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Preface xix
PART 1 THE COMPANY AND ITS PART 3 STOCKS AND OPTIONS 239
ENVIRONMENT 1
CHAPTER 6 Risk and Return 241
CHAPTER 1 An Overview of Financial Web Extensions 6A: Continuous Probability
Management and the Financial Distributions
Environment 3
Web Extensions 6B: Estimating Beta with a Financial
1A: An Overview of Derivatives
Web Extensions Calculator
CHAPTER 2 Financial Statements, Cash Flow,
CHAPTER 7 Corporate Valuation and Stock
and Taxes 57
Valuation 293
Web Extension 2A: The Federal Income Tax System for
Web Extension 7A: Derivation of Valuation
Individuals
Equations
CHAPTER 3 Analysis of Financial
CHAPTER 8 Financial Options and Applications
Statements 101
in Corporate Finance 343
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CHAPTER 12 Corporate Valuation and Financial Web Extensions 20A: Calling Convertible Issues
Planning 503
CHAPTER 13 Corporate Governance 541
PART 9 STRATEGIC FINANCE IN
A DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENT 847
PART 6 CASH DISTRIBUTIONS AND CHAPTER 21 Dynamic Capital Structures and
CAPITAL STRUCTURE 563 Corporate Valuation 849
CHAPTER 14 Distributions to Shareholders: Web Extensions 21A: Projecting Consistent Debt and
Dividends and Repurchases 565 Interest Expenses
CHAPTER 22 Mergers and Corporate
CHAPTER 15 Capital Structure Decisions 607
Control 873
Web Extension 15A: Degree of Leverage
CHAPTER 23 Enterprise Risk
Web Extension 15B: Capital Structure Theory: Management 911
Arbitrage Proofs of the Modigliani-
CHAPTER 24 Bankruptcy, Reorganization, and
Miller Theorems
Liquidation 947
Web Extensions 24A: Multiple Discriminant
PART 7 MANAGING GLOBAL Analysis
OPERATIONS 653
PART 10 SPECIAL TOPICS 979
CHAPTER 16 Supply Chains and Working
Capital Management 655 CHAPTER 25 Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing
Web Extension 16A: Secured Short-Term Financing Models 981
CHAPTER 17 Multinational Financial CHAPTER 26 Real Options 1015
Management 705 Web Extensions 26A: The Abandonment Real
Option
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Asset Management Ratios 106 Finding Annuity Payments, Periods, and Interest
Debt Management Ratios 109 Rates 162
Box: The Great Recession of 2007: The Price Is Box: Variable Annuities: Good or Bad? 163
Right! (Or Wrong!) 110 Box: Using the Internet for Personal Financial
Profitability Ratios 114 Planning 164
Box: The World Might Be Flat, but Global Uneven, or Irregular, Cash Flows 165
Accounting Is Bumpy! The Case of IFRS versus Future Value of an Uneven Cash Flow Stream 168
FASB 115 Solving for I with Irregular Cash Flows 169
Market Value Ratios 116 Semiannual and Other Compounding Periods 170
Trend Analysis, Common Size Analysis, and Box: Truth in Lending: What Loans Really Cost 173
Percentage Change Analysis 120 Fractional Time Periods 174
Tying the Ratios Together: The DuPont Amortized Loans 175
Equation 123
Box: What You Know Is What You Get: Not in
Comparative Ratios and Benchmarking 124 Payday Lending 176
Uses and Limitations of Ratio Analysis 125 Growing Annuities 178
Box: Ratio Analysis on the Web 126
Box: The Great Recession of 2007: An Accident
Looking Beyond the Numbers 126 Waiting to Happen: Option Reset Adjustable Rate
Summary 127 Mortgages 179
Summary 181
Web Extensions
PART 2 FIXED INCOME SECURITIES 137 4A: The Tabular Approach
4B: Derivation of Annuity Formulas
CHAPTER 4 4C: Continuous Compounding
Time Value of Money 139
Box: Corporate Valuation and the Time Value of
Money 140 CHAPTER 5
Bonds, Bond Valuation, and Interest
Time Lines 140
Rates 193
Future Values 141
Box: Intrinsic Value and the Cost of Debt 194
Box: Hints on Using Financial Calculators 145
Who Issues Bonds? 194
Present Values 149
Box: Betting With or Against the U.S.
