Financial Management

Definition:

• Based on book: Fundamentals of corporate finance fifth edition (Wiley)

1. Financial manager and the firm:

Role of the financial manager:

• Maximizing the price of firm’s stock will maximize value of a firm and the wealth of its shareholders/owners
• 3 fundamental decisions in financial management
  • Capital budgeting: identify which long-term assets to acquire to maximize net benefits for the firm
    • affect long-term assets (productive assets, tangible or intangible)
  • Financing: determine best way to pay for for short-term and long-term assets
    • determine firm’s cpital structure
    • affect long-term debt and equity thatwill be used to finance firm’s long-term productive asset and net working capital
  • Working capital: decide how to manage short-term resources and obligations by adjusting current assets and current liabilities to promote growth in cash flow
    • affect current asset and current liabilities
• BOD is representative of all shareholders
  • mostly large shareholders
  • sometimes independent experts
  • Consists of:
    • audit comittee
    • governance comittee
    • remuneration committee: manage composation and performance policies
    • Nomination committee
    • Risk committe
    • Investment committee

Forms of business organization

Managing the financial function:

• Positions reporting to the CFO
  • Treasurer
  • Risk manager
  • Controller
  • Internal Auditor
• External auditor: creditors and investors require independent audits
• The audit committee: powerful subcomittee of the BOD
  • Oversee accounting function and preparation of firm’s financial statements
  • conducts investigations of significant fraud, theft
• The Compliance and Ethics Director: oversees three mandated programs
  1. a compliance program that ensures that the firm complies with federal and state laws and regulations
  2. an ethics program that promotes ethical conduct among executives and other employees
  3. a compliance hotline, which must include a whistleblower program

Goal of the firm

• Why not maximize market share? Giving away for free will increase market share but not cash flow
• Why not maximize profit? Sell everything now and receive cash in far future → no cash flow
• Maximizing value of firm’s stock, consider
  • future cash flows
  • timing of future cash flows
  • risk of having to wait for cash flows
• Good cash flow → have positive residual cash flow → greater firm value
• Management decisions affect cash flows → affect stock prices

Agency Conflict: separation of ownership and control:

• Managers might act in their own self-interest rather than long term value of the firm
• An Agency relationship is created when the owner (a principal) of a business hires an employee (agent)
  • → separate control and ownership → agency conflict
• Agency cost: costs that arise from incurring and preventing conflicts of interest between a firm’s owners and its managers
  • might reduce positive residual cash flow, stock price, and shareholder wealth
  • can be reduced by:
    • increased oversight
    • aligning incentives
      • Board of directors
      • Management compensation
      • Managerial labor market
      • Internal competition among managers
      • Large stockholders
      • Corporate raiders search for takeover targets
      • Legal and regulatory constraints limit managerial behavior

2. Financial System:

Definition:

• Financial markets include markets for trading financial assets such as stocks and bonds rather than real assets
• Financial institutions include banks, credit unions, insurance companies, and finance companies

Financial system at work

• Money is collected from small amounts (borrowed) and invested in large amounts (loaned)
• System directs money to the best investment opportunities in the economy (return and risk)
• → Lenders earn profit from lending and borrowing spread

How funds flow through the financial system

• Directly vs Indirectly:
  • Directly through financial markets: creation and sale of financial securities directly to leader/saver
    • borrower/spedner deals with lender/savers
    • Investment Bank and money center banks help with origination, underwriting and distribution of new debt and equity
      • Origination is the process of preparing a security issues for sale
      • Underwriting is a service to assist firms in selling their debt or equity securities in a direct financing market
      • Distribution is the process of marketing and reselling the securities to investors
  • Indirectly through financial institution: institutions invest in Financial Assets by collect money from lender/saver and make loans in larger amounts to borrower/spender

