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Goals and Governance of the Firm

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• Investment decision
• Financial asset
• Public corporation
• Corporation
• Treasurer
• The cost resulting from conflicts of interest between managers and shareholders

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Introduction to corporate finance

• Investment decisions, typically called capital budgeting, relate to investments in tangible

and intangible assets. Financing decisions relate to the raising of money through debt and equity. Repayment of that money as well as interest and dividends are also financing decisions.

• Investment decision
• Financing decision
• Investment decision
• Investment decision
• Financing decision
• Financing decision: On the surface, this may appear similar to a dividend decision,

but in reality retiring debt is a change in capital structure and more closely aligned with a financing decision.

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Financial management decisions

• Both capital budgeting decisions and capital structure decisions are long-term financial

decisions. However, capital budgeting decisions are long-term investment decisions, while capital structure decisions are long-term financing decisions. Capital structure decisions essentially involve selecting between equity financing and long-term debt financing.

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Introduction to corporate finance

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• A share of stock financial
• A personal IOU financial
• A trademark real
• A truck real
• Undeveloped land real
• The balance in the firm’s checking account financial
• An experienced and hardworking sales force real
• A bank loan agreement financial

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Introduction to corporate finance

• “Companies usually buy real assets. These include both tangible assets such as executive

airplanes and intangible assets such as brand names. To pay for these assets, they sell financial assets such as bonds. The decision about which assets to buy is usually termed the capital budgeting or investment decision. The decision about how to raise the money is usually termed the financing decision.”

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Financial management decisions

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• Private corporation
• Partnership
• Public corporation
• Public corporation

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Forms of business organization

• Double taxation means that a corporation’s income is taxed first at the corporate tax

rate, and then, when the income is distributed to shareholders as dividends, the income is taxed again at each shareholder’s personal tax rate.

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Forms of business organization

• Ownership can be transferred without affecting operations and D. Managers can be fired

with no effect on ownership.

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Forms of business organization

• The individual stockholders of a corporation (i.e., the owners) are legally distinct from

the corporation itself, which is a separate legal entity. Consequently, the stockholders are not personally liable for the debts of the corporation; the stockholders’ liability for the debts of the corporation is limited to the investment each stockholder has made in the shares of the corporation.

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Forms of business organization

• B. The corporation survives even if managers are dismissed and C. Shareholders can sell

their holdings without disrupting the business.

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Forms of business organization

• Limited liability is generally advantageous to large corporations. Large corporations

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1-3 Copyright © 2019 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.legal entity, conferring the benefit of limited liability on its shareholders. On the other hand, lenders do not view limited liability as advantageous to them. In some situations, lenders are not willing to lend to a corporation without personal guarantees from shareholders, promising repayment of a loan in the event that the corporation does not have the financial resources to repay the loan. Typically, these situations involve small corporations, with only a few shareholders; often these corporations can obtain debt financing only if the shareholders provide these personal guarantees.

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Forms of business organization

• B. Responsible for investing the firm’s spare cash and C. Responsible for arranging

any issue of common stock.

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Management organization and roles

• The responsibilities of the treasurer include the following: supervising cash

management, raising capital, and banking relationships. The controller’s responsibilities include supervision of accounting, preparation of financial statements, and tax matters. The CFO of a large corporation supervises both the treasurer and the controller. The CFO is responsible for large-scale corporate planning and financial policy.

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Management organization and roles

• A corporation might cut its labor force dramatically, which could reduce immediate

expenses and increase profits in the short term. Over the long term, however, the firm might not be able to serve its customers properly, or it might alienate its remaining workers; if so, future profits will decrease, and the stock price, and the market value of the firm, will decrease in anticipation of these problems.Similarly, a corporation can boost profits over the short term by using less costly materials even if this reduces the quality of the product. Once customers catch on, sales will decrease and profits will fall in the future. The stock price will fall.The moral of these examples is that, because stock prices reflect present and future profitability, the corporation should not necessarily sacrifice future prospects for short- term gains.

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Goal of financial management

• Financial managers refer to the opportunity cost of capital because corporations

increase value for their shareholders only by accepting all investment projects that earn more than this rate. If the company earns below this rate, the market value of the company’s stock falls and stockholders look for other places to invest.To find the opportunity cost of capital for a safe investment, managers and investors look at current interest rates on safe debt securities, such as U.S. Treasury debt.

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• The stock price reflects the value of both current and future dividends that the

shareholders expect to receive. In contrast, profits reflect performance in the current year only. Profit maximizers may try to improve this year’s profits at the expense of future profits. But stock-price maximizers will take account of the entire stream of cash flows that the firm can generate. They are more apt to be forward-looking.

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Goal of financial management

• In this situation, a “superior” rate of return is a rate greater than the rate of return

investors could earn elsewhere in the financial markets from alternative investments with risk equal to that of the “high-risk capital investment” described in the problem. Fritz (who is risk-averse) will likely sell the investment since he is risk averse. Frieda (who is risk-tolerant) will likely keep her shares since it matches her risk tolerance.

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Goal of financial management

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• This action might appear, superficially, to be a grant to former employees and

thus not consistent with value maximization. However, such “benevolent” actions might enhance the firm’s reputation as a good place to work, might result in greater loyalty on the part of current employees, and might contribute to the firm’s recruiting efforts. Therefore, from a broader perspective, the action may be value-maximizing.

• The reduction in dividends, in order to allow increased reinvestment, can be consistent

with maximization of current market value. If the firm has attractive investment opportunities, and wants to save the expenses associated with issuing new shares to the public, then it could make sense to reduce the dividend in order to free up capital for the additional investments.

• The corporate jet would have to generate benefits in excess of its costs in order to be

considered stock-price enhancing. Such benefits might include time savings for executives and greater convenience and flexibility in travel.

• Although the drilling appears to be a bad bet, with a low probability of success, the

project may be value-maximizing if a successful outcome (although unlikely) is potentially sufficiently profitable. A one-in-five chance of success is acceptable if the payoff conditional on finding an oil field is 10 times the costs of exploration.

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Goal of financial management

• Shareholders want managers to maximize the market value of their investments. The firm

faces a trade-off. It can either invest its cash in real assets or it can give the cash back to

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