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Financial management

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How to run a firm to max value. How to raise funds.

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Financial institutions

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Where savers meet borrowers. Supply capital to firms

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Forms of business organization

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Propietorship, parternship, corporations

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Proprietorship

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Unincorporated, owned by individual

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Partnership

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Unincorporated, owned by two or more

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Corporation

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A legal entity, separate ownership and management

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Proprietorship and partnership advantages

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Ease of formation, subject to few regulations, no corporate income taxes

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Proprietorship and partnership disadvantages

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Difficult to raise capital, unlimited liablitiy, limited life

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LLC/LLP

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Hybrid: low income taxes and limited liability

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Corporation advantages

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Unlimited life, easy transfer of ownership, limited liability, ease of raising capital

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Corporation disadvantages

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Double taxation and cost of setup and report filling

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S corporation

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Private less than 100 owners. Avoid tax

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C corporation

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Public

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The primary financial goal of management is

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Shareholder wealth max and max stock price

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Managers reocognize

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That being socuially responsible is consistent with maxing shareholder value

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Intrinsic value

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True value

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Market value

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The extent that investor perceptions are incorrect

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Important business trends

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Increased business ethics, increased globalization, improving tech, stockholders have more control of corporate governance

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Conficts between stockholders and bondholders

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Stockholders prefer riskier projects, bondholders concerned about use of addional debt, bondholders limit use of addional debt

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Stockholders

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Have owners stake and get more when company has higher profit

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Bondholders

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Recieve fixed payment of interst regardless of how well the company does

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Suppliers of capital

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Excess funds and looking for a rate of return on their investments

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Demanders of capital

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Need to raise funds and are willing to pay a rate of return on captial

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Direct transfers

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From savers to business: private placement. Underwriters

