The Oceanic Corporation (Determining the Cost of Capital) Larry Stone wants to estimate the firm’s hurdle rate because it is a benchmark for how well the company needs to do on a project in order to at least break even. The higher the hurdle rate‚ the riskier the project will have to be and the lower the hurdle rate is‚ the safer the project will be for a company. A company should strive for a financing mix that minimizes the hurdle rate and matches the assets being financed. If there
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When companies invest their money they need to earn a rate of return that exceeds their cost of capital. We can estimate a company’s cost of capital in the following way: WACC = (rD)(1-T)(WD) + (rS)(WS) Go to one of the databases from Part 1 of the Course Project and look up the most recent 10-K for your company‚ paying special attention to the balance sheet and the footnotes. Although we should use market value weights when determining a firm’s cost of capital‚ this may be difficult to
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difficulties. On January 22‚ 1999‚ Lacey‚ a renowned turnaround specialist‚ was appointed chairman of Loewen‚ the second largest death care company in North America. Headquartered in Burnaby‚ British Columbia‚ Loewen owned over 1‚100 funeral homes and more than 400 cemeteries in the U.S. and Canada; it also owned 32 funeral homes in the United Kingdom. The company had come a long way since its modest beginnings in Canada‚ where Ray Loewen‚ the founder (and‚ until recently‚ chairman and CEO)‚ started
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raising debt in the market. Management believes that the firm is more valuable than venture capital firms would believe‚ and debt financing would be extremely costly since RhoMed doesn’t currently have positive cash flow. For Aberlyn‚ the main benefits of the transaction are the interest payments paid on the lease and potential to sell the patent for a much higher value than the original $1 Million valuation by RhoMed. However‚ this is a rather risky investment for Aberlyn. If RhoMed defaults on its
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NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES THE CAPITAL STRUCTURE DECISIONS OF NEW FIRMS Alicia M. Robb David T. Robinson Working Paper 16272 http://www.nber.org/papers/w16272 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge‚ MA 02138 August 2010 The authors are grateful to the Kauffman Foundation for generous financial support. Malcolm Baker‚ Thomas Hellmann‚ Antoinette Schoar‚ Ivo Welch‚ and seminar participants at the Kauffman/Cleveland Federal Reserve Bank Entrepreneurial Finance
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1.1. Definition of intellectual capital and a brief history of IC management Before someone can measure something‚ he/she has to know what to count. So how should intellectual capital be defined? A universally accepted definition is the first step toward standardization‚ but still it is hard to find the best one for "intellectual capital". In this section I ’ll define intellectual capital and study the history of its development. Intellectual capital is knowledge that can be exploited for
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Nainital ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Success is the outcome of diligence & perseverance‚ I‚ Anuwant kaur‚ student of Third semester BBA programmed‚ would‚ like to ascribe to my success in completing my summer project’ “Working Capital” to Mrs. Leena dixit & Preeti dixit (Project guide) and to my project supervisor Mr.Neeraj joshi who have extended their sincere help in accomplishing my project. I really want to thank the above mentioned persons for their continuous support & guidance
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3 : Literature Review in Capital Budgeting Studies 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Literature Review : Foreign Studies 3.3 Literature Review : Indian Studies 3.4 Conclusion 92 Chapter 3 : Literature Review in Capital Budgeting Studies 3.1 Introduction: A number of researchers in finance and accounting have examined corporate capital budgeting practices. Many of these articles survey corporate managers and report the frequency with which various evaluation methods‚ such
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Midland Energy Resources‚ Cost of Capital The case is about how Janet Mortensen‚ senior vice president of project finance for Midland Energy Resources‚ prepare her annual cost of capital estimates for midland and each of its three divisions for her company. Midland was a global energy company with operations in oil and gas exploration and production (E&P)‚ refining and marketing(R&M)‚ and petrochemicals. Estimates of cost of capital prepared by Mortensen were used in many analyses within
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high‚ relative to book and past market values‚ and to repurchase equity when their market values are low. We document that the resulting effects on capital structure are very persistent. As a consequence‚ current capital structure is strongly related to historical market values. The results suggest the theory that capital structure is the cumulative outcome of past attempts to time the equity market. Introduction “Equity market timing” refers to the practice of issuing shares at
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