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Financial Management: Principles and Applications (Chapter 17: Financial Forecasting and Planning)

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Learning Objectives: Understand the goals of financial planning. Use the percent-of-sales method to forecast the financing requirements of a firm, including its discretionary financing needs. Prepare a cash budget and use it to evaluate the amount and timing of a firm’s short-term financing requirements. Download PowerPoint

Financial Management: Principles and Applications (Chapter 16: Dividend Policy)

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Learning Objectives: Distinguish between the use of cash dividends and share repurchases. Understand the tax treatments of dividends and capital gains, and the conditions under which dividend policy is an important determinant of stock value. Describe corporate dividend policies that are commonly used in practice. Download PowerPoint

Financial Management: Principles and Applications (Chapter 15: Capital Structure Policy)

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Learning Objectives: Describe a firm's capital structure. Explain why firms have different capital structures and how capital structure influences a firm's weighted average cost of capital. Describe some fundamental differences in industries that drive differences in the way they finance their investments. Use the basic tools of financial analysis to analyze a firm's financing decision. Download PowerPoint

Financial Management: Principles and Applications (Chapter 14: The Cost of Capital)

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Learning Objectives: Understand the concepts underlying the firm’s overall cost of capital and the purpose for its calculation. Evaluate a firm’s capital structure, and determine the relative importance (weight) of each source of financing. Calculate the after-tax cost of debt, preferred stock, and common equity. Calculate a firm’s weighted average cost of capital. Discuss the pros and cons of using multiple, risk-adjusted discount rates and describe the divisional cost of capital as a viable alternative for firms with multiple divisions. Adjust the NPV for the costs of issuing new securities when analyzing new investment opportunities. Download PowerPoint

Financial Management: Principles and Applications (Chapter 06: The Time Value of Money—Annuities and Other Topics)

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Learning Objectives: Distinguish between an ordinary annuity and an annuity due, and calculate the present and future values of each. Calculate the present value of a level perpetuity and a growing perpetuity. Calculate the present and future values of complex cash flow streams. Download PowerPoint

Financial Management: Principles and Applications (Chapter 05: The Time Value of Money—The Basics)

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Learning Objectives: Construct cash flow timelines to organize your analysis of problems involving the time value of money. Understand compounding and calculate the future value of cash flows using mathematical formulas, a financial calculator, and an Excel spreadsheet. Understand discounting and calculate the present value of cash flows using mathematical formulas, a financial calculator and an Excel spreadsheet. Understand how interest rates are quoted and know how to make them comparable. Download PowerPoint