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borrowing and equity financing that can minimize the overall cost of capital (the weighted average of its interest rate and dividend payments). By minimizing the cost of capital used to finance a given size and risk of operations, financial managers can maximize the value of the company and therefore maximize shareholder wealth. 25 26 MULTINATIONAL COST OF CAPITAL AND CAPITAL STRUCTURE BACKGROUND ON COST OF CAPITAL Apart from working capital, a firm’s capital consists of equity (retained earnings
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Performance evaluation and ratio analysis of Pharmaceutical Company in Bangladesh Faruk Hossan Md Ahsan Habib Supervisor: José Ferraz Nunes Examiner: Bengt Kjellén Master‟s thesis in international Business 15 ECTS Department of Economic and Informatics University West Spring term 2010 0 ABSTRACT The thesis applies performance evaluation of pharmaceutical company in Bangladesh. It means evaluate how well the company performs. The main aim is achieved through ratio analysis of two
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however, there’re many red flags concerning Star River Electronics. The operating margin, return on sales, return on equity and return on assets all seem to decline from 1999 to 2000. There was also a giant jump in inventories from 1999 to 2000. This would explain their newly installed capacity that they were talking about earlier. This new capacity was more than likely financed with debt as their debt/equity and debt/capital ratios all had a significant jump in 2000. Linked with declining sales in
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relationship between stockholders and the management is called the agency relationship. This occurs when the shareholders as principals hire their agents to act on their behalf. The possibility of conflicts of interest between them is termed as the agency problem. There are two types of agency costs, the direct costs originating from compensation and the indirect ones resulting from monitoring the agent’s performance. Hence, shareholders should make efforts to affect managerial behaviour in order to minimize
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statistics and correlation analysis to find out the association between the variables. Results of the analysis show that there is a negative association between capital structure and profitability except the association between debt to equity and return on equity. Further the results suggest that 89% of total assets in the banking sector of Sri Lanka are represented by debt, confirming the fact that banks are highly geared institutions. The outcomes of the study may guide banks,
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independent of its capital structure and is given by capitalizing its expected return at the rate appropriate to its class. “This model depends on two keys, arbitrage and homemade alternative (borrowing on personal account). Arbitrage is the process that ensures that two firms differing on laying their capital structure must have the same performance. At the same time the homemade alternative describes that an investor holding an equity stake in a levered firm can sell his stake, raise a personal loan equal
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CHAPTER 9 SOURCES OF CAPITAL: OWNERS’ EQUITY Changes from Eleventh Edition Updated from Eleventh Edition Approach By comparison with Chapter 8, this chapter’s equity topics are relatively straightforward. I try to downplay the differences between equity accounting for unincorporated and incorporated businesses. As a consultant to the former, I urge them to impute market salaries for their employee-owners, so that their income can be compared with the pretax earnings of incorporated firms. Cases
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* What organizational form should a business use? * Where should the business locate? * How should business acquisitions be structured? * How should the business compensate employees? * What is the appropriate mix of debt and equity for the business? * Should the business rent or own its equipment and property? * How should the business distribute profits to its owners? One must consider all transaction costs (including taxes) to evaluate the merits of a transaction
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Assignment 1, Fall 2015/2016 Problem 1: Calculation of EPS and retained earnings |a. |Earnings per share: | | | |Net profit before taxes |$361,000 | | |Less: Taxes at 40% | 144,400 | | |Net profit after tax |$216,600
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