1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? “When AES undertook primarily domestic contract generation projects where the risk of changes to input and output prices was minimal‚ a project finance framework was employed.” Usually‚ project finance framework is used when the project has predictable cash flows‚ which can easily represent operating targets through explicit contract. When cash flows are certainty‚ the company can have
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Investment Decisions Chapters in This Part 10 11 12 Capital Budgeting Techniques Capital Budgeting Cash Flows Risk and Refinements in Capital Budgeting INTEGRATIVE CASE 5 Lasting Impressions Company robably nothing that financial managers do is more important to the long-term success of a company than making good investment decisions. The term capital budgeting describes the process for evaluating and selecting investment projects. Often‚ capital expenditures can be very large‚ such as building a
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Chapter 9 Cost of Capital 1. What is the WACC? a. Weighted Average Cost of Capital- most firms employ different types of capital‚ and because of their differences in risk‚ the difference securities have different required rates of return. Typically=debt‚ preferred stock and common equity. 2. What precautions must we take when measuring the WACC to use for capital budgeting decisions (future investment)? b. The company’s current and recent past book and market value structures
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Part I A. Present Value with Discount rate of 7% = 15000/(1+7%) = 15000/1.07 = $14‚018.69 Present Value with Discount rate of 4% = 15000/(1+4%) = 15000/1.04 = $14‚423.08 B. Account A - Present Value with Discount rate of 6% = 6500/(1+6%) = 6500/1.06 = $6‚132.08 Account B - Present Value with Discount rate of 6% = 12600/(1+6%)^2 = 12600/1.1236 = $11‚213.96 C. Present Value of Gold Mine 7% = 4900000/1.07 + 61‚000‚000/(1.07)^2 + 85‚000‚000/(1.07)^3 = 45‚794‚392.52 + 61‚000‚000/1.1449 + 85
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Analysis in Capital Budgeting In today’s business environment‚ company executives are often required to participate in a company’s capital budgeting process as the sponsor‚ reviewer or approving authority of investment decisions. In any of these capacities‚ it is imperative that the executive understands many of the key aspects of capital budgeting such as analyzing income statements‚ balance sheets‚ cash flows‚ appropriately discounting cash flows and‚ most importantly‚ identifying risk. Capital budgeting
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Application of Monte Carlo Simulation in Capital Budgeting | | |by Prit‚ Aug 2‚ 2008 | |The usefulness of Monte carlo Simulation in Capital Budgeting and the processes involved in Monte Carlo Simulation. It also | |highlights the advantages in some situation compared to other deterministic models where uncertainty is the norm. | |[pic]
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Improve your - Excel - Office.com Page 1 of 5 Support / Excel / Excel 2003 Help and How-to / Excel for your job / Finance Improve your capital budgeting techniques Applies to: Microsoft Office Excel 2003‚ PowerPoint 2003 By BearingPoint Capital budgeting is a financial analysis tool that applies quantitative analysis to support strong management decisions. Using capital budgeting analysis‚ you can explain: l l l The benefit impact of an investment decision over time The cost impact
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Working Capital Management and Capital Budgeting Alexis A. Stoute University of Phoenix Finance for Business FIN/370 Terry Dowdy‚ PhD August 02‚ 2010 Working Capital Management and Capital Budgeting This week’s assignment focused on Working Capital Management and Capital Budgeting. As per the class syllabus‚ students were to formulate responses for questions 4-6A (Chapter 4) and 5-1A‚ 5-4A‚ 5-5A‚ and 5-6A (Chapter 5) from the book Financial Management: Principles and Applications
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characteristics. In asymmetric encryption you can encrypt with a public key that has a matching private key used for decryption. The other basic type of encryption is called symmetric encryption; the main difference between the two is that symmetrical encryption uses only one key; a private key used for both encryption and decryption. Asymmetric encryption is used when there are two end points‚ such as a VPN client communicating with a VPN server. Symmetric encryption is used most commonly when there is only
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