OVERVIEW OF CORPORATION Lesson 1 Chapter 1 : Outline 1.1 What is Corporate Finance ? Some important questions that are answered using finance • What long-term investments should the firm take on? • Where will we get the long-term financing to pay for the investment? • How will we manage the everyday financial activities of the firm? Financial Manager Financial managers try to answer some or all of these questions The top financial manager within a firm is usually the Chief
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There are two types of project appraisal techniques: non-discounted cash flows and discounted cash flows. The Net Present Value and internal rate of return‚ examples of discounted cash flows‚ are in use in many large corporations and regarded as more effective than the traditional techniques of payback and accounting rate of return. In this paper‚ I will examine the use of the Net Present Value‚ and the provisions it makes for specific cases‚ such as unequal lives and mutually exclusive projects. Then
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better investment as the percentage of accounting rate of return is much higher than that of the soccer school. In addition‚ another quantitative method of appraisal is net present value. Unlike payback and ARR‚ this investment appraisal considers the value of money over time. It converts all monetary values into today’s values to allow for a realistic assessment of the returns of the years
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annual cash flows: Changes in earnings (before interest and taxes); tax impact; impact on depreciation; change in net working capital; and change in capital spending. Terminal cash flow: free cash flow (over project’s life) and recapture of inventory investment (working capital) In order to make sense of the derived numbers‚ those beyond present day must be converted to present value to have a basis for comparison to other projects over shorter or longer periods of investment. Methods for evaluating
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Question 1 Both methods have their advantages and limitations. The divergence is mainly caused by the fact that the methods used in the case were insufficient to decide on the attractiveness of the projects. Moreover‚ as described in the chapter concerning the situation of pharmaceutical companies‚ more specific subcriteria could be used to make the scoring model more accurate. Finally‚ Nova Western should develop an enhanced screening model to take into account both methods and some additional
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Executive Summary A decision has to be made on the possible construction of a new ship to meet the demands of a charterer which wants a contract of only 3 years. Based on the calculations of the costs of construction against the value of the contract‚ it is recommended that Ocean Carriers not go ahead with the construction. However‚ if a strategic alliance can be created with another carrier to lease their vessels‚ Ocean Carriers should accept the contract. If the strategic alliance is mutual‚
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[pic] MASTER of BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION ECONOMICS FOR MANAGERS MTKM 5033 CAPITAL BUDGETING BY; MOHD FIRDAUS IBRAHIM M061310005 NORZAHFRAN NORJAMAL M061310034 ABU HANIFAH BIN A. JALAL M061310004 INSTRUCTOR; DR. SENTOT IMAM WAHJONO Table of content Page___ CAPITAL BUDGETING DEFINED 3 Categories of investment THE CAPITAL BUDGETING PROCESS 4 CAPITAL BUDGETING DECISION RULES 5 New project decision rules of capital
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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO FINANCE 431 – MANAGEMENT IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES INDUSTRY PRACTICE SET 1 – BANK CAPITAL PROJECTS AND LEASE FINANCING Note: Problems 1‚3‚5‚7 are from Chapter 4 in the textbook. 1. A group of businesspeople from Gwynne Island are considering filing an application with the state banking commission to charter a new bank. Due to a lack of current banking facilities within a 10-mile radius of the community‚ the organizing group estimates that the initial banking
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system should be designed as a web based system because the president of the Personal Trainer‚ Inc wants members to have online access to their accounts and progress reports. Susan should consider some option such as internet based frameworks such as .NET or WebSphere. Web base systems are easily scalable‚ and can run on multiple hardware environments. User can logon to the system anytime any day. It would be 24/7. 2. In this case‚ the system requirement document should have Introduction‚ performance
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Bethesda Mining Company To be able to analyze the project‚ we need to calculate the project’s NPV‚ IRR‚ MIRR‚ Payback Period‚ and Profitability Index. Since net working capital is built up ahead of sales‚ the initial cash flow depends in part on this cash outflow. So‚ we will begin by calculating sales. Each year‚ the company will sell 600‚000 tons under contract‚ and the rest on the spot market. The total sales revenue is the price per ton under contract times 600‚000 tons‚ plus the spot market
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