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You asked:”This question requires you, among other things, to calculate the stock price for Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO); and provide the needed analysis as asked in what follows. Here is what you need to do for this question. Using “Sources of Financial Data” listed in Course Content[i] obtain the latest financial info/statements for Yahoo! Inc. (ticker YHOO), also identify its peer companies and obtain pricing and financial information for them. After that answer the following questions: Requirements: A. Develop a DCF model using excel to estimate the fair value of the firm’s common shares (use the data at yahoo.com/finance for your baseline year (2010). Don’t forget to include the terminal value (value after the forecast period, defined as 2011-2018) in your estimate. B. For each of the value drivers (i.e., sales growth and profit margin over the forecast period, tax rate, WACC, fixed and working capital investment rates, WACC), identify your sources and assumptions, and show any calculations. This is especially important for the WACC you will use to calculate the NPV, due to the sensitivity of your results to this critical parameter. C. Using comparable ratios of peer companies, estimate the company’s stock price using relative valuation method. List the major assumptions and sources of information that you used in your calculations. How do you know your assumptions are reasonable enough? Explain. D. How do your DCF and relative valuations compare with the company’s prevailing market price? If they are different, can you briefly forward any possible explanations? If they are not different, can you still justify the price that you arrived at? E. On February 1, 2008 Microsoft announced “that it has made a proposal to the Yahoo! Inc. Board of Directors to acquire all the outstanding shares of Yahoo! common stock for per share consideration of $31 representing a total equity value of approximately $44.6 billion.” What was the outcome of this bid? Specifically, how did the management and the board react? How did this bid affect the company’s strategy and management? If a potential acquirer were interested in Yahoo today, what would your recommendation be on a per share basis? Is a premium justified?Make sure to justify your responses by using the available data/info and carrying out any needed and relevant calculations. ” – Sent to Finance Expert Tutor on 4/16/2011 at 1:33pm You asked:”Please help with question. I am not sure how to even start.Thanks!” – Sent to Finance Expert Tutor on 4/16/2011 at 1:34pm You asked:”QN. “Critics say that because real options don’t expire according to contract as financial options do, managers can’t be counted on to pull the plug on a project (exercise an “abandonment option”) when they should. Also, projects assume lives of their own, and may not be easy to kill.”Do you agree with the above statements? Explain why yes or why no. To support your answer provide some examples and make sure to draw upon the materials from your textbooks.Qn.This question is based on the “Behavioral Finance at JP Morgan” (JPM) Case – which is attached along with this exam for your use. In a nutshell and as you will see in a moment, question 1 requires you to develop a mini case that is based on the JPM case. Of course as you will also soon see your job is relatively easy, though it needs a bit of patience and time, because you will have a working model (the JPM case) for developing such a case. The specific questions that I want you to answer for this question are listed in below. After reading and understanding the case, please answer all the following questions.1. Just list all the key behavioral phenomena discussed or mentioned in the said case.2. Just list all the key behavioral phenomena that you have learned in this class so far and as covered in your three sets of required readings: Shefrin textbook, Montier textbook, and the required articles.3. Just list those key behavioral factors that are listed under item 2 in above but not listed under item 1 in above.4. Rewrite the textual/conceptual (the no-quantitative) portion of the JPM case by discussing all the phenomena you have listed under item 3 in above. In your rewrite, make sure to just briefly explain each phenomenon/factor first, and provide an example or explanation of your own similar to the case’s “Everyday Examples of –” (those examples are highlighted in yellow in the JPM case in the exhibits part toward the end of the case.) In your rewritten case you may just refer to the specific Exhibits or Figures in the main case instead of recreating those exhibits, figures, etc in your rewrite.5. Close the rewritten case by adding a conclusion at the end in which you explain how the rewrImagine that Adaptec is contemplating a project that requires a $3.75 billion initial outlay, and features an NPV of $466 million. The firm is all-equity financed, and has $1 billion in cash that it plans to invest in the project. Adaptec’s current market value of equity is $6.68 billion. Adaptec’s investment bankers have advised the firm’s financial managers that they could raise the $2.75 billion by issuing new equity. However, Adaptec has no capacity for debt. If the firm issues new equity, then the new shareholders would come to hold 28.5 percent of the firm, which conditional on adopting the project they estimate to be worth $9.569 billion. The investment bankers have computed the NPV of the project to be about $227 million, not the $466 million computed by Adaptec’s managers. Adaptec’s managers have concluded that their firm is undervalued in the market, and that its intrinsic value would be about $13 billion if it adopts the project. In addition, the managers have concluded that the new shareholders merit 21.2 percent of the firm for their $2.75 billion investment. Nevertheless, the investment bankers have made it clear that unless Adaptec’s managers agree to give up 28.5 percent of their firm, they will not be able to raise the $2.75 billion. Assume that flotation costs are zero. Suppose that Adaptec has no debt capacity and has to rely on external equity. What value of APV would the managers of Adaptec compute if they adopted the project and financed it with equity?itten case can help investment decision making.QN. ”

 

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Draw a separate, correctly labeled aggregate demand and supply graph to illustrate each of the following situations. On each of your graphs, include the relevant short-run aggregate supply curve(s), long-run aggregate supply curve(s), and aggregate demand curve(s).

a. Expansionary fiscal policy moves the economy out of a recession.

b. Investment in infrastructure by the government leads to long-run economic growth.

