efficient resource allocation refers to an economy ’s ability to meet its obligations in ensuring that all social and economic objectives are met without waste‚ for example to allocate resources so that they are distributed efficiently to improve the standard or living. This is the only way that we can ensure that we will be able to maximize the number of goods and services that we are able to provide. In addition‚ we will also be more likely to guarantee the long term availability of the resources that
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Capital Budgeting Case Su Guan Fin316 4:00 PM 11/13/2014 Directions: Answer questions 1 – 6 and turn in a hard copy of your answers at the beginning of class on Thursday November 13th. No late submissions will be accepted. You will need to use Excel or Google sheets for most of the analysis. Please type answers to the questions in this word document and attach each spreadsheet as exhibits at the back. I am trying to replicate an exam experience as much as possible so I will not be answering individual
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Week 5 Case Study Capital Budgeting Case Capital Budgeting Case This week‚ Learning Team C‚ has completed capital budgeting on Corporation A and Corporation B. We were given $250‚000.000 to acquire a corporation. We decided to choose Corporation B. To ensure that our decision was the best‚ this week‚ we defined‚ analyzed‚ and interpreted the Net Present Value and the Internal Rate of Return for both Corporations. We made the decision based on more financial sense. Below‚ we have outlined our
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Hittle Company Ltd (Case Study) You are a financial analyst for the Hittle Company. The director of capital budgeting has asked you to analyze two proposed capital investments‚ project X and Y. Each project has a cost of $10000 and the cost of capital for each project is 12 percent. The projects expected net cash flows are as follows: |Expected Cash flows | | | | | |year
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Connections and Information Acquisition in Capital Allocation Mariassunta Giannetti Xiaoyun Yu Stockholm School of Economics‚ Kelley School of Business CEPR and ECGI Indiana University mariassunta.giannetti@hhs.se xiyu@indiana.edu August 2010 This paper was previously circulated under the title “Favoritism or Markets in Capital Allocation?” We thank Franklin Allen‚ Utpal Bhattacharya‚ Philip Bond‚ Brian Bucks‚ Chun Chang‚ Todd Gormley‚ Denis Gromb‚ Dalida Kadyrzhanova
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Chapter 9 Cost of Capital 1. What is the WACC? a. Weighted Average Cost of Capital- most firms employ different types of capital‚ and because of their differences in risk‚ the difference securities have different required rates of return. Typically=debt‚ preferred stock and common equity. 2. What precautions must we take when measuring the WACC to use for capital budgeting decisions (future investment)? b. The company’s current and recent past book and market value structures
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Florio Project Costing Allocation of resources to project tasks (labor and material): Resource allocation is critical since it involves the planning of all the resources required for our project. This will help us utilize only the amount of resources required for the project. As Project managers‚ often times we have to work in limited budgets. If we are able to do resource allocation efficiently‚ it can facilitate the project since resource allocation is one of the most difficult an important
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Corporate Budget i n g Is Broken Let’s Fix It Traditional budgeting processes waste time‚ distort decisions‚ and turn honeSt managers into It doesn’t have to be that wayif you’re willing to the ties between and compensation by Michael C.Jensen NOVEMBER 2001 95 Corporate Budgeting Is Broken - Let’s Fix It C ORPORATE BUDGETING IS A JOKE‚ and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives’ time‚ forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense
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Chapter 10 The Cost of Capital LEARNING OBJECTIVES After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: • Explain what is meant by a firm’s weighted average cost of capital. • Define and calculate the component costs of debt and preferred stock. • Explain why retained earnings are not free and use three approaches to estimate the component cost of retained earnings. • Briefly explain why the cost of new equity is higher than the cost of retained earnings‚ calculate the
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Part I A. Present Value with Discount rate of 7% = 15000/(1+7%) = 15000/1.07 = $14‚018.69 Present Value with Discount rate of 4% = 15000/(1+4%) = 15000/1.04 = $14‚423.08 B. Account A - Present Value with Discount rate of 6% = 6500/(1+6%) = 6500/1.06 = $6‚132.08 Account B - Present Value with Discount rate of 6% = 12600/(1+6%)^2 = 12600/1.1236 = $11‚213.96 C. Present Value of Gold Mine 7% = 4900000/1.07 + 61‚000‚000/(1.07)^2 + 85‚000‚000/(1.07)^3 = 45‚794‚392.52 + 61‚000‚000/1.1449 + 85
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