TO: FROM: DATE: SUBJECT: Mr. Hathaway Browne, CFO of Flash Memory Inc. MP.JAW Consultants October 11, 2010 Analysis of the Investment Opportunity and Financing Options ! As your financial consultants, we have conducted a comprehensive analysis of Flash Memory Inc. (FMI)’s current business situation, its new potential investment opportunity, and financing options. Our recommendations are as follows: 1. Pursue the suggested new product line. 2. Seek additional funding through equity financing and reinvestment of earnings. We proceed to present our findings, analyses, and rationales behind these recommendations. Current Business Environment FMI is a small private firm specializing in manufacturing “solid state drives” (SSDs), a …show more content…
The present value of the net incremental cash flows, totaling $5,740K, is added to the present value of the Capital Cost Allowance (CCA) tax shield, provided by the Plant and Equipment of $599K, to arrive at the project’s NPV of $6,339K. (Please refer to Exhibit 4 and 5 for assumptions and detailed NPV calculations.) This high positive NPV means that the project will add a significant amount of value to FMI. In addition, using the incremental cash flows (excluding CCA) generated by the NPV calculation, we calculated the project’s IRR to be 28%. This means that the project will generate a higher rate of return than the company’s cost of capital of 10.05%. This is also a positive indication that the company should undertake the project. Impact of New Investment on Forecasted Financial Statements Given our recommendation to accept the new investment opportunity, this project will impact the forecasted financial statements from 2010 onwards. Please refer to Exhibits 6 and 7 for the revised projections. 3 In the revised income statement, projected net income after taxes would significantly increase from $3,963K to $4,651K in 2011, and from $3,818K to $4,716K in 2012. This is predominantly driven by the sales growth of $21.6 million in 2011 and $28 million in 2012. Without this project, net income would have otherwise peaked in 2011 and decline in subsequent years. Thus, this investment
1) HPL has performed exceptionally well since inception in 1992. Financial statements show that operating revenues have increased from $503.4M in 2003 to $680.7M in 2007. During this time, gross operating profit increased by $24.3M. This illustrates that the company is not sacrificing profits for top level growth. Capital replenishment matches or
“Financial Statements…provide key information for internal and external decision making.” (Horgren, et al., 2015). Through analysis of the financial information of both JB Hi-Fi and Dicksmith, I have found that investing within JB Hi-fi would be a more profitable and beneficial for shareholders. Moreover not only does JB hi-fi’s financial information (Appendix 1) show that return on Shareholder’s equity is close to 48% of each dollar
This memorandum is submitted to you in regards to the current status of Sprint Corporation for investment purposes. The memorandum will detail: a history of the company, their financial difficulties, a SWOT analysis, possible solutions for the failing company, and prediction for the future state of the company.
In society today, it is very important that organizations take the proper measures when dealing with finances within an organization. Often an area within an organization that can be confusing however, financial statements, reports and analysis truly serve their purpose if used correctly. In developing an analysis of these three investments using the NPV to determine which of these I should recommend my private investment company to choose, all of the cash flows to generate At the end of the day it really boils down to the kind of risk the organization
Assuming the company does not invest in the new product line; prepare forecasted income statements and balance sheets at year-end 2010, 2011, and 2012. Based on these forecasts, estimate Flash's required external financing: in this case all required external financing takes the form of additional notes payable from its commercial bank, for the same period.
A flashbulb memory is a detailed and vivid memory that is based on a true life event and lasts for a lifetime. Usually, such memories are associated with important historical or autobiographical events.
