Capital Budgeting Decision Process 1. Introduction The maximization of shareholder wealth can be achieved through dividend policy and increasing share price of the mark value. In order to derive more profits‚ our company shall invest potential investments which always cover a number of years. Those investments involve substantial initial outlay at the outset and the process. The management is responsible to participate in the process of planning‚ analyzing‚ evaluating‚ selecting
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estimate the cost of capital Before starting to describe the problems associated to the estimation of the cost of capital‚ it is extremely relevant to describe its meaning: according to Investopedia‚ it is “the cost of funds used for financing a business”. In order to carry out this process‚ the companies can only be financed through equity; only through debt; or using a “combination of debt and equity” - in this particular case it is a “overall cost of capital derived from a weighted average of all
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Corporation for calculating the hurdle rates at each of the firm ’s three divisions--lodging division‚ restaurant division and contract service division. Marriott uses Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) as the hurdle rate‚ and use it to discount the appropriate cash flows when evaluate an investment project. Our goal is to determine the WACC at every division base on the information that the case has provided. First of all‚ we will determine the cost of debt‚ cost of equity and the capital structure
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Capital budgeting refers to the total process of generating‚ evaluating‚ selecting and following up on capital expenditure alternatives. The firm allocates or budgets financial resources to new investment proposals. Basically‚ the firm may be confronted with three types of capital budgeting decisions i) the accept/reject decision‚ ii) the mutually exclusively choice decision and iii) the capital rationing decision. i) Asset – reject decision: This is a fundamental decision in capital budgeting
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Q1: A firm uses a single discount rate to compute the NPV of all its potential capital budgeting projects‚ even though the projects have a wide range of nondiversifiable risk. The firm then undertakes all those projects that appear to have positive NPVs. Briefly explain why such a firm would tend to become riskier over time. Let’s start with some definitions and simple examples according to authors‚ Emery‚ Finnerty and Stowe: “Time Value of Money: The value that a capital budgeting project will
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1. Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) is used to determine the average cost of financing a company. Companies are funded using both debt and equity and both require varying rates of return. WACC allows you to put a “weight” on the different types of financing and their differing rates to get a total cost of capital. Team 12 does not agree with Joanna Cohen’s WACC calculation because we feel she took some liberties in her numbers‚ the most notable being that of equity. Ms. Cohen used book
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Cost of Equity: For the risk-free rate‚ we decided to use the 30-year old Treasury yield‚ which is currently 4.6%. We believe it is important to match the time horizon when comparing financial assets. Given that stocks have essentially an endless time horizon‚ the 30-year Treasury seems a more reasonable asset by which to compare stocks. 1-month Treasury Bills‚ for instance‚ are comparable to safety-deposit boxes‚ which are completely safe‚ but cannot ever yield a return. It’s highly likely that
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The Cost of Capital in Multinational Firms Monique N. Mixon University of Maryland University College FIN 630‚ 04 November 2012 Turnitin.com=_________ ABSTRACT This paper examines the cost of capital for multinational firms and determines that the multinational firm should use the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to evaluate international and domestic investment decisions and to magistrate the enactment of subsidiaries domestically and internationally. This paper also discusses
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Marriott Case 1. What is the WACC for Marriott Corporation? Cost of Debt Tax Rate We determined this number by taking income taxes paid/EBITDA = 175.9/398.9 = 44.1% Return on debt There are two clear components of debt: fixed and floating. In order to get the fixed debt rate we took the interest rates on fixed-rate government securities and added the premium
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Nike‚ Inc Cost of Capital NorthPoint Large Cap Fund was considering whether to buy Nike’s stock or not. Nike was experiencing declines in sales growth‚ declines in profits and market share. However‚ Nike decided it would increase exposure in mid-price footwear and apparel lines‚ and it also commits to cut down expenses. The market responded with mixed signals to Nike’s changes. Kimi Ford‚ the portfolio manager at NorthPoint‚ did a cash flow estimation‚ and ask her assistant‚ Joanna Cohen to estimate
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