Week 51

Case Problem 1. Investment StrategyJ. D. Williams, Inc. is an investment advisory firm that manages more than $120 million in funds for its numerous clients. The company uses an asset allocation model that recommends the portion of each client’s portfolio to be invested in a growth stock fund, an income fund, and a money market fund. To maintain diversity in each client’s portfolio, the firm places limits on the percentage of each portfolio that may be invested in each of the three funds. General guidelines indicate that the amount invested in the growth fund must be between 20% and 40% of the total portfolio value. Similar percentages for the other two funds stipulate that between 20% and 50% of the total portfolio value must be in the income fund and that at least 30% of the total portfolio value must be in the money market fund. In addition, the company attempts to assess the risk tolerance of each client and adjust the portfolio to meet the needs of the individual investor. For…

10. Multinational working capital management Aa Aa Multinational companies are exposed to complex management and allocation of their resources. A multinational company's cash management, credit management, inventory management, and so on, need to have several additional elements factored in compared with those of a purely domestic corporation. Consider this case: Multinational Inventory Management Streep Inc. is a U.S.-based multinational firm with a Decisions related to amount of investment in subsidiary in Switzerland. Last week, Streep created its inventory and inventory policy need to factor in periodic financial statements, and the subsidiary had the following: SFr 60,000 worth of inventory on its balance sheet. Streep translated the value of inventory using the spot • Exchange rates exchange rate at that time of $0.8153 / SFr and recorded • Possibility of import and export quotas or that value on its consolidated balance sheet. tariffs However, this week the exchange rate changed…

Blue Devil Corp. has two sources of funds: long-term debt and equity capital. The company has profit centers in the following regions with the following net incomes and total assets:   Net Income Assets North America $800,000  $10,000,000 Asia 1,170,000 12,000,000 Europe 680,000 8,000,000   Required: a. Calculate ROI for each profit center, and identify which region has the best performance. Round your answer to two decimal places. b. Calculate the residual income for each profit center based on a desired ROI of 8.5%, and identify which region’s performance is below the company’s expectation.

How do you solve this problem?  Please give an explanation on the third part of the problem.

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Choice of Strategic Business Unit Hamilton-Jones, a large consulting firm in Los Angeles,has experienced rapid growth over the last 5 years. To better serve its clients and to bettermanage its practice, the firm decided 2 years ago to organize into five strategic business units,each of which serves a significant base of clients: accounting systems, executive recruitment andcompensation, client-server office information systems, manufacturing information systems, andreal-estate consulting. Each SBU is served by a variety of administrative services within the firm,including payroll and accounting, printing and duplicating, report preparation, and secretarialsupport. Hamilton-Jones’s management closely watches the trend in the total costs for eachadministrative support area on a month-to-month basis. Management has noted that the costs inthe printing and duplicating area have risen 40% over the last 2 years, a rate that is twice that ofany other support area.Required Should Hamilton-Jones…

Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below] The managers of the XYZ clubs, who have the authority to make investments as needed, are evaluated based largely on return on investment (ROI). The company's X Club reported the following results for the past year: Sales $ 840,000 Net operating income $ 24,360 Average operating assets $ 100,000 The following questions are to be considered independently. 2. Assume that the manager of the club is able to increase sales by $84,000 and that, as a result, net operating income increases by $7,056. Further assume that this is possible without any increase in average operating assets. What would be the club's return on investment (ROI)? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) Return on investment (ROI)

Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Megamart provides the following information on its two investment centers. Investment Center Electronics Income $ 3,114,000 2,261,000 Average Assets $ 17,300,000 13,300,000 Sporting goods Sales $ 41,520,000 18,088,000 1. Compute return on investment for each center. Using return on investment, which center is most efficient at using assets to generate income? 2. Assume a target income of 11% of average assets. Compute residual income for each center. Which center generated the most residual income? 3. Assume the Electronics center is presented with a new investment opportunity that will yield a 14% return on investment. Should the new investment opportunity be accepted? The target return is 11%. Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Required 1 Required 2 Required 3 Compute return on investment for each center. Using return on investment, which center is most efficient…

In a recent annual report and related Global Responsibility Report, Starbucks provides information on company performance on several dimensions. Select whether the following items best fit into the financial (label your answer "Profit"), social (label your answer "People"), or environmental (label your answer "Planet") aspects of triple bottom line reporting. 1. Increased diversity training for employees. 2. Operating cash flow totaled $4.2 billion. 3. New stores are built using certified sustainable building techniques. 4. Operating income totaled $4.1 billion. 5. Decreased amounts of packaging materials used. 6. Increased aluminum recycling.

