Subject: Wal-Mart: The main street merchant of Doom. Date: 01.28.2010 ISSUES: • Largest purchase made from overseas which forced local manufacturers out of business. • Oppositions from labor unions and activists organizations regards to low wage‚ low benefits and taking advantage of illegal immigrants. • Gender discrimination against women. • Most sued company in America in respect of lawsuits. RECOMMENDATIONS: • Purchase from local manufacturers so that they are not out of business
Free Discrimination
(10 points) This strategy does not consider risk. 3. The NuPress Valet Company has an improved version of its hotel stand. The investment cost is expected to be 72 million dollars and will return 13.50 million dollars for 5 years in net cash flows. The ratio of debt to equity is 1 to 1. The cost of equity is 13%‚ the cost of debt is 9%‚ and the tax rate is 34%. What is the NPV of the project? (10 points) WACC = .5*13+.5*9*(1-.34) = 9.47% PMT = 13‚500‚000‚ i=9.47%‚ n=5‚ PV = ?; NPV = PV – 72
Premium Cash flow Net present value Investment
Free Cash Flows Revised by C. Chang. Copyright 1996 by The McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc OUTLINE n n n n n n n What is FCF? FCFF? FCFE? How Do You Calculate FCFF? FCFF Calculation– the CFO Method FCFF Calculation– the EBIT Method Equivalence: FCFF(CFO) vs FCFF(EBIT) Free Cash Flow to Equity (FCFE) Free Cash Flow Example What is FCF? FCFF? FCFE? n Free Cash Flows to Firm (FCFF) n The cash produced by the business activities of a firm available for
Premium Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Cash flow Balance sheet
Working at Wal-Mart Wal-Mart defends its low wage/low benefit personnel policy by arguing that it employs workers who are marginal to the income stream required by most American families. Only seven percent of the company’s hourly “associates” try to support a family with children on a single Wal-Mart income. The company therefore seeks out school-age youth‚ retirees‚ people with two jobs‚ and those willing or forced to work part-time. The managerial culture at Wal-Mart‚ if not the formal company
Premium Working time Fair Labor Standards Act Employment
from now. If the required return is 9 percent‚ what is the value of the investment? What would the value be if the payments occurred for 40 years? For 75 years? Forever? 2. Calculating Annuity Cash Flows. If you put up $25‚000 today in exchange for a 7.9 percent‚ 12year annuity‚ what will the annual cash flow be? 3. Calculating Perpetuity Values. Dawa Financial is trying to sell you an investment policy that will pay you and your heirs $35‚000 per year forever. If the required rate of return on this
Premium Cash flow Net present value Time value of money
statement and statement of cash flows used to make business decisions? The income statement reflects the company’s financial performance by showing how much money was generated (revenue)‚ how much was spent (expenses)‚ and the difference (profit) between the two over a period of time. It is divided into the operating and non-operating sections. It can also tell how much money shareholders would receive if the company were to distribute all of its net earnings. The cash flow statement provides cumulative
Premium Income statement Cash flow Time
Week 8 / Checkpoint The differences between direct and indirect that they involve the way Cash Flow are from operations of activities. This I do recall is the first part of the Cash Flow Statement. The differences are to each are to follow. Direct Presentation: involves the cash flows in which analyze the company results and uses of cash. There are three parts that report cash receipts and cash payments. These parts are operations‚ investments‚ and finance transactions. Operating transactions
Premium Cash flow Finance Income statement
stanAccounting Standard (AS) 3 (revised 1997) Cash Flow Statements Contents OBJECTIVE SCOPE BENEFITS OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION DEFINITIONS Cash and Cash Equivalents PRESENTATION OF A CASH FLOW STATEMENT Operating Activities Investing Activities Financing Activities REPORTING CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES REPORTING CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES REPORTING CASH FLOWS ON A NET BASIS FOREIGN CURRENCY CASH FLOWS EXTRAORDINARY ITEMS INTEREST AND DIVIDENDS TAXES ON INCOME
Premium Cash flow statement Balance sheet Asset
of Cash flow * Cash flow is more “direct” as “profit” is highly dependent on accounting conventions and concepts/principles * Cash flow reporting satisfies the needs of all users better since cash flow is more direct with its messages. Some of the interested user parties are: * Creditors -repayment of debts‚ overdue accounts * Management -cash flow reporting provides the type of information which decision should be taken re: relevant costs ( decision based on future cash flow)
Premium Balance sheet Generally Accepted Accounting Principles Income statement
000 $16‚250 $23‚400 Expenses (4‚250) (8‚000) (8‚100) Tax cost (2‚730) (3‚075) (4‚590) Net cash flow $6‚020 $5‚175 $10‚710 Discount factor (6%) .943 .890 Present value $6‚020 $4‚880 $9‚532 NPV $20‚432 11. a. Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Before-tax cash flow $(500‚000) $52‚500 $47‚500 $35‚500 $530‚500 Tax cost (7‚875) (7‚125) (5‚325) (4‚575) After-tax cash flow 44‚625 40‚375 30‚175 525‚925 Discount factor (7%) .935 .873 .816 .763 Present value $(500
Premium Net present value Progressive tax Taxation