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UNIT 1 DISCUSSION 1:
consider the following topics as a basis for integrating course concepts, strategies, and issues within your particular areas of experience and focus in this discussion:
-Assessing appropriate corporate governance and effective monitoring techniques.
-Evaluating the correlation between the value and the price of an organization.
-Assessing and measuring risk and for converting risk measures into acceptable hurdle rates.
-Applying the concept of the time value of money in terms of maximizing wealth for all stakeholders.
Discuss the relationship and the course materials that either support or refute your personal experience.
UNIT 2 DISCUSSION 2:
how to integrate course concepts, strategies, and issues within your particular areas of experience and interest:
-Estimating cash flows and determining initial outlay values.
-Applying investment decision rules in capital budgeting.
-Identifying and assessing different forms of risk.
-Investment analysis based on inflation, exchange rate risk, -and other environmental factors.
-Determining hurdle rates based on different sources of funds.
Discuss the relationship and the course materials that either support or refute your personal experience.
UNIT 3 DISCUSSION 1:
Assume that a firm has a poor working capital position and decides to incur significant debt through a bond issuance. As a consequence, the firm will be increasing its leverage while addressing its negative working capital position. How would the Modigliani and Miller propositions figure in this decision? What implications might this raise as to potential financial distress for the firm?
UNIT 3 DISCUSSION 2:
Consider the following topics as a basis for discussing how to integrate course concepts, strategies, and issues within your particular areas of experience and interest:
-Assessing the range of financing options available to an organization.
-The effects of optimizing the capital mix.
-Analyzing the effects of corporate bankruptcy on stakeholders.
-Assessing the role of working capital in funding decisions.
UNIT 4 DISCUSSION 1:
Some firms issue reverse stock splits, in which investors receive one share for every three or four they own. What might be the rationale for a reverse stock split and what effect will it be likely to have on stock prices? Offer an example of an actual reverse stock split.
UNIT 4 DISCUSSION 2:
how to integrate course concepts, strategies, and issues within your particular areas of experience and interest:
-Options for analyzing various corporate dividend policies.
-Assessing the different techniques available for returning cash to stockholders.
-Evaluating the merits of buybacks, spin-offs, and divestitures to stockholders.