Required information Use the following information for the Exercises below. [The following information applies to the questions displayed below.] Megamart, a retailer of consumer goods, provides the following information on two of its departments (each considered an investment center). Average Invested Assets Sales Income Electronics $63,460,000 $3,173,000 $16,700,000 Sporting goods 19,050,000 2,286,000 12,700,000 Investment Center Exercise 22-10 Computing return on investment and residual income; investing decision LO A1 1. Compute return on investment for each department. Using return on investment, which department is most efficient at using assets to generate returns for the company? 2. Assume a target income level of 12% of average invested assets. Compute residual income for each department. Which department generated the most residual income for the company? 3. Assume the Electronics department is presented with a new investment opportunity that will yield a 14% return on…

, a worldwide health care company, looks to invest $50 million in new technologies for diagnostic instrument systems. This investment into research and development would appear in which of Abbot's budgets? a) cash budget b) capital budget c) operating budget d) zero-balance budget Saved

Task 1 The Board is considering replacing or redeveloping the leading product you have chosen. This will require considerable new investment. a) Use TWO investment appraisal techniques to describe TWO alternative sources of finance that would support the board's strategy. b) Contrast the usefulness of the two investment appraisal techniques you have selected c) Analyse two international aspects of financial risk management that could impact on the board's strategy. d) Analyse and explain the cost involved in managing these two aspects. SFM - LO 1 (pcs 1.1, 1.3) SGF - LO5 (pcs 5.1, 5.2, 5.3)

Required information [The following information applies to the questions displayed below] The following Information is provided for each Investment Center Investment Center Cameras Phones Computers Compute return on Investment for each Investment center. Which center performed the best based on return on investment? Return on Performance Investment Based on ROI Income $6,500,000 2,652,000 850,000 Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Inve Average Assets $ 29,300,000 22,100,000 14,800,000 Compute return on investment for each investment center. (Round your final answer to 1 decimal place.) Return on Investment Cameras Phones Computers Income Average Accato $ 6,500,000 $ 29,300,000 2,652,000 22,100,000 850,000 14,800,000

Using ROI and RI to evaluate investment centers Tiger Paints is a national paint manufacturer and retailer. The company is segmented into five divisions: Paint Stores (branded retail locations), Consumer (paint sold through home improvement stores), Automotive (sales to auto manufacturers), International, and Administration. The following is selected divisional information for its two largest divisions: Paint Stores and Consumer: Management has specified a 19% target rate of return. Requirements Calculate each division’s ROI. Round all of your answers to four decimal places. Calculate each division’s profit margin ratio. Interpret your results. Calculate each division’s asset turnover ratio. Interpret your results. Use the expanded ROI formula to confirm your results from Requirement 1. Interpret your results. Calculate each division’s RI. Interpret your results, and offer a recommendation for any division with negative RI. Describe some of the factors that management considers when…

What is the likely reaction of Jasper's corporate management toward the investment? Why?

Complete this question by entering your answers in the tabs below. Profit Margin Investment Turnover Compute investment turnover for each center. Which center has the better investment turnover? Investment Turnover Numerator: / Denominator: Investment Center Electronics Sporting Goods Which center has the better investment turnover?

As consultants in advisory services, we are hired by Sayko Corp to help analyze its regional operations in the contiguous U.S. Sayko wishes to draw on our expertise in financial statement analysis to help identify further expansion of operations. Please complete the following with the information on the map (image). 1. Compute profit margin for each region.3. Compute return on total assets for each region.

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QUESTION 1: Weighted Average Cost of Capital & Capital Budgeting Universal Electricals Limited (UEL) is a large, rapidly growing wholesaler of consumer electrical products. The company's main product lines are kitchen appliances and power tools. The senior management team, including the chief financial offer, oversees the budgeting process and recognises the importance of capital budgeting for planning and control. The company plans a new eight-year project to manufacture Fridge Freezers. For that, the company will build a new manufacturing plant on the land the company had bought five years ago for $9.25 million. The land is currently valued at $14.75 million. The management estimates the land can be sold for $18.25 million after taxes in eight years. The Plant for the project will cost $185 million to build, and the company is expecting a four-year payback period for the entire project. The manufacturing plant has a ten-year tax life, and the company uses the Diminishing value method…

Uneven Cash Flows; NPV; Sensitivity Analysis MaxiCare Corporation, a not-for-profit organization, specializes in health care for senior citizens. Management is considering whether to expand operations by opening a new chain of care centers in the inner city of large metropolitan areas. For a new facility, initial cash outlays for lease, renovations, net working capital, training, and other costs are expected to be about $15 million. The corporation expects the cash inflows of each new facility in its first year of operation to equal the initial investment outlay for the facility. Net cash inflows are expected to increase to $1 million in each of years 2 and 3; $2.5 million in year 4; and $3 million in each of years 5 through 10. The lease agreement for the facility will expire at the end of year 10, and MaxiCare expects the cost to close a facility will pretty much exhaust all cash proceeds from the disposal. Cost of capital for MaxiCare is estimated as 12%. Assume that all cash flows…