Accruals and the Prediction of Future Cash Flows: evidence from China Background Predicting the company’s future cash flows is of high significance in accounting and finance areas alike‚ due to the fact that the ability of company generating cash flows substantially influences its securities value. For this purpose‚ Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) states that the primary objective of financial reporting is to provide information to help investors‚ creditors‚ and others in assessing
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Score for selected take: 40% (4/10) Time spent on selected take: 1. Your answer: Multiple Choice 15-1 Cash inflows from operating activities come from a. payment for raw materials. b. gains on the sale of operating equipment. c. collection of sales revenues. d. issuing capital stock. e. issuing bonds. 2. Your answer: Multiple Choice 15-2 Cash outflows from operating activities come from a. collection of sales revenues. b. payment for operating costs
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C) What do you think is the real cause for the cash flow problem at cyclone? What actions can be taken to improve the situation? Comment on Rangi’s management of the factory. The real causes for the cash flow problem at cyclone are: • No perfect planning to distribute goods /provisions • Failure to establish human resource strategies. • Misusage of wealth during the cyclone • Negligence & irresponsibility of top level management. • Unsatisfactory workplace. Remedies to be done for improvement of
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***************************** SAMPLE PAGES FROM TUTORIAL GUIDE ***************************** Table of contents SECTION 1: OVERVIEW DCF in theory and in practice Unlevered vs. levered DCF SECTION 2: MODELING THE DCF Modeling unlevered free cash flows Discounting to reflect stub year and mid-year adjustment Terminal value using growth in perpetuity approach Terminal value using exit multiple approach Calculating net debt Shares outstanding using the treasury stock method Modeling the weighted
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of Cash flow * Cash flow is more “direct” as “profit” is highly dependent on accounting conventions and concepts/principles * Cash flow reporting satisfies the needs of all users better since cash flow is more direct with its messages. Some of the interested user parties are: * Creditors -repayment of debts‚ overdue accounts * Management -cash flow reporting provides the type of information which decision should be taken re: relevant costs ( decision based on future cash flow)
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1. A company needs to elect 10 directors. A shareholder owns 80 shares. What is the maximum number of votes that he or she can cast for a favorite candidate under (10 points) a. Straight voting? 80 b. Cumulative voting? 80*10 = 800 2. “If the efficient-market hypothesis is true‚ the pension fund manager might as well select a portfolio by throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal.” Explain why this is not so. (10 points) This strategy does not consider risk. 3. The NuPress Valet Company
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financing problem is very common to many other family companies. Family members are not interested in the family business‚ they would rather liquidate their equity and use it to do something else. Compare with traditional buy-out and leveraged recapitalization‚ the offer from Heritage seems the best option even though the price is undervalued. The first reason‚ Heritage Partners is an expert in the market segment of mature but successful family companies. They are aware of the firm’s operating activities
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1 – Methodological Approach In this case‚ American CC – the intended acquirer of AirThread Connections- will use leveraged buyout (LBO) model‚ which means the company will finance the acquisition through bank loan or some other borrowing methods. Hence‚ the debt-to-equity ratio will change in time. Since we will need to estimate the discount rate any time the capital structure changes‚ neither WACC nor APV would be reliable alone. Therefore‚ Ms. Zhang should use the combination of WACC and APV
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Discounted Cash Flow Homework Problems Please post the answers (and show your work) in the assignments section by midnight the last day of the week assigned. 1. Calculate the future value of 1‚535 invested today for 8 years at 6 percent. (5 points) $1535 * 1.5938 = $2‚446 2. What is the total present value of the following cash stream‚ discounted at 8 percent? (5 points) |Year |Amount |Rate |PV | |1 | $ 400
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000 $16‚250 $23‚400 Expenses (4‚250) (8‚000) (8‚100) Tax cost (2‚730) (3‚075) (4‚590) Net cash flow $6‚020 $5‚175 $10‚710 Discount factor (6%) .943 .890 Present value $6‚020 $4‚880 $9‚532 NPV $20‚432 11. a. Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Before-tax cash flow $(500‚000) $52‚500 $47‚500 $35‚500 $530‚500 Tax cost (7‚875) (7‚125) (5‚325) (4‚575) After-tax cash flow 44‚625 40‚375 30‚175 525‚925 Discount factor (7%) .935 .873 .816 .763 Present value $(500
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