Box: It s a Matter of Trust 150 Government: The Case of Treasury Bond Credit
Finding the Interest Rate, I 153 Default Swaps 196
Finding the Number of Years, N 154 Key Characteristics of Bonds 196
Perpetuities 154 Bond Valuation 200
Annuities 155 Changes in Bond Values Over Time 205
Future Value of an Ordinary Annuity 156 Box: Chocolate Bonds 208
Box: The Power of Compound Interest 159 Bonds with Semiannual Coupons 208
Future Value of an Annuity Due 159 Bond Yields 209
Present Value of Ordinary Annuities and Annuities The Pre-Tax Cost of Debt: Determinants of Market
Due 160 Interest Rates 212
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The Risk-Free Interest Rate: Nominal (rRF) and Box: The Benefits of Diversifying Overseas 263
Real (r *) 213 The Relationship between Risk and Return in the
The Inflation Premium (IP) 214 Capital Asset Pricing Model 263
The Maturity Risk Premium (MRP) 216 Box: Another Kind of Risk: The Bernie Madoff
The Default Risk Premium (DRP) 219 Story 271
Box: Insuring with Credit Default Swaps: Let the The Efficient Markets Hypothesis 272
Buyer Beware! 221 The Fama-French Three-Factor Model 276
Box: The Great Recession of 2007: U.S. Treasury Behavioral Finance 280
Bonds Downgraded! 223 The CAPM and Market Efficiency: Implications for
Box: The Few, the Proud, the AAA-Rated Corporate Managers and Investors 282
Companies! 225 Summary 283
The Liquidity Premium (LP) 225 Web Extensions
Box: The Great Recession of 2007: Fear and 6A: Continuous Probability Distributions
Rationality 226
6B: Estimating Beta with a Financial Calculator
The Term Structure of Interest Rates 226
Financing with Junk Bonds 228
Bankruptcy and Reorganization 228 CHAPTER 7
Corporate Valuation and Stock
Summary 229
Valuation 293
Web Extensions
Box: Corporate Valuation and Stock Prices 294
5A: A Closer Look at Zero Coupon and Other OID
Bonds Legal Rights and Privileges of Common
5B: A Closer Look at TIPS: Treasury Inflation- Stockholders 294
Protected Securities Types of Common Stock 295
5C: A Closer Look at Bond Risk: Duration Stock Market Reporting 296
5D: The Pure Expectations Theory and Valuing Common Stocks—Introducing the Free
Estimation of Forward Rates Cash Flow (FCF) Valuation Model 297
The Constant Growth Model: Valuation When
PART 3 STOCKS AND OPTIONS 239 Expected Free Cash Flow Grows at a Constant
Rate 300
CHAPTER 6
Risk and Return 241 The Multistage Model: Valuation when Expected
Short-Term Free Cash Flow Grows at a
Box: Intrinsic Value, Risk, and Return 242
Nonconstant Rate 305
Investment Returns and Risk 242
Application of the FCF Valuation Model to
Measuring Risk for Discrete Distributions 243 MicroDrive 309
Risk in a Continuous Distribution 247 Do Stock Values Reflect Long-Term or Short-Term
Box: What Does Risk Really Mean? 249 Cash Flows? 315
Using Historical Data to Estimate Risk 249 Value-Based Management: Using the Free Cash Flow
Box: The Historic Trade-Off between Risk and Valuation Model to Identify Value Drivers 316
Return 252 Why Are Stock Prices So Volatile? 319
Risk in a Portfolio Context 252 Valuing Common Stocks with the Dividend
The Relevant Risk of a Stock: The Capital Asset Growth Model 320
Pricing Model (CAPM) 256 The Market Multiple Method 328
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Comparing the FCF Valuation Model, the Box: How Effective Is the Effective Corporate Tax
Dividend Growth Model, and the Market Rate? 382
Multiple Method 329 Cost of Preferred Stock, rps 384
Preferred Stock 330 Cost of Common Stock: The Market Risk
Summary 331 Premium, RPM 384
Web Extensions Using the CAPM to Estimate the Cost of Common
7A: Derivation of Valuation Equations Stock, rs 388
Using the Dividend Growth Approach to Estimate
CHAPTER 8 the Cost of Common Stock 390
Financial Options and Applications in
