October 2010 After barely changing at all for decades‚ the startup funding business is now in what could‚ at least by comparison‚ be called turmoil. At Y Combinator we’ve seen dramatic changes in the funding environment for startups. Fortunately one of them is much higher valuations. The trends we’ve been seeing are probably not YC-specific. I wish I could say they were‚ but the main cause is probably just that we see trends first—partly because the startups we fund are very plugged into the
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The Importance of Budgeting Budgeting‚ both as a form of planning and a decision-making tool‚ is vital to a company. It provides a detailed estimate of how the company expects to spend money in the following period. Budgeting helps firms to prepare themselves and make alterations‚ if needed‚ in order to achieve the desired results. Budgets allow firms to better utilize the financial resources available to them. Most companies create their budgets on an annual basis‚ aiming to obtain a more precise
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Capital budgeting is the process of evaluating and selecting long-term investments that are in line with the goal of investors’ wealth maximization. When a business makes a capital investment (assets such as equipment‚ building‚ land etc.) it incurs a cash outlay in the expectation of future benefits. The expected benefits generally extend beyond one year in the future. Out of different investment proposals available to a business‚ it has to choose a proposal that provides the best return and the
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CHAPTER 16 COST ALLOCATION: JOINT PRODUCTS AND BYPRODUCTS 16-1 Exhibit 16-1 presents many examples of joint products from four different general industries. These include: Industry Separable Products at the Splitoff Point Food Processing: • Lamb • Lamb cuts‚ tripe‚ hides‚ bones‚ fat • Turkey • Breasts‚ wings‚ thighs‚ poultry meal Extractive: • Petroleum • Crude oil‚ natural gas 16-2 A joint cost is a cost of a production process that yields multiple products simultaneously. A separable
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Capital Budgeting: Decision Criteria Brigham and Daves Ch. 12 Christopher B. Alt CFA PhD What Is Capital Budgeting? Analysis of potential additions to fixed assets Long-term decisions typically involving large $ expenditures Making the ‘right’ capital budgeting decisions is enormously important to a firm’s future Should we build this plant? All rights reserved - Christopher B. Alt 2 Key Steps in Capital Budgeting Estimate CFs (inflows & outflows) Assess riskiness of CFs Determine
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Andre has asked you to evaluate his business‚ Andre’s Hair Stylling. Andre has five barbers working for him. (Andre is not one of them.) Each barber is paid $9.90 per hour and works a 40-hour week and a 50-week year‚ regardless of the number of haircuts. Rent and other fixed expenses are $1‚750 per month. Hair shampoo used on all clients is .40 per client. Assume that the only service performed is the giving of haircuts‚ the unit price of which is $12. Andre has asked you to find the following information
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TYPES OF CORPORATE DIVERSIFICATION When a firm chooses to diversify‚ it faces a decision as to how related the new business(es) is(are) to the existing businesses of the firm. When Charles Bluhdorn was CEO of a company called Gulf+Western in the 1950s‚ he diversified into a host of industries: motion pictures (Paramount Pictures‚ the makers of The Godfather‚ Chinatown‚ and other movies)‚ clothing‚ cigars‚ zinc mines‚ auto parts‚ and sugar‚ among others! In contrast‚ a company such as Cooper
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research study aims to identify the effect of the location of the computer shops to the... Methodology is the systematic‚ theoretical analysis of the methods applied to a field of study. It comprises the theoretical analysis of the body of methods
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Mclaney‚ 2009‚ there are four (4) approaches to capital budgeting. The net present value (NPV) is one of such and is a summation of all discounted cash flows(Present Value) associated with whichever project(s) are undergoing appraisal. Every appraisal method have decision rules‚ examples include the Payback Period(PBP) which stipulates the approval of projects that pays back the initial investments within a specific period. For this method (Net Present Value) to be most effective‚ from the pool
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