Ameritrade Case Writeup questions (do all this as if it is June 1997‚ date of the case): 1. What is Ameritrade’s capital structure? Because there is no preferred stock or long term debt‚ Ameritrade is a 100% equity firm. 2. What is Ameritrade’s cost of equity capital? CAPM= (.0643)+ (1.8264)(.188-.0559)=.2902=29.02% Return on Market=(899.470-757.12)/757.12=.188 Beta calculation on Attached Excel Spreadsheet. 3. What is Ameritrade’s cost of debt capital? Because there is
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HBS CASE: THE FASHION CHANNEL Answers by Chenghao Zheng (Chuck) 1. What insight do you get from the consumer and market data? TFC’s revenue for 2006: $310.6 million ($80 million from affiliate fees and $230.6 million from ad sales) Strength: the only network dedicated exclusively to fashion‚ with up-to-date and entertaining information broadcast 24/7 Weakness: no detailed segmentation‚ branding‚ or positioning strategy According to customer analysis: there are four groups of customers‚ Fashionistas
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Limits of Civil Liberties Pol American National Government In times of the past the United States has been under attack since 9/11/01 has been prevented around fifty times before they have happened. (Heritage‚ 2012). National security has become a major problem for so many people in the United States. Terrorism concerns have grown since the 9/11/01. Americans have found that people connected to Taliban‚ Islam‚ Afghanistan religions are linked together. The attack was a horrible occurrence
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Chapter 10 Inventing a Country American Constitutions‚ 1781–1789 MAJOR THEME: Americans had to invent their country and a sense of nationhood from scratch. The country went through a tentative period under the Articles of Confederation before the Constitution was written. chapter objectives: 1. To examine the government under the Articles of Confederation. 2. To examine the status of slaves and women. 3. To understand the threats to the future of the country under the Articles of Confederation
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Question 1: 1. Activity-cost-driver rate for packing: ‚950hours)) = 157.89/ hr 2. ABC system for sugar cookie A. Estimated overhead cost per 1000 cookies Oven costs: ‚)) x 1 = $110.53 Packing costs: 157.89 x 0.5 = $78.95 ? Total overhead costs: $189.48 B. Estimated operating profit for cookies Selling price: $0.75 x 1‚000 = $750 Less Direct material costs: $0.15 x 1000 = ($150)
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Study Guide: Lesson 1 What is Philosophy? Lesson Overview Welcome to this introductory course in philosophy. For our first lesson‚ we are going to examine the question: What is philosophy? There are 4 ways you can get to know what a discipline is: define it‚ describe it‚ contrast and compare it with other disciplines‚ and finally experience it. In this first lesson‚ we will aim to accomplish the first 3 of these activities. The rest of the course will be an exercise in experiencing philosophy
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Why did LTCM have difficulty raising its level of risk? What is Value at Risk‚ and what role did it play in the LTCM failure? In September 1997‚ the Fund had an annualized standard deviation of approximately 10.7%‚ which was significantly lower than the Fund’s long-run goal of 20% annualized standard deviation. There are several reasons to explain why LTCM had difficulties in raising its level of risk. LTCM structured the majority of its trades in a way that required minimal initial outlay
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Issue In this assignment‚ we are asked to compute the WACC of Marriott Corporation and each of the company’s three divisions. Our approach is outlined in the next section. We made a series of assumptions regarding either the available data or the missing information. This has been explained below‚ in a separate section. Approach We applied the following formulae to calculate the WACC: Our assumptions are explained in the next section. The table below presents the approach for calculations
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Marriott Corporation Abstract Marriott Corporation has three divisions – lodging‚ contract services and restaurants – with dissimilar operations. The company uses three separate hurdle rates for the three divisions to value the proposed projects. It is believed that this strategy is more appropriate that using a single firm-wide discount rate because the operations of the three divisions differ drastically. However‚ the company has to ensure that the company uses an appropriate discount rate for
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Problem/Objective 1. Decisions/problem: The primary decision that Gilles Moyner‚ brand manager from Ford France must make is how to segment the new Ford Ka‚ a new small car that will be presented in the Paris Motor Show (1996). Within the understood that traditional size based market segmentation and alternatives segmentations did not work. GoldFarb Corporation is in charge of presenting Ford possible strategies. The objective is to develop a marketing strategy‚ targeting and segmentation‚ since
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