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Corporate Finance Midterm
Terms for the first midterm, ECON 134 UCI
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Finance
Undergraduate 3
10/20/2011

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Capital Budgeting
Definition
The process of planning and managing a firm's long-term investments.

Size, timing, and risk of cash flows
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Capital Structure
Definition
The mixture of debt and equity maintained by a firm.
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Working Capital Management
Definition
A firm's short term assets and liabilities.
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Sole proprietorship
Definition
Business owned by one person

Simplest to start, least regulated
Keep all profits
Unlimited liability
Life limited to owner's life span
Limited equity to personal wealth
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Partnership
Definition
A business formed by two or more individuals or entities

Share in gains/losses
Unlimited liability
Easy to form
Income is taxed as personal
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Goal of Financial Management
Definition
the goal of financial management is to maximize the current value per share of the existing stock
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Agency Problem
Definition
The possibility of conflict of interest between the stockholders and management of a firm
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Stakeholder
Definition
Someone other than a stockholder or creditor who potentially has a claim on the cash flows of the firm
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Compounding
Definition
The process of accumulating interest on an investment over time to earn more interset
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Interest on interests
Definition
Interest earned on the reinvestment of previous interest payments
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Compound interest
Definition
Interest earned on both the initial principal and the interest reinvested from prior periods
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Simple interest
Definition
Interest earned only on the original principal amount invested
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Discount rate
Definition
The rate used to calculate the present value of future cash flows
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Annuity
Definition
A level stream of cash flows for a fixed period of time
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Perpetuity
Definition
An annuity in which the cash flows continue forever

PV perpetuity= C/r
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Stated interest rate
Definition
The interest rate expressed in terms of the interest payment made each period (quoted rate)
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Effective Annual Rate (EAR)
Definition
The interest rate expressed as if it were compounded once a year. ALWAYS CONVERT TO EAR to compare different investments.

EAR= [1+ (Quoted rate/m)]^m-1
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Annual Percentage Rate (APR)
Definition
The interest rate charged per period multiplied by the number of periods per year.
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Coupon
Definition
The state interest payment made on a bond
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Coupon
Definition
The stated interest payment made on a bond
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Face value (Par Value)
Definition
The principal amount of a bond that is repaid at the end of the term.
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Coupon rate
Definition
The annual coupon divided by the face value of the bond
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Maturity
Definition
The specified date on which the principal amount of a bond is paid
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Yield to Maturity (YTM)
Definition
The rate required in the market on a bond
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Bond Value
Definition
Present value of the coupons + Present value of the face amount
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Interest Rate Risk
Definition
Interest rates rise, bond value goes down

Longer Maturity, greater the interest rate risk
Lower the coupon, the greater the interest rate risk
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Current Yield
Definition
A bond's annual coupon divided by its price
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Call provision
Definition
An agreement giving the corporation the option to repurchase a bond at a specified price prior to maturity
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Call premium
Definition
The amount by which the call price exceeds the par value of a bond
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Zero coupon bond
Definition
A bond that makes no coupon payments and is thus initially priced at a deep discount

PF Face = F/(1+r)^t
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Higher rating lowest yield
Definition
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Bond indenture
Definition
3 party contract between issuer...
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Current yield
Definition
C/price
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Why discount
Definition
coupon < current yield = discount
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Fisher Effect
Definition
(1+R)=(1+r)(1+n) The relationship between nominal returns, real returns, and inflation
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Term Structure
Definition
Relationship between maturity and yield
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