WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT 1 1 Week 4 Assignment 1 Edwin Lopez-Petrilli Professor William Hall Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Tuesday July 26‚ 2011 WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT 1 2 Explain why market prices are useful to a financial manager. Financial managers are tasked with making investment decisions‚ financing‚ and managing cash flows from operating activities therefore when prices from competitive markets determine the cash value of goods and the price determines the value of the goods. Financial
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provide a framework for understanding the determinants of corporate investment‚ financing‚ hedging‚ payout‚ and executive compensation policies. The course will provide an analysis of the determinants of each policy as well as the implications for shareholder value. While the basic economic insights will be presented through simple examples‚ the course is quantitative in nature. Course material The reference textbook is Corporate Finance by Jonathan Berk and Peter DeMarzo‚ Pearson International
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Corporate Finance Essay Most corporate financing decisions in practice reduce to a choice between debt and equity. The finance manager wishing to fund a new project‚ but reluctant to cut dividends or to make a rights issue‚ which leads to the decision of borrowing options. The issue with regards to shareholder objectives being met by the management in making financing decisions has come to become a major issue of recent times. This relates to understanding the concept of the agency problem. It deals
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Aswath Damodaran 2 THE OBJECTIVE IN CORPORATE FINANCE “If you don’t know where you are going‚ it does’nt maCer how you get there” First Principles 3 Aswath Damodaran 3 The Classical Viewpoint 4 ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ Van Horne: "In this book‚ we assume that the objecKve of the firm
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Study notes By Zhipeng Yan Corporate Finance Stephen A. Ross‚ Randolph W. Westerfield‚ Jeffrey Jaffe Chapter 1 Introduction to Corporate Finance ..................................................................... 2 Chapter 2 Accounting Statements and Cash Flow.............................................................. 3 Chapter 3 Financial Markets and NPV: First Principles of Finance................................... 6 Chapter 4 Net Present Value....................................
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Corporate Case Study: Apple Inc. Article One: Apple’s Secret Plan for Its Cash Stash In 2012‚ Forbes Magazine published an article that discusses what Apple Inc. plans to do with the large amounts of money it has acquired over the years. The sum reaches up to $100 billion‚ making the company one of the most profitable in history. However‚ the company has around $64 billion of their cash stuck oversees. If Apple were to choose to move the money back to the United States they would be hit with a
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Chapter One Basic Areas of Finance: 1. Corporate Finance = Business Finance 2. Investments a. Work with financial assets such as stocks and bonds. b. Value of financial assets‚ risk verses return and asset allocation. c. Job opportunities. 3. Financial Institutions a. Companies that specialize in financial matters. i. Banks – Credit unions‚ savings‚ and loans. ii. Insurance Companies iii. Brokerage Firms b. Job Opportunities. 4. International Finance a. An area of specialization within each of the
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Mini Mini Case‚ page 145: 1. How does Ben´s age affect his decision to get an MBA ? Ben’s age has a big impact on his decision to get an MBA. He already worked about 5 years at Dewey and Leweys and he earns the complete salary as an employee. Now it is up to him whether to invest in a higher degree in order to earn more money in the future or to keep his current job and invest his money in other things. It can be a hard decision for a person who already worked 5 years because in these one
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it would be a good idea to take Boeing as it has been into some media frenzy recently‚ because of its latest commercial aircraft the 787” Dreamliner” grounded by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and aviation authorities around the world. A good case to see how a company future assets valuation may be impacted by investment strategies into research development; The company operates on five segments‚ it specializes in manufacturing of commercial aircraft (747‚ 777‚ 787)‚ but also in military aircraft
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IMBA -FIN 6425 – Quiz 1 Corporate Finance - Solution– Nimalendran This is an individual quiz and you should submit the answers on-line by the scheduled date. You are allowed to use any resources EXCEPT help from any other person. You are allowed to use EXCEL for the calculations. 1. Barkley Credit Union sets a low annual percentage rate (5%) for all its credit card customers instead of basing the interest rates on the customers’ credit scores. Consequently Barkley is exposed to ______________
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