investments. A lot of companies‚ mature or young‚ large or small‚ pay stable dividend. It is true that high dividend yield is important for current investors because it indicates‚ to some degree‚ a firm’s financial well being‚ but paying 100% of its earnings as dividend is not financially wise. Instead of paying dividends‚ fluid cash is quite essential for a company’s current operation‚ growth and expansion. Besides‚ dividend paying is no longer the only criterion for investors to evaluate one firm’s financial
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Capital punishment or the death penalty is the act of killing or executing a person‚ who was found guilty of a serious crime‚ by the government. Capital crimes or capital offenses are crimes that can result in a death penalty. Without question‚ executions are considered the ultimate punishment for a crime‚ because there is no repeal from death. The clear alternative for capital punishment is life in prison without parole‚ yet a lot of nations still perform the death penalty. This is because the debate
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I s there a way of dividing a company’s capital base between debt and equity that can be expected to maximize fi rm value? And‚ if so‚ what are the critical factors in determining the target leverage ratio for a given company? Although corporate fi nance has been taught in business schools for more than a century‚ the academic fi nance profession has found it diffi cult to come up with defi nitive answers to these questions. Part of the diffi culty stems from how the discipline has evolved
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Assignment: Capital Structure PART A 1. Apple Corporation has 2.5 million shares outstanding with a market value of $2.00 each (expected return = 16%) and debt with a market value of $1‚ 000‚000 and a return of 10% Required a. What is the return on the capital of Apple Corporation? [Show all workings and formulae) [7.5 marks] 2. Samsung generates pre-tax earnings of $2‚000‚000 per year. Currently it has issued 1 million shares which sell for $10 each. Samsung has no debt in
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Why do you think humans are motivated to learn? Discuss motivation for learning from the following perspectives: In the current 21st century that we live and work‚ daily people are introducing new policies‚ new ideas and approaches emerge. New problems also arise and new solutions are sought. The world is therefore constantly moving and evolving. Result the requirement for humans to constantly learn and adapt new circumstances as we go in order to follow the demands of the modern working world.
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Capital Structure Decisions: Which Factors are Reliably Important? Murray Z. Frank1 and Vidhan K. Goyal2 First draft: March 14‚ 2003. Current draft: December 20‚ 2003. ABSTRACT This paper examines the relative importance of 38 factors in the leverage decisions of publicly traded U.S. firms from 1950 to 2000. The most reliable factors are median industry leverage (+ effect on leverage)‚ market-to-book ratio (-)‚ collateral (+)‚ bankruptcy risk as measured by Altman’s Z-Score (-)‚ dividend-paying
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"Cigarettes kill you" that was the warning provided in the box – cigarette packs at this time. The sentence is very simple. However‚ if the note its meaning‚ this sentence is very terrible. Not even just that sentence‚ the Government has also provided the picture – a terrible picture of the consequences of smoking on the packaging. If we humans are smart and think‚ of course we are aware of the meaning of sentences and horrifying pictures. However‚ still there are people – people who are not acknowledged
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1. Investigate and examine all the matters relating to the safeguards provided for the women under the Constitution and other laws 2. Present to the Central Government‚ yearly and at such other times as the Commission may deem fit‚ reports upon the Working of those safeguards 3. Make in such reports/recommendations‚ for the effective accomplishment of those safeguards for enhancing the conditions of the‚ women by the Union or any State 4. Evaluate‚ from time to time‚ the existing provisions of the
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| You are an administrator at a library. You are conducting a simple research to see the effectiveness of the program that you have organized to encourage students to borrow books. Time frame is set for 4 weeks. From week to week‚ you are to determine the number of borrowers and the number of books borrowed from the library. Your results MUST be presented in graphical form‚ attached along with your report. You will also need to present using MS Power Point to the board. | | 2. | You are
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of Diageo‚ the treasury team was given the task of establishing the cost of capital for each of the different areas the company operated. The team had to create a simulation model which should consider new finance approaches‚ treasury functions to focus on‚ what the firm’s risk footprints will be‚ how to calculate cost of capital and finally how to optimally structure capital. How has Diageo managed its capital structure? Both Grand Metropolitan and Guinness had little debt prior to the merger‚
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