CASE 1 - A CASE STUDY OF VICTORIA CHEMICALS Corporate Finance (FEG304) Table of Contents 1.0) Introduction This report contains two case studies in the discourse of Corporate Finance‚ more specifically capital investment strategy. The cases are applied on the fictional company Victoria Chemicals and are divided into (A): “The Merseyside Project and Victoria Chemicals” and (B): “The Merseyside and Rotterdam project”. The cases are picked from the book “Case Studies
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depreciation to the transport division’s equipment should not be included in the proposal. The transport division is responsible for overseeing movement of all raw‚ intermediate‚ and finished materials throughout the company and if the depreciation cost is included in the analysis it would artificially inflate profit for that division. The Transport Division and Intermediate Chemicals Group also have its own vice presidents whose pay incentives are based on the performance of the division. In this case
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VICTORIA CHEMICALS PLC THE MERSEYSIDE AND ROTTERDAM PPROJECTS I would choose Merseyside project rather than Rotterdam’s not only for its superior prospect based on the quantitative criteria‚ but also for a more rational strategy consideration. For the four investment criteria‚ here’s the elaboration. NPV. Since the two plants are of identical scale‚ age‚ design and similar project size‚ it makes sense to use NPV to compare the two projects. Not taken into account the erosion at Merseyside‚
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* * Yogi’s Minimum * Case 08-4 * * Background * * A public utility company‚ Big Bear Power‚ has signed a 10-year non-cancelable lease from Goliath Company for a combustion turbine. The lease agreement is signed on December 15‚ 2004 and Big Bear has the right to use the turbine as of January 1‚ 2005. * Annual lease payments are $1 million per year‚ payable ratably over 12 months at the beginning of each month‚ according to the lease agreement. The minimum rent
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Introduction The following report shows that the proposal of the modernisation project should obtain funding from the corporate headquarters of Victoria Chemicals. The project has an initial outlay of GBP12 million to renovate and rationalise the polypropylene production line at Merseyside plant. This is done in order to make up for deferred maintenance and exploit opportunities to achieve increased efficiency. This report will look at the following four main areas of concern in order
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as mentioned by the sales director if there is no demand for the increase in supply and Rotterdam plants excess will be added to the Mersey side quantities the plant upgrade could ultimately result in a dropping of prices to shift supply. The transport division is also in dire need for the upgrade in order to facilitate the additional output form the plant and has suggested this to the plan t manager. The business shouldn’t be concerned about the cannibalization the resulting upgrade could have on
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UV2493 Version 1.5 DIAMOND CHEMICALS PLC (A): THE MERSEYSIDE PROJECT Late one afternoon in January 2001‚ Frank Greystock told Lucy Morris‚ “No one seems satisfied with the analysis so far‚ but the suggested changes could kill the project. If solid projects like this can’t swim past the corporate piranhas‚ the company will never modernize.” Morris was plant manager of Diamond Chemicals’ Merseyside Works in Liverpool‚ England. Her controller‚ Frank Greystock‚ was discussing a capital project that
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Studies Report: Victoria Chemicals This report will be covering the several capitals investment aspects in which are associated with the case – Victoria Chemicals PLC (A): The Merseyside Project‚ written by Robert. F. Bruner. Introduction In the case‚ Victoria Chemicals‚ a fictional company‚ were under the pressure of its investors to improve its performance as the earnings per shares (EPS) has decreased from 250 pence in 2006 to 180 pence in 2007. Victoria Chemicals is a producer of polypropylene
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VICTORIA CHEMICALS plc (A) The Merseyside Project Presented by Group 2 : Aldy Rifianto‚ Dedy Mardianto Floriana Nataly‚ Hiralalitya Lextro Kristiano Concorda Natallia Winata‚ Wita Puspadilla Yosua Bangun THE MERSEYSIDE PROJECT SUMMARY PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION RECOMENDATION SUMMARY • Victoria Chemicals‚ a major competitor in the Worldwide chemicals industry‚ was a leading producer of polypropylene‚ a polymer used in an extremely wide variety of products SUMMARY Victoria Chemicals
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Case 20: Diamond Chemicals plc (A) --PT07 Group 10 INTRODUCTION: Diamond Chemicals is a large worldwide chemicals producer with two factories in Liverpool England and Rotterdam Holland. Both of their plants were built in 1967 with annual output of 250‚000 metric tons polypropylene. Compare with low-cost producer‚ the production cost per ton is 1.09 which is a little bit high than competitors (see Exhibition 1). With the decline EPS from £60 in 1999 to £30 in 2000 and worldwide economic slowdown
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