Capital Expenditure Valuation Methods The payback period is the time it takes for a project or investments cash outflows to be recovered by cash inflows generated from the same project or investment. It is a very simple and commonly used capital budgeting technique. The formula used to compute the payback period is initial investment divided by cash inflow per period. You generally want to choose the investment that provides the shortest payback period‚ because you will get you cash back and it
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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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During the course of operations of any company‚ once the capital budgeting decisions have been made and proposals selected‚ the most important question before the finance manager is to arrange sufficient funds to finance them. Funds are also required to keep existing projects going on and the company can raise funds required for investment either by increasing the owners’ claims or the creditors’ claims or both. The claims of the owners increases when the company raises the funds by issuing equity
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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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Chapter 16- Old 10th Edition Capital Structure Decisions: The Basics MINI-CASE ASSUME YOU HAVE JUST BEEN HIRED AS BUSINESS MANAGER OF PIZZAPALACE‚ A PIZZA RESTAURANT LOCATED ADJACENT TO CAMPUS. THE COMPANY’S EBIT WAS $500‚000 LAST YEAR‚ AND SINCE THE UNIVERSITY’S ENROLLMENT IS CAPPED‚ EBIT IS EXPECTED TO REMAIN CONSTANT (IN REAL TERMS) OVER TIME. SINCE NO EXPANSION CAPITAL WILL BE REQUIRED‚ PIZZAPALACE PLANS TO PAY OUT ALL EARNINGS AS DIVIDENDS. THE MANAGEMENT GROUP OWNS ABOUT 50 PERCENT OF
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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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MINI CASE: MEXICO’S BALANCE OF PAYMENTS PROBLEM Recently‚ Mexico experienced large-scale trade deficits‚ depletion of foreign reserve holdings and a major currency devaluation in December 1994‚ followed by the decision to freely float the peso. These events also brought about a severe recession and higher unemployment in Mexico. Since the devaluation‚ however‚ the trade balance has improved. Investigate the Mexican experiences in detail and write a report on the subject. In the report‚ you may:
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The Cost of Capital in Multinational Firms Monique N. Mixon University of Maryland University College FIN 630‚ 04 November 2012 Turnitin.com=_________ ABSTRACT This paper examines the cost of capital for multinational firms and determines that the multinational firm should use the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to evaluate international and domestic investment decisions and to magistrate the enactment of subsidiaries domestically and internationally. This paper also discusses
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American Finance Association Market Timing and Capital Structure Author(s): Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler Source: The Journal of Finance‚ Vol. 57‚ No. 1 (Feb.‚ 2002)‚ pp. 1-32 Published by: Wiley for the American Finance Association Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2697832 . Accessed: 08/09/2013 22:22 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a
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of risk is one of the main determinants of a firm`s capital structure. By looking at the trade off theory we might expect a negative association when risk and leverage are concerned. If firms have high earnings volatility‚ for some obvious reasons‚ they would not want to indulge in debt financing. It follows that when firms are exposed to bankruptcy and agency costs greater is the incentive to reduce the level of debt otherwise the more volatile a firm`s earnings are‚ the more risk is there of defaulting
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