UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA Marshall School of Business Fall 2011 Financial Analysis and Valuation FBE 529 Monday, Wednesday Class Instructor: Lloyd Levitin Time and Place: 3:30 – 4:50 P.M.; JKP 212 Office: Accounting 301E Office Hours: M, W: 2:15-3:15 P.M.; T: 5-6 P.M., and by appointment Office Phone (USC): 213-740-6524 Office Phone (Home): 310-858-0260 Email Address: levitin@marshall.usc.edu (preferred method of communication; please
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Who Is Archer Daniels Midland? Archer Daniels Midland Company (ADM) is one of the world's leading processors and distributors of agricultural products for food and animal feed, with additional operations in transportation and storage of such products. Archer Daniels Midland was founded in 1902 and incorporated in 1923. Since then, ADM has made a major impact in American productions. In 1902, the founders George A. Archer and John W. Daniels began a linseed crushing business in Minneapolis, Minnesota
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Midland Energy Resources, Inc.: Cost of Capital Case Objectives This case gives you a chance to apply our ideas about cost of capital (WACC) to a real firm with separate divisions. Assignment You are a team of Finance Professionals with experience in analyzing the cost of capital for divisions of companies and companies overall. Janet Mortensen has been struggling with her calculations, wondering if her application is correct given the amount of grumbling she has heard. She has asked
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the minimum return that investors expect for providing capital to the company, thus setting a benchmark that a new project has to meet. In the case, Janet Mortensen prepared the annual cost of capital estimates for Midland Energy Resources Inc. and each of its three divisions. Estimates of the cost of capital were used in many analyses within Midland, including asset appraisal for both capital budgeting and financial accounting, performance assessments, M&A proposal, and stock repurchase decisions
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available on the case, which is 1.25. And Midland chose to use an equity market risk premium(EMRP) of 5.0% after a review of recent research and in consultation with its professional advisors. So, [pic] Using the following formula, we can calculate average asset beta for each comparable companies and the required two divisions: [pic] [pic] is close to zero so the equation becomes: [pic] Then we can get, Jackson Energy,Inc: [pic] Wide Plain Petroleum: [pic] Corsicana Energy Corp: [pic]
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Human settlements and infrastructure in Meru North District covering situation analysis, challenges and proposed interventions. Environmental challenges addressed include; waste management, sanitation, pollution, diseases, land use, demand for water, energy, materials for construction, land and wetlands degradation, policy and legislation, biodiversity loss and land tenure. Chapter four addresses
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FINA 6092 Advanced Financial Management 2014-15 Term 1 Case questions Case #A: Butler Lumber Company Questions 1. Why does Mr. Butler have to borrow so much money to support this profitable business? 2. Do you agree with his estimate of the company’s loan requirements? How much will he need to borrow to finance his expected expansion in sales (assume a 1991 sales volume of $3.6 million)? 3. As Mr. Butler’s financial advisor, would you urge him to go ahead with, or to reconsider, his anticipated
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General Franklin Eliser Savage Leadership Skills Watching 12’o clock High I feel , it is a paradigm example of leadership in face of adversity. It is set at Archbury in the English midlands, where the “hardluck”918th Bomb Group has accumulated the highest loss rate and the worst bombing effectiveness record in all of Eighth Air Force. The group is very low in morale and General Pritchard, head of Bomber Command, concludes that the problem is the group commander, Col. Keith Davenport, whose leadership
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BUNGE LTD. Analysis Team Shelby Bentley Nicolas King Jon Murphy Colby Norris Georgia Sanchez shelby.bently@ttu.edu nick.king@ttu.edu jon.murphy@ttu.edu colby.norris@ttu.edu georgia.sanchez@ttu.edu 1 Table of Contents Executive Summary ………………………………………………………………………..8 Company Overview ……………………………………………………………………….14 Industry Overview …………………………………………………………….............15 Five Forces Model …………………………………………………………………………16 Rivalry among Existing Firms ………………………………………………..18 Industry Growth
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served by a regulated monopoly than by a competitive market would be a heresy, but for electricity, experience in Britain suggests that this would indeed be the case. There are four main reasons for this: • Competition is not a ‘free good’. Introducing competition imposes a range of additional costs that must be paid by consumers. In the case of electricity, these costs are very high and it is far from clear that the benefits will outweigh them; • Retail electricity competition will result
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