2011-2012 Topic: Behavioural corporate finance Lecturer: Yue (Lucy) Liu E-mail: Yue.Liu@ed.ac.uk Outline Psychological phenomena Biases Heuristics Framing effects Impact on corporate finance Valuation Capital Budgeting Capital structure Dividend policy Mergers and acquisitions Yue (Lucy) Liu 2011/2012 Corporate Finance 2 Psychological phenomena Bias Excessive optimism Overconfidence Confirmation bias Illusion of control Heuristics Representativeness Availability
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decisions though. Mutual funds generate returns in three ways: through dividend payments to shareholders, distribute capital gains resulting from the sale of securities within the fund, and through mutual fund share price appreciation (p. 611). 2. Open-end mutual funds differ in the fact that they are open to investors which means they will sell shares to investors at any time (p. 609). They also allow investors to sell the shares back to the fund at any time which closed-end cannot (p. 609). 3. Load
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a 13.9% compound annual growth rate since fiscal 2007.” John H. Hammergren, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer, McKesson Corporation Financial Results Five-Year Total Revenue (in millions) Five-Year EPS* *Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations, as displayed above, excludes adjustments for litigation charges (credits) net (“EPS”). For supplemental financial data and corresponding reconciliation to U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”), see Appendix
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conflicts and the competitive scenario with other rivals into consideration. It can be concluded that the financial response of its leverage level and dividend policy is not significant. While the major suggestions given from this paper contend that it should raise more debt when faced with worthwhile investing projects and should increase the dividend ratio for the feedback of its investors, which can also reduce its excess cash at hand. Key words: Kweichow Moutai Co., Ltd, Capital Structure, Payout
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T2 2009 Multiple Choice - 50 Questions: 1 mark each. 1) If a firm follows a residual dividend policy, they will give precedence to: a) b) c) d) e) maintaining their desired debt-equity ratio over paying dividends paying a constant dividend over increasing retained earnings paying dividends over accepting positive investments maintaining a constant level of debt before paying dividends avoiding dividend cuts over changing the debt-equity ratio 2) An investment project is most likely to
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P6-38 (30 minutes) a. Best Buy (a retailer) reports a much higher receivables turnover rate than does the manufacturer, Caterpillar. The likely reason for this is that retail sales are usually via cash, check, or credit cards (which are like cash for the retailers). Recall that the turnover ratio includes credit sales, but, because most firms do not report credit sales, we are forced to use total sales when we calculate the turnover ratio. Using total sales instead of credit sales overstates
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cash flows are realized and distributed to investors. Both states of the economy are equally likely. For these types of risky investments the market requires a 20% expected return on assets. The firm has no debt and there are currently 100,000 shares (0.1 mm) outstanding. Assume perfect markets (i.e., there are no taxes or transaction costs, no asymmetric information or incentive problems). a) Fill in the book value and market value balance sheets for ABC right now (before any financing
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ANALYSIS OF BALANCE SHEET ASSETS Total assets increased $233.1 million, or 7%, as of December 31, 2002, primarily as a result of higher cash and cash equivalents, prepaid expenses and other current assets, and other non-current assets, partially offset by lower deferred income taxes, inventories, property, plant, and equipment, and goodwill. Current assets increased by $96.1 million, or 8%, principally reflecting increased cash and cash equivalents, prepaid expenses and other current assets
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Shareholders 4 Source of Value Creation 4 Effects on Value per Share 5 The Benefits of Leveraging for the Shareholders 6 The Macroeconomic Benefit of Debts 7 Koppers Company, Inc. 7 Case 30 – MCI Communications, Corp.: Capital Structure Theory 9 Introduction 9 Cost of Capital 9 Costs of Equity 9 Cost of Debt 10 WACC 10 Scenario Analysis 11 Leverage and Risk – Coverage Ratio 11 Leverage and Earnings – Earnings per Share 12 The Creditor’s Reaction 14 Impact on Financial Flexibility 15
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