Solutions to questions 1. Finance involves three main areas—corporate finance‚ financial institutions and markets‚ and investments—that are closely related and complementary. For example‚ in corporate finance the central issues are how to acquire and employ or invest funds. To acquire funds a financial manager must deal with financial institutions‚ so some knowledge of the operations of financial institutions and markets is essential. Similarly‚ corporate finance involves investments because decisions
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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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( Answers to Mini-Case Questions BioCom Inc. This mini-case provides a review of the methodology and rationale associated with the various capital budgeting evaluation methods such as payback period‚ discounted payback period‚ NPV‚ IRR‚ MIRR‚ and PI. 1. Compute the payback period for each project. |Time of Cash Flow |Nano Test Tubes |Microsurgery Kit | |Investment |−$11‚000.00 |−$11‚000.00
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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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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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Mini-Case Study: Bethesda Mining Company Week 4 Application 2 Jo-Ann Savoie Walden University Finance: Fiscal Leadership in a Global Environment DDBA-8140-2 Dr. Guerman Kornilov March 24‚ 2011 The following Mini-Case on Bethesda Mining Company was taken from the text corporate finance (2010‚ P. 203-204). In order to determine if Bethesda Mine should open‚ a thorough analysis of the payback period‚ profitability index‚ average accounting
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Chapter 15. Mini Case | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Situation | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Assume you have just been hired as a business manager of PizzaPalace‚ a regional pizza restaurant chain. The company’s EBIT was $50 million last year and is not expected to grow. The firm is currently financed with all equity and it has 10 million shares outstanding. When you took your corporate finance course‚ your instructor stated that most firms’ owners
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Case Questions for MGM 828‚ Fall 2012 Case 1: The Euro in Crisis a) Evaluate the European Central Bank’s (ECB) response to the financial crisis of 2008-2010. What was their analysis of the problem? b) The ECB responded less aggressively than the US Federal Reserve to the crisis. Why? c) In May 2010‚ should the ECB agree to purchase Greek sovereign debt? Case 2: Foreign Ownership of US Treasury Securities a) Why is foreign ownership of US Treasury securities rising? It is more interesting
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Capital Budgeting Mini Case There are many different methods business owners use to efficiently analyze business investment. One of these effective methods is the calculation of the net present value or NPV. The second most effective method would be the calculations of the internal rate of return or IRR. There are also other useful methods as well‚ for example‚ the payback rule and the profitability index. Many business owners use the above procedures to help them in their decision making of acquiring
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