The Weighted Average Cost of Capital
Corporate Finance 343 (WACC) 393
Box: The Intrinsic Value of Stock Options 344 Box: Global Variations in the Cost of Capital 395
Overview of Financial Options 344 Adjusting the Cost of Equity for Flotation
The Single-Period Binomial Option Pricing Costs 395
Approach 347 Privately Owned Firms and Small Businesses 397
Box: Financial Reporting for Employee Stock The Divisional Cost of Capital 398
Options 348
Estimating the Cost of Capital for Individual
The Single-Period Binomial Option Pricing Projects 401
Formula 353
Managerial Issues and the Cost of Capital 402
The Multi-Period Binomial Option Pricing
Summary 404
Model 355
The Black-Scholes Option Pricing Model Web Extensions
(OPM) 357 9A: The Required Return Assuming Nonconstant
Dividends and Stock Repurchases
Box: Taxes and Stock Options 362
The Valuation of Put Options 363
CHAPTER 10
Applications of Option Pricing in Corporate The Basics of Capital Budgeting:
Finance 365
Evaluating Cash Flows 413
Summary 367
Box: Corporate Valuation and Capital
Budgeting 414
PART 4 PROJECTS AND THEIR An Overview of Capital Budgeting 414
VALUATION 373 The First Step in Project Analysis 416
Net Present Value (NPV) 417
CHAPTER 9 Internal Rate of Return (IRR) 419
The Cost of Capital 375 Modified Internal Rate of Return (MIRR) 426
Box: Corporate Valuation and the Cost of
Profitability Index (PI) 429
Capital 376
Payback Period 430
The Weighted Average Cost of Capital 376
How to Use the Different Capital Budgeting
Choosing Weights for the Weighted Average Cost Methods 432
of Capital 378
Other Issues in Capital Budgeting 435
After-Tax Cost of Debt: rd 1 T and
rstd 1 T 379 Summary 441
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The Pros and Cons of Dividends and Overview of Supply Chain Management 656
Repurchases 590 Using and Financing Operating Current Assets 658
Box: Dividend Yields around the World 592 The Cash Conversion Cycle 662
Other Factors Influencing Distributions 592 Box: Some Firms Operate with Negative Working
Summarizing the Distribution Policy Decision 594 Capital! 667
Stock Splits and Stock Dividends 595 Inventory Management 668
Box: The Great Recession of 2007: Talk About a Receivables Management 669
Split Personality! 596 Box: Supply Chain Finance 671
Dividend Reinvestment Plans 598 Accruals and Accounts Payable (Trade Credit) 673
Summary 599 Box: A Wag of the Finger or Tip of the Hat? The
Colbert Report and Small Business Payment
CHAPTER 15 Terms 674
Capital Structure Decisions 607
The Cash Budget 677
Box: Corporate Valuation and Capital
Structure 608
Cash Management and the Target Cash
Balance 681
An Overview of Capital Structure 608
Box: Use It or Lose Part of It: Cash Can Be
Business Risk and Financial Risk 610
Costly! 682
Capital Structure Theory: The Modigliani and
Miller Models 614 Cash Management Techniques 682
Box: Yogi Berra on the MM Proposition 616 Managing Short-Term Investments 685
Capital Structure Theory: Beyond the Modigliani Box: Your Check Isn t in the Mail 686
and Miller Models 618 Short-Term Financing 687
Capital Structure Evidence and Implications 623 Short-Term Bank Loans 688
Estimating the Optimal Capital Structure 628 Commercial Paper 692
Anatomy of a Recapitalization 634 Use of Security in Short-Term Financing 692
Box: The Great Recession of 2007: Summary 693
Deleveraging 639
Web Extensions
Risky Debt and Equity as an Option 639
16A: Secured Short-Term Financing
Managing the Maturity Structure of Debt 642
Summary 645
CHAPTER 17
Web Extensions Multinational Financial Management 705
15A: Degree of Leverage
Box: Corporate Valuation in a Global Context 706
15B: Capital Structure Theory: Arbitrage Proofs
of the Modigliani-Miller Theorems Multinational, or Global, Corporations 706
Multinational versus Domestic Financial
