Mini-Case Study: McDonald’s Corporation: Firing on all cylinders while preparing for the future McDonald’s Corporation is the largest fast food restaurant chain in the world‚ operating more than 32‚000 restaurants in 118 countries. In 2008‚ McDonalds and Wal-Mart were the only stocks in the Dow Jones to end the year with a gain. From 2007 to 2008 they raised revenues in billion dollars earning above average returns. Its ability to create value for its stakeholders is impressive‚ but this trend
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Case Studies in Finance: Managing for Corporate Value Creation Fourth Edition July‚ 2002 Robert F. Bruner Distinguished Professor of Business Administration Darden Graduate School of Business Administration University of Virginia Post Office Box 6550 Charlottesville‚ Virginia 22906 Email: brunerr@virginia.edu Web site: http://faculty.darden.edu/brunerb/ ABSTRACT: This book presents 46 case studies in finance‚ targeted toward upper-level undergraduates and introductory and intermediate-level MBA
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Solutions – Chapter 5 Chapter 5 Financial Analysis Question 1. Which of the following types of firms do you expect to have particularly high or low asset turnover? Explain why. Supermarket—High asset turnover. Supermarkets tend to be high volume businesses. Many of the food products in supermarkets are perishable‚ and freshness is often used to differentiate products‚ forcing a certain amount of inventories turnover. The typical consumer buys groceries on a regular basis‚ guaranteeing grocery
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ACC553 Week 4 You Decide Activity To : John and Jane Smith From : Kathy Polk‚ CPA Near Lakes City Date : August 2‚ 2012 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Smith‚ I would like to thank you for coming into the office and permitting us to review and deliberate the concerns you have with your tax questions. Please contact me‚ after you both have studied my suggestions‚ so we can address any other questions you may have at that time. John Smith’s questions: 1(a) How is the $300‚000 treated for purposes
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( Answers to Mini-Case Questions BioCom Inc. This mini-case provides a review of the methodology and rationale associated with the various capital budgeting evaluation methods such as payback period‚ discounted payback period‚ NPV‚ IRR‚ MIRR‚ and PI. 1. Compute the payback period for each project. |Time of Cash Flow |Nano Test Tubes |Microsurgery Kit | |Investment |−$11‚000.00 |−$11‚000.00
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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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its normal freeway usage. The research and development costs so far total about $10 million. The SuperTread would be put on the market beginning this year and Goodweek expects it to stay on the market for a total of four years. Test marketing costing $5 mil-lion shows that there is a significant market for a SuperTread-type tire. As a financial analyst at Goodweek Tires‚ you are asked by your CFO‚ Mr. Adam Smith‚ to evaluate the SuperTread project and provide a recommendation on whether to go ahead
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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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000/6000 = 3‚83 1 + r = 3.83^(1/16) = 1.087552 1.087552 – 1 = 0.087552 = 0‚088 r = 8.8% 9. Calculating the Number of Periods. You’re trying to save to buy a new 170.000 Ferrari. You have 40.000 today that can be invested at your bank. The bank pays 5 per cent annual interest on its accounts. How long will it be before you have enough to buy the car. PV = FV / (1 + r)^t 40.000 = 170.000 / (1 + 0.05)^t 1.05^t = 170.000 / 40.000 1.05^t = 4.25 t = 29‚656 (29 years) 0.656 * 12 = 7‚872 (8 months)
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Applications of option pricing in corporate finance Option pricing is used in four major areas of corporate finance: • Real Options Suppose a company has a 1-year proprietary license to develop a software application for use in a new generation of wireless cellular telephones. Hiring programmers and marketing consultants to complete the project will cost $30 million. The good news is that if consumers love the new cell phones‚ there will be a tremendous demand for the software. The bad news
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