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This summary covers all of Corporate Finance (MAN-BCU2020) at Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen. The red sentences contain exam questions/topics!! Topics include the three key questions of corporate finance (capital budgeting, capital structure, and working capital management), financial management goals, primary and secondary markets, and macroeconomic policy categories. Essential for understanding foundational concepts and ideal for exam preparation and course review.

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Samenvatting Corporate Finance

Week 1 (chapter 1,3 en 4)

3 key questions:
1.​ Which long-term investments should you pursue(nastreven)?
2.​ How will you obtain long-term financing for these investments?
3.​ How will you manage your day-to-day financial operations?WCM

Capital budgeting = the process of planning and managing a firms long-term
investments.(vraag 1) What is CB responsible for? Investment decisions.

The financial manager aims to identify investments that are more valuable to the firm than
their costs. So you have a net present value.
-​ key considerations include assessing the size, timing and risk of future cash flows.

Capital/Financial structure:
-​ Long-term debt: borrowing by the firm >1 year
-​ Equity: funds raised from owners through their investments in the firm.

Working capital management = managing a firm’s short-term assets and liabilities (vraag
3). 3 questions to awnser regarding working capital:
1.​ How much cash and inventory should we keep available/om hand?
2.​ Should we sell on credit? op krediet verkopen
3.​ How will we obtain(verkrijgen) any short term-financing?

Accounting = focuses on recording (vastleggen) past transactions
Finance = focuses on forecasts (prognoses) and planning with future-oriented perspective.
Financial management goal: maximizing shareholder value

Goals of financial management fall into two categories:
1.​ Profitability: increasing sales, gaining marketshare, controlling costs (boost profits).
2.​ Controlling risk: avoiding bankruptcy (fallissementen), maintaining stability, and
ensuring safety.
→ these two goals are often contradictory.

Primary goal of financial manager is to maximize the market value of the owners equity. This
goal removes the contradiction:
-​ no ambiguity (dubbelzinnigheid) in criterion: a bigger residue profits (restwinst)
owners as well as other stakeholders.
-​ no ambiguity in long-vs short term. focus on the current value.

Primary markets: this is where the original sale of securities (effecten) by governments and
corporations take place. 2 types:
1.​ Public offerings: securities are sold to the general public.
a.​ Initial public offerings (IPO’s): are the first issuance (uitgifte) of shares done
in the primary market as a firm goes public. (als een bedrijf naar de beurs
gaat)

, b.​ Seasoned offerings: are the second share issuance done at the primary
market by a already public firm.
2. Private placements: a negotiated sale to a specific buyer.

Secondary markets: this is where investors trade securities with each other, meaning one
owner or creditor sells to another. 2 reasons:​
1. To provide a place to liquidate investments and get money back.
2. To establish (vaststellen) a price for investments, by transferring ownership of corporate
securities and determining share prices.

2 types of secondary markets:​
1. Dealer markets: dealers buy and sell for themselves, taking on risk. Over-the-counter
(OTC) markets are dealer markets for equity and long-term debt, where most debt securities
are traded.
2. Auction (veiling) markets: these have a physical location and focus on matching buyers
with sellers.




Als je aandelen van Tesla koopt, koop je ze niet rechtstreeks maar op de secundaire markt
van een andere investeerder.

Peer-to-peer trading platforms: is een marktplaats waar gebruikers rechtstreeks met
elkaar kunnen handelen, zonder tussenkomst van een bank of beurs. The macroeconomic
policy of a country involves government decisions that affect the overall economic
environment. 4 main categories:​
1. Fiscal Policy = government spending and taxes. (hoge belastingen verminderd uitgaven)
2. Monetary Policy = control of interest rates and the money supply (hoeveelheid)
sparen/lenen wordt beinvloed. lagere prijsinflatie als mensen meer sparen.
3. Exchange rate policy (wisselkoers)= how a country manages the value of its currency
relative to other currencies to improve trade competitiveness.
-​ Low exchange rates: make exports cheaper for foreign buyers, foreign buyers
spend less of their currency(valuta) on goods from the country with the weaker

, currency, imports become more expensive for the country, so reducing demand for
foreign goods.
-​ High exchange rates: make exports more expensive for foreign buyers, they need
to spend more of their currency to buy goods from a country with a stronger currency,
imports become cheaper for the country, increasing demand for foreign goods.
-​ you have fixed(vaste) and floating (zwevende) exchange rates.
4. Foreign Trade Policy = the use of trade barriers and import controls to manage the cost
of imports and exports.