I drew a by shifting the aggregate demand outward to close the gap of recessionary gap. I think that I need to move potential output (LRAS) to rightward, but I don’t know how to deal with rest of the factors: aggregate demand and short-run aggregate supply. I need your help! Thank you in advance.

 

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In this assignment, you will be presented with a variety of hypothetical scenarios. For each scenario, you need to explain the reasoning behind your answer and use at least one reference from the background materials to support your answer. Overall you need to have a minimum of three references from the background materials cited in your paper. Your paper should be 4 to 5 pages:

  1. Suppose the company you work for is going through some tough times and your boss has no choice but to let three employees go. However, he has not yet made up his mind as to who should be laid off. One day he comes to the office in a very bad mood and decides on the spot which employees he will let go. He walks up to one employee and says, “You have come in to work late almost every day this month and I caught you sleeping on the job three times. Clear out your office!” Then he walks up to another employee and says “You’re fired – I don’t like those green shirts you wear!” Finally, after a brief pause he walks up to a third employee and says, “Get out of here, I do not want any Buddhists working in my office!”  Of these three people who were fired, which one do you think has the greatest case for a lawsuit and which one do you think has the weakest case?
  2. You are the owner of a chocolate factory. One of your workers takes the initiative and decides to place an order for more sugar from one of your suppliers while you are out of town. Since the sugar was necessary for keeping operations going while you were gone, you happily pay the supplier for the order when you get back in town. This same employee starts to place new orders for sugar anytime supplies are low, and even though you never gave him formal permission to do this you keep paying the supplier. However, one day you decide that the price the supplier is paying is too high and you refuse to pay on the grounds that your employee was not authorized to place the order. Do you think you would be liable for this payment or not based on the concepts of agency law?
  3. You are the owner of a retail business, and you have fallen behind for many months on your loan repayments to the bank (you owe a total of $100,000). The bank has become fed up and now wants you to hand over all of your remaining company funds to pay back the loan. However, the holiday shopping season is coming up in a few months and this is where you typically do 60-70% of your business for the year. Without your company funds you will not be able to pay your rent and pay your staff, so you will not be able to pay back the bank until after the holiday season. If you end up needing to file for bankruptcy, what type do you think would be most appropriate for this situation – Chapter 7, Chapter 11, or Chapter 13?
  4. Now suppose that you decide to open up a full-service 24-hour auto repair shop. Your shop is the only one that is open 24 hours a day in your home town. In fact, you are pretty sure it is the only 24-hour auto repair shop in the state. Your business is now a great success, but you had a great deal of trouble finally finding an auto mechanic willing to work the late shift. You are now concerned that this mechanic can leave you at any time and go open help someone else open up a 24-hour shop. You decide to make him sign a noncompetition agreement saying that if he ever leaves your shop he cannot work as an auto mechanic anywhere in your state for the next seven years. He looks at you and says, “Are you out of your mind?” What alternative terms of a noncompetition agreement do you think would be more reasonable?
  5. You are the owner of a cleaning service. You make sure all of your employees have thorough background checks before hiring them, as you want your clients to be confident that none of their personal items will be stolen when you send someone to clean their house. However, when spring comes, everyone wants help with their spring cleaning and you have more business than you can handle. You decide to subcontract some of your work to another cleaning service at the last minute and you do not ask this service what kind of background checks they do on their own employees. One of your clients complains that an employee of the subcontractor stole a valuable painting from their house. Would you be liable for this theft?

 

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About Your Signature Assignment 

Signature/Benchmark Assignments are designed to align with specific program student learning outcome(s) in your program. Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad statements that describe what students should know and be able to do upon completion of their degree. Signature/Benchmark Assignments are graded with a grading guide or an automated rubric that allows the University to collect data that can be aggregated across a location or college/school and used for course/program improvements. 

Purpose of Assignment 

The purpose of this assignment is to allow students the opportunity to present a business idea supported by strong financial information. The student will be able to identify the possible challenges of doing business in a foreign country and how to approach them.

Assignment Steps 

Resources: Microsoft® PowerPoint®, Signature Assignment: Financial Statement Analysis and Firm Performance Template

Prepare a 16- to 20- slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation showing the details of a business you are interested in starting in a foreign country, and for which you need $300,000. The presentation should include the following information:

  • Business name
  • Executive summary
  • Description of the foreign country
  • Business description and structure
  • Market and company analysis
  • Marketing and sales operational plan
  • How you plan to use the $300,000
  • Financial statements forecast (3 years)
  • Business health assessment – using the following ratios:Liquidity ratios
  • Solvency ratios
  • Asset management ratios
  • Profitability ratios
  • Market value ratios

 

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