Corporate Finance & Investments, Issues Prevailing In India at Present
Dr. Rahul Pandey
Abstract:
The subject of corporate finance has assumed tremendous significance in the light of the ongoing economic uncertainty across the world. Apart from the three most important decisions of fund raising, fund deployment and generation of returns, greater emphasis has been laid down upon creating a long term value through Economic value addition (EVA). The role of assets in generation of cash flows has become even more pronounced in modern day changing dynamics. More than the external factors, India has certain homegrown structural problems which seriously needs to be addressed at this point in time; the prominent ones being ensuring a high ICOR and addressing the supply side bottlenecks in the economy. Indian companies will have to address the financial problems in the light of the current macroeconomic turmoil of high inflation and revised growth projection of 5%. This has to be done despite having a sound corporate financial framework. This paper attempts to address these problems and tries to suggest some solution to overcome the period of uncertainty
Introduction to Corporate Finance:
Corporate finance, as a specialized branch of Finance deals mainly with making three crucial decisions by the firm. They are:
1) Raising of funds from the various available sources of finance (from domestic and international markets) at the minimum possible cost of capital
2) Investment of the
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* It is important for the decisions taken in the company, investment decisions and financing decisions.
Corporate finance is important to all managers because it provides managers the skills needed to identify and select the corporate strategies and individual projects that add value to their firm and forecast the funding requirements of their company and devise strategies for acquiring those funds.
This step involves short and long term debt equity analysis. The proportion of equity capital depends on the possessing and additional funds will be raised. The choice of the source of funds the company has are the issue of shares and debentures, loans to be taken from banks and financial institutions and public deposits to be drawn in form of bonds. The choice will depend on relative merits and demerits of each source and period of financing. The management of the investment funds is key in allocating that the funds are going in the correct place. The profits that are made can be down in two ways dividend declaration which includes identifying the rate of dividends and retained profits in which the volume has to be decided which will depend upon expansion and diversification of the company. The management of cash is another important function. Cash is needed for all different aspects of the company such as payment of salaries, overhead and bills. All of these are important in a company and how successful the financial aspect is going to be.The financial management practices include capital structure decision, investment appraisal techniques, dividend policy, working capital management and financial performance assessment. A company needs to have well financial in order to be successful. “A company that sells well but has poor financial management can fail.” (Johnston)
We are providing below the assumptions and other calculations we used while computing the WACC and the cash flows.
Corporate finance is important to all managers because it allows a manager to be able to predict the funds the company will need for their upcoming projects and think about ways to organize and acquire those funds.
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Finally, in order to complete a more accurate comparison between the two projects, we utilized the EANPV as the deciding factor. Under current accepted financial practice, NPV is generally considered the most accurate method of predicting the performance of a potential project. The duration of the projects is different, one lasts four years and one lasts six years. To account for the variation in time frames for the projects and to further refine our selection we calculated the EANPV to compare performance on a yearly basis.
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What type of financial investments would you invest in if you were given 10,000 dollars, what made you choose these investments, as well as; how did your choices affect your decision as to tracking these financial investments through the usage of financial strategies and trends. While finding the right pecuniary investment to finance in is never an easy decision, one must first do their research as to what type of financial resources are available on the market to invest in; then apply those financial decisions and strategies to their financial market plan. Let’s begin with what a financial market does, “financial markets perform a vital function: they transfer funds from savers (individuals and organizations willing to defer using some