ANALYSIS OF USEC Inc.‚ Prepared For: Dr. Doina Chichernea BUAD 6200 SPRING 2011 The University of Toledo APRIL 21‚ 2011 Executive Summary USEC is the world’s leading supplier of enriched Uranium to nuclear power plants. Due to the expiration of long term energy cost savings contracts‚ USEC is examining the possibility of taking on a new project called the American Centrifuge Project. This project will utilize a different process for Uranium enrichment‚ which is the core business process
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FUNDAMENTALS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE By Thomas Clarke and Marie dela Rama SAGE Publications (2008) London; Thousand Oaks CA. ISBN: 978-1-4129-3589-0 Website: http://www.ccg.uts.edu.au THE FUNDAMENTAL DIMENSIONS AND DILEMMAS OF CORPORATE GOVERNANCE Introduction As the scale and activity of corporations has increased immeasurably‚ the governance of these entities has assumed considerable importance. Business corporations have an enduring impact upon societies and economies‚ and “how corporations
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Mini Case Study-Bethesda Mining Mini-Case Study: Bethesda Mining Company Week 4 Application 2 Jo-Ann Savoie Walden University Finance: Fiscal Leadership in a Global Environment DDBA-8140-2 Dr. Guerman Kornilov March 24‚ 2011 The following Mini-Case on Bethesda Mining Company was taken from the text corporate finance (2010‚ P. 203-204). In order to determine if Bethesda Mine should open‚ a thorough analysis of the payback period‚ profitability
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e TCH321 – CORPORATE FINANCE MOCK EXAM Time: 1 hour 30 minutes The exam lasts 1 hour and 30 minutes and consists of 5 questions. Approved calculators are permitted. You are not allowed to use Excel. This is a closed book exam. You are NOT permitted to access any other material in either written or electronic form. All numerical answers should be reported to TWO decimal places. To ensure the accuracy of your answer‚ you should perform all intermediate calculations to at least THREE decimal places
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Questions and Problems Page 1 of 3 Corporate Finance eBook 9/e Content Chapter8: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation Questions and Problems 1. Valuing Bonds What is the price of a 10-year‚ zero coupon bond paying $1‚000 at maturity if the YTM is: BASIC (Questions 1– 12) a. 5 percent? b. 10 percent? c. 15 percent? 2. Valuing Bonds Microhard has issued a bond with the following characteristics: Par: $1‚000 Time to maturity: 25 years Coupon rate: 7 percent Semiannual payments Calculate the price of
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The Venture Capital Division of Boeing has four projects on the table with three additional leverages of debt. As the financial analyst for the division I was given the task of evaluating the four capital budgeting projects. After evaluating each project I will recommend which project will bring the most value to shareholders and the firm. What is the cost of equity for each project at 0‚ 20%‚ and 50% leverage? From the information provided the cost of equity at 0‚ 20%‚ and 50% leverage was
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FIN-516 – WEEK 2 – MINI – CASE ASSIGNMENT 1. What is the name of the company? What is the industry sector? General Electric Industrial Goods 2. What are the operating risks of the company? 3. What is the financial risk of the company (the LT debt to total capitalization ratio)? Debt to equity = Total debt ÷ GE shareowners’ equity = 11‚589 ÷ 116‚438 = 0.10 4. Does the company have any preferred stock? (shares/book value/market price and value) GE does not have any preferred
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price $40 Market value of firm $400‚000 Number of shares 10‚000 Earnings per share $4 Book net worth $500‚000 Return on investment 8% Pisa has not performed spectacularly to date. However‚ it wishes to issue new shares to obtain $80‚000 to finance expansion into a promising market. Pisa’s financial advisers think a stock issue is a poor choice because‚ among other reasons‚ “sale of stock at a price below book value per share can only depress the stock price and decrease shareholders’ wealth
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liability‚ and list firm types that are subject to each. 3. Describe taxation consequences for C and S corporate forms. Copyright © 2007 Pearson Addison-Wesley. All rights reserved. 1-3 Learning Objectives (cont’d) 4. Discuss the division of corporate ownership into shares of stock; evaluate the implications of that division for corporate decision making. 5. Explain how corporate bankruptcy can be viewed as a change in firm ownership. 6. Compare and contrast characteristics of shares
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Mini Case: Luxury Wars – page 54 1. Hermes decided to list 25% of Hermes SA on the French stock market in 1993. This was done to provide family members with a means to value their stake in the company as well as partially cash-out if they felt their family dividends were not enough. 2. LVMH was able to attain such a large ownership position without the knowledge of Hermes family and management through equity swaps. Equity swaps are derivative contracts whereby two parties enter into a contract
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