3 August 2006 INFLUENCES ON STRATEGIC DECISION EFFECTIVENESS: DEVELOPMENT AND TEST OF AN INTEGRATIVE MODEL SAID ELBANNA1 and JOHN CHILD2 * College of Business and Economics‚ United Arab Emirates University‚ Al Ain‚ United Arab Emirates 2 Birmingham Business School‚ University of Birmingham‚ Birmingham‚ U.K. 1 This paper draws upon three broad perspectives on the strategic decision-making process in order to develop a more completely specified model of strategic decision effectiveness in a
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Impact of Capital Structure on Firm Value Financial Management Assignment 10/12/2010 Completed and Submitted by‚ Aishwarya R. (06) Anjana Pradeep (12) Arijit Ghosh (18) Gayathri M.A. (34) Jyothi D. (44) Lavanya P. (51) CONTENTS INTRODUCTION.......................................................3 COMPANIES CHOSEN..............................................3 LARSEN AND TOUBRO............................................3 Overview……………………………………………………………
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development of new technologies can bring new competitors to this market. Verizon is exposed to many types of market risk such as interest rate and foreign exchange rate which has an effect on Verizon’s earnings. Below figure 5 summarizes the capital structure of Verizon; it is obvious that company is increasingly depending on debt to finance its overall operations. This approach can be attributed to its deal with Vodafone to obtain the 45% stake in Verizon’s using the low interest rate offer to fund
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at 11.3% to $2.16 per share‚ return of $15.6 to shareholders through share buybacks and strong dividends. About 43.8% of the total capital of the company comes from debt and the remaining comes from equity. The cost of the different components of its capital structure are – debt: 2.92% (after-tax cost)‚ and equity: 9.49%. The WACC is 6.61%‚ based on the capital structure outlined. The effective tax rate is 35.4%. AT&T has had dividend growth for the last 25 years. The dividend growth this year was
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1. What type of capital structure should a firm choose and why? In your answer‚ be sure to include capital structure fallacies and their effects on a firm’s decision. Capital structure is the relative proportions of debt‚ equity‚ and other securities that a firm has outstanding. When a firm need to raise funds from investors they must choose which type of security to issue. There are typically two different types: financing through equity alone‚ or financing through a combination of debt and
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Factors that impact on and influence the organisation The business environment is often an uncertain one‚ where managers are faced with many factors that impact on and influence the organisation. The micro-environment includes suppliers‚ customers and stakeholders‚ all of which influence the organisation directly. The macro-environment‚ however‚ includes factors that influence the organisation but are out of its direct control. The micro-environment is often determined by the industry the
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rP os t 9-201-082 REV: MARCH 4‚ 2002 op yo The Loewen Group‚ Inc. (Abridged) In March 1999‚ John Lacey and the management team at the Loewen Group‚ Inc.‚ had to decide what course of action to take in light of the company’s imminent financial difficulties. On January 22‚ 1999‚ Lacey‚ a renowned turnaround specialist‚ was appointed chairman of Loewen‚ the second largest death care company in North America. Headquartered in Burnaby‚ British Columbia‚ Loewen owned over 1‚100 funeral
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high‚ relative to book and past market values‚ and to repurchase equity when their market values are low. We document that the resulting effects on capital structure are very persistent. As a consequence‚ current capital structure is strongly related to historical market values. The results suggest the theory that capital structure is the cumulative outcome of past attempts to time the equity market. Introduction “Equity market timing” refers to the practice of issuing shares at
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The Influence of Ethics on Decision Making Ethics can have a big influence on decision-making in the workplace. Ethical behavior in the workplace is behavior that is accepted as morally "right‚" rather than "wrong." (Organizational Behavior). Unethical behavior can be considered illegal‚ or merely against the norms of society. Employees encounter ethical decisions every day in the workplace‚ whether they realize it or not. The stock boy must make a decision on whether it is right to steal merchandise
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2222-6990 Factors Influencing Strategic Decision-Making Processes Mahmood Nooraie Ph. D. In Management ‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Abhar Branch‚ Iran Email: (mnoor20@yahoo.com) Abstract Decision-making is one of the most important functions of managers in any kind of organization. Among different manager ’s decisions strategic decision-making is a complex process that must be understood completely before it can be practiced effectively. Those responsible for strategic decision-making face
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