Theory of Human Capital What’s Human Capital? Human capital refers to the stock of competences‚ knowledge and personality attributes combined altogether to perform labour so as to produce economic value. It is the attributes gained by a worker through education and experience. * Economists views on Human Capital The set of skills possessed by the worker of the company Development of skills is an important factor in production activities Human capital model reveals that investment in
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1. Which of the following would increase the likelihood that a company would increase its debt ratio in its capital structure? a. An increase in costs incurred when filing for bankruptcy. b. An increase in the corporate tax rate. c. An increase in the personal tax rate. d. None of the statements above is correct. ANSWER: B An increase in the corporate tax rate would mean that firms would get larger tax breaks for interest payments. Therefore‚ firms have an incentive to increase interest payments
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GLOBALIZING THE COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL BUDGETING AT AES 1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? 2. If you implemented the methodology suggested by Venerus‚ what would be the range of discount rates one would use around the world? 3. Does this make sense as a way to do capital budgeting? 4. How big a value difference does this new approach make to the Pakistan project? 5. How do these cost of capital modifications translate into changed probabilities
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The concept of human capital and knowledge management is that people possess skills‚ experience and knowledge‚ and therefore have economic value to organizations. These skills‚ knowledge and experience represent capital because they enhance productivity (Snell and Dean‚ 1992). Human capital theory postulates that some labor is more productive than other labor simply because more resources have been invested into the training of that labor‚ in the same manner that a machine that has had more resources
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Theories of Foreign Direct Investment Foreign Direct Investment‚ or FDI‚ is a type of investment that involves the injection of foreign funds into an enterprise that operates in a different country of origin from the investor. Foreign direct investment has many forms. Broadly‚ foreign direct investment includes "mergers and acquisitions‚ building new facilities‚ reinvesting profits earned from overseas operations and intracompany loans”. Foreign direct investment incentives may take the following
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CASE 2: VALUING CAPITAL INVESTMENT PROJECTS CORPORATE FINANCE GROUP Y Growth Enterprises‚ Inc When valuing any project‚ the free cash flows must be determined in order to be able to successfully implement any method of capital budgeting. Growth Enterprises is currently considering four projects. Each has an equal required initial investment of $10‚000‚000 which is followed by a set of cash flows different for each project. Depreciation figures for each project were calculated on a straight-line
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The Cost of Capital Benedict Amanor‚ Yolanda Brown-McCutchen‚ Edith Compean‚ Angel Longino and Melissa Shea-Brooks FIN/571 May 18‚ 2015 William Stokes The Cost of Capital In our fifth week of understanding the practices of Corporate Finance‚ we reviewed the Cost of Capital video. This video provided information on Pfizer‚ a researched based pharmaceutical company that makes products to help face health care challenges. Our goal is to highlight the cost of capital as described by Amit
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Finance theory and Financial strategy Strategic Planning means several things. But it certainly is a part of the decision-making in resource management of the business benefits. Finance theory has significant advantages in understanding the function of capital markets‚ the valuation of real assets and financial assets. Discounted cash flow analysis(DCF) is a tool that derived from finance theory which has been widely used. However finance theory also has little effect on strategic
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Capital Markets and Investment Banking Process FIN 402 Capital Markets and Investment Banking Process To be aware of fiscal scale as well as assess welfare of any sort of company the Investment Banking is an important factor Germaine to the predicament of the fiscal welfare of a person or a company of any scale. For the efficient manufacturing and sizes there is not any ideal strategy which has been forecasted these days. To match the aim‚ vision and objectives described through the fiscal
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In 1995 Douglas Durand went to work for Tap Pharmaceuticals as vice- president of sales. Several months after starting at Tap Pharmaceuticals‚ Durand was in disbelief to find out that the company was bribing urologists to purchase the new Lupron drug for prostate cancer. Durand found the culture at Tap Pharmaceuticals to be in misalignment. In order for Durand to protect his good name‚ he began to document all his findings over a 6 year period and submitting the information to federal prosecutors
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