What does this ratio tell us? Why might it be mote useful than ROA in comparing two companies? 10. Return on Investment A ratio that is becoming more widely used is return on investment. Return on investment is calculated as net income divided by long-term liabilities plus equity. What do you think return on investment is intended to measure? What is the relationship between return on investment and return on assets? Use the following information to answer the next five questions: A small business called
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Myopic loss aversion, disappointment aversion, and the equity premium puzzleଝ David Fielding a , Livio Stracca b,∗ b a Department of Economics, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand European Central Bank (ECB), Kaiserstrasse 29, 60311 Frankfurt am Main, Germany Received 7 March 2003; accepted 5 July 2005 Available online 24 May 2006 Abstract This paper takes a close look at the “behavioural finance” explanations of the equity premium puzzle, namely myopic loss aversion [Benartzi
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Valuing Financial Service Firms Aswath Damodaran April 2009 Valuing banks, insurance companies and investment banks has always been difficult, but the market crisis of 2008 has elevated the concern to the top of the list of valuation issues. The problems with valuing financial service firm stem from two key characteristics. The first is that the cash flows to a financial service firm cannot be easily estimated, since items like capital expenditures, working capital and debt are not clearly defined
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example, in net operating assets (NOA), net financial debt and equity. 2. Analysis and adjustment of measurement errors question the quality of the reported accounting numbers. The reported numbers can for example be a bad or noisy representation of invested capital, for example in terms of NOA, which means that the return on net operating assets (RNOA) will be a noisy measure of the underlying profitability (the internal rate of return, IRR). Expensing of R&D is an example when such
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of capital The cost of capital is a term used in the field of financial investment to refer to the cost of a company's funds (both debt and equity), or, from an investor's point of view "the shareholder's required return on a portfolio of all the company's existing securities". It is used to evaluate new projects of a company as it is the minimum return that investors expect for providing capital to the company, thus setting a benchmark that a new project has to meet. Cost of debt The cost of
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4: Nathalie Strookman, Dieter Wolfram, Demis Busropan Background Problem Definition The 1994 Basic Industries annual report shows a decline in the return on owners’ equity. This has got the portfolio people worried. An analysis has to be made of the way the company has achieved its return on equity over the last 10 years. The focus should especially be on the 1993-1994 period and the quality of the returns on equity of 1985 and 1994 should be compared, as well as other key financial ratios
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6 Statement of Opportunities and Problems 7 Methodology and Analysis 8 Summary and Conclusions 24 Recommendations 25 Works Cited 27 Appendix 28 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: NPC’s yield curve 10 Figure 2: Project evaluation 10 LIST OF TABLES Table 1: Bond yield and cost of debt 9 Table 2: Sinking fund cash flow 11 Table 3: Own-bond-yiel-plus-risk-premium 12 Table 4: Cost of Equity, CAPM 14 Table 5: Cost of Equity, DCF 15 Table 6: Issuance of new
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reduction in leverage will decrease both the risk of the stock and its expected return. Modigliani and Miller state that, in the absence of taxes, these two effects exactly cancel each other out and leave the price of the stock and the overall value of the firm unchanged. 3. False. Modigliani-Miller Proposition II (No Taxes) states that the required return on a firm’s equity is positively related to the firm’s debt-equity ratio [RS = R0 + (B/S)(R0 – RB)]. Therefore, any increase in the amount of
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ECFS895 Private Equity Investment AFC Term 1 CBD 2015 Dept of Applied Finance and Actuarial Studies Contents General Information Learning Outcomes General Assessment Information Assessment Tasks Delivery and Resources Unit Schedule Learning and Teaching Activities Policies and Procedures Graduate Capabilities Changes from Previous Offering Important Notice Standards Required to Complete the Unit Satisfactorily 2 2 3 3 7 8 10 10 12 15 15 15 Disclaimer Macquarie University has taken all reasonable
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average cost of capital) is the minimum return that a company must earn on existing asset base on satisfy its creditors, owners and other providers of capital WACC is important to estimate a firm’s cost of capital because: The cost of capital is the rate of return required by a capital provider in exchange for foregoing an investment in another project or business with similar risk. Thus, it is also known as an opportunity cost WACC is the minimum return required by capital providers, so that
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