scholarly journals Valuing Investment Decisions: Flotation Costs And Capital Budgeting

2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Neeraj J. Gupta ◽  
Wonhi Synn

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">We highlight a measurement problem inherent in the prevalent approach to factoring flotation costs in capital budgeting decision-making.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This arises because the traditional method calculates a higher cost of capital, while keeping the initial cash-flow unchanged.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>We demonstrate an alternate approach that corrects for this problem by assigning a higher initial investment due to flotation costs, while keeping the cost of capital unchanged.</span></span></p>

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-85
Author(s):  
Simona Hašková

Abstract The contribution sets simple mathematic models describing and explaining the way of behavior of various types of investors (the private and institutionalized ones). The models come from the cardinal utility theory which is used for explaining the connection between the subjective relationship towards risk and some pathologic phenomenon of finance theory (for example the moral hazard question of institutionalized investors) and takes into account the decision making of both ordinary people and professional investors. A reliable estimate of the economic surroundings where the investment should run contributes significantly to a quality of the particular investment decisions. The article contributes to a quality of the investment decision by the original and primary approach to pricing information that lowers the uncertainty in occurrences of the relevant scenarios of the project’s development. At the conclusion there is shown how the shift of the decision breaking point shapes the amount of the acceptable price of the information.


Subject Pricing political risk. Significance The mis-measurement of political risk is resulting in the cost of capital being valued 2-4 percentage points higher than it should be in assessments ahead of cross-border investment decisions. Research suggests that in 2016 this could have increased net foreign direct investment (FDI) to non-advanced countries by more than 10%. Impacts Political risk measurement is set for a renaissance, with interest from practitioners and end-users likely to proliferate. Frontier markets that are on the edge of inclusion in 'emerging' portfolio allocations could see an uptick in investment inflows. Returns to long-term capital managers, from insurers to pension funds, will rise as cost-of-capital calculations grow in sophistication.


2011 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas A. Anastassiou

<p class="MsoBodyText" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 34.2pt 0pt 0.5in; tab-stops: 387.0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Tax incentives have been provided in many countries with the ultimate goal of making the cost of capital cheaper and thus enabling the development process through the increase of investment expenditures. The study of the role of tax incentives in investment spending has been made possible through the use of the neoclassical theory of optimum capital accumulation. This theory has been used in this article to indicate that incentive provisions may not always be operative at the margin, and thus having no effect in<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>the formulation of the value of depreciation allowances and further on the value of the implicit rental price of capital. Variations in the value of the user cost of capital can make an investment project cheaper or more expensive in relation to various time periods. This could not be proved for the case of Greece.</span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-style: italic; mso-ansi-language: DE;" lang="DE"></span></p>


2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 251-256
Author(s):  
Adetia Wardani ◽  
Ani Wulandari

This research is a case study conducted in one of the property companies in Sidoarjo, East Java, namely PT Integra Indocabinet Tbk ,. Based on secondary data, PT Integra Indocabinet has increased sales and profits from 2014 - 2018. Therefore, the owners want to expand their expansion by adding new factory facilities so they can get more optimal profits and can increase exports abroad. The research aims to provide assistance in the form of suggestions for decision making between feasible or not worthy of the investment carried out. Based on the calculation, obtained an NPV value of 195,510,594,699 ≥ 0 which means it is feasible to run, an IRR of 22%> hurdle rate (10%) which means it is feasible to run; Payback Period is 4 years 3 months> 5 years which means it is feasible to be implemented; The Profitability Index is 1.98> 0, which means it's worth running. The results of the analysis show that using Capital Budgeting techniques can be seen that investment decisions for expansion are feasible.


2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 128-135
Author(s):  
Mia Juliani ◽  
Raden Aswin Rahadi

The purpose of this study was to know the factor that can be improved in the financial performance of Nasho. Nasho is a brand that focuses on offering products for eyeglass and helmet application that can be water, dew and dust repellent by utilizing the application of nanotechnology in the scope market of Bandung. However, to adapt the technology for Nasho is currently hampered by the limited capital to develop the technology itself. The company needs to manage the capital and minimize the cost to optimize the finance. The company needs to control the cost and expenses to avoid the high number of costs and expenses in terms of the development business stage. The research will use a qualitative approach by conducting interviews to Mr. Reza optics that will cooperate with Nasho to sell the product and use secondary data information from literature review, journal, books and primary data from financial history of Nasho and survey from the consumer of Nasho namely College student, Medical staff and Motorcycle riders and the components that are relevant to the conceptual framework. Survey used to get the consumer product and buying tendency information from Nasho’s consumer to validate the assumption of brand, price and buying intencity. Interview was conducted to get the suitable number of sales that are being used for cash flow forecasting scenario. The findings of this research is Nasho had low financial performance in the first two years of the business. After the evaluation, this can be improved by making a financial planning mix for short term and long term using the capital budgeting method in the form of three optimal scenarios of cash flow, Net Present Value (NPV), IRR and payback period that can be used as an optimal plan to run this business for the next five years.


