Dell’s Working Capital Substantive Issues Dell manufactures‚ sells‚ and services personal computers. The company markets directly to its customers and builds computers after receiving a customer order. This build-to-order model enables Dell to have much smaller investments in working capital than its competitors. It also enables Dell to enjoy more fully the benefits of reductions in component prices and to introduce new products more rapidly. Dell has grown quickly and has been able to finance
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Nike‚ Inc.: Cost of Capital Case 14 A Case Brief Submitted to Submitted by In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Date Submitted September 28‚ 2011 Summary This case highlights Kimi Ford‚ a portfolio manager with NorthPoint Group‚ a mutual-fund management firm. She managed the NorthPoint Large-Cap Fund‚ and in July of 2001‚ was looking at the possibility of taking a position in Nike for her fund. Nike stock had declined significantly over the previous year‚ and it appeared
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FINANCIAL LEVERAGE ON COST OF CAPITAL AND VALUATION OF FIRM: A STUDY OF CEMENT INDUSTRY NAME- DIPANNITA GHOSH DEPT- MBA ROLL- 11 INTRODUCTION In corporate finance‚ financing decisions has greater importance because the optimal capital structure can be created trough proper mix of finance. Corporate managers generally prefer borrowings over other means of financing. Management of a company has to be very careful while deciding the extent of financing leverage in its capital structure because
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Best Practices in Estimating the Cost of Capital: Survey and Synthesis Robert F. Bruner‚ Kenneth M. Eades‚ Robert S. Harris‚ and Robert C. Higgins This paper pn ^ents ihns‚ Wn Itujjlini; finunaal advtsi-i’s. lUic -M-ven‚ best selling texlho(>k.\ and trade hooks. The re.sulls show close aligninvn! ainuu-^:‚ all lh< M S‚ y’i’jps an ihc use of common theoreliva! frameworks and on many aspects of estimation. We Jin a ’’an.>( •arunhtn. however‚ for the joint choices oflhe nsk-free rate. heia.
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BACKGROUND [pic] [pic][pic] DELL INC. Michael Dell founded Dell based on a simple concept of selling computers directly to their customers. Figure below showed Michael Dell has the founder‚ CEO and Chairman of Dell Inc.:- [pic] Figure 1: The founder‚ CEO and Chairman of Dell Inc He holds the record of being the longest tenured chief executive officer of the company. His concept eliminates retailers that consume time plus added cost. His concept also helps Dell to understand
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Direct materials cost per unit ($750‚000 ÷ 10‚000) $ 75.00 Conversion cost per unit ($798‚000 ÷ 10‚000) 79.80 Assembly Department cost per unit $154.80 2a. Solution Exhibit 17-16A calculates the equivalent units of direct materials and conversion costs in the Assembly Department of Nihon‚ Inc. in February 2009. Solution Exhibit 17-16B computes equivalent unit costs. 2b. Direct materials cost per unit $ 75 Conversion cost per unit 84 Assembly Department cost per unit $159
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Toy World‚ Inc. Case Analysis Seth Roberts Financial Policy Executive Summary Toy World‚ Inc. is a company that has been manufacturing toys for children since 1973. Since 1976‚ the company has enjoyed profitable operations. At the end of 1993‚ revenue and profit came close to $8 million and $270 thousand respectively. With Jack McClintock as president and Dan Hoffman as production manager‚ the two have tried to find a strategy to adjust operations to the volatility
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Ameritrade’s Cost of Capital Harvard Case Study 1. What factors should Ameritrade management consider when evaluating the proposed advertising program and technology upgrades? Why? One factor that is significant and pertinent to this case is determining the cost of capital that should be employed for Ameritrade. An appropriate discount rate is required to derive the net present value of the advertising program and technology upgrades. With that said‚ estimating future cash flows
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JUST-IN-TIME‚ AND SIMPLIFIED COSTING METHODS 20-1 Cost of goods sold (in retail organizations) or direct materials costs (in organizations with a manufacturing function) as a percentage of sales frequently exceeds net income as a percentage of sales by many orders of magnitude. In the Kroger grocery store example cited in the text‚ cost of goods sold to sales is 76.8%‚ and net income to sales is 0.1%. Thus‚ a 10% reduction in the ratio of cost of goods sold to sales (76.8 to 69.1% equal to 7.7%)
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homework 7 Globalizing the Cost of Capital Budgeting at AES Chia yun ‚Tsai(Debbie) 2013/3/22 The reason why Rob Venerus used the cost of capital concept to improve upon what AES had used in the past for a discount rate is because the old model always used the same discount rate for the model. However‚ with electricity generating businesses around the world‚ the old model started to cause some problems. In the past‚ AES used the same cost of capital for all of its capital budgeting‚ but the company’s
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