Types of financial markets

• The major types of markets include:
  • Primary Market and Secondary Market
    • Primary: Wholesale market where firms’ new securities are issued and sold for the first time
    • Secondary: Retail market where previously issued securities are resold (traded)
      • enable investors to buy and sell securities frequently
      • active secondary markets → higher price in primary market
        • → companies whose securities have active secondary markets enjoy lower funding costs than similar firms whose securities do not have active secondary markets.
      • no new money goes into the firm when a secondary market transaction takes place.
    • Marketability vs Liquidity
      • Marketability is the ease with which a security can be sold and converted into cash. A security’s marketability depends in part on the costs of trading and searching for information, so-called transaction costs
      • Liquidity is the ability to convert an asset into cash quickly without loss of value
    • Broker vs Dealer:
      • Broker bring buys and sellers together and learn commission fee
      • Dealers buy from sellers, store to inventory and sell to buyers
  • Exchanges and over-the-counter markets
    • Exchange: location where sellers and buyers meet to conduct transactions
      • New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)
      • Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE)
    • Over-the-Counter Market: dealers conduct transactions over the phone or via computer
      • National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations (NASDAQ)
  • Money and capital markets
    • Money market: market for low-risk securities with maturities of less than one year
      • Treasury bills (T-Bills), Commercial paper
    • Capital market: market for securities with maturities longer than one year
      • Bonds, Common stock
    • Capital market are less marketable, higher defauft risk and have longer maturities
  • Public and private markets
    • Public markets are organized financial markets where the general public buys and sells securities through their stockbrokers
    • Private markets involve direct transactions between two parties, often called private placements
      • Advantages: faster, lower transaction costs
      • Disadvantages:
        • Privately placed securities cannot legally be sold in the public markets because they lack SEC registration
        • Dollar amounts that can be raised tend to be smaller
  • Futures and options markets
    • Derivative securities derive their value from some underlying asset
    • Futures Contract: contracts for the future delivery of assets such as securities, foreign currencies, interest cash flows, or commodities
    • Options Contract call for the option writer to buy or sell an asset if called upon to do so by the option buyer
    • Both futures and options can be used to hedge risk

Market efficiency

• A market where prices reflect the knowledge and expectations of all investors, true value
  • for a security, the present value of the cash flows an investor who owns that security can expect to receive in the future
• Overall efficiency of a market depends on its:
  • Market Operational efficiency: degree to which transtion costs of bringing buys and sellers together are minimized
  • Marlet Informational efficiency: degree to which current market prices reflect relevant information and, therefore, the true value of the security
• Efficient market hypotheses:
  • Efficient market hypothesis a theory concerning the extent to which information is reflected in security prices and how information gets incorporated into security prices
  • Strong-Form Efficiency
    • Security prices reflect all information, both public and private
    • Even inside information is reflected in prices
  • Semistrong-Form Efficiency
    • Security prices always reflect all public information
    • Inside, or confidential information, is not reflected in prices
  • Weak-Form Efficiency
    • Security prices only reflect historical information

Financial Institutions and Indirect Financing

• Financial Institutions
  • Provide lending and borrowing opportunities at the retail level for small customers and wholesale level for large customers
  • Efficiently collect funds in small amounts and lend them in larger amounts
  • Tailor loan amounts and contract terms to fit the needs of consumers, corporations, and small businesses
• Types of Financial Institutions
  • Commercial banks: FinTech companies
  • Credit unions
  • Life and casualty insurance companies
  • Pension funds
  • Investment funds
  • Business finance companies

5. The Time Value of Money

TVM

• Present Value: value of dollar today
• Future Value: value of dollar in the future
• Compounding: converting from future value to present value
• the difference in value between a dollar in hand today and a dollar promised in the future; a dollar today is worth more than a dollar in the future
• Comsuming today or tomorrow
  • Receiving money today → better for cashflow
  • Invest
  • avoid inflation

