Final Exam Practice Problems 1. Firm ABC’s only outstanding debt is $100‚000 worth of coupon bond (market value). Its yield to maturity is 8%. Given that its tax rate is 40%‚ what is its effective cost of debt? Effective cost of debt = cost of debt * (1-tax rate) =8%*(1-40%)=4.8% 2. Firm ABC has a stock currently traded at $20. The next year’s dividend will be $0.20. The dividend growth rate is forecasted to be 6% forever. Risk-free rate is 3%‚ and market risk premium is 4%. Assume that Constant
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Target Corporation Michael Holt Dontae Threatt Target Corporation was founded in 1902 in Minneapolis as the Dayton Dry Goods Company‚ though the first Target store was opened in 1962 in nearby Roseville‚ Minnesota. Not until 1995‚ was the first Super Target was built. In 1999 Target launched their website Target.com. Target grew and eventually became the largest division of Dayton Hudson Corporation‚ culminating in the company being renamed as Target Corporation in August 2000. The Corporation
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This was also a 1-year‚ double-blind‚ randomised and controlled study with 517 patients who participated in the SELECT trial. The results were recently published [38] and‚ basically‚ SELECT patients under treatment with daclizumab HYP 150 or 300 mg were either randomised to a washout period of 24 weeks and then reinitiated
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Enron and World Finance A Case Study in Ethics Edited by Paul H. Dembinski‚ Carole Lager‚ Andrew Cornford and Jean-Michel Bonvin Enron and World Finance Also by Observatoire de la Finance From Bretton Woods to Basel Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun‚ no. 21‚ Spring 2005 Ethics of Taxation and Banking Secrecy Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun‚ no. 12‚ Autumn 2002 Will the Euro Shape Europe? Finance & the Common Good/Bien Commun‚ no. 9‚ Winter 2001–2 Dommen‚ E. (ed.) Debt Beyond
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Department of Finance‚ HKUST Spring 2013 Email: Xuewenliu@ust.hk Office hour: 13:30-14:30 Tuesday Assessment: Assignments (12%)‚ Midterm-exam (18%)‚ Projects and presentations (15%)‚ and Final exam (55%) Textbooks: 1. Corporate Finance‚ by J. Beck and P. DeMarzo‚ 2nd edition 2011‚ Pearson Education‚ Inc. Hereafter BD. 2. Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy‚ by M. Grinblatt and S. Titman‚ 2nd edition‚ 2002‚ Irwin McGraw Hill. Hereafter GT. I. Introduction to Corporate Finance 1. Corporations
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option on the firm’s assets. Asset values and volatilities as well as firm-specific bankruptcy barriers are simultaneously backed out from the prices of traded equity. Implied barriers are significantly positive and monotonic in the firm’s leverage and asset volatility. Our default probabilities display better calibration and discriminatory power than the ones inferred in a standard Black and Scholes [Black‚ F.‚ Scholes‚ M.‚ 1973. The pricing of options and corporate liabilities. J. Pol. Econ. 81‚
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Reading 1-2 Managing in a Borderless World Most managers are nearsighted. Even though today’s competitive landscape often stretches to a global horizon‚ they see best what they know best: the customers geographically closest to home. They may have factories or laboratories in a dozen countries and joint ventures in a dozen more. They may source materials and sell in market all over the world‚ but their field of vision is dominated by home-country customers and the organizational units that
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Leadership This case study provides an opportunity to explore the person-organisation (fit with the culture of the organisation) interface (the place‚ situation‚ or way in which two things or people act together or affect each other or the point of connection between things). From a developmental point of view‚ it examines the making of an entrepreneur. The case also allows for an exploration of the vicissitudes (unexpected changes‚ especially in somebody’s fortunes) of leadership. It looks at effective
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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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the: A. B. C. D. E. treasurer. director. controller. chairman of the board. chief operations officer. 3. The process of planning and managing a firm’s long-term investments is called: A. B. C. D. E. working capital management. financial depreciation. agency cost analysis. capital budgeting. capital structure. 4. The mixture of debt and equity used by a firm to finance its operations is called: A. B. C. D. E. working capital management. financial depreciation. cost analysis. capital budgeting. capital
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