What long-term investments should the firm undertake (capital budgeting) and how will investment and finance decisions affect the firm ’s value (valuation)? How can cash be raised for the required investments? This is known as the financing decision ’ (cost of capital‚ capital structure and leasing). How will the firm manage its day-to-day cash and financial affairs (short-term financing and net working capital)? The Capital Budgeting Mini Case presents a financial decision of acquiring
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Capital Structure 7 July 2013 Introduction The capital structure for a company can be very important for the success of the company. Many aspects of the business must be evaluated in order to determine the appropriate capital structure. Throughout this paper‚ three companies will be evaluated. The three companies being evaluated are eBay (NasdaqGS: EBAY)‚ The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX)‚ and Alaska Air Group Inc. (NYSE: ALK). Company Overview eBay is a very popular company
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Diageo comes from the Latin for day (Dia) and the Greek for world (Geo) Diageo is a global alcoholic beverage company headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. It is the world ’s largest producer of spirits and a major producer of beer and wine. Their mission statement is “Our strategy is to drive organic growth in premium drinks. We will invest to take leadership positions in every category‚ market and consumer occasion in which we choose to compete” (Diageo‚ 2011). Diageo ’s brands include Smirnoff (the
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describe the company and the industry in which it operates; Diageo is a global leader in beverage alcohol with an outstanding collection of brands across spirits‚ beer and wine categories. These brands include Johnnie Walker‚ Crown Royal‚ J&B‚ Buchanan’s‚ Windsor and Bushmills whiskies‚ Smirnoff‚ Cîroc and Ketel One vodkas‚ Captain Morgan‚ Baileys‚ Don Julio‚ Tanqueray and Guinness. Diageo is a global company‚ and our products are sold in more than 180 countries around the world. The management
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Diageo Diageo is a British multinational alcoholic beverages company headquartered in London‚ UK. Diageo is the worlds leading premium drinks company with a large range of beverage alcohol across the collection of spirits‚ wine and beer. Diageo’s beverage brands include: * Smirnoff * Baileys * Johnnie Walker * Captain Morgan * J&B The word Diageo comes from the Latin for day (dia) and the Greek for world (geo). We take this to mean every day‚ everywhere‚ people celebrate
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Capital Structure and Debt Structure* Joshua D. Rauh Kellogg School of Management and NBER Amir Sufi University of Chicago Booth School of Business and NBER February 2010 *We thank Doug Diamond‚ Anil Kashyap‚ Gordon Phillips‚ Michael Roberts‚ Toni Whited‚ Luigi Zingales‚ and seminar participants at Emory University‚ Georgetown University‚ Maastricht University‚ Rice University‚ Tilburg University‚ the University of California-Berkeley‚ the University of Chicago‚ the University of Colorado
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DIAGEO PLC 1. What do you think about the capital structure policies Diageo has pursued in the past. Do they make sense? How does it compare to Diageo’s competitors’ policies? Which competitors would make for the best comparison? 2. Why is Diageo selling Pillsbury and spinning off Burger King? How might value be created through these transactions? 3. Based on the results of the simulation model‚ what recommendations would you make for Diageo’s capital structure? Does the model capture all of the
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1. How has Diageo managed its capital structure? Do you agree it is conservative? Diageo was born as the result of merging Grand Metropolitan plc and Guinness plc. Since the beginning the newly formed company maintained conservative financial policies inherited from the two parent companies; and in general from the British financial management style. There are many indications that confirm that Diageo has managed its capital structure using a conservative approach. Firstly‚ it is worth mentioning
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valuation of Diageo 3 2.3.1 Comparables 3 2.3.2 Cash flow 4 2.3.3 Increased leverage 4 2.3.4 Acquisitions 4 3. Implicit assumptions of the Monte Carlo simulation 4 3.1 Capital expenditure 5 3.2 Investment in intangibles 5 3.3. Working Capital 5 3.4 Consistency between implicit and explicit assumptions 5 4. Description of the working of the simulation 6 5. The results of the simulation in comparison with Diageo ’s stated capital structure policy 6 5.1 Diageo ’s stated capital structure policy 6 5.2
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The electronic private automatic branch exchange (EPABX) is equipment that has made day-to-day working in the offices much simpler‚ especially in the area of communication. The EPABX may be defined as a switching system that makes available both internal and external stitching functions of any organisation. The selection of an EPBAX is a difficult task and requires deep knowledge of traffic pattern of the office. By using an EPABX both the internal and external needs of the organisation are
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