Discussion questions on #Business

1. Assuming a company wishes to distribute its money to shareholders, is it better to distribute dividends or to repurchase shares?

2. Is the price of futures the best estimate of the $ exchange rate?

3. How could we obtain indisputable discount rate? How could we calculate the beta and risk premium?

4. My company paid an extremely high price for the acquisition of another company; the price was recommended by the valuation of an investment bank. We now have financial problems. Is there any way to make the company legally responsible for this financial situation?

5. Which currency has been used in international acquisition in order to calculate the flows?

6. Calculated betas provide different information if they are obtained by using daily, weekly or monthly data. Which data is the most appropriate?

7. Does it make any sense to calculate betas against local indexes when accompany as a great part of its operations outside this local market? have two examples:BBVA andSantander

8. Is it possible to make money in the stock market when the quotations are going down? What is credit sale?

9. Which capital structure should we consider when calculating the WACC for subsidiary valuation: the one that is reasonable according to the risk of the subsidiary's business, the average of the company or the one subsidiary "tolerates /permit"?

10. Are there any ways to analyze and value seasonal businesses?

11. A financial consultant obtains different valuations of the company when it discounts the Free Cash Flow (FCF) as opposed to when it uses equity cash flow. Is it correct?

12. Which parameter better measures value creation; the EVA (Economic Value Added), the economic profit or the CVA (Cash Value Added)?