QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 15 (COST OF CAPITAL) 1.) The Wind Rider Company has just issued a dividend of $2.10 per share on its common stock. The company is expected to maintain a constant 7% growth rate on its dividends indefinitely. If the stock sells for $40 a share‚ what is the company’s cost of equity? 2.) The Ball Corporation’s common stock has a beta of 1.15. If the risk free rate is 5% and the expected return on the market is 12%‚ what is Ball Corp.’s cost of equity capital?
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Cost of Capital Firms need to make capital investment i.e.‚ purchasing fixed assets such as factories‚ machineries‚ equipment‚ etc. After deciding what capital investments to make‚ they need to decide on the financing – sources of capital. The sources: Long-Term Debt‚ Common Stock‚ Preferred Stock and Retained Earnings. Then they need to find the cost of obtaining each source of financing today (not historical). Cost of Capital - The rate of return that a firm must earn on its investment
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Chapter 1 Basic Cost Concepts Learning Objectives • To understand the meaning of different costing terms to understand different costing methods • To have a basic idea of different costing techniques • To understand the meaning of cost sheet In order to determine and take a dispassionate view about what lies beneath the surface of accounting figures‚ a financial analyst has to make use of different management accounting techniques. Cost techniques have a precedence over the other
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Case study #1 Saudi Arabia Q.1 : The current issues that are facing Saudi Arabia is that after the Us. Led war in Iraq in 2003-2004 have stemmed rumors that Saudi Arabia was financing terrorist activities ‚ that made Saudi Arabia a target of the war on terror. Saudi Arabia has 2 specific climates for a business. The first‚ most Saudi Arabians are poor farmers and herders who tend their camels‚ goats‚ and sheep. The second business climate is the recent prosperous jobs connected to the
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DardenBusinessPublishing:210258 UVA-F-1341 This document is authorized for use only by shuang lin at UMD. Please do not copy or redistribute. Contact permissions@dardenbusinesspublishing.com for questions or additional permissions. MARKOV’S TRILEMMA George Markov eagerly awaited his first day at his new job with Athena Asset Management in a major metropolitan area in the northeastern United States. His future boss had given him a list of questions that would prepare him well for the
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Microeconomics Topic 6: “Be able to explain and calculate average and marginal cost to make production decisions.” Reference: Gregory Mankiw’s Principles of Microeconomics‚ 2nd edition‚ Chapter 13. Long-Run versus Short-Run In order to understand average cost and marginal cost‚ it is first necessary to understand the distinction between the “long run” and the “short run.” Short run: a period of time during which one or more of a firm’s inputs cannot be changed. Long run: a period of time during which
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Economic Cost of “Power Outages” By Dr. Aisha Ghaus-Pasha Table of Contents Page No. 1. Causes of Power Outages 1 2. Quantifying Outage Costs 2 3. Incidence of Outages 4 4. Pattern of Direct Costs 5 5. Types of Adjustments to Outages 5 6. Extent of Recovery of Output 6 7. Total Outage Costs to the Industrial Sector 6 8. National Costs of Load Shedding 7 9. Policy Implications 9 9.1. Investment in Power Sector 9 9.2. Load Management
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is not sure about the difference between cost accounting and a cost accounting system. Explain the difference to Joe. (b) What is an important feature of a cost accounting system? 2. (a) Distinguish between the two types of cost accounting systems. (b) May a company use both types of cost accounting systems? 3. What type of industry is likely to use a job order cost system? Give some examples. 4. What type of industry is likely to use a process cost system? Give some examples. 5. Your roommate
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Malaysian Technical Universities International Conference on Engineering & Technology (MUiCET 2011) Identifying Construction Resource Factors Affecting Construction Cost: Case of Johor Aftab Hameed Memon*‚ Ismail Abdul Rahman‚ Ade Asmi Abdul Aziz‚ Kumarason V. Ravish‚ and Noor Ikmalah Mohammad Hanas Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering‚ Universiti Tun Hussein Onn Malaysia‚ 86400 Parit Raja‚ Batu Pahat‚ Johor‚ Malaysia *Corresponding e-mail: aftabm78@hotmail.com Abstract The
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1 In a process cost system‚ product costs are summarized: on job cost sheets. when the products are sold. after each unit is produced. on production cost reports. What decision criteria should managers use in selecting projects when there is not enough capital to invest in all available positive NPV projects? the internal rate of return the discounted payback the profitability index the modified internal rate of return 3 Horizontal
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