Future value and compounding

• Single-period: $F{V}_1=P_0\times (1+i)$
• Future value equation: $F{V}_n=PV\times (1+i{)}^n$
  • more frequently than once a year: $F{V}_n=PV\times (1+i/m{)}^{m.n}$
  • every interest rate is usually annualized
• Continuous compounding: $F{V}_{\infty }=PV\times e^{i\times n}$

Present value and discounting

• The PV is often referred to as the discounted value of future cash flows
  • Discounting is the process and the interest rate i is called the discount rate
• Time and the discount rate affect present value

Additional concepts and application

• Finding interest rate:
  • An investor or analyst may want
    • The growth rate in sales
    • The rate of return on an investment
    • The effective interest rate on a loan
  • 1. Rule of 72: Time to double money, $TDM=\frac{72}{i}$ for $i\%$ interest rate
    • only for work $i$ = 5% - 20%
  • 2. Reverse compounding formula

6. Discounted cash flows and Valuation:

Multiple cash flows

• Future value of multiple cash flows:
  • draw a time line to make sure that each cash flow is placed in the correct time period
  • calculate the future value of each cash flow for its time period
  • add up the future values
• Present value of multiple cash flows:
  • Reverse of calculating future value of multiple cash flows
  • Calculate Present Value of each future cash flows
  • Sum of all PV is the total present value
• PV and FV can be quickly converted to 1 another

Level cash flows: Annuities

• Terms:
  • Annuity: A series of equally-spaced and level cash flows extending over a finite number of periods
  • Perpetuity: A series of equally-spaced and level cash flows that continue forever
  • Ordinary Annuity: Cash flows occur at the end of a period
    • Examples include mortgage payments and interest payments to bondholders
  • Annuity Due: Cash flows occur at the beginning of a period
    • Examples include leases and car insurance
• Present Value of an Annuity (PVA):
  • The amount needed to produce the annuity (equally)
  • The current fair value or market price of the annuity
  • The amount of a loan that can be repaid with the annuity
  • ${PVA}_n=\frac{CF}{i}\times [1-\frac{1}{(1+i{)}^n}]=CF\times \left[\frac{1-1/(1+i{)}^n}{i}\right]=CF\times \text{FV annuity factor}$
    • $i$: interest/discount rate, period-based (not annualized)
      • it is annual interest in some calculator
    • $n$: number of periods
    • $CF$: cashflow, monthly payment over period, PMT
  • Preparing a Loan Amortization Schedule:
    • amortization describes the way in which the principal (the amount borrowed) is repaid over the life of a loan.
    • amortization schedule a table that shows the loan balance at the beginning and end of each period, the payment made during that period, and how much of that payment represents interest and how much represents repayment of principal
    • With an amortizing loan, some portion of each loan payment goes to paying down the principal
      • Columns:
        • Year
        • Beginning principal balance (1), last year’s Ending Principal Balance
        • Total monthly/annual payment (2), same every period (CF)
        • Interest payment (3)
        • Principal paid (2) - (3) - (4)
        • Ending Principal Balance (1) - (4) - (5)
    • Finding interest rate: must use trial and error or calculator
• Future value of an Annuity
  • Future value of an annuity computations typically involve some type of saving activity, such as a monthly savings plan
  • Another application is computing future values for retirement or pension plans with constant contributions
  • Given that $FV{A}_n=PV{A}_n\times (1+i{)}^n$, substituting $PVA$
    • $FV{A}_n=\frac{CF}{i}\times [1-\frac{1}{(1+i{)}^n}]\times (1+i{)}^n$
    • $FV{A}_n=\frac{CF}{i}\times [(1+i{)}^n-1]$
    • $FV{A}_n=CF\times \left[\frac{(1+i{)}^n-1}{i}\right]=CF\times \text{FV annuity factor}$
• Annuities due:
  • an annuity in which payments are made at the beginning of each period
  • The present or future value of an annuity due is always higher than that of an ordinary annuity that is otherwise identical
  • the first cash flow occurs at the beginning of the first period
  • Annuity transformation method:
    • $\text{Annuity due value}=\text{Ordinary annuity value}\times (1+i)$

