Writing Fact Sheet – Finance

Review the Harvard Business School Case (Brief Case) – #4130, dated June 19, 2009 ( See Attached )

Consider the following in your analysis:

  • The main goal for this case is for Janet Mortensen to append a sort of “user guide” in her 2007 calculations;
  • If she did append a “user’s guide” what might be her guidance for different types of project analysis at Midland such as capital budgeting and financial accounting, performance assessments, M&A proposals, and stock repurchase decisions;
  • how might the cost of capital numbers differ or guidance differ for division- level versus corporate-level decisions;
  • what guidance might she provide with validating the components used to compute the WACC;
  • how would you compute a cost of capital for the Petrochemical division;
  • what ‘actual’ firm would you use now as a pure play for the Petrochemical division.

Note:

1- pages must be more than 1 page and less than 4 pages

2- Grading on Fact Sheet:

  • Overview and Assumptions
    • Appropriateness of T-bond maturity used
    • Appropriateness of equity risk premium used
    • Appropriateness of using firm-level WACC for divisions
    • Approach to defining division-level cost of capital
  • Computation of firm-level WACC
  • Computation of division-level cost of capital
  • Approach used to compute cost of capital for PetroChemical Division
  • User Guide Reccomendation – capital project valuation, asset projects, performance evaluation
  • Format and Content
    • standard 1″ margins
    • single-spacing (text)
    • double-spacing between paragraphs
    • no paragraph indentation (left justified)
    • size 12 font, Times New Roman, black text
    • italicized or bold font for section headings

3- Avoiding Plagiarism.

4- See attachment which is Information to compute WACC based upon different capital structures.

5- See attachment which some examples of factsheet.