PART 7 MANAGING GLOBAL Management 707
OPERATIONS 653 Exchange Rates 709
Exchange Rates and International Trade 714
CHAPTER 16
Supply Chains and Working Capital The International Monetary System and Exchange
Management 655 Rate Policies 715
Box: Corporate Valuation and Working Capital
Trading in Foreign Exchange 720
Management 656 Interest Rate Parity 722
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Other Motivations for Bankruptcy 968 The Growth Option: An Illustration 1027
Some Criticisms of Bankruptcy Laws 969 Concluding Thoughts on Real Options 1033
Summary 970 Summary 1034
Web Extensions Web Extensions
24A: Multiple Discriminant Analysis 26A: The Abandonment Real Option
26B: Risk-Neutral Valuation
PART 10 SPECIAL TOPICS 979
CHAPTER 25 APPENDIXES
Portfolio Theory and Asset Pricing
Appendix a Solutions to Self-Test Problems 1041
Models 981
Appendix b Answers to End-of-Chapter
Box: Intrinsic Value, Risk, and Return 982
Problems 1075
Efficient Portfolios 982 Appendix c Selected Equations 1085
Choosing the Optimal Portfolio 987 Appendix d Values of the Areas under the Standard
The Basic Assumptions of the Capital Asset Pricing Normal Distribution Function 1099
Model 990
The Capital Market Line and the Security Market
Line 991 GLOSSARY AND INDEXES
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locate the station with which he is to communicate, and signals by
means of the push button key. It is essential that the lamp be held
rigidly and the sighting tube be continuously aimed exactly at the
receiving station during signaling. A slight movement of the lamp
makes the signals appear blurred or entirely invisible to the receiving
station. A lamp station should always be located in the shade or
protected from direct sun rays, which would otherwise produce a
continuous glare from the reflector and make the electric light signals
invisible. A lamp may be held in the hand while signaling or fastened
to anything that will aid stability. In permanent and semi-permanent
stations an arrangement for holding the lamp in a fixed position,
directed at the receiving station, should be installed. In addition, a
wooden tube tapering down in size toward the outer end and being 6
ft. to 9 ft. long and approximately the size of the lamp at the inner
end, should be constructed and also permanently aligned on the
receiving station. This reduces the diffusion of the rays of the lamp,
and also minimizes the possibility of the signals being read where
not intended.
Adjustments of Lamps.—The reflecting apparatus of a lamp is
carefully adjusted before it is issued. However, it is possible that a
slightly different adjustment will give better results when a new bulb
is inserted. To focus the lamp the light is flashed on some dark
background, such as wall a few yards away, and the screws
supporting the parabolic mirror carefully turned until the light
becomes concentrated in the smallest possible circle. The
adjustment screws are then tightened, but they should never be set
tight. If the receiving operator is having trouble in receiving signals,
he will inform the sending station by sending a series of dots. The
sending operator will then examine his apparatus to see if the lamp
is properly directed at the receiving station, if the reflector is out of
focus, or if the battery has become weak. The receiving operator
indicates the manner in which he is receiving the signals by the
method in which he sends the dots. If the signals become worse, the
dots are made more rapidly. As the adjustment becomes better, the
dots are made more slowly. When a good readable adjustment has
been obtained, he will signal BR, meaning “go ahead.”
PRECAUTIONS IN LAMP SIGNALING.
Don’t leave the lamp cover open when not in use.
Don’t forget to open it when you start to transmit.
