Chapter 1 Corporate Finance- the acquisition and efficient use of funds required by the fund The acquisition refers to the finance decision Efficient use of funds refers to the investment decision A major aspect of corporate finance is the creation and determination of value Objective of Financial Management- Maximize shareholder wealth is the main goal—to maximize the market value of the firm 3 Main Decision Areas of Financial Manager to Achieve Maximization: 1. Investment Decision- What
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Mini-Case Study: McDonald’s Corporation: Firing on all cylinders while preparing for the future McDonald’s Corporation is the largest fast food restaurant chain in the world‚ operating more than 32‚000 restaurants in 118 countries. In 2008‚ McDonalds and Wal-Mart were the only stocks in the Dow Jones to end the year with a gain. From 2007 to 2008 they raised revenues in billion dollars earning above average returns. Its ability to create value for its stakeholders is impressive‚ but this trend
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Q.2 Consider the following FI balance sheet: M. Match Ltd Assets | Liabilities | 2 –year Treasury bond $175‚000 | 1-year CD $135‚000 | 15-year corporate bond $165‚000 | 5-year deposit $160‚000 | Notes: All securities are selling at par (equal to book value). The two-year Treasury bonds yield 5%; the 15-year corporate bonds yield 9%; the one-year CD issue pays 4.5% and the five-year deposit pays 8%. Assume that all instruments have annual coupon payments. (a) What is the
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CGA-CANADA ADVANCED CORPORATE FINANCE [FN2] EXAMINATION June 2011 Marks Notes: 1. Questions 1 and 2 are multiple choice. For these questions‚ select the best answer for each of the unrelated items. Answer each of these items in your examination booklet by giving the number of your choice. For example‚ if the best answer for item (a) is (1)‚ write (a)(1) in your examination booklet. If more than one answer is given for an item‚ that item will not be marked. Incorrect answers will be marked as zero
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Topic 1: Principles in Finance and Valuation Learning Outcomes what is finance? principles in finance application: valuation Topic 1: Principles in Finance and Valuation M K Lai Page 2 What is Finance? N = the date when you are called to answer to God face-to-face now 1 N-1 2 N N-1 … initial wealth income income income income income consumption consumption consumption consumption consumption consumption How to allocate your initial wealth and future income to consumption over time
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PROBLEM SET 5: INTEREST RATES‚ AMORTIZING LOANS‚ BOND VALUATION‚ STOCK VALUATION 1. A typical credit card agreement quotes an interest rate of 18 percent APR. Monthly payments are required. What is the actual interest rate you pay on such a credit card? 2. After carefully going over your budget‚ you have determined you can afford to pay €632 per month toward a new sports car. You call up your local bank and find out that the going rate is 1 percent per month for 48 months. How much you can borrow
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a. Should Caledonia focus on cash flows or accounting profits in making its capital-budgeting decisions? Should the company be interested in incremental cash flows‚ incremental profits‚ total free cash flows‚ or total profits? Caledonia should focus on cash flows‚ not accounting profits. Free cash flows are able to be reinvested‚ whereas accounting profits are shown when they are earned‚ not when the cash is actually received. The company should be interested in incremental after-tax cash flows
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1. Tom believes the company should use the extra cash to pay a special one-time dividend. How will this proposal affect the stock price? How will it affect the value of the company? Electronic Timing‚ Inc. (ETI) needs to be careful on how it dispenses the extra cash as a dividend. Issuing the extra cash as a dividend would mean that the shareholders collectively will probably drop by the same amount because of the transfer of wealth from the company to the shareholders individually. Hence‚ the
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24. We can use the debt-equity ratio to calculate the weights of equity and debt. The debt of the company has a weight for long-term debt and a weight for accounts payable. We can use the weight given for accounts payable to calculate the weight of accounts payable and the weight of long-term debt. The weight of each will be: Accounts payable weight = .15/1.15 = .13 Long-term debt weight = 1/1.15 = .87 Since the accounts payable has the same cost as the overall WACC‚ we can write the equation for
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In this chapter we will study that how more than one factor which is associated with expected return‚ are evaluated on capital asset pricing model. We have described earlier that beta specifies the inclination level or slope of characteristic line and this is denoted by βj. Extended capital asset pricing model evaluates many factors other than beta‚ to calculate the expected return of a security. We can add or include some other factors to the equation of expected return of a security‚ to gain more
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