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A
Abandonment option, 383–384
Abercrombie & Fitch, 533
Accounting income vs. cash
! ow, 365
Accounting standards, global, 97
Accounts payable, 493–495
Accounts receivable, 490–493
modifying, 524
Accruals, 500
Accrued liabilities, 500
Actual (realized) rate of return
(rˉ), 276
Additional funds needed
(AFN), 514
Add-on interest, 498
AFLAC, 534
AFN equation, 514–518
After-tax cost of debt, rd(1 – T), 311
Agency theory, 18
Aggressive approach, 476
Aging schedule, 493
Airbus, 335, 355
Allied Components Company, 362
Allied Food Products, 69, 87, 105,
108, 195, 197, 256, 279, 289,
307–309, 316, 394, 473, 482–485,
492, 493, 512–525
balance sheet, 58
summary of ratios, 104
Allocation, capital, 28–29
Alternative estimates, averaging
the, 317
Alternative minimum tax
(AMT), 72
Amazon.com, 270
American Depository Receipts
(ADRs), 554
American Development
Corporation (ADC), 460
American Stock Exchange, 38
American terms, 543
Amortization, 63
Amortization schedule, 152
Amortized loan, 151–152
Annual compounding, 146–148
Annual depreciation rates, 397
Annual percentage rate
(APR), 148
Annual report, 55
Annuity, 134–135
Annuity due, 135
future rate of, 137
Annuity payments (PMT),
" nding, 139
Apple Computer, 9, 10, 60, 270,
287, 368
Appreciation of currency, 541, 551
Arbitrage, 546
Ask price, 40
Asset-based " nancing, 500
Asset management ratios, 89–92
Assets, opportunity costs
association with, 367
Asymmetric information, 423
AT&T, 16, 19
Atlantic Rich" eld, 460
Auction rate securities (ARS), 173
Average collection period
(ACP), 479
Average stock’s beta, 245
Average tax rate, 70
B
Balance sheet, 57–61
Allied Food, 58
forecasted, 519
Bank,
commercial, 34
investment, 34
Bank loans, 495–499
cost of, 497
Bank of America, 34, 36
Bankruptcy,
and reorganization, 219
effect on capital structure, 421
Base-case NPV, 376
Base-case scenario, 378
Basic earning power (BEP)
ratio, 98
Before-tax cost of debt, 310
Behavioral " nance theory, 49
Behavioral " nance, 49
Benchmarking, 105–106
Best Buy Company, 472, 488
Best-case scenario, 378
Beta and CAPM, concerns
about, 257
Beta coef" cient, 245
Beta coef" cient, changes in, 256
Beta risk, within-" rm
and, 381–382
Bid-ask spread, 40
Bid price, 40
Billingham Corporation, 215
Bird-in-the-hand fallacy, 443
Boeing, 335, 355
Bond(s), 195
and valuation, 194
bankruptcy and
reorganization, 219
characteristics of, 196–200
issuers, 195–196
other features, 199–200
risk in market, 194
with semiannual
coupons, 209–210
Bond markets, 220
Bond ratings, 215
changes in, 218
criteria for, 216
importance of, 217
Bond riskiness, assessing, 210–214
Bond valuation, 200–203
Bond values, changes over time,
206–209
Bond yields, 203–205
Bondholders vs. stockholders, 20
Bond-yield-plus-risk-premium
approach, 315
Budgeting methods, conclusions,
355–356
Business
activity, 185
climate, 557
decisions, interest rates and,
185–187
ethics, 15–18
company behavior, 15
unethical behavior, 16
organization, forms of, 6–8
risk, 402, 403 –413
trends, important, 14
C
Call provision, 198
Campus Deli Inc., 435
Cannibalization, 367, 371
Capital,
alternative sources of, 456
external, cost of raising, 319
increased cost of, 318
Capital allocation process, 28–29
Capital asset pricing model
(CAPM), 240
Capital budget, optimal, 385
Capital budgeting, 336
Asian/Paci" c region, 380
basics of, 335
competition in aircraft
industry, 335
decision criteria, 356
international, 556–558
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