CAPITAL BUDGETING: ADVANTAGES AND LIMITATIONS. SEPTEMBER 2012 CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.0 Background Study Capital budgeting is the process by which firms determine how to invest their capital. Included in this process are the decisions to invest in new projects‚ reassess the amount of capital already invested in existing projects‚ allocate and ration capital
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Case 08-1 Go With the Flow‚ Inc. Go With the Flow‚ Incorporated (“Company”) designs‚ manufactures‚ and sells a broad range of mobile network products and systems and communication devices‚ including mobile‚ cordless and corded telephones. The Company’s primary sources of liquidity are internally generated cash flows‚ the Company’s debt and revolving credit facilities‚ and the sale of trade accounts receivables. The Company’s liquidity and capital requirements are primarily a function
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Caledonia Products Integrative Problem July 31‚ 2013 Yvette “Betsy” Stewart 1. Why should Caledonia focus on project free cash flows as opposed to the accounting profits earned by the project when analyzing whether to undertake the project? It is important that Caledonia Company should focus on the free cash flows instead of the accounting profits. With the free cash flows that the company receives they can reinvest. To accurately analyze the timing of the benefit
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TIME VALUE OF MONEY Time value of money refers to an individual preference of a given amount of cash now rather than the same amount at some future time. The reasons why an individual would prefer cash now: i) Subjective preference for present consumption – one may prefer present consumption over future consumption of goods and services because of the urgency of present wants or the risk of not being in a position to enjoy future consumption. ii) Availability of investment opportunities –
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Cash Flows for Discounting Calculations When managers are forecasting the cash flows for a project‚ they will consider the expected revenues and costs‚ but they must also include an estimate for working capital requirements. The working capital will be required in period 1 to allow the business to acquire inventories and build up debtors (receivables) to the extent that these are not matched by trade. The working capital will be recovered at the end of the project when the inventories are sold‚
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THE ELEMENTS OF A CASH FLOW PROJECTION A capital budgeting decision is characterized by costs and benefits (cash flows) that are spread out over several time periods. This leads to a requirement that the time value of money be considered in order to evaluate the alternatives correctly. Although in actual practice we must consider risk as well as time value‚ to situations in which the costs and benefits (in terms of cash) are known with certainty. There are sufficient difficulties in just taking
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building and land for the project. The firm ’s marginal tax rate is 35%‚ and its cost of capital is 10%. Based on this information you are to complete the following tasks. Prepare a statement showing the incremental cash flows for this project over an 8-year period. Calculate the Payback Period (P/B) and the NPV for the project. Based on your answer for question 2‚ do you think the project should be accepted? Why? Assume Superior has a P/B (payback) policy of not accepting projects with
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University of Phoenix Material Capital Budgeting Case Your company is thinking about acquiring another corporation. You have two choices—the cost of each choice is $250‚000. You cannot spend more than that‚ so acquiring both corporations is not an option. The following are your critical data: Corporation A Revenues = $100‚000 in year one‚ increasing by 10% each year Expenses = $20‚000 in year one‚ increasing by 15% each year Depreciation expense = $5‚000 each year
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Caledonia Products As a new intern for Caledonia Products‚ my CEO‚ Mr. V. Morrison has given me one of my first unsupervised assignments will be to provide the company with a financial analyst‚ that will include providing the calculations of cash flows associated with a new investment that the company is considering investing in. As I am an intern‚ I have not been asked to provide a recommendation just an analyst. (Keown Martin‚ Petty 11) Reviewing the information provided‚ Caledonia
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do not show free cash flow and financing requirements. These are calculated in Table 1. Note that free cash flow for 2005 is -$2.3 million. But dividends are $2.0‚ so the company will need 2.3 + 2.0 = $4.3 million in outside equity financing. Table 2 shows that the book value of equity is forecasted to grow from $40.71 million in 2004 to $63.31 million at the end of 2010. Table 3 works out earnings‚ dividends and free cash flow for 2011. By that time Reeby Sports should be earning 12% on
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