Discussion Questions

113291. Strategic planning is used in organizations to define strategy, direction, and capital allocation decisions. While, working capital management is used in companies to effectively manage a business by monitoring assets and liabilities to ensure that a company is operating efficiently. Please provide an example, the context and reasoning why a public company of your choosing pursued a publicly announced venture where strategic planning and working capital management played a role.

2. Please explain a scenario in which the equivalent annual cost (EAC) approach would be a helpful approach to determining which project to choose. Additionally, please calculate the NPV for option A and option B. Which option would you use?

3. In thinking about how WACC is used in business, what is one business idea that you think WACC would help in analyzing the business investment. Additionally, how would you go about in using WACC to help facilitate that investment making process?

4. Using the CAPM model, assuming a risk-free rate of 1% and a expected market return of 10%, choose 4 stocks of your choice and calculate the expected return of each stock. Additionally, assuming that the 4 stocks make up your portfolio and have a weighting of 10% for the 1st stock, 20% for the 2nd stock, 30% for the 3rd stock, and 40% for the 4th stock, what is the Beta and the expected return of the portfolio?

5. Please find the common stock and the preferred stock of a publicly traded company and tell me which of the two securities using the dividend discount model is a better investment. You can use www.quantumonline.com to find preferred stocks. For example, Bank of America (Symbol of common stock is BAC) has both common and preferred stock.