WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT 1 1 Week 4 Assignment 1 Edwin Lopez-Petrilli Professor William Hall Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Tuesday July 26‚ 2011 WEEK 4 ASSIGNMENT 1 2 Explain why market prices are useful to a financial manager. Financial managers are tasked with making investment decisions‚ financing‚ and managing cash flows from operating activities therefore when prices from competitive markets determine the cash value of goods and the price determines the value of the goods. Financial
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Fundamentals of corporate finance (European edition) by David Hillier Quartile 4 IBA Chapter 1 - 14 Chapter 1 Introduction to corporate finance 1.1 Corporate finance and the financial manager Corporate finance must be considered with three basic types of question: 1. What long-term investments to make 2. Where will we get the money for those investments from 3. How will we manage everyday financial activities 1. What long-term investment to make: To process of planning and
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Corporate Finance Revision List Topic | Study Program | The Realm of Corporate Finance and Efficient Market Hypothesis | * Overview of finance’s main functions & its importance to organisations. * Importance of value creation as the primary objective of managers * Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH) | Financial Statement Analysis | * Overview of calculating & interpreting accounting & financial ratios from corporate financial statements & understanding their significance in corporate
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MINI CASE: MEXICO’S BALANCE OF PAYMENTS PROBLEM Recently‚ Mexico experienced large-scale trade deficits‚ depletion of foreign reserve holdings and a major currency devaluation in December 1994‚ followed by the decision to freely float the peso. These events also brought about a severe recession and higher unemployment in Mexico. Since the devaluation‚ however‚ the trade balance has improved. Investigate the Mexican experiences in detail and write a report on the subject. In the report‚ you may:
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Corporate Finance Essay Most corporate financing decisions in practice reduce to a choice between debt and equity. The finance manager wishing to fund a new project‚ but reluctant to cut dividends or to make a rights issue‚ which leads to the decision of borrowing options. The issue with regards to shareholder objectives being met by the management in making financing decisions has come to become a major issue of recent times. This relates to understanding the concept of the agency problem. It deals
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Aswath Damodaran 2 THE OBJECTIVE IN CORPORATE FINANCE “If you don’t know where you are going‚ it does’nt maCer how you get there” First Principles 3 Aswath Damodaran 3 The Classical Viewpoint 4 ¨ ¨ ¨ ¨ Van Horne: "In this book‚ we assume that the objecKve of the firm
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Chapter One Basic Areas of Finance: 1. Corporate Finance = Business Finance 2. Investments a. Work with financial assets such as stocks and bonds. b. Value of financial assets‚ risk verses return and asset allocation. c. Job opportunities. 3. Financial Institutions a. Companies that specialize in financial matters. i. Banks – Credit unions‚ savings‚ and loans. ii. Insurance Companies iii. Brokerage Firms b. Job Opportunities. 4. International Finance a. An area of specialization within each of the
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Mini Mini Case‚ page 145: 1. How does Ben´s age affect his decision to get an MBA ? Ben’s age has a big impact on his decision to get an MBA. He already worked about 5 years at Dewey and Leweys and he earns the complete salary as an employee. Now it is up to him whether to invest in a higher degree in order to earn more money in the future or to keep his current job and invest his money in other things. It can be a hard decision for a person who already worked 5 years because in these one
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it would be a good idea to take Boeing as it has been into some media frenzy recently‚ because of its latest commercial aircraft the 787” Dreamliner” grounded by Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and aviation authorities around the world. A good case to see how a company future assets valuation may be impacted by investment strategies into research development; The company operates on five segments‚ it specializes in manufacturing of commercial aircraft (747‚ 777‚ 787)‚ but also in military aircraft
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The Objective in Corporate Finance “If you don’t know where you are going‚ it does not matter how you get there” Aswath Damodaran Stern School of Business Aswath Damodaran 2 First Principles Invest in projects that yield a return greater than the minimum acceptable hurdle rate. • The hurdle rate should be higher for riskier projects and reflect the financing mix used - owners’ funds (equity) or borrowed money (debt) • Returns on projects should be measured based on cash flows
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