Department of Finance‚ HKUST Spring 2013 Email: Xuewenliu@ust.hk Office hour: 13:30-14:30 Tuesday Assessment: Assignments (12%)‚ Midterm-exam (18%)‚ Projects and presentations (15%)‚ and Final exam (55%) Textbooks: 1. Corporate Finance‚ by J. Beck and P. DeMarzo‚ 2nd edition 2011‚ Pearson Education‚ Inc. Hereafter BD. 2. Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy‚ by M. Grinblatt and S. Titman‚ 2nd edition‚ 2002‚ Irwin McGraw Hill. Hereafter GT. I. Introduction to Corporate Finance 1. Corporations
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Chapter 1 Introduction Corporate governance (CG) is an important effort to ensure accountability and responsibility and is a set of principles‚ which should be incorporated into every part of the organization. The need for corporate governance arises from the potential conflicts of interest among stakeholders in the corporate structure. These conflicts of interest often arise from two main reasons. First‚ different stakeholders have different goals and preferences. Second‚ the stakeholders
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Questions and Problems Page 1 of 3 Corporate Finance eBook 9/e Content Chapter8: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Questions and Problems 1. Valuing Bonds What is the price of a 10-year‚ zero coupon bond paying $1‚000 at maturity if the YTM is: BASIC (Questions 1– 12) a. 5 percent? b. 10 percent? c. 15 percent? 2. Valuing Bonds Microhard has issued a bond with the following characteristics: Par: $1‚000 Time to maturity: 25 years Coupon rate: 7 percent Semiannual payments Calculate the price of
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Chapter 09 Creative Strategy: Implementation and Evaluation Answer Key Multiple Choice Questions 1. (p. 293) The agency that developed the ‘Jack-in-the-Box’ fast-food restaurants ads created a new ad with the return of a brand image that was remembered by customers from previous years‚ thereby creating a(n): A. advertising appeal. B. creative plan. C. marketing plan. D. sales approach. E. sales presentation. The advertising appeal refers to the approach used to attract
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Applications of option pricing in corporate finance Option pricing is used in four major areas of corporate finance: • Real Options Suppose a company has a 1-year proprietary license to develop a software application for use in a new generation of wireless cellular telephones. Hiring programmers and marketing consultants to complete the project will cost $30 million. The good news is that if consumers love the new cell phones‚ there will be a tremendous demand for the software. The bad news
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Solutions to questions 1. Finance involves three main areas—corporate finance‚ financial institutions and markets‚ and investments—that are closely related and complementary. For example‚ in corporate finance the central issues are how to acquire and employ or invest funds. To acquire funds a financial manager must deal with financial institutions‚ so some knowledge of the operations of financial institutions and markets is essential. Similarly‚ corporate finance involves investments because decisions
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| Corporate Finance2 CreditsBU.231.620.62Thursday 6pm – 9pm‚ 10/18/2012--12/13/2012Fall2‚ 2012Columbia‚ Columbia Center‚ 218 | Instructor Shabnam Mousavi Contact Information Phone Number: (410)234-9450 E-mail Address: shabnam@jhu.edu Office Hours Monday/Thursday 10am-noon Required Text and Learning Materials (1) Berk‚ J. and P. DeMarzo. 2007. Corporate Finance. 2nd Edition. Pearson‚ Addison-Wesley with MyLab access. The ISBN is 0-13-295-040-5. (2) Lecture Notes. The lecture
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Bond - is defined as a long-term debt of a firm or the government set forth in writing and made under seal. Kinds of Bond 1. Government Bonds - are those issued by the government to finance its activities. 2. Corporate Bonds - are those issued by private corporations to finance their long -term funding requirements. Bonds as Distinguished from Stocks 1. A bond is a debt instrument while stock is an instrument of ownership. 2. Bondholders have priority over stockholders when payments
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Cost Accounting‚ 14e (Horngren/Datar/Rajan) Chapter 2 An Introduction to Cost Terms and Purposes Objective 2.1 1) Cost objects include: A) products B) customers C) departments D) All of these answers are correct. Answer: D Diff: 2 Terms: cost object Objective: 1 AACSB: Reflective thinking 2) Actual costs are: A) the costs incurred B) budgeted costs C) estimated costs D) forecasted costs Answer: A Diff: 1 Terms: actual costing Objective: 1 AACSB: Reflective thinking 3) The general term used to identify
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Chapter 16: Mobile Marketing and Related Developments MULTIPLE CHOICE 1. The adoption stage in which a new product has become a part of the user’s lifestyle is called: a. permanent adoption. b. loyalty. c. internalization. ANS: C REF: p. 441 2. ________ is a product characteristic that determines ease of adoption. a. Relative advantage b. Sustainable advantage c. Substitutability ANS: A REF: p. 441 3. Among the strategic implications of pervasive computing
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