A complete analysis was conducted on the financial statements and status of Sun Microsystems. After examining the research findings and analysis it is fair to say that evidence determines that Sun Microsystems finances has not been on a steady incline. In fact, it had definitely experienced some highs and lows in its return on investment and stockholders? In order to get a concise understanding of where problems are within the company’s operations the following factors were considered and examined: the annual percentage change in net income per common share diluted, net income/net revenues, the major income statement accounts to net revenues, return on stockholders? In order for Sun Microsystems to see a greater return in its bottom line
The cognitive level of analysis evaluates and studies the mental structures and processes involved in behaviors. For example, memory or perception. These various behaviors are knows as cognitive processes. We will evaluate what role emotion plays in a specific cognitive process and how it could possibly affect and influence them. In this essay, we will investigate how emotion can affect memory in reference the the “Flashbulb Memory” theory of Brown and Kulik that was done in 1977. This theory and many others were developed after Freud’s hypothesis that only therapy can resurface disturbing memories that create painful emotions. Another example of a study that was done based off of Freud’s theory is the Levinger and Clark study in 1961.
From 2000 to 2001 (exhibit 2), RIM’s revenue grew 160% from $85 million to $221 million. RIM has an extremely strong balance sheet after completing a follow-on equity offering in November 2000 that raised $ 590 million. Therefore, RIM has very strong financial assets for financing their growing opportunities. In term of one single item on balance sheet, RIM has $50.8 million liquid asset to finance any small valued opportunities, and the sales of new equity indicates the investors’ confidence towards RIM.
As sales of Flash Memory Inc. (Flash) increases rapidly in the first few months of 2010, additional working capital is required to ensure smooth operations and maintain their current growth rate. However, Flash currently has almost reached its notes payable limit of 70% accounts receivables with its current commercial bank and thus, need to look for various alternative financing means to provide the required amount of funds it needs to finance its forecasted sales for year 2010 onwards. This report is written to provide an insight to Flash’s financial position for the following 3 years (2010 till 2012) through the use of pro-forma income statement and balance sheet. For Flash to be able to keep up with the
Introduction The purpose of this analysis is to make a determination about a project that the PowerCo is considering. The project runs for twelve years. The discount rate is 8%. There are costs for the first two years and then there are net positive cash flows for the subsequent ten years. A net present value calculation will be used in order to determine if the company should undertake this project or not. The present value calculations will be done according to this formula:
In this first experiment, it seems to show a solid validity. Since ecological validity is defined as the conclusions that are analyzed in the research study that can be generalized to certain settings and situations for whatever is being studied where it would naturally occur. Since this was studying random people on the street the ecological validity would be pretty high considering that you can generalize the research findings of the study to a real-life situations-which this study demonstrates.
There are a few things I would like to say about the construction project. The project is expected to maximize firm value if it has incremental cash flows above zero. If we are using the modified internal rate of return (MIRR) technique, this means that the MIRR should be above the cost of capital. As we can see from the spreadsheet, the MIRR is 18%. This means that the project is going to return that. The cost of capital should be the rate of return on our existing business. The way we maximize firm value is to undertake projects that offer a better return than our existing business.
The NPV and IRR of this project, through the year 2009, are summarized in the following chart. Because the project has a positive net present value, it should be accepted. This is because any project that has a positive net present value is said to add value to the firm, and management should pursue projects that add to the value of the firm.
Overall, the ranking lists shown that the project of Strategic Acquisition should be accept by the board directors, because it has a highest IRR and NPV, the second high Profitability Index and 5 years payback, although the initial investment is really big but still the return is worse to do. The total investment of this project will be EUR55 million. The second recommend project will be the project of Southward Expansion. This project has a high IRR and NPV, the initial investment is EUR30 million, it is the 3rd in the ranking list of Project Spending and it is the 2nd in the ranking list of Project Net Cash Flow about EUR56.25 million, The payback is 5 years too. Because the project of Effuent-Water Treatment at Four Plants is highly recommend so right now we have total capital budget EUR91 million. Based on all the ranking list, the project of the Artificial Sweetener will be the last recommendation for the new year capital budget. This project has the 3rd highest IRR and NPV, the return is the 4th in the list about EUR42.75 million and payback is also 5 years. They expenditure for this project is EUR27 million. So the total budget will be EUR118 million include Strategic Acquisition, Southward Expansion, Artificial Sweetener and Effuent-Water Treatment at Four Plants.