Risk Management | Net Present Value | Capital Costs | Capital Markets Terminology | Guest Presentations |
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What is greater risk or uncertainty?
Greater variation from the expected mean of cash flows, means greater ___.
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What is net present value?
The method of calculation in which you calculate all inflows and outflows of cash and discount them to determine if a capital expenditure project should be undertaken.
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What is decrease (or go down)?
Bond prices increase when yields to maturities go in this direction.
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What is leveraged buyout (LBO)?
The process through which a firm borrows debt or uses credit to purchase another firm.
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What is a shared service center (SSC)?
The type of center that "supports certain business services (e.g. Finance, IT, HR, Procurement) of a company (both internally and externally)." There are over 100 of these centers in Hungary.
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What is negative correlation?
If a firm wishes to diversify its business portfolio by purchasing a new business, it will look for a firm that has a ___________ correlation in cash flow generation compared to its current business.
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What is internal rate of return (IRR)?
This is the rate of return on a project when the net present value of the project equals 0. If higher than the cost of capital, it would mean a capital project is worth taking on.
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What is a downgrade of a firm's debt?
A firm's cost of capital increases when a rating agency's takes this action.
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What is convertible debt?
A security contract between a lender and investor in which debt such as notes or bonds can be eventually transformed into shares of equity in a company.
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What is privatization?
The NLB Group was once a state owned entity and went through this process of ____ when the Slovenian state sold the majority of its state-owned shares to investors.
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What is the coefficient of variation?
One means to measure risk is to calculate the ___________ by taking the standard deviation divided by the expected mean.
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What is a taxable "gain?"
When the sale price of an asset is greater than its book value, this difference is called a taxable ____.
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What is the capital structure used for financing? (Includes determining the cost of debt (bonds), equity (preferred shares and common shares).
To determine the weighted average cost of capital (WACC), you must use the weights of what to determine the WACC calculation.
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What is secured debt? (Note: Unsecured debt or debenture bonds have a lower priority of claim to secured debt).
Bondholders holding this type of debt have the highest claim on a company's assets, should the company go bankrupt, because assets are pledged. (Name the type of debt).
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What is project finance?
The type of financing in which the expected cash flows from a project are used to calculate the net present value of the project, not a business/corporation.
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What is Project 2?
Below are two coefficients of variation of two projects.
Project 1: 0.256 Project 2 : 0.356 Which project has a higher degree of risk? |
What is the payback method?
The decision-making methodology that determines how quickly a project's costs will be recovered.
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What is float cost (or underwriting costs)?
The cost to issue new shares(or (bring the shares to market) in a public offering is called this. This increases the overall cost of equity if new shares are to be issued.
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What is share repurchases or share buybacks?
Firms use their cash to increase their EPS by reducing the number of common shares when they take this action.
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What is the bookrunner or main underwriter?
The firm responsible for leading an issuance of an IPO is called this.
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What is equity? (Formula: Rf + Beta * (Km - Rf).?
The formula for the Capital Asset Pricing Model is an alternative means for calculating which cost of capital?
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What is a tax shield?
To determine net cashflows, depreciation must be deducted from earnings because a firm does not pay taxes on depreciation. This benefit is called a tax _____?
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What is the (yield to maturity * (1-tax rate)) (This is the tax-adjusted yield to maturity of a bond)?
To determine the cost of debt of a firm (Kd), you must tax adjust the debt rate by using this formula because firm's do not pay taxes on interest payments.
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What is a stock split?
When a company increases the number shares and reduces the price of its shares proportionally so as not to change its current equity holdings, this is called ____.
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What is a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV)?
A _____ is established in project finance to "ring-fence" the project as an investment. In turn, this allow investors to share risk in the project.
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