Department of Finance‚ HKUST Spring 2013 Email: Xuewenliu@ust.hk Office hour: 13:30-14:30 Tuesday Assessment: Assignments (12%)‚ Midterm-exam (18%)‚ Projects and presentations (15%)‚ and Final exam (55%) Textbooks: 1. Corporate Finance‚ by J. Beck and P. DeMarzo‚ 2nd edition 2011‚ Pearson Education‚ Inc. Hereafter BD. 2. Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy‚ by M. Grinblatt and S. Titman‚ 2nd edition‚ 2002‚ Irwin McGraw Hill. Hereafter GT. I. Introduction to Corporate Finance 1. Corporations
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PROBLEM SET 5: INTEREST RATES‚ AMORTIZING LOANS‚ BOND VALUATION‚ STOCK VALUATION 1. A typical credit card agreement quotes an interest rate of 18 percent APR. Monthly payments are required. What is the actual interest rate you pay on such a credit card? 2. After carefully going over your budget‚ you have determined you can afford to pay €632 per month toward a new sports car. You call up your local bank and find out that the going rate is 1 percent per month for 48 months. How much you can borrow
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1. Tom believes the company should use the extra cash to pay a special one-time dividend. How will this proposal affect the stock price? How will it affect the value of the company? Electronic Timing‚ Inc. (ETI) needs to be careful on how it dispenses the extra cash as a dividend. Issuing the extra cash as a dividend would mean that the shareholders collectively will probably drop by the same amount because of the transfer of wealth from the company to the shareholders individually. Hence‚ the
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24. We can use the debt-equity ratio to calculate the weights of equity and debt. The debt of the company has a weight for long-term debt and a weight for accounts payable. We can use the weight given for accounts payable to calculate the weight of accounts payable and the weight of long-term debt. The weight of each will be: Accounts payable weight = .15/1.15 = .13 Long-term debt weight = 1/1.15 = .87 Since the accounts payable has the same cost as the overall WACC‚ we can write the equation for
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In this chapter we will study that how more than one factor which is associated with expected return‚ are evaluated on capital asset pricing model. We have described earlier that beta specifies the inclination level or slope of characteristic line and this is denoted by βj. Extended capital asset pricing model evaluates many factors other than beta‚ to calculate the expected return of a security. We can add or include some other factors to the equation of expected return of a security‚ to gain more
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EF4313 - Individual Case Questions: “Massey-Ferguson‚ Ltd. (1980)” You are responsible for handing in written answers to the following questions drawn from the Massey-Ferguson case. You can work with others on this assignment‚ but each individual must hand in their own set of answers. 1. Net sales for Massey-Ferguson actually increased between 1979 and 1980. Despite this‚ net income and income from continuing operations both dropped sharply in 1980. Which item on the income statement
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CGA-CANADA ADVANCED CORPORATE FINANCE [FN2] EXAMINATION June 2011 Marks Notes: 1. Questions 1 and 2 are multiple choice. For these questions‚ select the best answer for each of the unrelated items. Answer each of these items in your examination booklet by giving the number of your choice. For example‚ if the best answer for item (a) is (1)‚ write (a)(1) in your examination booklet. If more than one answer is given for an item‚ that item will not be marked. Incorrect answers will be marked as zero
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“Case: Tianjin Plastics” Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Course Advanced Corporate Finance Students Fatin Azear Jos Kusters Maaike van der Steen Case: Tianjin Plastics This assignment considers the case of Tianjin Plastics. Pat Johnson‚ project finance analyst for Maple Energy (U.S.-based international power plant developer)‚ has to make a recommendation regarding the financial viability of the Tianjin Plastics power plant project in China. The recommendation would require a final evaluation of
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Chapter 1 Corporate Finance- the acquisition and efficient use of funds required by the fund The acquisition refers to the finance decision Efficient use of funds refers to the investment decision A major aspect of corporate finance is the creation and determination of value Objective of Financial Management- Maximize shareholder wealth is the main goal—to maximize the market value of the firm 3 Main Decision Areas of Financial Manager to Achieve Maximization: 1. Investment Decision- What
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SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS‚ FINANCE & MARKETING CORPORATE FINANCE MID SEMESTER TEST FIRST SEMESTER 2008 – Part-time STUDENT DETAILS (Please Print Clearly) Family Name: ___________________________________________________________ First Name: _____________________________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________ Tel. No: (BH) ___________________________________________________________ Student Number: _________________________________________________________
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