Prof. Lin Guo FIN 417 HBS Case: Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS Due date: April 12‚ 2012 Instructions: This case should be done individually. You should prepare a written analysis‚ and hand in two copies of your analysis on April 12 in class. Only hard copies of the case analysis are accepted. I will submit one of the copies to the Dean’s office for assessment purpose. Each student should also bring his/her own copy of the write-up to class‚ as well as the case itself‚ so that we can refer
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Birla Corporation Case Business activities based on the recent developments The Given data states that Birla’s Profits had been increased from 4.19 crore in 2002-03 to 41.56 crore in 2003-04 and their 88.75% sales consist of sales from cement division. But this was the case in both years 2002-03 and 2003-04 which means those profits were achieved only by improvising on internal factors of the company like improvements in performance of Cement division by achieving the higher capacity utilization
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Marriott Corporation: The Cost of Capital (Abridged) 1. How does Marriott use its estimate of cost of capital? Does this make sense? Marriot use cost of capital as the hurdle rate (minimum rate of return required to accept the project) to discount future cash flows for the investment projects of the three lines of business (Lodging‚ Contract Services and Restaurants). They use this rate to calculate NPV and net present value over cost to decide for the profit rate. Since cost of the project
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[pic] By: Michael Malone Statement of the Problem Rajat Singh‚ a managing director at Hudson Bancorp‚ needs to find a way to rejuvenate the paper check corporation. One main part that needs to be calculated is the appropriate mixture of debt and equity for the firm. The company needs to determine the correct mixture so that they can both minimize the cost of capital and increase the shareholders value. I will analyze the current and future situation of the company‚ trying to find the correct
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Debt Equity Debt/Equity Ratio Return on Equity 15‚000‚000 2‚250‚000 0 2‚250‚000 1‚350‚000 1‚000‚000 1.35 0 15‚000‚000 0.00% 9.00% Worst Case 10% 16‚500‚000 2‚475‚000 500‚000 1‚975‚000 1‚185‚000 1‚000‚000 1.185 5‚000‚000 15‚000‚000 33.33% 7.90% Expected Case 30% 19‚500‚000 2‚925‚000 500‚000 2‚425‚000 1‚455‚000 1‚000‚000 1.455 5‚000‚000 15‚000‚000 33.33% 9.70% Best Case 50% 22‚500‚000 3‚375‚000 500‚000 2‚875‚000 1‚725‚000 1‚000‚000 1.725 5‚000‚000 15‚000‚000 33.33% 11.50% 1. For sure‚ the company can
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FBE 421 Marriott Corporation ------------------------------------------------- Introduction Founded in 1927‚ Marriott Corporation has become one of the leading food service companies in the United States. As of 1987‚ Marriott recorded a profit of $233 million on sales of $6.5 billion and retained a high sales growth rate of 24%. Marriott runs on three major lines of business lodging‚ contract services‚ and restaurants. Lodging division which includes 361 hotels generated 41% of 1987 sales
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THE ZALE CORPORATION Zale Corporation is a leading specialty retailer of diamonds and other jewelry products in North America. The Company has significant brand name recognition as a result of each of its brands’ long-standing presence in the industry‚ having 2.349 stores in the United States‚ Puerto Rico and Canada. The Company´s vision “provide customers with quality merchandise at the lowest possible price” has remain the same since its first store opening in 1920´s. The Mission of Zale Corporation
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Case Questions: 1. Option #3 suggests Stryker Corporation to build its own facility to manufacture its own PBCs. Under the current situation that some contract manufacturers have weak performance in quality and delivery‚ the benefits of this option are obvious as following: First of all‚ option #3 promised the highest degree of control over quality and delivery‚ which can solve the major problem that Stryker has faced with recently. On the other hand‚ self-manufacturing offers an opportunity
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Listening A service-quality information system uses mtiltiple research approaches to systematically capture‚ organize‚ and disseminate service-quality information to support decision making. Continuously generated data SLOAN MANAGEMENT REVIEW/SPRING 1997 flow into databases that decision makers can use on both a regtilarly scheduled and as-needed basis. The use of multiple research approaches is necessary because each approach has limitations as well as strengths. Combining approaches enables a firm
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HBS- Airborne Express Background Information Seattle based Airborne Express was the third largest express mail business in the 1990s. The product of two specialist airfreight carriers‚ Airborne Express began operations in 1968 and targeted businesses requiring regular‚ high-volume shipments of urgent items. Airborne maintained low cost operations by focusing on efficiency. We discuss how the express mail industry evolved throughout the 1990s and what Airborne did to remain competitive. How and
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