Investment & Financing Flashcards
1.1 Corporate Investment and Financing Decisions
- Real Assets
- Used to produce goods and services
- Financial Assets/Securities
- Financial claims on income generated by firm’s real assets
- Capital Budgeting/Capital Expenditure (CAPEX)
- Decision to invest in tangible or intangible assets
- Investment Decision
- Purchase of real assets
- Financing Decision
- Sale of financial assets
- Capital Structure
- Choice between debt and equity financing
- Capital Budgeting Examples
- Tangible Assets
• i.e. Expanding stores
* Intangible Assets
• i.e. Research and development for new drug
• What Is a Corporation?
- Legal entity, owned by shareholders
- Can make contracts, carry on business, borrow, lend, sue, and be sued
- Shareholders have limited liability and cannot be held personally responsible for corporation’s debts
Cash Flow between Financial markets and Firm‘s Operations

Stockholders Want Three Things
- To maximize current wealth
- To transform wealth into most desirable time pattern of consumption
- To manage risk characteristics of chosen consumption plan
Profit Maximization- Not a well-defined financial objective
• Which year’s profits?
- Shareholders will not welcome higher short-term profits if long-term profits are damaged
• Company may increase future profits by cutting year’s dividend, investing freed-up cash in firm
- Not in shareholders’ best interest if company earns less than opportunity cost of capital
- Shareholders desire wealth maximization
- Managers have many constituencies, “stakeholders”
- “Agency Problems” represent the conflict of interest between management and owners
The Investment Trade-off权衡资本
• Hurdle Rate/Cost of Capital
- Minimum acceptable rate of return on investment
• Opportunity Cost of Capital
- Investing in a project eliminates other opportunities to use invested cash

Agency Problems – Owners vs. Managements

Agency costs are incurred when:
- Managers do not attempt to maximize firm value
- Shareholders incur costs to monitor managers and constrain their actions
Tools to Ensure Management Pays Attention to the Value of the Firm
- Manager’s actions subject to the scrutiny of board of directors
- Shirkers are likely to find they are ousted by more energetic managers
- Financial incentives provided, such as stock options
Ch-2 Calculating Future Values
• Future Value
- Amount to which investment will grow after earning interest

Present Value
• Value today of future cash flow

Valuing an Office Building

Net Present Value

Risk and Present Value
- Higher risk projects require a higher rate of return
- Higher required rates of return cause lower PVs
Three Rules of Time and Travel
Financial decisions often require combining cash flows or comparing values. Three rules govern these processes.

Net Present Value Rule

Rate of Return Rule
- Accept investments that offer rates of return in excess of their opportunity cost of capital
- In the project listed below, the opportunity cost of capital is 12%. Is the project a wise investment?

Multiple Cash Flows
• Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) formula:

Perpetuity

Example: Perpetuity

Annuity
• Asset that pays fixed sum each year for specified number of years

Example:PV of Annuity
Example: Tiburon Autos offers payments of $5,000 per year, at the end of each year for 5 years. If interest rates are 7%, per year, what is the cost of the car?

Example:PV of Annuity 2
Example: The state lottery advertises a jackpot prize of $365 million, paid in 30 yearly installments of $12.167 million, at the end of each year. Find the true value of the lottery prize if interest rates are 6%.

Example: Future Value of an Annuity
What is the future value of $20,000 paid at the end of each of the following 5 years, assuming investment returns of 8% per year?







































