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Investment banks
Indirect transfer. Investment to JPM to FB. Money from FB to JPM to investor
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Financial intermediaries
Indirect. Money from You to bank of america to syco. Investment from sysco to bofa to you
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Market
Venue where goods and services are exchanges
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Financial market
Place where individuals and organizations wanting to borrow funds are brought together with those having a surplus of funds
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Physical asset market
Tangiable or real assets
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Finacial assets
Stocks bonds notes mortages
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Spot markets
Assets are bought and sold for an on the spot delivery
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Future market
Buyer seller agree today to buy sell something in the future
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Money market
Funds borrowed or loaned for short periods
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Capital markets
For stocks and longer term debt
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Primary market
Firms raise capital by issuing new securities. Moving to a c corp
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Secondary marker
Exisitinf securites are traded
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Public market
Standard exchange on the stockmarket
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Private market
Directly involve buyers and sellers
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Derivatives
Securities value derived from the price of another security
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Derivatives for hedging
An importer whos profit falls when the dollar loses value could purchase currency futures that do well when the dollar weakens
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Speculators using derivatives
To bet on direction of future stock prices. Increase risk
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Investment banks
Sell securities on behalf of the company
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Financial service corporations
Large mix include many different financial markets
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Pension funds
Returement fund funded by employer
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Mutal funds
Collect money from investors and invest
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Exchange traded funds
Invest in specific
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Private equity comapanies
Buy companies manage for a few years then resell
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Bull market
Stockmarket increasing
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Bear market
Stockmarket decreasing
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Frame dependence
How being asked will change outcome. Overconfidence and regret avoidance
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Heuristics decisions
Too much weight on negative and recent
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Proponents of market effieciency
Increase number of analysis and lower transaction cost would make markets to become increasingly efficient
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Opponents to markets efficient
The existence of recent housing buble and previous IT bubble provides contrary evidence
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Performance measures for evaluating managers
MVA and EVA
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MVA
Difference between market value and bookvalue
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EVA
Estimate of a business true economic profit for a given year
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EVA equation
EBIT(1-T)-(invesor supplied capital x cost of capital)
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Net operation working capital
Current assets-current liabilites-notes payable
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EVA positive
AT operating income> cost of cap needed to produce that income. Managers added back
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Decrease depreciation years
Fixed assets, net income, and tax payments would all decline. Cash position would increase
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Corp taxes
Rates begin at 15% and rise to 35% for corps with income over 10m. Between 15-18.33m pay 38%. State tax of 5%
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Individual taxes
Rates at 10% raise to 35% over $372950. May have state tax
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Interest paid
Tax deductable for corps not individual expect interst on home loans
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Interest earned
Fully taxable except muni taxes
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Dividends paid
Paid out of after tax income
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Captial gains
Profits from the sale of assets not normally transacted. Individual taxed as ordinary income
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Why are ratios useful
Standardize numbers and facilitate comparisons, highlight weaknesses and strengths
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Different ratio analysis
Trend, industry, benchmark (compare with simalar sized companies)
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Liquidity
Can we make required payments
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Asset management
Right amount of assets vs sales
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Debt management
Right mix of debt and equity
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Profitability
Do sales prices exceed unit cost and are sales high enough as reflected in PM ROE and ROA
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Market value
Do investors like what they see as reflected in P/E and M/B ratios
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Liquidity ratios
Current ratio and quick ratio
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Current ratio
How fast company can pay off liability. Higher is better
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If liqudity ratios are lower than industry
Cant make payments as easily as others in the industry
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Asset management ratios
Inventory turnover, days sales outstanding, fixed assets turnover, total asset turnover
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Inventory turnover ratio
How many times restocked and sold
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Inventory turnover below industry
Have old inventory or control might be poor: carrying too much inventory
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Days sales outstanding ratio
Has to do with the firms credit policy
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Cash in advance
Buyer pays first because they have no or bad credit or demand is higher than supply
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Open account
Seller sends supply first
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TA turnover below industry
Caused by excessice current assets
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Debt management ratios
Debt ratio, time interest earned
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Debt ratio and TIE
Lower is better
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Debt ratio and TIE better than industry
Firm is using a manageable amount of debt and a low interest payment is a result
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Better leveraged or unleveraged
Tradeoff between higher expected return and increased risk
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Profitability ratios
Operating margin, profit margin, basic earning power, return on assets, return on equity
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Basic earning power
Removes the effects of taxes and financial leverage and is useful for comparison
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Return on equity is important
Because it shows how much stockholders earn as a return on their money
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Holding assets constant, if debt increases
Equity declines, interest expense increases(reduce NI), ROA declines, ROE either
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ROE problems
Doesnt consider risk, doesnt consider amount of capital invested
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Market value ratios
Price earnings and market book
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Price earnings ratio
How much investors are willing to pay for $1 of earnings. High for firms with strong growth and low risk. Low for slow growth and high risk
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Market book ratio
How much investors are willing to pay for $1 of book value equity
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DuPont equation
ROE= profit margin*TATO*Equity multiplier
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DuPont equatio reasoning
Focuses on expense control, asset utilization, and debt utilization
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Limitations if ratios
Comparisons hard with multiple divisions, different accounting can distort, hard to tell if good or bad strong or weak, average not good, seasonal factors, window dressing, inflation
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Nominal rate
Stated rate that is the annual rate
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Periodic rate
Amount of interest charged each period
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Effective rate
Annual rate of interest actually being earned. (1+I/M)^N*M-1
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Nominal used
For contracts, quotes, and brokers
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Perpetual used
Calculations and shown on time lines
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Effective rats
Compare returns on investments
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Can effective ever equal nominal
Yes if compounded annually
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Amoritized loan
Deals with a loan that is repaid in equal payments over time (includes the principal and the interest)
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Step one amortized loan
Find the required annual payment
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Step two amorization
Find the interest paid in year one | Begining balance*interest rate
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Step three amortization
Find the principal repaid in year one | PMT-INT
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Step four amoritzation
Find the ending balance after year one | Beginning balance-principal
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You sold 100 shares of stock and got the money then and gave the certificate up then what is this transaction?
Direct transfer of captial

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