Essays on Corporate Finance

Executive Summary The footwear industry is highly competitive industry with fairly stable profit margins. Active Gear is a profitable firm in the industry; however Active Gear is a smaller firm than many other competitors and its small size is becoming a competitive disadvantage. The rise of large retailers has also endangered Active Gear’s growth. Mercury…

CHAPTER ONE 1 INTRODUCTION The term dividend refers to that part of profits of a company which is distributed by the company among its shareholders. It is the reward of the shareholders for investments made by them in the shares of the company. The investors are interested in earning the maximum return on their investments…

We have assessed the total value of Teuer Furniture to be $253. 03M and the value per share to be $25. 44 per share. We arrived at this conclusion using a valuation method based on a discounted cash flow analysis. This method involved forecasting free cash flow for the period 2013-2018 and also forecasting the…

Marriot Case Marriot uses the Weighted Average Cost of Capital to estimate the cost of capital for the corporation as a whole and for each division, and the hurdle rate is updated annually. (WACC = (1-Tc) * (D/A) * R[D] + (E/A) * R[E]) Marriot’s Tax Bracket = 175. 9/398. 9 = 44% Division’s asset…

Case Report: Recruiting at Bowles Hollowell Conner &  Co.   Table of Contentss Executive Summary Overview Discussion Relevant KSAO’s Importance and Ranks of KSAO’s Recommendations Decision Executive Summary Bowles Hollowell Conner & A ; Co. is one of the largest finance groups working since 1979. This company has come a long manner in covering, managing,…

Overview Andre Pires, with over 15 years experience in the automobile industry opened a automobile parts store, in mid-western region of United States. Business had picked up significantly well over the years and Andre had more than doubled the store size by the third year of operations. Andre’s knowledge of finance and accounting was limited…

On January 31st, 2007 India’s Tata Steel acquired Corus, the erstwhile British Steel Major at a price of 608 pence per Corus share totaling $12. 1 billion/ Rs 54,000 crore/ ? 6. 1 bn, which was five pence per share higher than the offer of Brazil’s CSN (Companhia Siderugica Nacional). The deal is the largest…

Big GAAP versus little GAAP.             Generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) are accounting rules used in the preparation, presentation and reporting financial statements in various business entities including private and public companies, not-for-profit organizations as well as government institutions (.  GAAP comprises of local accounting frameworks, an accounting laws as well as rules and accounting…

In order to find the endeavor value and recovery rates for each category of creditors implied by the April 2009 attempted exchange offer. we foremost had to find the precedence degrees of the capital construction. We used Exhibit 7 in the Case papers to find the precedence degrees of each category. The top precedence category…

Corporate Governance & Restructuring Petrolera Zuata Petrozuata C. A. Maastricht University School of Business and Economics Maastricht, 19th September 2012 Driessen, G. (i6060635) Koerselman, W. (i561398) Park, D. (i6051671) International Business – Finance Corporate Governance and Restructuring Course Code: EBC4052 Tutor: Dr. S. Kleimeier Case 2: Petrolera Zuata, Petrozuata C. A. Introduction Petrolera Zuata, hereinafter…