REVISED: 11/05/10 O NL IN E SI MU LA TIO N F OR EG R OU ND R E A D IN G Finance: Capital Budgeting Company and Industry Overview The New Heritage Doll Company‚ based in Sacramento‚ California‚ was a privately held company with 450 employees and approximately $245 million in fiscal 2009 revenues. This represented approximately 8% of the $3.1 billion U.S. doll industry‚ which was projected to grow by 2% annually to $3.4 billion in retail sales by 2013. In turn‚ the doll industry represented a 7
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Alternative Financing Strategies and How to Choose Between Them‚” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 10‚ 114-122. Kaplan‚ S.N. and R.S. Ruback‚ 1995‚ “The Valuation of Cash Flow Forecasts: An Empirical Analysis‚” Journal of Finance 50‚ 1059-1093. Luehrman‚ T.A.‚ 1997‚ “Using APV: A Better Tool for Valuing Operations‚” Harvard Business Review 75‚ 145-154. Lundholm‚ R.J. and T. O’Keefe‚ 2001‚ “Reconciling Value Estimates from the Discounted Cash Flow Model and the Residual Income Model‚” Contemporary
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ABSTRACT Selection of right sets of projects is considerably critical for organizations to successfully achieve their competitive advantages and corporate strategies. Due to limited resources and dynamic changes in business environment‚ this kind of selection is quite challenging for organizations. Beside one hundred selection tools and techniques‚ academics and practitioners have studied and recommended complex selection frameworks to facilitate the selection of right projects. However
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uncertainty. Harvard Business Review‚ 75(6):67-79‚ November-December. HENDERSON JC & VENKATRAMAN N. 1999. Strategic alignment: leveraging information technology for transforming organizations. IBM Systems Journal‚ 38(2/3):472-484. HOPE J & HOPE T LUEHRMAN TA. 1998. Strategy as a portfolio of real options. Harvard Business Review‚ 76(5):89-99‚ September-October. LUFTMAN JN‚ LEWIS PR & OLDACH SH. 1993. Transforming the enterprise: the alignment of business and information technology strategies. IBM
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valuation Heller‚ S.‚ (2010)‚ Estimating beta and Cost of Equity Capital for Non-traded Transportation Companies James‚ M.‚ Koller‚ T.‚ (2000)‚ Valuation in emerging markets Liu‚ J.‚ Nissim‚ D.‚ Thomas‚ J.‚ (2002)‚ Equity Valuation Using Multiples Luehrman‚ T.‚ (1997)‚ Using APV: A better tool for valuing operations Massari‚ M.‚ Roncaglio‚ F.‚ Zanetti‚ L.‚ (2007)‚ On the Equivalence between the APV and the WACC Approach in the Growing Leveraged Firm Ohlson‚ J.‚ Zhang‚ X. (1999)‚ On the Theory if Forecast
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This report reviews the foreign exchange exposure of Eurojet due to the future development plans and growth of the low cost airline company‚ this report also highlights the various risks Eurojet‚ faces in operating in different countries identifying‚ measuring‚ and managing the various foreign exchange exposures that might be faced by Eurojet. However‚ some of these issues will be analysed differently. Foreign Exchange Exposure: According to Buckley (2004‚ pg.135) foreign exchange exposure means
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Ehrlich P.R. 1994. “Optimum human population size”. Population and Environment: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies‚15(6)‚ 469-475. Dennett D.C Editorial. 2007. “The price of corn”. New York Times 6Feb Late edition-final‚ Section A‚ p. 20‚ col. 1. Heilprin J Holmes B. 2007. “When co-operation is the key to survival”. NewScientist.com 3Feb http://environment.newscientist.com/article/mg19325894.200-when-cooperation-is-the-key-to-survival.html. Lafferty M Michaels W.B. 2006. The Trouble with Diversity:
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Strategic analysis of Nokia Corp 1.0 Executive Summary The following is the strategic analysis of Nokia Corp.‚ which discusses the external and internal environment. The first part‚ external environment‚ presents the opportunities and threats along with the political‚ economic‚ sociocultural‚ and technological issues of the handset industry. It provides Porter’s five forces framework for the discussion of the attractiveness of the industry. The second part of the report analyzes the main strengths
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39-61. An interesting application of the theory was written by J. Ross and B. M. Staw‚ “Expo 86: An escalation prototype‚” Administrative Science Quarterly‚ 1986‚ 31‚ 274-297. For a discussion on how to think about investments as real options‚ see T. Luehrman‚ “Investment Opportunities as Real Options: Getting Started on the Numbers‚” Harvard Business Review‚ 10 1998‚ 76‚ July-August‚ 51-67 and E. H. Bowman and D. Hurry‚ “Strategy Through the Option Lens: An Integrated View of Resource Investments and
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Environmental Dynamism‚ Capital Structure and Performance: A Theoretical Integration and an Empirical Test Author(s): Roy L. Simerly and Mingfang Li Source: Strategic Management Journal‚ Vol. 21‚ No. 1 (Jan.‚ 2000)‚ pp. 31-49 Published by: John Wiley & Sons Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3094118 Accessed: 07/12/2009 10:37 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of JSTOR ’s Terms and Conditions of Use‚ available at http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp.
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