2020 ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
Svetlana Viktorovna Lepeshkina

The article discusses the theoretical aspects of issues related to the assessment of capital, the formation of its structure from the point of view of making management decisions in cost formation on its attraction and maintenance. The concept of “capital” is clarified from the point of view of its formation and subsequent efficiency assessment. The approach to the formation of capital structure concepts of the modern period on the development basis is justified. The method of estimating the cost of capital and the formation of the target capital structure, based on the inclusion of transaction costs in the cost of capital, which allows you to more accurately determine the size of these costs in relation to the amount of equity and more accurately generate the weighted average cost of capital of the organization. The empirical nature of the study allows us to use the proposed method of forming the capital structure in relation to various (individual) conditions of the organization’s functioning, followed by clarification of the parameters of decision-making based on the set goals of the organization’s activities.


2011 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas L. Zeller ◽  
Brian B. Stanko

<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0.5in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This paper demonstrates how to build risk into capital investment decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>We illustrate how to combine distribution theory, technology, and a business professional&rsquo;s skills and insight into a capital investment analysis.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In addition, we show how management can approximate the risk of each cash flow estimate and display the overall capital investment results.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>This framework is extended by showing how a mutually exclusive decision can be improved, using a lease versus purchase example.</span><a style="mso-footnote-id: ftn1;" name="_ftnref1" href="http://journals.cluteonline.com/index.php/JABR/author/saveSubmit/#_ftn1"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;">[1]</span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>An Excel template is readily available from the authors allowing a hands-on application of the framework presented in this paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>In addition, this paper positions the reader to comfortably use more advanced analytics, such as Monte Carlo simulation, a tool that is readily available in commercial software applications.</span></span></p><div style="mso-element: footnote-list;"><br /><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><hr size="1" /></span><div id="ftn1" style="mso-element: footnote;"><p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">This paper focuses on the application of net present value.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>The advantage of using net present value in a capital budgeting decision is that it shows the potential stakeholder wealth creation and wealth destruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>An internal rate of return analysis is intentionally left out of this paper.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>According to Brealey, Myers and Allen, <em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Principles of Corporate Finance</em>, New York, NY: McGraw-Hill/Irwin 2006, pp. 91-99, internal rate of return should not be used to evaluate mutually exclusive capital investments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span></span></span></p></div></div>


Author(s):  
Sergio Bravo

Abstract A widely used methodology for estimating the beta of companies with the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) uses comparable firms based only on industry or sector classifications (Bancel, F., and U. R. Mittoo. 2014. “The Gap between the Theory and Practice of Corporate Valuation: Survey of European Experts.” Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 26, no. 4 (Fall): 106–17. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/jacf.12095, 112; KPMG. 2017. “Cost of Capital Study 2017: Diverging Markets, Converging Business Models.” Accessed September 28, 2018. https://assets.kpmg.com/content/dam/kpmg/ch/pdf/cost-of-capital-study-2017-en.pdf, 37). We hypothesize that even within industries, there is a significant relationship between the cost of equity and the life cycle of a firm. We argue that these variables are correlated because different life-cycle stages exhibit different degrees of systematic risk. Therefore, as the firm moves along its life cycle, its unlevered beta decreases. We define the stages of the firm life cycle based on a modification of the theoretical typology of (Miller, D., and P. Friesen. 1984. “A Longitudinal Study of the Corporate Life-Cycle.” Management Sciences 30 (10): 1161–83. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2631384, 1162–3) and then classify a sample of listed companies into these stages using (Dickinson, V. 2011. “Cash Flow Patterns as a Proxy for Firm Life-Cycle.” The Accounting Review 86 (6): 1969–94. doi:https://doi.org/10.2308/accr-10130) cash flow statements methodology. We construct value-weighted portfolios that are formed based on our life-cycle stages classification, adapting the procedure of (Fama, E., and K. R. French. 1993. “Common Risk Factors in the Returns on Stocks and Bonds.” Journal of Financial Economics 33 (1): 3–56. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/0304-405X(93)90023-5). Finally, we compare the betas (levered and unlevered) of these portfolios to determine whether there are statistically significant differences. Our results show clear evidence of a relationship between betas and the corporate life cycle and that this relationship is robust to both changes in the period of analysis and omitted variables bias (when controlling with the four-factor model of (Carhart, M. M. 1997. “On Persistence in Mutual Fund Performance.” The Journal of Finance 52 (1): 57–82. doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6261.1997.tb03808.x). We believe our results show an important shortcoming in a widely used methodology among practitioners for estimating the CAPM.


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