Financial Analysis of Coca-Cola Company - February 7th‚ 2011 The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) is a beverage retailer‚ manufacturer and marketer of non-alcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups. The company is best known for its flagship product Coca-Cola‚ invented by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton in 1886. The Coca-Cola formula and brand was bought in 1889 by Asa Candler who incorporated The Coca-Cola Company in 1892. Besides its namesake Coca-Cola beverage‚ Coca-Cola currently offers more than
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Problem #1‚ Chapter 20 1. Firm A has $10‚000 in assets entirely financed with equity. Firm B also has $10‚000 in assets‚ but these assets are financed by $5‚000 in debt (with a 10 percent rate of interest) and $5‚000 in equity. Both firms sell 10‚000 units of output at $2.50 per unit. The variable costs of production are $1‚ and fixed production costs are $12‚000. (To ease the calculation‚ assume no income tax.) a. What is the operating income (EBIT) for both firms? Units sold*price per unit
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Question 1 Your finance text book sold 53‚250 copies in its first year. The publishing company expects the sales to grow at a rate of 20 percent for the next three years‚ and by 10 percent in the fourth year. Calculate the total number of copies that the publisher expects to sell in year 3 and 4. (If you solve this problem with algebra round intermediate calculations to 6 decimal places‚ in all cases round your final answers to the nearest whole number.) Number of copies sold after 3 years Number
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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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Problem Assignment 4 1. You’ve observed the following returns on INTC Corporation’s stock over the past five years: -25%‚ -36%‚ 9%‚ 11%‚ and 17%. a. What was the arithmetic average return on the stock over this five-year period? b. What was the variance of returns over this period? c. What was the standard deviation of returns over this period? d. Suppose the current T-bill rate is 0.15%. What is the risk premium of owing INTC Corporation’s stock? e. What range of returns would you expect
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Wal-Mart stores INC. WACC analysis Wal-Mart Stores‚ Inc. is one of the biggest American multinational retail companies that operate chains of large discount department stores and warehouse stores. Wal-Mart is the world’s largest company by revenue‚ the biggest private employer in the world with over two million employees and the largest retailer in the world and also one of the world’s most valuable companies in terms of market value and is also the largest grocery retailer in the US. Wal-Mart
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Finance 486 Final Exam 1. Income Statement Preparation - 25 points a. Prepare an income statement for Cathy Chen‚ CPA‚ for the year ended December 31‚ 2009 Cathy Chen‚ CPA Income Statement for the Year Ended December 31‚ 2009 | Sales revenue | | $360‚000 | Less: Operating expenses | | | Salaries | 180‚000 | | Employment taxes and benefits | 34‚600 | | Supplies | 10‚400 | | Travel & entertainment | 17‚000 | | Lease payment | 32‚400 | | Depreciation
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Question 1 Which of the following statements is correct? Answer One advantage of dividend reinvestment plans is that they enable investors to avoid paying taxes on the dividends they receive. If a company has an established clientele of investors who prefer a high dividend payout‚ and if management wants to keep stockholders happy‚ it should not follow the strict residual dividend policy. If a firm follows a strict residual dividend policy‚ then‚ holding all else constant‚ its dividend payout ratio
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these changes all result from technology. The introduction of the internet‚ mobile phones and social networking‚ in my eyes‚ has changed everything. The way families communicate is one of the major differences I have noticed after watching ‘Puberty Blues’‚ a television series set in the 1970’s‚ about a series of families and teenagers making their way through life‚ puberty and problems they might encounter on a daily basis. The show previewed the way people communicated with each other‚ always using
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Blue Eyed Jane Elliot’s diversity training experiment is one of the most impressive educational research projects that I have ever seen so far in college. Her brave approach and the very professional behavior that she manages to maintain through the entire experiment allow the participants feel empathy and acceptance. Even though the entire movie was very interesting to watch and exposed very sad facts‚ there were some parts that stood out from the rest and deeply affected me. Towards the
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