The Home Depot: Leadership in Crisis Management Introduction Established in 1979‚ The Home Depot has proved to be a leading retail company founded upon providing excellent products at competitive prices sold from knowledgeable sales representatives. Through this concept‚ The Home Depot has dominated both professional and do-it-yourself sales across the world. In 1992‚ The Home Depot was faced with a new challenge. Hurricane Andrew struck with vengeance and devastated 75‚000 homes across
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Home Depot Environmental Sustainability Audit The Home Depot is a company built under the principle of creating value for their stockholders while never forgetting the company’s main values: “Taking care of our people‚ giving back‚ doing the right thing‚ creating shareholder value‚ respect for all people‚ entrepreneurial spirit‚ building strong relationships‚ and excellent customer service”. These values were presented by Francis S. Blake (The Home Depot C.E.O.) on the company’s 2007 annual
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Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) Calculations The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is the discount rate used in the discounted cash flow analysis. Usually‚ the WACC is the weighted average of the cost of debt (Kd) and the cost of equity (Ke)‚ since debt and equity are the most common sources of funds for the companies. In general‚ the formula for WACC is the following: As implied by the formula itself‚ if a company does not have interest-bearing debts‚ then its WACC would equal
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Accruals and the Prediction of Future Cash Flows: evidence from China Background Predicting the company’s future cash flows is of high significance in accounting and finance areas alike‚ due to the fact that the ability of company generating cash flows substantially influences its securities value. For this purpose‚ Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) states that the primary objective of financial reporting is to provide information to help investors‚ creditors‚ and others in assessing
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Statement of Cash Flows ASSIGNMENT CLASSIFICATION TABLE (BY TOPIC) Topics|Questions|Brief Exercises|Exercises|Problems| Concepts for Analysis| 1.|Format‚ objectives purpose‚ and source of statement.|1‚ 2‚ 7‚8‚ 12||||1‚ 2‚ 5‚ 6| 2.|Classifying investing‚ financing‚ and operating activities.|3‚ 4‚ 5‚ 6‚ 16‚ 17‚ 19‚24|1‚ 2‚ 3‚ 6‚ 7‚ 8‚ 12|1‚ 2‚ 10||1‚ 3‚ 4‚ 5| 3.|Direct vs. indirect methods of preparing operating activities.|9‚ 20|4‚ 5‚ 9‚ 10‚ 11|3‚ 4||5| 4.|Statement of cash flows— direct method
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combination of WACC and APV methods. As stated above‚ ACC will use the Leverage buy out (LBO) approach‚ which means that the debt to equity ratio of AirThread will not be the same from 2008 to 2012‚ so APV approach would be more suitable to valuate the cash flows between 2008 and 2012. After 2012‚ AirThread will de-lever to industry norm and thus‚ they will have a target leverage ratio; therefore WACC is best to estimate the terminal value. Finally‚ regarding the valuation of non-operating investments
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The founders of The Home Depot had a vision‚ back when they opened the first store in Atlanta‚ Georgia in 1976: "a vision of warehouse stores filled with a wide assortment of products at the lowest prices with trained associates giving absolutely the best customer service in the industry." (Reingold‚ Jennifer. 2008) Today‚ that vision is still the guiding force driving the company’s philosophy. The Company’s Mission Statement reflect the Company’s strong business focus and core corporate values‚
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Supply chain has never been Home Depot’s key strategic priorities in the past. Instead‚ the Atlanta-based home improvement’s management had always been focusing on expanding its stores. At the time‚ the company’s emphasis on expansion was appropriate considering the history of massive growth. What originally helped Home Depot’s growth was a decentralized business model where stores were populated with highly knowledgeable sales persons with backgrounds in various building trades. Regional and store-level
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***************************** SAMPLE PAGES FROM TUTORIAL GUIDE ***************************** Table of contents SECTION 1: OVERVIEW DCF in theory and in practice Unlevered vs. levered DCF SECTION 2: MODELING THE DCF Modeling unlevered free cash flows Discounting to reflect stub year and mid-year adjustment Terminal value using growth in perpetuity approach Terminal value using exit multiple approach Calculating net debt Shares outstanding using the treasury stock method Modeling the weighted
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of Cash flow * Cash flow is more “direct” as “profit” is highly dependent on accounting conventions and concepts/principles * Cash flow reporting satisfies the needs of all users better since cash flow is more direct with its messages. Some of the interested user parties are: * Creditors -repayment of debts‚ overdue accounts * Management -cash flow reporting provides the type of information which decision should be taken re: relevant costs ( decision based on future cash flow)
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