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INTRODUCTION TO
CORPORATE FINANCE
Brealey, Myers, and Allen
Principles of Corporate
Finance
11th Edition
McGraw-Hill/Irwin

Copyright 2014 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

1-1 CORPORATE INVESTMENT AND


FINANCING DECISIONS
Real Assets
Used to produce goods and services

Financial Assets/Securities
Financial claims on income generated by firms

real assets
Capital Budgeting/Capital Expenditure

(CAPEX)
Decision to invest in tangible or intangible

assets
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1-1 CORPORATE INVESTMENT AND


FINANCING DECISIONS
Investment Decision
Purchase of real assets
Financing Decision
Sale of financial assets

Capital Structure
Choice between debt and equity financing

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1-1 CORPORATE INVESTMENT AND


FINANCING DECISIONS
Capital Budgeting Examples
Tangible Assets
i.e. Expanding stores
Intangible Assets
i.e. Research and development for new drug

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TABLE 1.1 RECENT INVESTMENT/


FINANCING DECISIONS
Company
Boeing
(U.S.)

Recent Investment Decisions

Delivers first Dreamliner after


investing a reported $30 billion in
development costs.
ExxonMobil Spends $7 billion to develop oil
(U.S.)
sands at Fort McMurray in Alberta.
GlaxoSmith- Spends $4 billion on research and
Kline (UK)
development for new drugs.
LVMH
LVMH acquires the Italian Jeweler,
(France)
Bulgari, for $5 billion.
Procter &
Spends $8 billion on advertising.
Gamble
(U.S.)
Tata Motors Opens a plant in India to produce
(India)
the world's cheapest car, the Nano.
The facility costs $400 million.
Union Pacific Invests $330 million in 100 new
(U.S.)
locomotives and 10,000 freight cars
and chassis.
Vale (Brazil) Opens a copper mine at Salobo in
Brazil. The project cost nearly $2
million.
Walmart
Invests 12.7 billion, primarily to
(U.S.)
open 458 new stores around the
world.

Recent Financing Decisions


Reinvests $1.7 billion of profits.
Spends $12 billion buying back shares.
Pays $3.2 billion as dividends.
Pays for the acquisition with a mixture of
cash and shares.
Raises 100 billion Japanese yen by an
issue of 5-year bonds.
Raises $400 million by the sale of new
shares.
Repays $1.4 billion of debt.
Maintains credit lines with its banks that
allow the company to borrow at any time
up to $1.6 billion.
Issues $5 billion of long-term bonds in
order to repay short-term commercial
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paper borrowings.

1-1 CORPORATE INVESTMENT AND


FINANCING DECISIONS
What Is a Corporation?
Legal entity, owned by shareholders
Can make contracts, carry on business, borrow,
lend, sue, and be sued
Shareholders have limited liability and cannot
be held personally responsible for corporations
debts

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FIGURE 1.1 CASH FLOW BETWEEN FINANCIAL


MARKETS AND FIRMS OPERATIONS
(2)

(1)
Financial
manager

Firm's
operations

(4a)

Financial
markets

(4b)

(3)
(1) Cash raised from investors
(2) Cash invested in firm

(3) Cash generated by operations


(4a) Cash reinvested
(4b) Cash returned to investors
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1-2 THE FINANCIAL GOAL OF THE


CORPORATION
Stockholders Want Three Things
To maximize current wealth
To transform wealth into most desirable time
pattern of consumption
To manage risk characteristics of chosen
consumption plan

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1-2 THE FINANCIAL GOAL OF THE


CORPORATION
Profit Maximization
Not a well-defined financial objective
Which years profits?
Shareholders will not welcome higher short-term
profits if long-term profits are damaged

Company may increase future profits by

cutting years dividend, investing freed-up


cash in firm
Not in shareholders best interest if company earns
less than opportunity cost of capital

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1-2 THE FINANCIAL GOAL OF THE


CORPORATION
Shareholders desire wealth maximization
Managers have many constituencies,

stakeholders
Agency Problems represent the conflict of
interest between management and owners

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1-2 THE FINANCIAL GOAL OF THE


CORPORATION
The Investment Trade-off
Hurdle Rate/Cost of Capital
Minimum acceptable rate of return on
investment
Opportunity Cost of Capital
Investing in a project eliminates other
opportunities to use invested cash

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FIGURE 1.2 THE INVESTMENT


TRADE-OFF

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1-2 THE FINANCIAL GOAL OF THE


CORPORATION
Agency Problems
Managers, acting as agents for stockholders,
may act in their own interests rather than
maximizing value
Stakeholder
Anyone with a financial interest in the firm

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1-2 THE FINANCIAL GOAL OF THE


CORPORATION
Agency ProblemsOwnership versus
Management
Difference in

Information
Stock prices and returns
Issues of shares and

other securities
Dividends
Financing

Different Objectives
Managers vs.
stockholders
Top mgmt vs. operating
mgmt
Stockholders vs. banks
and lenders

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1-2 THE FINANCIAL GOAL OF THE


CORPORATION
Agency costs are incurred when:
Managers do not attempt to maximize firm
value
Shareholders incur costs to monitor managers
and constrain their actions

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1-2 THE FINANCIAL GOAL OF THE


CORPORATION
Tools to Ensure Management Pays

Attention to the Value of the Firm


Managers actions subject to the scrutiny of

board of directors
Shirkers are likely to find they are ousted by
more energetic managers
Financial incentives provided, such as stock
options

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