own words why financial decisions are based on incremental benefits? How does a sunk cost affect the incremental benefit from a decision? Incremental benefits are costs and benefits that would occur if a particular course of action is taken‚ compared to those that would have obtained if that course of action had not been taken. It’s the opportunity cost‚ the value of choosing one action over another. Financial decisions are based on incremental benefits because a corporation may weigh the cost
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1. On one half a page review what does our traditional finance framework and the CAPM model‚ for example‚ have to say about risk? What is it? How is it approached? The traditional finance framework uses discounted expected future cash flow to determine the NPV of the project. The amount of the opportunity cost is based on a relation between the risk and return of some sort of investment. People are rational and adverse to risk and need incentive to accept risk. The incentive in finance comes in
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Case study: Budgeting in an Academic Information Technology Department of a University (Source: This case has been adapted from - Vollmers‚ G. & Coons‚ W. (2012). IMA Educational Case Journal‚ 5(1)‚ Art. 2). INTRODUCTION You are a senior accounting faculty member in the business school and your dean‚ Rose Garrett‚ is asking for help. She is very discouraged after a midyear budget meeting with the Vice President of Finance (VPoF). The college’s Department of Information Technology has a
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Chapter 11: The Basics of Capital Budgeting 1. A firm should never accept a project if its acceptance would lead to an increase in the firm’s cost of capital (its WACC). a. True b. False ANSWER: False 2. Because “present value” refers to the value of cash flows that occur at different points in time‚ a series of present values of cash flows should not be summed to determine the value of a capital budgeting project. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 3. Assuming that their NPVs based on the firm’s
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Cravat Sales Company‚ a nationwide distributor of a designer’s silk ties with an exclusive franchise on the distribution of the ties‚ and sales have grown rapidly over the last few years. Your have been given responsibility for all planning and budgeting. Your assignment is to prepare a master budget for the next 3 months‚ starting April 1st. You are anxious to make a favorable impression on the president and have assembled the information below. The company desires a minimum ending cash balance
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Unit 2 Discussion Board COMP102 I have been using word throughout my life such as in grade school‚ middle school‚ high school‚ and Now College and to be honest the only thing I have used it for was to type up school work and I had very little knowledge about it. After reviewing the site provided I found quite a few things interesting to me. Since I am a business owner and I am only into the field a few months now I found it very cool that there are templates to make business cards‚ I have
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"My Household Budget" ITEM Car Payment Insurance Food Games Gas Tolls Telephone Credit Cards Loans Clothing Toiletries Hair cuts "Monthly Budget Total" "Total Monthly Expense" "Compare To Budget" MONTHLY BUDGET $356.32 $125.01 $325.00 $250.00 $200.00 $100.00 $149.52 $300.00 $225.50 $300.00 $143.65 $25.00 JAN FEB $356.35 $125.01 $274.65 $124.74 $120.00 $63.75 $149.52 $285.00 $225.50 $274.32 $75.43 $15.30 $356.32 $125.01 $225.89 $64.99 $100.00 $14.25 $149.52 $260.00 $225.50 $136.84 $24.39 $22
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My Household Budget ITEM MONTHLY BUDGET JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEP OCT NOV DEC Item Total Housing $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $1‚000.00 $12‚000.00 Utilities $250.00 $136.00 $146.00 $150.00 $142.00 $155.00 $270.00 $290.00 $267.00 $260.00 $210.00 $200.00 $200.00 $2‚426.00 Car Payment $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $300.00 $3‚600.00 Insurance
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QUESTION AND ANSWER FOR ASSIGNMENT AEU 1. Active Company accumulated the following data for a delivery truck. Miles Driven Total Cost Miles driven Total Cost January 10‚000 $ 15‚000 March 9‚000 $ 12‚500 February 8‚000 $14‚500 April 7‚500 $13‚000 Required: a) Determine the equation to predict total costs for delivery truck. b) What should total costs be if 12‚187 miles were driven? Cost = 15000 _ 13000 = 2000 Activity 10‚000
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Capital Budgeting Derwin Brown FIN/486 12/15/2014 Rosa Welton‚ Instructor Capital Budgeting Considering the information for the Proposal concerning the building of the new factory‚ the incremental cash flows are needed for the NPV analysis. The incremental cash flows are sales of $3 million a year which equals an increase in gross margin by $150‚000 given a 5% gross margin and initial on investment of $10 million which is the cost of building the new factory. The savage
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