 risk types: Diversifiable risk can be eliminated by diversification; market risk cannot be eliminated -Market risk measured by standard deviation of returns on portfolio consisting of all stocks -Relevant
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Corporate Finance Career Overview If you work in private enterprise‚ your company measures its success at the end of the year by comparing how much money it made to how much it spent. If it has made more than it has spent‚ it was a good year. If it has made less than it has spent‚ it was a bad year—or the company is in an investment phase. (In other words‚ like Amazon.com‚ it spent more than it made because the company and its investors believed it would realize a profit in the near future
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Corporate Finance Revision List Topic | Study Program | The Realm of Corporate Finance and Efficient Market Hypothesis | * Overview of finance’s main functions & its importance to organisations. * Importance of value creation as the primary objective of managers * Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) | Financial Statement Analysis | * Overview of calculating & interpreting accounting & financial ratios from corporate financial statements & understanding their significance in corporate
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2013) Today‚ the company employed 171 700 employees‚ (hugely unionized labor force)‚ the actual CEO is W James Mc Nerney. According to Yahoo finance‚ in 2012‚ the firm ranks third in sales of military equipment on the global market. It is the second maker of large commercial jets behind Airbus and the second defense contractor behind Lockheed Martin” (finance‚ 2013) It’s a public listed company traded on the New York Stock Exchange it’s a component of Down Jones and S&P 500. The company stock ticker
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