is from a privately-owned company in the US, it serves as an illustrative example on how we compute NPV, IRR, payback period, and profitability index in practice. This procedure could be applied (with appropriate adjustments) to other investment decision making by other forms of organizations, including households, publicly-traded companies, not-for-profit organizations, or governments, both in the US and elsewhere. Instruction 1. Read “New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting” case. The case
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New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting Case The key issue in the case is which of one of the two projects recommended by the Production Division should the company pursue (if any). Below is the summary of the NPV analysis done for both the Match My Doll Clothing (MMDC) and Design Your Own Doll (DYOD) As seen above the NPV for the MMDC project is $9.587 million and the NPV for the DYOD is $4.833 million. Analysis: Even though the NPV for the DYOD is lower than MMDC, it may be advisable
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New Heritage Doll (NHD) 1) Briefly discuss one aspect of the “capital budgeting process” at NHD that you believe may be problematic. Focus on the process as described in the case. The aspect of the capital budgeting process at NHD which could be problematic is the open nature of projects which are deemed to have a perpetual return. While the discount rate determination is also open to interpretation, there are only 3 options provided, and each can be run as a sensitivity analysis. For
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New Heritage Doll Company Capital Budgeting Analysis The New Heritage Doll Company is a company that makes dolls for children between the ages 3 – 12 years. The company has revenues of 245 million USD and an operating profit of 24 million USD. The company has three major divisions – The Retailing division, the Licensing division and the Production division. The head of the production division has to choose between two capital intensive projects that have been presented to her - the “Make My Doll
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Case Study admin | April 3, 2013 Case Study Acting as the CEO of New Heritage Doll company and need to decide which investment projects can create values for shareholders’ wealth so that the company can receive funding in the next five years. Student’s task is to evaluate proposed projects using the financial and qualitative information provided and to select projects to be approved for a given year’s investment plan using any evaluation criteria deem appropriate. Students are to submit the simulation
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FINA6278 Financial Theory And Research Case Study on New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting Niweina Song Xin Gu Yao-‐Hsuan Yeh
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New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting MGT 6060 20 September 2011 Overview Two business proposals from the Production division of the New Heritage Doll Company are being considered for submission to the capital budgeting committee. Only one proposal will be submitted. The proposals are: Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion and Design Your Own Doll. A systematic process will be used to determine which proposal to recommend. Criteria Include: 1. Comparison of the business cases
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Asg 1 Ch 1-7 The majority of this assignment involves the case New Heritage Doll Company: Capital Budgeting. Please download from website listed in the syllabus. 1) Compare and contrast the business case for each of the two projects being considered. Which do you regard as a more compelling investment from a strategic view? 2) Using the projections given compute the NPV for each project. Create a data table comparing the NPV for each of the discount rates (low, medium, high risk)
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The New Heritage Doll Company’s Vice-President of Production, Emily Harris, had to decide which of two proposals she should approve for the company’s upcoming capital budgeting meetings. The first project involved expanding an existing “Match My Doll Clothing” line, which had a proven record of success in the past. The second project introduced a new initiative called “Design Your Own Doll”, which used a web-based software enabling users to customize a doll’s features to the customers’ specifications
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Net Present Value and Capital Budgeting Course Module in Introductory Finance Course Modules help instructors select and sequence material for use as a part of a course. Each module represents the thinking of subject matter experts about the best materials to assign and how to organize them to facilitate learning. Each module recommends four to six items. Whenever possible at least one alternative item for each main recommendation is included, as well as suggested supplemental readings that
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