The Annual Report (three key financial statements):
1.​ Balance sheet: accounting value as of a specific date (snapshot at that moment)
-​ assets (Current assets (invetory, cash), long-term assets(tangable or intangible)
Assets can be valued in two ways:
1.​ historical costs model: you value what is paid for the asset.
2.​ revaluation model: value assets at their current market value (huidige
marktwaarde)
-​ Liabilities (current (obligations/salary <1 jaar) en long term
(bonds/mortgages(hypotheken >1 jr)
-​ Equity = calculated asset minus liabilities. = NWC net working capital
Waarde altijd marktwaarde in de financiën.

2. Income statement.(HELPS INVESTORS BEST DETERMINE CORPORATE
PROFITABILITYwinst/verliesrekening summarizes a firms performance over a specific
period.
-​ net income: (revenues - expenses) - taxes
-​ Addition to retained earnings: net income - dividends paid.
-​ EPS (earnings per share): net income/ the number of shares.
-​ Book value per share: total equity/number of shares outstanding.
Components:
-​ realization principle: revenue is recognized when its earned, not necessarily when
cash is received.
-​ Matchingprinciple: expenses are matched with the revenues they help generate.
-​ Non-cash items: expenses like depreciation that are recorded against revenues but
do not directly affect cashflow

Corporate tax rates:
-​ Average tax rate: the percentage of your income that goed to pay taxes
-​ Marginal tax rate: at which you would be taxed on an additional unit of income.
-​ Flat-rate tax: single tax rate applied uniformly to all income levels.

3.The statement of cashflows.
-​ cashflow identity. equation cashflow from assets. shows that the cash genergated by
the firms assets is used to pay creditors and shareholders.
-​ Total cashflow: the overall cash movement during the period
-​ Operating cashflow: cash generated from the firms normal business operations.
-​ Cashflow from investing activities: represents cash transactions related to the firms
long-term investments.

, -​Cashflow from financing activities: cash transactions resulting from the firms
financing decisions, including changes in debt and equity.
-​ Cashflow is GEEN working capital. WC is momentopname specifiek
-​ Cashflow is ook GEEN profit. depreciation reduces profit but does not affect cashflow
directly.
DOORNEMEN TABELLEN FORMULES P10 ™ P14 voor begrip. echt belangrijk echt doen.

Short-term solvency or measures = the provide information about the liquidity of a firm.
-​ the primary concern is the firms ability to pay the bills over the short run
-​ book values and market values are likely to be similair.
-​ Current assets and liabilities can change very rapidly.

accounts receivable = openstaande vorderingen/debiteurenomzet
turnover = omzet

payables turnover = meet hoe vaak een bedrijf zijn openstaande rekeningen (accounts
payable) gedurende een periode betaalt.

NWC turnover = meet hoe efficient een bedrijf zijn working capital gebruikt om verkoop en
groei te supporten. beoordeelt (assesses) de effectiviteit in generating sales from working
capital.

PPE turnover = meet hoe efficient bij genereren van netto-omzet uit vaste activa.

Price sales ratio = indicates the value investors place on each dollar of sales. Low → may
indicate that the stock is undervalued compared to its sales. High → could suggest that the
stock is overvalued, or that investors expect high future growth.

Market to book ratio = compare the market value per share to the book value per share.
assesses how the market values a companies investments relative to their historical costs.

Tobins Q = compares the market value of a firms assets to their replacement costs.
-​ voordeel: provides a more current valuation compared to the market-to-book ratio.
-​ uitdaging: difficult to estimate replacement costs accurately.

The Du Pont Identity = illustrates the relationship between ROA and ROE by decomposing
ROE into 3 key components:​
1. Operating efficiency: assessed through the profit margin, calculated as net income/sales
2. Asset use efficiency: evaluated by the total asset turnover
3.Financial leverage (hefboomwerking): verhouding tussen de totale activa en het eigen
vermogen van de aandeelhouders.
pagina 16 hierover nog een keer doornemen, supervaag.

time value of money = a euro in hand today is worth more than a euro promised in the future,
due to the potential to earn interest.

Future Value = the amount of money an investment will grow to over a specified period,
given a certain interest rate.

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