CASES IN FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Cases in Financial Management provides original case studies in corporate finance that are based on actual corporate events, and on the authors' teaching and consulting experiences. Accompanied by sophisticated and detailed proposed solutions, this case book sheds great clarity on the application of financial management and market principles for both students and professionals, including consultants, accountants and attorneys who are advising corporate clients.

Contents:

• Introduction:
  • Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.: Financial Statement Analysis and Risk Assessment (Ivan E Brick and Harvey A Poniachek)
  • Trade Corporation SA (TradeCo) (Michael Samonas)
  • Intel Corporation: Financial Modeling and Capital Funding Decisions (Harvey A Poniachek)
• Cost of Capital:
  • Time Value of Money — Concepts and Applications. A Case Study: The General Motors Company Defined Benefit Pension Plan (Ivan E Brick and Mark W Guthner)
  • Investors Bank and the Capital Asset Pricing Model (Ivan E Brick)
  • Case Study on Cost of Capital (Roger J Grabowski and Todd Fries)
• Capital Budgeting:
  • Vitamin Shoppe Capital Budgeting Case (Ivan E Brick)
  • A Scenario Analysis Case Study of Clavius Electronics Components, Inc. (Main Investment Rules) (Ronald Richter and Arthur S Guarino)
  • ConocoPhillips: Real Options and Capital Budgeting (Harvey A Poniachek)
  • Rutgers University's Pathway to Complete Renewable Electricity Generation (Mark Rodgers and Rosa Oppenheim)
• Valuation of Financial Assets, Projects, and Firms:
  • Microsoft Corporation Notes Offering Valuation (Harvey A Poniachek)
  • PepsiCo, Inc. Stock Valuation (Harvey A Poniachek)
  • Salesforce.Com Inc. Acquisition of Slack Technologies Inc.: Valuation of Firms (Harvey A Poniachek)
  • Celgene Corporation: A Pharmaceutical Case Study in Financial Planning and Analysis (Lisa S Kaplowitz)
• Long-Term Financing:
  • Johnson & Johnson Capital Structure and Funding Decisions (Harvey A Poniachek)
  • Starbucks Coffee Company: A Comprehensive Financial Analysis (Armand Gilinsky, Jr. and Raymond H Lopez)
  • Starbucks: Dividends, Repurchases, or Lattes? (Susan White)
  • Gateway Computers: Financing an Acquisition (Susan White)
  • JetBlue Airways Corporation Aircraft Leasing versus Buying (Ivan E Brick and Harvey A Poniachek)
  • Warrants and Convertibles (Elizabeth Chorvat and Terrence Chorvat)
• Short-Term Finance:
  • Gemini Electronics Company: Principles of Working Capital Management (Ronald Richter and Arthur S Guarino)
  • Gadgets Co: Trade Finance Case Study (Alisa Rusanoff)
• Mergers and Acquisitions:
  • The Takeover of Sterling Drug Company (Ingo Walter)
  • The Acquisition of Bioverativ, Inc. by Sanofi, SA (Harvey A Poniachek)
  • Green Landscape Inc., Leveraged Buyout (LBO) (Chris Droussiotis)
• Corporate Risk Management:
  • Bank of America: Financial Options and Corporate Finance (Harvey A Poniachek)
  • Commodity Risk at Domino's (Susan Hume)
  • Financial Distress and Ch 11 Reorganization ()
  • Apple Takes a Bite Out of Financing Using Interest Rate Swaps (Susan Hume)
  • The Thor Corporation (Anoop Rai)
  • Colgate-Palmolive Company's Risk Management (Harvey A Poniachek)
• Other Corporate Issues:
  • Chapter 11 Case Study: Pacific Drilling, SA (Frank A Oswald, Edward D Wu, and Eitan E Blander)
  • The Essentials of Business Formation and Choice-of-Entity Issues (Jay Soled)
  • Determining Transfer Pricing Profits and Losses (Robert A Feinschreiber and Margaret Kent)
  • FUJIFILM's Management of Research and Development Tax Credit (Peter F De Nicola)

Readership: Students, consultants, accountants and attorneys who are advising corporate clients.

Key Features:

• Many of the cases are based upon actual corporate experience
• Solutions are detailed and generally not simple textbook applications of financial management tools since corporate strategy plays an important role in the answer