Management of Working Capital James Ward Instructor: Leon Daniel BUS 650 Managerial Finance November 17‚ 2014 Management of Working Capital A financial metric that ensures operating liquidity of a firm‚ business organization or any other entity including governmental entities is known as working capital. Working capital is the difference between the current assets and liabilities of an organization determining the amount of debt acquired to finance its assets. George had also borrowed
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Case Study I: Target Corporation Executive Summary Diversity at Target‚ like everywhere‚ is a work in progress. Target is ahead of the national average in terms of minority hiring. Additionally‚ the company has a higher percentage of minorities in management positions than the industry average. “The Strength of Many. The Power of One‚” is Target’s tagline for diversity. It is realized that we need many points of view all working towards the common goal in order to
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Did the Target corporation have or use a cyber security policy? Where key controls enforced and tested at all levels of the management framework? Where their policies in place to handle‚ and guide the implementation of technology and protocols for support? Did Target conduct annual or semi-annual training of staff‚ management to cashiers‚ on how to identify potential security issues and what to do? Where adequate audits conducted to test the key controls‚ policies‚ and procedures that were and
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Week 9 Assignment 2 Submission Assignment 2: Capital Budgeting Futronics‚ Inc. $2 billion company‚ reducing costs and corporate overhead to use outside vendor resources. Initial investment costs $1 billion. There is 0 salvage value and cost of capital at 8%. Yield cash flows $450‚000 year 1 $350‚000 year 2 $300‚000 year 3 $250‚000 year 4 Internal rate of return Average net return = (450‚000 + 350‚000 + 300‚000 + 250‚000)/4= 1‚350‚000/4 = 337‚500 Average investment = (Investment at beginning
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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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TECH BUZZARD’s CAPITAL BUDGETING METHOD The type of capital budgeting preferred for Tech Buzzard is the Net Present Value method. The initial outlay of cash to get my firm started is low which makes the risk low. Tech Buzzard will start as a part time venture out of my home with very little of my own capital investment to lose. Never-the-less‚ I will use NPV as the primary analytical tool but I will also look that the IRR and Profitability Index for a more informed view of the payback period
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A Case Study: Oracle Systems Corporation EXECUTIVE SUMMARY In 1977‚ Lawrence J. Ellison founded System Development Laboratories to sell a database management system he had developed in a CIA project. It was only in 1982 that the company was renamed to Oracle Systems Corporation‚ to reflect the success of their first product‚ Oracle Database. Oracle used the C programming language to create its products‚ which was a big part of
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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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of Capital Budgeting 1. A firm should never accept a project if its acceptance would lead to an increase in the firm’s cost of capital (its WACC). a. True b. False ANSWER: False 2. Because “present value” refers to the value of cash flows that occur at different points in time‚ a series of present values of cash flows should not be summed to determine the value of a capital budgeting project. a. True b. False ANSWER: False 3. Assuming that their NPVs based on the firm’s cost of capital are
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Budgeting is a key component in management short and long term planning A budget is a key management tool for planning‚ monitoring‚ and controlling the finances of a project or organization. It is also defined as management’s quantitative expression of plans for forthcoming period. It also estimates the income and expenditures for a set period of time for your project or organization. Budgets are prepared at various levels of an organisation. Effective budgeting can allow managers to perform
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