Case 15 Teletech Corporation I. Summary: The Teletech Corporation is a U.S company that provides integrated information movement and management. It has two main business divisions, which are The Telecommunication Services, and The Products and Systems. In Telecommunication Services division, it primarily provided many kinds of phone service to business and residential customers. In fact, it performed a network for 7 million customer lines throughout Southwest and Midwest. The division archived an
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Benjamin Pierce FINA 479 Monday, March 07, 2016 Case16 Overview The Teletech 2005 case was an interesting one. Teletech, historically, had been a telecommunications services company, providing telecommunication services to the southwest and Midwest. Then in 2000 they created an equipment manufacturing division for producing telecommunication equipment. That segment then acquired a leading computer workstation manufacturing firm as well. By 2004 the company market value was split with 25%
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Case 15 Version 2.1 Teletech Corporation, 1996 Teaching Note Synopsis and Objectives In January 1996, the chief financial officer of this telecommunications company must fashion a response to a raider who claims that a major business segment of this company should be sold because it is not earning a satisfactory rate of return. The case recounts the debate within the company over the use of a single hurdle rate to evaluate all segments of the company versus a riskadjusted hurdle-rate system
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1) How does Teletech currently compute its hurdle rate and how does it evaluate risky projects? What is wrong with this method? Teletech computes it’s hurdle rate by averaging the past 10 years annual weighted average cost of capital (WACC) rates, and then “massaging” the result into a round percentage. This is not an ideal way to calculate the hurdle rate as it reflects rates of financing from the past when borrowing rates were in different ranges. Teletech evaluates risky projects by determining
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)(9.6%) WACC = .0086 + .072 = 8.1% CAPM – Products and Systems Rf = 4.39% Beta = 1.4 Rm- Rf = (12%-4.39%) = 7.61% Cost of equity = 4.39% + 1.4(12%-4.39%) = 15.1% WACC = (75% )(4.48%) + (25% )(15.1%) WACC = .0336 + .0378 = 7.14% CAPM – Teletech Corporation WACC = 9.30% Conclusion: The decrease in the individual WACC’s prove that there is overall lower risk and should result in an increase in valuation of the firm. This is something that Victor Yossarian must have discovered and
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financial cases that involve what can be best described as foreign or international elements. In such cases, court must decide whether it has the jurisdiction under the Family Law Act 1975 to make a decision on such cases. In the event that it is determined that the court is invested with the jurisdiction to determine the case, the court has to consider whether there is a system of law in foreign country that also has the jurisdiction to handle the case. As it was addressed in the case Attorney General
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Adapted from Bernhardt & Kinnear (1988). Cases in marketing management, pp. 6-16. Plano, TX: Business Publications, Inc. Pay careful attention to the following points. They are often used by instructors to evaluate either a written or oral analysis. 1. Be complete. Each area of the situation analysis must be discussed, problems and opportunities identified, alternative presented and evaluated using the situation analysis and relevant financial analysis, and a decision must be made. An analysis
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involved in investigating cold cases. How We Got Started Mark had, for several years, been consulting with our Coroner’s Division as a forensic anthropologist. During this time he came to learn that there were numerous coroners’ cases in which the identity of the decedent was unknown. These cases were kept in three-ring binders on a shelf in the Sergeant’s office. Over the years, in the course of this forensic work, we would discuss these cases and the progress that was being
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BUSINESS CASE Presented to the Accountancy Department De La Salle University In partial fulfillment Of the course requirements In ACCTBA2 (C33) March 2, 2015 A stakeholder is typically concerned with an organization delivering intended results and meeting its financial objectives. In general, a stakeholder can be one of two types: internal (from within an organization) or external (outside of an organization). The stakeholders in this situation are Lanie Marquez and Tim Rodriguez
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Ralph’s Grocery and United Food and Commercial Workers Union The case that I chose for the week 6 critical thinking assignment concerns Ralph’s Grocery Company, located in California. It applies to this week’s material due to the fact that the case involves unlawful suspension and discharge of an employee, as reviewed by the National Labor Relations Board. Background In May 2011, Vittorio Razi was an employee at Ralph’s Grocery and was suspended and terminated after he refused to take a drug test
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