employment and socio economic development through public investment in medium and large scale enterprises. Notwithstanding the direct involvement and the effort of the government, the sector is saddled with a lot of constraints, including scarce capital, intensive technology, foreign exchange constraints, poor management, corruption and inadequate attention to economic viability and market prospects which has resulted in poor performance of the industries in terms of output and employment (Steel
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projects, achieve an optimal capital structure, and repurchase undervalued shares. To accomplish these goals, Midland must calculate an appropriate cost of capital that will allow reasonable valuations of their strategies. In funding overseas growth, Midland must use its cost of capital to analyze, evaluate, and convert foreign cash flows. In evaluating value-adding projects, the cost of capital must be used to discount project cash flows. To optimize its capital structure, the company must continuously
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firm's capital Structure is unimportant on the market value of all firms' securities, and consequently the firm's performance and shareholders' value. “The market value of any firm is independent of its capital structure and is given by capitalizing its expected return at the rate appropriate to its class. “This model depends on two keys, arbitrage and homemade alternative (borrowing on personal account). Arbitrage is the process that ensures that two firms differing on laying their capital structure
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Road King Trucks Case Analysis Abstract This paper is an analysis of Road King Trucks’ new project which is introducing a new product into its product line. I will decide whether run the project or not. Six issues will be discussed as follows 1) importance of energy cost; 2) project’s cash flows; 3) cost of capital; 4) choose an engine 5) evaluation 6) accept or reject. We should accept the project because of the positive NPV and high IRR. We will gain $532 million in wealth which is a big
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University of South Carolina Moore School of Business FINA 761 (800): Advanced Corporate Finance Fall 2013 Instructor: Eric Powers |Class time: |T/TH 2:50 – 5:35 | |Location: |364 | |Office Hours: |TBD | |Office Hour Location: |BA 462 | |E-mail:
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To: Janet Mortensen, CFO From: Senior Financial Analyst Division Date: October 7, 2013 Re: Midland Energy Resources Inc. Weighted Average Cost of Capital Midland Energy Resources Inc. is a publicly traded company that primarily deals in the energy industry. The company itself is divided into three major operational divisions, two of which that is concerning to the company include: Oil and Gas Exploration and Production (E&P) and Refining and Marketing (R&M). The Petrochemicals division will not be
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interaction of cashflows and hurdle rates, and the determinants of firms’ capital structure policies. Unlike previous studies which examine investment decisions by either using survey data or data obtained from financial tapes, we use both sets of data. This approach produced one of our primary findings that there is a hurdle rate premium puzzle, in that hurdle rates used by our sample of firms exceed their cost of capital that we calculate using Compustat data by 5%. We investigate the determinants
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Course Objectives FINM7044 Applied Valuation Semester 1, 2015 Instructor: Dr Xianming Zhou E‐mail: xianming.zhou@anu.edu.au Consultation hours: Thursday 2‐4pm Tutors Jan Drienkou (jan.drienko@anu.edu.au) Xiang Gao (xiang.gao@anu.edu.au) The purpose of this course is to offer students an applicationoriented approach to understanding how concepts and theories of finance are applied to investment decisions. Students will learn to value corporate entities using various techniques, including discounted
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AGI & Mercury Acquisition Analysis Mercury is not currently an appropriate target for AGI. Mercury needs to first restructure and improve the overall operating performance of the company. Sales and operating margins have been areas Mercury has struggled with. Mercury has four segments within the company: Men’s Athletic Footwear, Men’s Casual Footwear, Women’s Athletic Footwear and Women’s Casual Footwear. Men’s Athletic Footwear is Mercury’s largest segment of the business. It has seen high
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