fina 2   Assignment 2 Assignment 2, which is worth 15 percent of your total grade for the course, is made up of 15 questions worth a total of 89 marks. Review the “Course Assignments” page in the Welcome and Orientation section of this course website for important information regarding requirements for submitting your answers to problem-solving questions. Include your student ID number and contact […]

11-A2. A manager of the engineering department of Manchester University is contemplating acquiring 120 computers. The computers will cost $240,000 cash, have zero terminal salvage value, and a useful life of 3 years. Annual cash savings from operations will be $110,000. The required rate of return is 14%. There are no taxes. 1.       Compute the NPV. 2.       Should the engineering department acquire the computers? Explain […]

Any large scale change endeavor requires a great deal of effort on the part of a given organization to implement. Implementing a corporate wide BSC based performance management system is no different. In implementing such a system, organizational leaders face the challenge of overcoming organizational inertia rooted in resistance to change. This is no easy challenge, and is one of the major reasons why the […]

Company Information Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project, Project A. The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million. The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate additional revenues of $1.2 million per year before tax and has additional annual costs of $600,000. The Marginal Tax rate is 35%. […]

As the newly hired financial analyst for Rodgers International, you are charged with evaluating a possible investment by the firm in Bolivia. It is the end of 2012 (year 0) and an idle Bolivian facility is available to be purchased at a price of 28,000,000 Bolivian Boliviano (BOB).   Rodgers is currently exporting twitters to Bolivia and expects to export 25,000 units next year (2013, […]

1. Go to www.cnbc.com, and explore the videos link by searching key terms like Euro and European Union. Comment on at least two videos you watched. Make sure you identify the speakers and summarize the content in two videos. 2.Go to www.cnbc.com, and explore the videos link by searching key terms like forex and currency. Comment on one video you watched. Make sure you identify […]

The business will be a small Subway sub shop located in a heavy traffic area in a strip mall. The strip mall tenants include a Chinese takeout restaurant, a flower shop, a beauty parlor, and a FedEx/Kinko’s store. Your sub shop will be the fifth occupant of this strip mall. Your two critical sources of information for this project are 1. The Subway website located at […]

              The purpose of this assignment is to analyze investment banking companies and the industry.               Publicly traded investment banking companies include Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.  The analysis can also include J.P. Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Company, and Bank of America Corp. which acquired Merrill Lynch.  Additional companies can be added at your discretion.               The analysis is to include […]

Final Project RequirementsUsing the company that you used for your Mid-term Assignment you are to conduct the following additional analysis:From an overall perspective, how is the company doing financially? Using financial information for at least the past three years conduct a trend analysis (at a minimum include revenue, expenses and net income).    From a legal perspective – is the company facing any lawsuits or […]

Harvard Business Publishing: Working Capital Simulation: Managing Growth Assignment Ch. 1 – 21 ofFundamentals of Corporate Finance WileyPLUS Assignments All additional resources from each week   Review the following scenario:   Acting as the CEO of a small company, you will apply the principles of capital budgeting to invest in growth and cash flow improvement opportunities in three phases over 10 simulated years. Each opportunity […]