African Journal of Business Management Vol. 5(15)‚ pp. 6527-6540‚ 4 August‚ 2011 Available online at http://www.academicjournals.org/AJBM DOI: 10.5897/AJBM11.1012 ISSN 1993-8233 ©2011 Academic Journals Full Length Research Paper Capital structure and financing decision - Evidence from the four Asian Tigers and Japan Kuang-Hua Hsu1* and Ching-Yu Hsu2 1 Department of Finance‚ Chaoyang University of Technology‚ Taiwan‚ Republic of China 168 Jifong E. Road.‚ Wufong District‚ Taichung
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financial risks is the debt to total capitalization ratio. This ratio measures the portion of a company’s total capital structure that is financed by debts. The ratio is calculated as: According to the balance sheet dated May 31‚ 2014‚ Nike had a total debt of $1.373 billion‚ and total shareholders’ equity of $10.824 billion. Computing these numbers gives a debt to total capital ratio of 11.26%. The balance sheet of Nike shows that there is no preferred stock offered by the company but
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The Capital Structure of Chinese Companies 1. Introduction Capital structure is considered as a way to determine how a corporation financing its assets by issuing debt or equity. If the firm is entirely financed by the common equity‚ then it is so called an unlevered firmed‚ and its whole cash flow belong to its stockholders. If the firm financed both debt and equity‚ then it is so called a levered firm‚ and its cash flow will first goes to debt holders and then to stockholders. According to Brealey
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Marriott Corporation: Case Introduction Marriott is renowned for its elegant and comfortable hotels and resorts. The company caters to a targeted customer base‚ ranging from the frequent corporate business traveler to the family enjoying their occasional weekend get-away. Marriott has continued its rise in the lodging‚ contract services‚ and restaurant industries. The company continuously strives to meet the needs and wants of its customers while strategically maneuvering the rigors of today’s competitive
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duration and the frequency of the pathways to user conversions. In this paper‚ we propose an alternative data mining framework for analyzing user-level advertising data. In the aggregation step‚ we compress individual user histories into a graph structure‚ called the adgraph‚ representing local correlations between ad events. For the reporting step‚ we introduce several scoring rules‚ called the adfactors (AF)‚ that can capture global role of ads and ad paths in the adgraph‚ in particular‚ the structural
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managing rather than owning the hotel assets‚ Marriott is able to increase its ROA thereby increasing potential profitability and its financial position in the market. Marriott also improves its efficiency as the general partner under long-term management contract because it can decrease useless expenses and guarantee a part of the partnership’s debt. The second financial strategy is investing in projects that increase shareholder value. Marriott uses the discounted cash-flow techniques to evaluate
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Marriott Corporation Case Study 1) The Marriott Corporation implemented for key elements into their financial strategy: manage rather than own hotel assets invest in projects that increase shareholder value‚ optimize the use of debt in the capital structure‚ and repurchase undervalued shares 2) Marriott uses WACC to measure the opportunity costs of capital of investments with similar risks. Each division of Marriott has a different cost of capital‚ based on debt capacity‚ debt cost‚ and equity
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a. What business is Marriott in? Are the four components of Marriott’s financial strategy consistent with its growth objective? b. How does Marriott use its estimate of its cost of capital? Does this make sense? c. What is the weighted average cost of capital for Marriott Corporation? • What risk-free rate and risk premium did you use to calculate the cost of equity? • How did you measure Marriott’s cost of debt? 1. Are the four components of Marriott ’s financial strategy consistent
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Issue In this assignment‚ we are asked to compute the WACC of Marriott Corporation and each of the company’s three divisions. Our approach is outlined in the next section. We made a series of assumptions regarding either the available data or the missing information. This has been explained below‚ in a separate section. Approach We applied the following formulae to calculate the WACC: Our assumptions are explained in the next section. The table below presents the approach for calculations
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Marriott’s sales grew up by 24% and its return on equity stood at 22% in the year 1987‚ the sales and earnings per share has doubled over the previous year as stated in the case study. The company operates in three divisions: lodging‚ contract services and restaurants which represents 41%‚ 46% and 13% of sales in 1987 respectively. Marriott is determined to develop and to enhance its position in each division and remain a premier growth company as stated in the annual report (1987). This key objective implies
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