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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Both Ross and TJX are growing and remaining financially sound. As an off-price storefront retailer in a market where there is a growing e-commerce presence‚ that can be somewhat difficult. But fortunately‚ these two companies are striving and remain above majority of their competitors. Ross is a growing company that has only barely tapped into their market. With stores in only 36 states‚ there is still plenty of room to expand and reach more customers‚ without having to invest in creating any new
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ACC553 Week 4 You Decide Activity To : John and Jane Smith From : Kathy Polk‚ CPA Near Lakes City Date : August 2‚ 2012 Dear Mr. and Mrs. Smith‚ I would like to thank you for coming into the office and permitting us to review and deliberate the concerns you have with your tax questions. Please contact me‚ after you both have studied my suggestions‚ so we can address any other questions you may have at that time. John Smith’s questions: 1(a) How is the $300‚000 treated for purposes
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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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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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Mini Case Chapter 11 BUS 401 Principles of Finance Lisa Parker Mini Case 11 Chapter 11 I am aware that this is my new position as assistant financial analyst at Caledonia Products and that I am asked to consider the introduction of a new product into the company. My job will be to analyze the information you require in depth with research regarding my answer. Let it be known that I will have put every ounce of my knowledge into this assignment to make this experience one for the record books
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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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