Subject: Corporate Finance (3 credits) Reference book: 1. Essentials of managerial Finance: Harcourt College 2000 2. Fundamentals of financial management: Mc Graw Hill 2007 Chapter 01: An overview of Finance What is finance? Finance is concerned with decisions about money (cash flows) Finance decisions deal with how money is raised and used Everything else being equal: * More vale is preferred to less * The sooner cash is received the more value it has * Less risky
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as the United States of America. From New York to California‚ you could find millions of different types of people‚ and cultures from around the world. But how about a state that is so isolated from them all‚ that many people forget it was even added as the 49th state to the country? The lone state of Alaska is to the north west of the major states and if laid on top of the other states‚ would cover about two-thirds of the land. And for a state that is so large‚ it is surely simply thought
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Project vs Firm Risk and the Impact of Leverage The SML and WACC § Consider 100% equity financed firm § Beta = 1 E/V = 1! D/V = 0! § WACC =? E D WACC = × RE + × RD × (1 − TC ) = RE V V WACC = Cost of equity from CAPM [ ] WACC = RE = R f + β × E [RM ] − R f = E [RM ] Beta =1! 2 SML and WACC SML Expected Return WACC = E[RM] Rf [ R f + β × E [RM ] − R f ] β=1 Beta 3 Accept Projects Y and/or Z? Expected Return IRRz WACC = E[RM]
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Customer equity is a result of customer relationship management. Customer equity is the total of discounted lifetime values of all of the firms customers. In layman terms‚ the more loyal a customer‚ the more is the customer equity. Firms like McDonalds‚ Apple and Facebook have very high customer equity and that is why they have an amazing and sustainable competitive advantage. Customer Equity is made up of three components. Value Equity‚ Brand Equity and Relationship Equity. Value Equity
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presentation of trend analysis. In addition we compared their liquidity‚ productivity‚ leverage‚ profitability and market value ratio. It will inform us clearly about which company is in a better situation. Then we will conclude with a financial summary of the ratios using DuPont system of analysis which will help us to see whether the company is fully utilizing its total asset turnover‚ equity multiplier and profit margin all together. RAK (Ras Al-Khaimah) We selected RAK as the “selected company”
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beta using the Hamada equation‚ and transform this equation to calculate a firm’s unlevered beta‚ bU. • Illustrate through a graph the premiums for financial risk and business risk at different debt levels. • List the assumptions under which Modigliani and Miller proved that a firm’s value is unaffected by its capital structure‚ then explain trade-off theory‚ signaling theory‚ and the effect of taxes and bankruptcy costs on capital structure. • List a number of factors or practical
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AND CONCEPT OF INVESTMENT Investment is a term for several closely related meanings in finance and economics. Investment according to Theoretical Economics Investment means the production of capital goods - goods which are not consumed but instead used in future production. Examples include • Building • A rail road • A Factory clearing land • Putting oneself through college Investment according to Finance Term Investment means buying of Assets. For Examples • Buying stocks and bonds • Investing
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Objectives 1. List and describe the four types of secondary markets. 2. Explain why many financial analysts treat preferred stock as a special type of bond rather than as a true equity security. 3. Describe how the general dividend-valuation model values a share of stock. 4. Discuss the assumptions that are necessary to make the general dividend-valuation model easier to use‚ and be able to use the model to compute the value of a firm’s stock. 5. Explain why g must be less than R
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17/07/2013 Finance Semester 2‚ 2013 Seminar 1 Introduction to finance & ethics in finance Ross et al. chapter 1. These powerpoint slides have been adapted from Frank Finn Professor of Finance Tom Smith’s (UQ) teaching material of “Three key finance ideas of valuation” and Dr. Scott McCarthy’s teaching material. 1 What is Finance? • Every business is a process of acquiring and disposing assets: real assets and financial assets. • Finance is a science of valuation and management
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Efficient Market Hypothesis v’s Behavioural Finance An efficient market is one in which share prices quickly and fully reflect all available information‚ where investors are rational‚ and there are no frictions. Investors determine stock prices on the basis of expected cash flows to be received from a stock and the risk involved. Rational investors should use all the information they have available or can reasonably obtain‚ including both known information and beliefs about the future. In an efficient
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