Don’t touch the mirror. If necessary, it should be cleaned by wiping
with gauze or cotton or wiped with clean water.
Don’t pull the wire cable fastened to the bottom of the lamp when
removing from the box.
Don’t return broken or burned-out globes to the pouch, but throw
them away unless ordered to turn them in. Don’t use the lamp for
illuminating purposes.
Don’t neglect to keep a constant watch on the stations with which
you are supposed to communicate.
Classification of Fireworks.
The fireworks now being used by the American Army are divided
into the following classes:
1. Very Pistol cartridges.
2. VB cartridges (commonly called “Tromblons”).
3. Rockets.
4. Flares.
The complete directions for firing these various fireworks are
generally attached to the container or box in which they are packed.
They are fully discussed in Annex 14, Translation of the 1917
“Instruction on Liaison for Troops of all Arms, A. E. F.”
The Very pistol cartridges are made in two sizes, a 25-mm size,
which is issued to the companies of infantry, and a 35-mm size,
which is used by the airplanes. These Very pistols fire both signal
and illuminating cartridges.
2. VB Cartridges.
3. Rockets.
4. Flares.
Flares are used only in the front lines to mark the position of the
advanced troops when called for by an airplane.
Radio Equipment.
The Radio receiving sets, type SCR-53 and SCR-54-A form the
standard units for the reception on the ground of signals from
airplanes, and in general, of all damped wave signals or modulated
wave signals. The use for these sets may perhaps be said to be that
in connection with the work of the fire control airplanes in directing
the fire of the artillery. But in addition, they are used for so many
other classes of radio work, that they may indeed be considered
among the most important radio sets.
The type SCR-54 set is very similar to the French type A-1
receiving set. The SCR 54-A set is an improved American product,
designed along the same general lines as the type SCR-54 but
differing in some respects, both mechanical and electrical, to
improve the operating characteristics. The type A-2 and A-2-B
antennae are fully described in Radio Pamphlet No. 2. With their use
the receiving sets have a wave length range of approximately from
150 to 650 meters. If properly operated, they afford quite sharp
tuning. This feature and their compact, rugged and simple
construction have made them of very considerable value on the
Western Front.
As shown in the wiring diagram, Fig. 1, the type SCR-54A
receiving set comprises a primary (antenna) circuit and a secondary
circuit, both of which may be tuned by means of the variable
capacitance and variable inductance comprised in both circuits. The
secondary circuit may also be made aperiodic by placing the switch
M on the position marked “AP.” This connects the condenser in or
disconnects it from the circuit. A separate buzzer circuit is installed in
the cover of the box to excite the set when adjusting the crystal
detector.
The adjustable capacitance in each circuit is a variable air
condenser which is adjusted by means of an insulating handle,
marked “Primary” or “Secondary,” mounted directly on the rotating
shaft of the condenser. The relative amount of capacitance in the
circuit, corresponding to the various positions of these handles, is
indicated by a pointer fastened to the shaft, which moves over a dial
graduated from 0 to 90. The position 0 corresponds to the minimum
and the position 90 to the maximum capacitance of the condenser.
The two condensers are identical in design, and have a maximum
capacitance of 500 micro-mfd.
The primary and secondary inductances are varied by means of
two dial switches marked “P” and “S,” respectively. The primary
inductance comprises 60 turns of wire divided into six steps of 10
turns each, while the secondary inductance comprises 60 turns
divided into four steps of 15 turns each. These two inductance coils
are wound on separate wooden cylinders so arranged that their
relative positions may be readily varied. The coupling of the two
circuits, which is accomplished by the mutual induction effect of
these two coils, is varied by changing the relative mechanical
positions of the coils. The secondary coil may be rotated by means
of a handle marked “Coupling,” and a pointer moving over a scale
graduated from 0 to 90 indicates its position. When in the 0 position
the axes of the two coils are at right angles to each other, and the
degree of coupling is 0. When in the position “90” the axes are
parallel, and the coupling is a maximum.
