AACE International Recommended Practice No. 34R-05 BASIS OF ESTIMATE TCM Framework: 7.3 – Cost Estimating and Budgeting Acknowledgments: Todd Pickett‚ CCC (Author) Peter R. Bredehoeft‚ Jr. Ted A. Downen Larry R. Dysert‚ CCC Bruce G. Elliott‚ CCC John K. Hollmann‚ PE CCE Copyright 2010 AACE International‚ Inc. Stephen M. Jacobson CCC Carlton W. Karlik‚ PE Christopher L. Kinney Donald F. McDonald‚ Jr. PE CCE PSP Bernard A. Pietlock CCC Richard A. Selg‚ CCE AACE International Recommended Practices
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Objectives of Firms Introduction to Business Objectives Standard theory assumes that businesses have sufficient information‚ market power and (importantly) motivation to set prices for their products that maximise profits This assumption is now heavily criticised by economists who have studied the organisation and objectives of modern-day corporations. Not only do most businesses frequently move away from pure profit-seeking behaviour‚ many are organised and operated in a way where profit is not the
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Cases and Exercises for Value and Capital Budgeting Corporate Finance Academic Year 2012/2013 1. The treasurer of Amaro Canned Fruits has projected the cash flows of projects A‚ B and C as follows (measured in e): Year 0 Project A Project B Project C Year 1 70‚ 000 130‚ 000 75‚ 000 Year 2 70‚ 000 130‚ 000 60‚ 000 −100‚ 000 −200‚ 000 −100‚ 000 Suppose the relevant discount rate is 12% per annum. (a) Compute the profitability index for each of the three projects. (b) Compute the NPV for each
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Paralegal Veronica Decker Re: Security Protocols in the Law Office Date: 04-26-2014 Attorney Gauvin‚ The information that you requested in regards to the ethical rules about what is permissible to include in the website for the law firm. The law firm website must include the jurisdiction (state) in which s/he is licensed to practice. If the attorney fails to do so s/he has violated the ethical Rules 5.5: Unauthorized Practice of Law; Multijurisdictional Practice of Law and 7.1: Communication
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The Importance of Budgeting Budgeting‚ both as a form of planning and a decision-making tool‚ is vital to a company. It provides a detailed estimate of how the company expects to spend money in the following period. Budgeting helps firms to prepare themselves and make alterations‚ if needed‚ in order to achieve the desired results. Budgets allow firms to better utilize the financial resources available to them. Most companies create their budgets on an annual basis‚ aiming to obtain a more precise
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a. Traditional Budgeting Wildavsky (1978‚ p.502) mentions that "traditional budgeting is annual (repeated yearly) and incremental (departing marginally from the year before)". It is conducted on a cash basis in current dollar. It is also in the form of line-items such as personnel or maintenance. This system is essentially a financial plan of estimated expenditures expressed in terms of kinds and quantities of objects to be bought and the estimated funds needed to finance them during a specified
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(corporate watch report‚ 2006). For example‚ CSR may cause additional cost to business‚ and the explicit costs of corporate social responsibly are minimal (Moskowitz‚ 1972). If CSR can affect a corporation‚ it can also make impact in industries. Telecommunication industry is a big market in Hong Kong in which the largest teleport in Asia (Boulton‚ 2001). Some newspaper report had shown that Hong Kong people who own the most mobile phones in the world. According to the Telecommunications Authority announced
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Chapter 8 The Cost of Capital 236 CHAPTER 8—THE COST OF CAPITAL TRUE/FALSE 1. Capital refers to items on the right-hand side of a firm’s balance sheet. 2. The component costs of capital are market-determined variables in as much as they are based on investors’ required returns. 3. The cost of debt is equal to one minus the marginal tax rate multiplied by the coupon rate on outstanding debt. 4. The cost of issuing preferred stock by a corporation must be adjusted to an after-tax
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methikalakwin2008@yahoo.com Abstract Tourism industry has been turned out to be a powerful industry which roughly accounts for multiple employment opportunities and a major source of income in the current world. The developing countries which have focused on traditional export crops in order to develop national economy have now been switched over to tourism considering its enormous contribution to the national economy. In Sri Lanka‚ this industry ranks fourth among the major foreign exchange earners
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including; 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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