Biography of Allan Pinkerton Troy Smith CJS/250 May 19‚ 2013 Tom Jones When it came to detective work Allan Pinkerton and his detective agency was the standard of how detective work was done in America. Before he ever established the first detective agency in United States or before he was ever known as America’s first private eye he was first forced to immigrate to America due to his involvement in radical politics as a young man. He was born near Gorbals‚ Glasgow‚ Scotland on August 25
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Calculate WACC using book values: The weight of debt is calculated by adding the current portion of long-term debt‚ notes payable and long-term debt‚ and dividing it by the sum of debt and equity. $5.4 + 855.3 + 435.9 = $1‚296.6 $1‚296.6 / (1‚296.6 + 3‚494.5) = .27 = 27% The weight of equity is calculated by dividing the total shareholder equity by the sum of debt and equity. $3‚494.5 / (1‚296.6 + 3‚494.5) = .73 = 73% Cost of Debt To find the cost of debt I subtracted the tax savings from
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PROBLEM BASED ON CHAPTER 15 – WACC AND THE HAMADA FORMULA Bickley Engineering Company has a capital structure of 30% Debt and 70% Equity. Its current Beta is 1.3‚ and its Market Risk Premium is 7.5% Points. The current Risk Free Rate is 3.5%. Bickley’s marginal tax rate is 40%. What is the Unlevered Beta of Bickley? Bickley’s management would like to change its capital structure to 15% Debt and 85% equity by retiring its bonds yielding 8%. The remaining long term debt will be at 7%. The
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GSBA521B Term III‚ Fall 2012 Professor Ku Case—Blaine Kitchenware‚ Inc.: Capital Structure Assignment: Your team’s task is to recommend to the Board of Blaine Kitchenware (BKI) whether the firm should undertake the leveraged recap. In doing so‚ please address the four questions below. Teams 1-6: your task is to recommend for a leveraged recap with quantitative and qualitative support Teams 7-13: your task is to recommend against a leveraged recap with quantitative and qualitative support
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2. Calculate Midland’s corporate WACC. Be prepared to defend you specific assumptions about the various inputs to the calculations. Is Midland’s choice of the MRP appropriate? If not‚ what recommendations would you make and why? In order to calculate Midland’s overall corporate WACC we must first determine the cost of equity and the cost of debt. The cost of equity can be defined as the risk-weighted projected return required by investors‚ where the return is largely unknown. Therefore the
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Sunday‚ March 15‚ 2009 COST OF CAPITAL AT AES Evaluating the Historical Capital Budgeting Method Currently AES employs Project Finance Framework. Project finance tends to be used in projects with tangible assets with predictable cash flows in which construction and operating targets can be easily established through explicit contract. The key to AES projects financing lies with the precise forecasting of cash flows. In effect‚ the possibility of estimating cash flows with an acceptable
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Case 3: Globalizing the Cost of Capital and Capital Budgeting at AES Question 1 Explain and comment on the capital budgeting method used historically by AES. Is there a need for change? Explain. Question 2 If Venerus implements the suggested methodology‚ what will be the adjusted discount rate for the Red Oak project (USA) and the Lal Plr project (Pakistan)? Question 3 Calculate the effect that a revision of its cost of capital will have on the Lal Plr project’s NPV. Comment on the
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Heinz: Estimating the cost of capital in uncertain times 1. What is WACC? What is its purpose? 2. What were the yields on the two representative outstanding Heinz-debt issues as of the end of April 2010? What were they one year earlier? 3. What was the WACC for Heinz at the start of fiscal year 2010? What was the WACC one year earlier? Should you consider short-term debt? How reasonable are your interest rates for the firm? For the WACC? What is the market risk premium? What is Beta? How is it typically
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Case Two Analysis Dixon Corporation: The Collinsville Plant Paul Candland & Lynn Chang October 1‚2013 WACC Calculation In order to calculate WACC‚ we need to first start with the beta of equity. We are given the beta of equity of 1.06 of Dixon as a firm in Exhibit 7. However‚ the beta given is not an appropriate measure of the systematic risk of the Collinsville Plant‚ because Dixon produces many other chemical products other than Sodium Chlorate. Therefore‚ in order to accurately capture
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USEC Case Case Analysis In response to the Energy Policy Act of 1992‚ the United States Enrichment Corporation (USEC) was created to privatize uranium enrichment for civilian use (Wikipedia). In 1998‚ USEC went public‚ and has been operating as a leading global energy supplier of enriched uranium fuel for commercial nuclear power plants. The following report details USEC’s opportunity to embark on a massive capital-expenditure project known as the American Centrifuge Project (ACP). Currently‚
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