Corporate Finance Nike‚ INC: Cost of capital 1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? Do you agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation? Why or why not? Definition of WACC (Weighted Average Cost of Capital): WACC is basically the average of the cost of finance (debt and equity). Since a company’s assets can be financed by debt or equity‚ WACC can show the averages of the costs involved in the sources of financing. These costs are then weighted
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manufacturing plants in China and India to save on labor costs. What factors should you consider when making your decision? Is labor outsourcing to developing countries a legitimate business strategy that can be handled without risk of running into a sweatshop scandal? Once company decide to expand new factory in new place‚ there are couple factors that manager should concern. Government regulations would be first priority. It is necessary to know each country labour laws because some countries restrictions
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Presented to: Dr. Laura Pogue Chadron State College Organizational Behavior Audit for Nike Inc. TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Company Overview 2. Body of report 2.1. Introduction to Organizational Behavior [general OB attributes] 2.2. Individual Behavior‚ Values‚ and Personality 2.3. Perceptions and Learning in Organizations 2.4. Workplace Emotions‚ Attitudes‚ and Stress 2.5. Employee Motivation: Foundations and Practices 2.6. Individual Decision Making 2.7. Team Dynamics 2.8. Communicating
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firm’s bond‚ Johanna only used the interest expense of the year divided by the average debt balance‚ which fully ignored the discounted cash flow of the cost of debt. 2. If you do not agree with Cohen’s analysis‚ calculate your own WACC for Nike and be prepared to justify your assumptions. Combining the analysis above‚ we now give our own WACC calculation as following: 2.1 The value of debt(based on EXIHIBIT 3). Since the book value of debt may represent the market value‚ we merely
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Environment Terry Halbert | Elaine Inguli Strayer University Employment –At – Will Doctrine Alicia Marie Bing Law‚ Ethics & Corporate Governance – LEG 500 Dr. Demetrius Abraham 26 January 2014 TABLE OF CONTENTS Title Page i Certification of Authorship ii I. Abstract 5 II. Summarization: Employment-At-Will Doctrine 6 II a. Allowable Exceptions to Legally Fire 6 II b. Decision and Reasoning
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purchase Nike products. This shows you that Nike’s image is one of the most viable and important aspects for their company’s success. Which would leave to the following aspects of customer satisfaction‚ because without that I could potentially ruin Nike’s positive image that they strive so much for. Another factor that plays into this positive image would be advertising. Advertising is an important factor because helps the company showcase their “consumer-aimed” designs to the public. “Nike recently
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The research I have done about Nike’s labor practices was very interesting. I looked up responses of Nike to accuses on them on the internet. I found a couple of publications at www.Nikebiz.com. After I read them‚ I realized that Nike proclaims the same thing in an exaggerated style in every single one of them. For example in a Nike statement regarding the working conditions in El Salvador‚ Nike says that their constant goal always used to be to improve the safety at the working place and the indoor
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situational analysis of shared leadership in a self-managing team [provide a brief description or a descriptive title or a research question] Purposes: Alvesson (1996) claims that a situational approach enables leadership to be viewed and studied as “a practical accomplishment” (p. 476) rather than starting with a conceptualisation of leadership as whatever the appointed leader does. This approach seems particularly well suited to self-managing teams (SMTs)‚ in which leadership is presumably shared.
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Nike Athletic Shoe Industry {draw:frame} ”It is one of the most recognized symbols in the world-The swoosh. Simple.Fluid.Fast.” (Nike.com) III. Overview of the Company and Brand A. Internal Analysis Company Overview: Marketing Strategy of Brand a. Brand description‚ product line overview classification Nike carries a wide selection of all kinds of athletic shoes. Running shoes‚ basketball shoes‚ casual shoes‚ trail shoes‚ and cross trainer shoes. Nike tends to be more on the expensive
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1020- D82 13 February 2018 Where Sweatshops Are A Dream The author in his titled " Where Sweatshops Are a Dream‚" in our corporate- dominated world economy today Nicholas D. Kristof columnist for the NY time by tackles the controversial topic of sweatshops that are used‚ and often exploited while presenting an argument for the necessity of these facilities in some parts of the global‚ and Kristof addresses the efforts being made to improve or remove sweatshops as the piece of unfolds. New perspective
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