Capital Budgeting Methods for Corporate Project Selection In a 2001 Graham and Harvey survey of 392 chief financial officers (CFOs) asked “how frequently they used different capital budgeting methods?” Approximately 75% of the CFOs replied that they use net present value (NPV) or Internal Rate of Return (IRR) always or almost always (Smart‚ Megginson & Gitman‚ 2004‚ pg. 251). Projects are viewed as capital investments in the corporate world‚ and as such‚ are evaluated closely for their possible
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have a new design decision process supported by data and surveys instead of a return or payoff on the investment approach. At first when he presented his idea‚ authorities requested poof and Mr. Jones was unable to show them proof. Then M. Jones started his process. 1. As a first step‚ he surveyed 15 "design-centric" companies‚ including BMW‚ Nike‚ and Nokia. To his surprise‚ few had a system for forecasting return on design 2. Mr. Jones needed to provide a new plan to focus on Customers preferences
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so. (10 points) This strategy does not consider risk. 3. The NuPress Valet Company has an improved version of its hotel stand. The investment cost is expected to be 72 million dollars and will return 13.50 million dollars for 5 years in net cash flows. The ratio of debt to equity is 1 to 1. The cost of equity is 13%‚ the cost of debt is 9%‚ and the tax rate is 34%. What is the NPV of the project? (10 points) WACC = .5*13+.5*9*(1-.34) = 9.47% PMT = 13‚500‚000‚ i=9.47%‚ n=5‚ PV = ?; NPV =
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Cross Border Capital Flows Introduction The global crisis‚ in its evolving phases since 2007‚ has vividly demonstrated the extent to which cross border capital flows tie economies together. From the spread of the crisis from the United States to the global economy in 2008‚ to the jitters caused across the world‘s financial markets by recent tensions in the Euro Area‚ with surges of inflows into fast growing emerging markets‚ and more recently into ―safe haven‖ currencies‚ it is clear that the
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Budgeting and beyond budgeting Introduction With the economic rapid develop recently‚ more and more companies pay attention to the cost budgeting‚ some people think that this is a good and efficient way to operate the company‚ it will take more benefit for them. However‚ some people believe that it is a inefficient method‚ it will waste long time and capital to do‚ and bring the little profit. This essay wills analysis this issue from the different parts. The first part‚ it will talk about the
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Decision Making Strategies: Thompson’s Classification A Review of the Literature Table of Contents 2 Introduction 3 Description of the main existing theories-approaches and their possible interactions..4 Presentation and discussion............................................................................................5 Relation with Managerial Decision-making................................................
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A COMPARISON BETWEEN CASH ACCOUNTING AND ACCRUAL ACCOUNTING 1. Introduction Accounting principle and theory are generally referred to two main accounting methods which include cash accounting and accrual accounting. Cash basis accounting on income and cost is determined by the amount of actual payment for reference and accounting recording mode is simple‚ easy to master. The use of the accrual basis of accounting is more complicated than it with a main difference of recording timing. This essay
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CFO>Capex? 4. CFO>Capex + Dividends 5. Excess Cash 6. Source of cash to pay Capex and/or Dividends 7. Were working capital accounts other than cash and cash equivalents primary sources of cash or users of cash? 8.What other major items affected cash flows? 1991 1. Major sources of cash are cash received from customers and proceeds from the issuance of common stock. Major uses of cash are cash paid to suppliers and employees and increase of accounts
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Service Fund be used to account for debt service on general long-term liabilities only if (1)Use of Debt Service Fund is legally mandated (2)Financial resources are being accumulated for principle and interest payments maturing in future years Capital lease liabilities and serial bond debt might properly be services directly from General Fund or special Revenue fund. Indeed‚ many governments prefer to account for all general long-term debt service through one or more Debt service Funds (1) so that
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Topic Gateway Series Budgeting Budgeting Topic Gateway Series No. 27 1 Prepared by Louise Ross and Technical Information Service Revised March 2008 Topic Gateway Series Budgeting About Topic Gateways Topic Gateways are intended as a refresher or introduction to topics of interest to CIMA members. They include a basic definition‚ a brief overview and a fuller explanation of practical application. Finally they signpost some further resources for detailed understanding and
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