{"id":35142,"date":"2022-02-22T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/capital-budgeting-and-project-valuation-corporate-finance-southern-new-hampshire-university\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T13:06:01","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T13:06:01","slug":"capital-budgeting-and-project-valuation-corporate-finance-southern-new-hampshire-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/capital-budgeting-and-project-valuation-corporate-finance-southern-new-hampshire-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Capital budgeting and project valuation | Corporate Finance | Southern New Hampshire University"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Attached is the excel spreadsheet, instructions and a powerpoint simplification guide. Please utilize<\/strong><\/u>.<\/p>\n

The company I have chosen is AT&T.<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

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Milestone Project Valuation is due this week.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

This week you are working on your financial projections in the valuations tab of the project spreadsheet template.\u00a0 At first glance, the valuation spreadsheet can appear to be overwhelming.\u00a0 I have attached a simplification guide that you should find helpful when working on the spreadsheet.\u00a0 What I’d like you to keep in mind is what the goal is – the goal is not to fill out the spreadsheet rather to project what you think the financial performance of the company will be over the next five years.\u00a0 You should be leveraging the work you did in the first milestone deliverable as a starting point as often historical performance can guide us in thinking about future performance.\u00a0 I encourage you to break down your analysis about valuation into 5 sections.\u00a0 Focus on this and then the spreadsheet input.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u00a0Valuation Guidance – Priming critical thinking.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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  1. Revenue projections<\/strong>.\u00a0 What is the rate of growth to project for revenue?\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 How will it achieve that growth – adding new stores, adding more subscribers, etc.\u00a0 If so, what is the current baseline of stores or subscribers and to grow to what you think it will be in 5 years how many new stores, subscribers will there need to be to make that possible.\u00a0<\/li>\n
  2. Operation margin projections<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u00a0How much of revenue is absorbed by expenses and what is left?\u00a0 Will operating margin be increasing or decreasing and why?\u00a0 It is not common for operating margin to be increasing due to competitive threats but if you think there is a reason why, like supply chain optimization, you should talk about that and incorporate.\u00a0 There is no problem with keeping margin the same with little movement for the next few years, especially if the company appears to be in a steady state operationally.<\/li>\n
  3. Tax Rate.<\/strong>\u00a0 Keep it simple.\u00a0 It doesn’t tend to change much.\u00a0 You may want to use the more recent tax rate as there was a reduction in the corporate tax rate.\u00a0 I would not use an average of the past few years.\u00a0 To calculate tax rate use “provision for income taxes paid \/ earnings before taxes” from the income statement.<\/li>\n
  4. Depreciation Expense<\/strong>.\u00a0 Project out the depreciation expense based on historical spend as a starting point.\u00a0 We need depreciation expense as this is a non-cash expense on the income statement and we have to add it back to get to cash flow.<\/li>\n
  5. Incremental Capital Investment<\/strong> – For the company to grow it will need to invest in new capital.\u00a0 How much depends on the company and how much capital is required to drive revenue.\u00a0 One thing to keep in mind is that the number generally if Revenue is projected to increase, is that the number is higher than depreciation expense.\u00a0 Look at the depreciation expense number as the dollar amount that the company needs to re-invest just to replace current equipment to maintain current revenue needs.\u00a0 Capital investment over and above ‘depreciation expense’ is targeted for growth.\u00a0\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Attached is the excel spreadsheet, instructions and a powerpoint simplification guide. Please utilize. The company I have chosen is AT&T. \u00a0 Milestone Project Valuation is due this week.\u00a0\u00a0 This week you are working on your financial projections in the valuations tab of the project spreadsheet template.\u00a0 At first glance, the valuation spreadsheet can appear to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/assignmenttutors.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}