of a firm’s owners and its managers” (Megginson & Smart‚ 2009). It then defines agency costs as dollar costs that arise because of this conflict. In the corporate structure‚ stockholders are the owners of the firm‚ and they elect a board of directors to oversee the firm and help protect their investment. The board then hires the right corporate managers to run the firm with the goal of maximizing the wealth of the shareholders. In a vacuum‚ this is a perfect framework by which to run a corporation;
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U NIVERSITY OF L UXEMBOURG ‚ L UXEMBOURG S CHOOL OF F INANCE Corporate Finance Master in Economics and Finance 2nd Assignment - Stock valuation + Cost of capital Due on 10/3/2014 E XERCISE 1 Starr Co. just paid a dividend of $2.15 per share on its stock. The dividends are expected to grow at a constant rate of 4 percent per year‚ indefinitely. If investors require a 12 percent return on the stock‚ what is the current price? What will the price be in three years? In 15 years? E XERCISE
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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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Lecture 1 （Chapter 1） Introduction to Corporate Finance McGraw-Hill/Irwin Copyright © 2010 by the McGraw-Hill Companies‚ Inc. All rights reserved. 会计循环 会计循环过程 原始凭证 记账凭证 记账 过账结算 试算平衡 报表编制 总账 分类账 明细账 基本原则：账证相符、账账相符、账表相符、账实相符 1-1 财务管理的基本框架 企业规模 理财环境 目标利润 筹资渠道 财务策略 财务预算 筹资方式 财务目标 短期投资 股利理论 总体分析 营运资金管理 股利政策 指标分析 成本控制 股利方式 综合分析 资金预测 资金筹集 资金投放 收益分配 财务分析 时间价值 资金成本 财务关系 风险分析 资金结构 实业投资 税务政策 分析方法 证券投资 发展规模 分析报告 财务关系 财务管理制度 1-2 财会管理的构架
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Corporate finance chapter 1 Concept questions: 1.Agency Problems Who owns a corporation? Describe the process whereby the owners control the firm’s management. What is the main reason that an agency relationship exists in the corporate form of organization? In this context‚ what kinds of problems can arise? 2.Not-for-Profit Firm Goals .Suppose you were the financial manager of a not-for-profit business (a not-for-profit hospital‚ perhaps). What kinds of goals do you think would be appropriate
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Corporate Finance Syllabus Spring 2009 Prof. Anna Scherbina UC Davis Graduate School of Management Office: 126 AOB IV Tel: 530.754.8076 e-mail: ascherbina@ucdavis.edu Course Focus We will explore how corporations make financial decisions through the analysis of Harvard Business School cases. Should a firm undertake a new investment opportunity‚ raise equity‚ acquire another firm‚ or conduct an IPO? How should small firms manage their working capital? How fast should a firm grow
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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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Problem set 2 16-1. Gladstone Corporation is about to launch a new product. Depending on the success of the new product‚ Gladstone may have one of four values next year: $150 million‚ $135 million‚ $95 million‚ and $80 million. These outcomes are all equally likely‚ and this risk is diversifiable. Gladstone will not make any payouts to investors during the year. Suppose the risk-free interest rate is 5% and assume perfect capital markets. a. What is the initial value of Gladstone’s equity
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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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