Week 4 Discussion Questions • What are main elements in calculating the cost of capital? How does an increase in debt affect it? How do you identify an organization’s optimal cost of capital? • The main elements in calculating the cost of capital are cost of debt‚ cost of equity‚ preferred stock and common stock. • An increase in debt indicates a higher risk which can increase the required rate of return which raises the cost of capital. Higher debt can also accrue additional costs. • By mixing
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Week One Imagine you have been hired by a small but growing company to help with their IT efforts. Your first task is to let them know the general principles involved with using IT systems throughout the enterprise. Write an e-mail describing the top five types of IT systems the company could use in its operations. Answer the following questions in 200 to 300 words each: * What are some important questions that need to be asked when determining the exact requirements for a system? *
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If so‚ how many shares are currently outstanding? (b) How much common stock does the company report in its most recent balance sheet? What is the par value of each? (c) Does the company report any treasury stock? Has this amount changed since the previous year? Answer: (a) Staples balance sheet for February 2‚ 2013 states $.01 par value‚ 5‚000‚000 shares authorized and no shares issued
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A company is considered to be successful when it is sustainable and able to make a good profit‚ in other words‚ have a good return to its shareholders; to achieve that‚ the company has to be competitive by being able to deliver a greater value with the same price‚ or a comparable value with a lower price. Marketing strategy is the most important aspect which makes some firms more successful than others. It is a matter of what a company can offer while the others can not. Ikea and Southwest Airline
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Abstract Four inventory systems identified within an organization that each team member is familiar or researched. Four years of inventory data is collected from each organization. Members of Team B collaborate to compare the inventory systems. Inventory Four inventory systems are compared over different organizations. An inventory system as part of practice management software for veterinarians‚ Wal-Mart’s inventory system‚ and winter and summer seasonal inventory for University of
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The corporate valuation model cannot be used unless a company pays dividends. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 14. Projected free cash flows should be discounted at the firm’s weighted average cost of capital to find the firm’s total corporate value. a. True b. False ANSWER: True 15. Preferred stock is a
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Business Writing portfolio You are a public relations manager called upon to present some information regarding changes in retail store operations to three different sets of stakeholders of a retail clothing store chain. The stakeholders include store managers‚ store employees‚ retail customers and the public. You must explain adjustments made to combat rising gas prices in an effort to save money on store operations while allowing employees to come to work on fewer days per week. Stores will now
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The Wendy’s Company Dave Thomas opened our first Wendy’s restaurant in 1969 in Columbus‚ Ohio. He opened the door to a new gold standard in quality food. When other restaurants were using frozen beef and mass-producing food‚ Dave developed an innovative method to prepare fresh‚ made-to-order hamburgers. Every day‚ we honor his legacy and continue to live through his values by using select‚ premium ingredients and serving food that’s made fresh with every order. Corporate Profile The Wendy’s
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Question #1 Answer: This past years old I started to compare my life with the life’s to the life of my friends and started to wonder why were they having more success than what I was having. Why were they earning more? Why do they have a better job? Why‚ why‚ why‚ all this questions coming to me. All of them comparing my life with theirs. They were buying luxury cars‚ traveling‚ shopping‚ living on Austin downtown high rises. And me? Well I was living a normal life with a job that I don’t like
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would be of much interest to me. I would therefore be suitable to this role as I am a hard working motivated graduate accounting student who is looking to complete my professional qualifications while working in a finance based role at a major company such as
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