AFIN328 Financial Risk Management Department of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies Faculty of Business and Economics Unit Guide D2 Day; Offered in Session 2, North Ryde 2012 Table of Content Table of Content General Information Convenor and teaching staff Credit Points Prerequisites Corequisites Co-badged status Unit Description 2 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 Learning Outcomes Graduate Capabilities Problem Solving and Research Capability Creative and Innovative Effective Communication Commitment
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Economics New York University 269 Mercer Street New York, NY 10003 douglas.gale@nyu.edu January 4, 2006 Abstract Historically, much of the banking regulation that was put in place was designed to reduce systemic risk. In many countries capital regulation in the form of the Basel agreements is currently one of the most important measures to reduce systemic risk. In recent years there has been considerable growth in the transfer of credit risk across and between sectors of the financial
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WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL (WAAC) 4/28/2015 Table of Contents TASK REQUIREMENT 25% 3 WEIGHTED AVERAGE COST OF CAPITAL (WACC) 3 WACC Formula: E /V * Re + D/V *Rd * (1-Tc) 3 DEMONSTRATION OF APPLICATION KNOWLEDGE 55% 5 Describe capital structure 5 Indicate how these might be useful to determine the feasibility of the capital project 5 Recommend which is more appropriate to apply to project evaluation. 5 Define marginal cost of capital 5 ACADEMIC WRITING 20% 7 References
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business with a strictly low amount of debt. With all due respect, we would like to present our analysis of your current capital structure in order to give some insights that might cause you to reconsider this policy and to delve into the possibility of adopting a better one. Our in-depth examination of the issue at hand led our team to propose a capital structure of 70% debt as the optimal one. To begin, utilizing more debt for financing purposes would entail a greater EPS (earnings-per-share) and a higher
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Midland Energy Resource Report for Cost of Capital October 16, 2014 Abstraction General Analysis of Midland Energy Resources Cost of Debt • • • • Consolidated Company Exploration & Production Refining and Marketing Petrochemicals Cost of Equity Equity market risk premium of 5% is reasonable. According to the Exhibit 6, the U.S. stock return minus Treasury bond yields for each period varies. Since each period has different standard error, it will be better to take the weighted average of the
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of Directors The 2015 proxy statement of Apple stated that the company annually selects its board of directors, which currently has 10 board members (Apple Inc., 2015a). Shareholders elect board of directors and the Board periodically reviews the structure of leadership (Apple Inc., 2015a; Ross, Westerfield & Jaffe, 2013). The Apple proxy includes the biographical details including qualifying skills, qualities, attributes, and experience of each nominee (Apple Inc., 2015a). The proxy also contains
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licenses and most frequently taxes. A). Political risk 4. It is the cost of capital that is expected to raise funds to finance a capital budget or investment proposal A). Future cost 5. This concept is helpful in formulating a sound & economical capital structure for a firm A). Designing optimal corporate capital structure 6. It is the minimum required rate of return needed to justify the use of capital A). Firms point 7. It arises when there is a conflict of interest among
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Resources Inc.: Cost Of Capital Introduction Midland Energy Resources have a senior vice president, Janet Mortension, of project finance. She was preparing her annual cost of capital for midland as well as for each of its following three divisions: * Exploration & production (E&P) * Refining & Marketing (R&M) * Petrochemicals Midland was a global company with operations in oil and gas. Midland corporate treasury had began analysis and preparation of annual cost of capital for the corporation as
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do CFOs make capital budgeting and capital structure decisions? Introduction A comprehensive survey is gone that describes the current practice of corporate finance. The survey will give us a betting understanding of where the theory and practice of corporate finance are consistent and areas where they are not. The survey conducted is based on two parts, capital budgeting and capital structure. The survey goes deeper and tries to find out what causes capital budgeting and structure decisions in
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Hill County face? How much financial risk would the company face at each of the three alternative debt-to-capital ratios presented in Exhibit 4? How much value could Hill County create for its shareholders at each of the three alternative debt levels? 2. What debt-to-capital structure would you recommend as optimal for Hill County? What are the advantages of adding debt to the capital structure? How would issuing debt impact the company’s taxes and expected costs of financial distress? How would the
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