The telephone and detector circuit shunts the secondary
condenser. This circuit consists of a crystal detector connected in
series with the telephone receiver which are shunted by so-called
stopping condensers. The latter is a .002 mfd. mica condenser. Two
crystal detectors are furnished with a set; one of them is enclosed in
a glass tube, which protects the crystal from dust or dirt. The other is
open, having no such protecting casing. Either one may be used by
screwing it to the two binding posts of the set marked “Detector.”
The buzzer is mounted in a compartment of set box cover, and
consists of a small buzzer connected in series with a dry battery type
BA-4, and a switch. The buzzer is energized when this switch is
closed. A spare dry for the buzzer, a screwdriver, the enclosed
detector, some spare wire and spare crystals are normally stored in
compartments or metal clips in the cover. Two type P-11 telephone
head sets are kept in a special compartment in the box. This set box
when closed may be carried by a leather strap attached to it.
Method of Operating.
The first step in putting the set in operating condition is to select a
suitable place and set up the antenna. The set box is then installed
in a dry and protected place, and the arial and ground (or
counterpoise) leads are connected to their respective terminals on
the operating panel, and the telephone head set plugged into the
jack with the installation thus completed the first step is to adjust the
crystal detector. To do this, place the “Coupling” handle near the
maximum position, and connect the short piece of wire from the
terminal clip in the buzzer circuit to the “Antenna” or “Ground”
terminal of the operating panel. Close the buzzer switch to energize
the buzzer, and carefully explore the surface of the crystal with the
spring contact point until a sensitive spot is found, as evidenced by a
good audible sound in the telephone receiver. The short wire running
from the buzzer to the panel is then removed and the buzzer
stopped by opening the buzzer switch. Care should be taken not to
disturb the crystal adjustment by mechanical vibration or shock. This
adjustment is very delicate, and if destroyed, it must be restored
before any signals can be received. With the crystal adjusted, the set
is then ready for tuning. The procedure varies somewhat according
to whether the wave length of the station it is desired to receive is
known or not.
(a) Wave Lengths of Signals Unknown.—The switch M in the
center of the panel is thrown to the position “AP” (aperiodic). This
disconnects the secondary condenser, and makes the secondary
circuit responsive to signals of any wave length. The coupling is
made a maximum, and the secondary inductance dial switch S
placed at the position “60.” The primary inductance switch P is then
placed successively at the positions marked 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 and
60, and, at each point, the handle of the primary condenser is slowly
turned over its full range, until the loudest signals are obtained in the
telephone. The station is then identified by its call letters, and if it is
the station desired, tuning of the set is completed as explained
below. It may happen however, that in this search for signals, several
stations are heard, simultaneously or for different positions of the
handles. The process of searching is kept up until the desired
station, as identified by its call letters, is heard with the greatest
intensity.
The coupling pointer is then moved toward the minimum position,
so that the signals will be just loud enough to be easily read. The
switch M is placed in the position T (tune), which connects the
secondary condenser in the secondary circuit. The secondary circuit
is then tuned by operating the secondary inductance dial switch S
and the secondary in the same way that was followed in tuning the
primary. The secondary circuit is in tune when the signals are heard
loudest. The set is then ready for operation.
If necessary, the strength of the signals may be increased by
increasing the coupling, but this should not be done unless the signal
become too faint to be read, since increasing the coupling increases
the likelihood of interference by other sending stations. When the
coupling is changed, some slight adjustments of the primary and
secondary condensers will be found to improve the signals.
(b) Wave lengths of Signals Known.—When the receiving
operator has been advised of the wave length of the signals he is to
pick up, the process of tuning in is somewhat facilitated by the use of
the table of wave lengths which is pasted in the cover of the box.
The primary circuit of the set is first tuned, as explained above,
with the switch on “AP,” the secondary inductance on “60” and with
maximum coupling. After the signals have been identified and the
primary has been tuned to give maximum loudness, the coupling is
reduced as before and the switch M moved to T. The secondary
inductance setting to be used is then given in the table. Thus, for a
wave length of 280 meters, the setting may be 30 or 45. It is best to
use the higher value 45. The final secondary adjustment is then
made as before by means of the secondary condenser.