CHAPTER 1 Introduction Copyright ©2008 The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved. Overview bro13556_ch01.indd 1 The primary objective of an experiential learning simulation game, such as FinGame Online 5.0 (FG), comes from learning how to plan, formulate strategies, and make sets of sound decisions sequentially through time. FG provides a decisionmaking setting similar in many respects to the financial management requirements of an actual company. The manager of an FG
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Advance Corporate Finance - Bed Bath and Beyond Case Questions: You are BBBY’s CEO, Steven Temares. It is April 2004 and you are about to decide what to do with the company’s excess cash: - Keep it? - Pay it out and issue debt? You structure your analysis by answering the following questions: 1. What is wrong with building up cash? Provide (at least two) reasons in favor and against keeping cash in the firm. Against: By paying out excess cash and issuing debt, BBBY could improve
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Corporate Finance Lecture Note Packet 2 Capital Structure, Dividend Policy and Valuation B40.2302 Aswath Damodaran Aswath Damodaran! 1! Capital Structure: The Choices and the Trade off Neither a borrower nor a lender be Someone who obviously hated this part of corporate finance Aswath Damodaran! 2! First Principles Aswath Damodaran! 3! The Choices in Financing There are only two ways in which a business can make money.
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อยู่ที่ AA และ A ตามลำดับ แต่พอหลังการควบรวมกิจการเป็นบริษัท Diageo ทำให้มีถูกลด rating เหลือเพียง BBB โดยRating Agencies ได้แก่ Standard and Poor’s และ Moody’s เนื่องจากเกิดความไม่แน่นอนของนโยบายทางการเงินของบริษัท บริษัท Diageo จึงต้องควบคุม Capital Structure ให้มีประสิทธิภาพ โดยการรักษาระดับของ interest cover ratio ไว้ 5-8 เท่า และคงระดับของ EBITDA/Total Debt ให้อยู่ที่ 30% - 35%ถ้าบริษัท Diageo ต้องการรักษา rating ให้อยู่ที่ระดับ A+ นอกจากนี้บริษัทจะต้องใช้นโยบาย Trade-off Theory ซึ่งเป็นการเลือกระหว่างความเสี่ยงและผลตอบแทน
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financing decision. The company is managed in preference for equity finance and against debt finance, investments are funded internally. The optimal capital structure for Hill Country The optimal capital structure is the capital structure at which the market value is maximised and the cost of capital is minimised. There are 3 alternative capital structures from pro forma 2011 financial
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k CASE 33: CALIFORNIA PIZZA KITCHEN INTRODUCTION California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) is a restaurants services company that operates a casual dining chain, with a particular focus on the premium pizza segment. The company is headquartered in Los Angeles, California and employs 14,800 people as on December 30th, 2007. The company recorded revenues of $633 million during the fiscal year ended December 2007, an increase of 14.1% over 2006. The increase in revenue was driven from its full service restaurants
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Running Head: FINANCIAL STRUCTURE AND STATEMENTS Importance of Financial Structure and Statements [Student Name] [Course Title] [Instructor] [Date] Importance of Financial Structure and Statements Introduction This essay discusses the role of financial structures on the profitability and stability of companies and the role of financial statements prepared using historical cost convention and accruals concept in the decision making process. Both aspects of companies discussed
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Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure Michael C. Jensen Harvard Business School MJensen@hbs.edu And William H. Meckling University of Rochester Abstract This paper integrates elements from the theory of agency, the theory of property rights and the theory of finance to develop a theory of the ownership structure of the firm. We define the concept of agency costs, show its relationship to the ‘separation and control’ issue, investigate the nature of the agency
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Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure Michael C. Jensen Harvard Business School MJensen@hbs.edu And William H. Meckling University of Rochester Abstract This paper integrates elements from the theory of agency, the theory of property rights and the theory of finance to develop a theory of the ownership structure of the firm. We define the concept of agency costs, show its relationship to the ‘separation and control’ issue, investigate the nature of the agency
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Vanderhein thought that he needed special expertise for the finance function forced by the rapid growth of the company and he recognized that the estimate of the cost of capital itself was questionable. The controller who is in charge of the financial part has been using book value weights to calculate WACC but it considers only long-term capital value. At this point, the problem is that they want to decide what weights should be used and know how much difference of WACC calculated by the choice of weights
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