Corporate Finance Lecture Note Packet 2 Capital Structure, Dividend Policy and Valuation B40.2302 Aswath Damodaran Aswath Damodaran! 1! Capital Structure: The Choices and the Trade off Neither a borrower nor a lender be Someone who obviously hated this part of corporate finance Aswath Damodaran! 2! First Principles Aswath Damodaran! 3! The Choices in Financing There are only two ways in which a business can make money.
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1.Since the Marriott Corporation began in 1927, the business grew into one of the leading lodging and food service companies in the United States. From the Exhibit 1, the sales grew 455% ($1174.1 to $6522.20) from 1978 to 1987. The Return on average shareholders’ equity grew to 22.2% from 13.9%. The company’s growth objective is to remain a premier growth company. The four components of Marriott’s financial strategy are consistent with its growth objective. Firstly, manage rather than own hotel assets
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LEVEL III Question: Topic: Minutes: 1 Individual PM (IPS and Human Capital) 27 Reading References: Level III, Volume 2, Study Session 4, Reading 10 “Managing Individual Investor Portfolios,” Ch. 2, James W. Bronson, CFA, Matthew H. Scanlan, CFA, and Jan R. Squires, CFA, Managing Investment Portfolios: A Dynamic Process, Third Edition (CFA Institute, 2007). Level III, Volume 2, Study Session 4, Reading 14 “Lifetime Financial Advice: Human Capital, Asset Allocation, and Insurance,” Roger G. Ibbotson
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Debt and Equity mix. When the firm decides to take on a project it needs to discount the future cash flows of the project by the company’s WACC to determine whether or not to take the project on. High WACC generally indicates more risk since the company pays more for its capital. It is generally used by managers to decide if a new investment project is worthwhile. All developing firms require more capital to accommodate more demand. As a result, the firm needs more capital. Capital is raised
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Corporate Finance Basics Topics 1) 2) 3) 4) 5) 6) Capital Budgeting Cost of Capital Measures of Leverage Dividends and Share Repurchases Working Capital Management Financial Statement Analysis Capital Budgeting Introduction The Capital Budgeting Process is the process of identifying and evaluating capital projects, i.e., projects where the cash flow to the firm will be received over a period longer than a year. Capital budgeting usually involves the calculation of each project’s future accounting
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has been operating successfully under a decentralized, hands-off approach management in United States. Viacom’s strategy is to strengthen their bargaining position of its content business through a distribution monopoly and expand into international markets. However, with the limited information and rapid changes in the international markets, Viacom cannot successfully execute their strategy under a decentralized management. Viacom’s biggest challenge in any market is distribution of contents. Viacom
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Memphis Steward A Perry, MS Executive Summary University of Memphis, Steward A Perry, MS Equity Research Report Company: Pfizer, Inc. Ticker: PFE Price:$29.00 on 10/04/13 Recommendations: Price Target One Year: Trailing P/E Ratios = | Forward P/E Ratio = | PEG Ratio = .046 | Expected return for a Security = | Expected Risk for a security = | Beta β = | Sharpe Ratio = | Treynor’s Reward to Volatility Ratio = | Financial Summary * Expected Returns *
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ãhvãn ‘ 12 and Cognizant present 12 Chanakya Chan Chanakya 2012 Round Round 1 Caselets RULES & REGULATIONS FOR ROUND 1 • There are 5 cases outlined below. You are required to solve a minimum of TWO cases and a maximum of THREE cases of your choice. However, the two best cases will be considered for evaluation. • The analysis and recommendations for each case should be based on the case facts only. • Reasonable assumptions, if any, should be stated upfront and based
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Case 15 Teletech Corporation I. Summary: The Teletech Corporation is a U.S company that provides integrated information movement and management. It has two main business divisions, which are The Telecommunication Services, and The Products and Systems. In Telecommunication Services division, it primarily provided many kinds of phone service to business and residential customers. In fact, it performed a network for 7 million customer lines throughout Southwest and Midwest. The division archived an
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GHANA BY WISDOM KWASHIE AFORNORPE A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMICS, UNIVERSITY OF GHANA, LEGON, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF MASTER OF ARTS DEGREE IN ECONOMIC POLICY MANAGEMENT OCTOBER, 2008 DECLARATION I, Wisdom Kwashie Afornorpe, author of this Master of Arts dissertation do hereby declare that, except for references to other people’s works which have been duly acknowledged, the work presented here
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