CORPORATE FINANCE The word Corporate Finance can be defined in terms that may vary considerably across the world. Corporate Finance is one of the three areas of the discipline of finance and can be defined broadly as a field of finance dealing with acquisition and allocation of a corporation ’s funds or resources‚ with the goal of maximizing shareholder wealth i.e. stock value. This division of a company is basically concerned with the financial operation of the company from company’s point of view
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Mini Case (Page 45) Assume that you recently graduated and have just reported to work as an investment advisor at the brokerage firm of Balik and Kiefer Inc. One of the firm’s clients is Michelle DellaTorre‚ a professional tennis player who has just come to the United States from Chile. DellaTorre is a highly ranked tennis player who would like to start a company to produce and market apparel she designs. She also expects to invest substantial amounts of money through Balik and Kiefer. DellaTorre
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the firm and its investors wealthier. This point is one of the central and most powerful ideas in finance‚ which we call the Valuation Principle: The value of an asset to the firm or its investors is determined by its competitive market price. The benefits and costs of a decision should be evaluated using these ©2011 Pearson Education 20 Berk/DeMarzo • Corporate Finance‚ Second Edition market prices‚ and when
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The University for business and the professions MSc Degree in Shipping‚ Trade and Finance MSc Degree in Supply Chain‚ Trade and Finance MSc Degree in Energy‚ Trade and Finance Cass Business School Module Code SMM586 Exam title Corporate Finance Full/Part time Date 1st May 2013 Time 10.00 -13.00 Division of Marks: Section A carries 36 marks‚ Section B carries 28 marks and Section C carries 36 marks. Instructions to students: Students should answer TWO questions
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did it take Bayside to sell its inventory? A. 126.1 days B. 127.9 days C. 153.8 days D. 176.5 days E. 178.9 days Inventory turnover for 2008 = $4‚060 $1‚990 = 2.04; Days’ sales in inventory = 365 2.04 = 178.9 days TEST MODEL : CHAPTER 3 CORPORATE FINANCE Page 1 2. What is the debt-equity ratio for 2008? A. 22.5% B. 26.2% C. 35.5% D. 45.1% E. 47.7% Debt-equity ratio for 2008 = ($1‚170 + $500) ($3‚500 + $1‚200) = .355 = 35.5% 3. What is the times interest earned ratio for 2008? A. 30 B. 36
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CORPORATE FINANCE Master in Banking and Finance 2012 FINAL EXAM A. PROBLEMS (20 points each problem) 1. FAGE Manufacturing is currently an all-equity firm with 20 million shares outstanding and a stock price of $7.50 per share. Although investors currently expect FAGE to remain an all-equity firm‚ the company plans to announce that it will borrow $50 million and use the funds to repurchase shares. FAGE will pay interest only on this debt‚ and it has no further plans to increase or decrease
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because there is no possibility of default‚ the risk of the firm’s equity does not change. Therefore‚ risk-free debt allows the firm to get the benefit of a low cost of capital of debt without raising its cost of capital of equity.” (3 points) Solution to Part I What is important? Perfect capital market‚ no taxes; M&M propositions apply here; total market value of GP is 300 m composed of 200 m equity and 100 m debt; the expected return on equity is 15% and the market value weight of equity is
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Corporate Finance Exam with Answers Posted on May 10‚ 2012 by Sam Corporate Finance‚ Chapters 8‚ 9 & 10. Exam Questions: 1. A project’s opportunity cost of capital is: A. The forgone return from investing in the project. 2. Which of the following statements is correct for a project with a positive NPV? A. The IRR must be greater than 1. 3. What is the NPV of a project that costs $100‚000 and returns $50‚000 annually for 3 years if the opportunity cost of capital is 14%? C. $16‚085
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Corporate finance: Corporate finance is an area of finance dealing with the financial decisions corporations make and the tools and analysis used to make these decisions. The primary goal of corporate finance is to maximize corporate value while managing the firm’s financial risks. Although it is in principle different from managerial finance which studies the financial decisions of all firms‚ rather than corporations alone‚ the main concepts in the study of corporate finance
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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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