computational approaches to financial problems using Microsoft Excel. It stresses the fundamentals of finance; provides students with a knowledge and understanding on the key finance subjects such as money market, return metric, portfolio modelling, asset pricing, etc.; and equips students with the essential techniques applied in financial calculations. Contents: 1. Lecture Topic 1: Money Market Instrument : Introduction to the course; Interest rate types;
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Global Cost of Capital Prerared by: Azizhon Isayev. Master of International Finance (XM-3) Tashkent Financial Institute. Global cost of capital is a financial term that is loosely defined and arrived at, but basically represents what the minimum expected rate of return can be for an investment in a foreign market that is sufficient to draw funds into that market. This is seen as an opportunity cost because it means that, when investors take risks in a particular foreign market, they are forgoing
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CHAPTER 6 The Meaning and Measurement of Risk and Return CHAPTER ORIENTATION In this chapter, we examine the factors that determine rates of return (discount rates) in the capital markets. We are particularly interested in the relationship between risk and rates of return. We look at risk both in terms of the riskiness of an individual security and that of a portfolio of securities. CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Expected Return Defined and Measured A. The expected benefits or returns
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academically respected approach. The DCF says that the value of a productive asset equals the present value of its cash flows. The answer should run along the line of “project free cash flows for 5-20 years, depending on the availability and reliability of information, and then calculate a terminal value. Discount both the free cash flow projections and terminal value by an appropriate cost of capital (weighted average cost of capital for unlevered DCF and cost of equity for levered DCF). In an unlevered
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Nike, Inc: Cost of Capital 1. What is the WACC and why is it important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? * WACC stands for Weighted Average Cost of Capital, it is the weighted average of the costs of debt, preferred stock, and common equity a company has. Using the weights of each of its components, and the component costs, WACC intends to find out whether an investment will be profitable to the company. It’s important to estimate the firm’s cost of capital in order to know if an investment
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CASE 14: NIKE, INC.: COST OF CAPITAL What is WACC and why it is important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital? Do you agree with Joanna Cohan’s WACC calculation? What is WACC and why it is important? Do you agree with Joanna Cohan’s WACC calculation? WACC (Weighted average cost of capital) is the minimum return that a company must earn on existing asset base on satisfy its creditors, owners and other providers of capital WACC is important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital because: The
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ADVANTAGES, AND DISADVANTAGES THE CAPITAL ASSET PRICING MODEL RELEVANT TO ACCA QUALIFICATION PAPER F9 Section F of the Study Guide for Paper F9 contains several references to the capital asset pricing model (CAPM). This article is the last in a series of three, and looks at the theory, advantages, and disadvantages of the CAPM. The first article, published in the January 2008 issue of student accountant introduced the CAPM and its components, showed how the model can be used to estimate the cost of
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circumstances that go in to making an investment decision for individuals I am going to use the Capital Asset Pricing Method to calculate what type of return we need to generate in order to make our shareholders feel like they made a wise investment. When trying to accurately value the stock of a company and expected returns there are three common methods of doing so. One method is the dividend growth model. This model tries to “value a company based on the theory that a stock is worth the discounted sum
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return on their investment in the next year, but also a return in the future years. Investors like to use financial information to assess how much potential return they can amass. With the information provided by companies and pricing models such as the Capital Asset Pricing Model, investors can have a good estimate about what they should expect as a return in their investment. Not just financial statements about a company influence decisions of investors but also the responsibility taken by corporate
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where you own positive amounts of two risky assets, the standard deviation of the portfolio cannot be reduced below the standard deviation of the lower risk asset if the correlation of returns between the two assets is: (a) 0 (b) 1.0 (c) -1.0 (d) none of the above According to modern portfolio theory, a risk neutral investor will choose an optimal portfolio (a) to maximize risk (b) to maximize return (c) to minimize risk (d) any of the above The capital allocation line will be a straight line: (a)
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