Level cash flows: perpetuities:

• A perpetuity is a series of equally spaced and level cash flows that goes on forever
  • The most important perpetuities in the securities markets today are preferred stock issues
• Perpetuities:
  • A stream of equal cash flows that goes on forever
  • Equation for the present value of a perpetuity can be derived from the present value of an annuity equation
  • $\text{PVP}=\frac{\text{CF}}{i}$ if cash flow is at the end of the first period

Cash flows that grow at a constant rate

• Growing annuity
  • Equally-spaced cash flows that increase in size at a constant rate for a finite number of periods
  • ${\text{PVA}}_n=\frac{{\text{CF}}_i}{i-g}\times [1-(\frac{1+g}{1+i}{)}^n]$ where ${\text{CF}}_i$ is cash flow one period in the future ($C{F}_0\ast (1+i\%)$)
    • only when the growth rate is less than the discount rate
• Growing perpetuity:
  • Equally-spaced cash flows that increase in size at a constant rate forever
  • $\text{PVP}=\frac{{\text{CF}}_i}{i-g}$ where ${\text{CF}}_i$ is cash flow one period in the future ($C{F}_0\ast (1+i\%)$)

The affective annual interest rate

• Annual Percenrage Rate, APR: periodic rate $\times$ nb of periods
• effective annual interest rate, EAR: annual interest rate that takes compounding over the course of a year into account
  • EAR = $(1+\frac{\text{APR}}{m}{)}^m-1$
• The Appropriate Interest Rate Factor: any time you do a future value or present value calculation, either use the interest rate per period (quoted rate/m) or the EAR as the interest rate factor

8. Bond valuation and structure of interest rate

Corporate bonds

• Market for corporate bonds
  • The most important investors are life insurance companies, pension funds, and mutual funds
  • Transactions tend to be in very large dollar amounts
  • less efficient compared to stocks or U.S. treasury bulls and bond
• Bond price information:
  • Only a small fraction of the bonds outstanding are traded each day
  • Mostly negotiated directly between the buyer and seller, with limited centralized reporting of the sales
• Corporate bond:
  • A type of Fixed-income securities: debt instruments that pay interest in amounts that are fixed for the life of the contract
  • Features of corporate Bonds:
    • Long-term claims against company assets
    • Face, or par, value is $1,000
    • Coupon rate is the annual coupon payment (C) / bond’s face value (F)
    • Coupon payment is a fixed amount paid to lenders for the life of the contract (typically with a semiannual or annual payment)
• Types of corporate bonds:
  • Vanilla bonds, debentures, are unsecured:
    • Coupon payments fixed for the life of the bond
    • Repay principal and retire the bonds at maturity
    • Contracts have the features and provisions found in most bond covenants
    • Annual or semiannual coupon payments
  • Zero coupon bond:
    • No coupon payment, only face value at maturity
    • Sold at a discount compared to face value
  • Convertible bonds:
    • May be exchanged for shares of the firm’s stock
    • Sell for a higher price than a comparable non- convertible bond
    • Bondholders benefit if the market value of the company’s stock gets high enough

Bond valuation

• Steps:
  • estimate the expected future cash flows
  • determine the required rate of return, or discount rate (depends on riskiness of the future cash flows)
  • compute present alue of future cash flows
• Bond valuation formula:
  • Then $P_B$ (current value/price of a bond = $PV$ (present value of coupon payments) + $PV$ (present value of Principal payment)
• Par, premium and discount bonds
  • Par bond: If a bond’s coupon rate is equal to its yield, the price will equal the face value
  • Premium bond: If a bond’s coupon rate is more than its yield, the price will be higher than the face value
    • Likely to happen when interest rates are falling
  • Discount bond:
    • If a bond’s coupon rate is less than its yield, the price will be less than the face value
    • Likely to happen when interest rates are rising
• Semiannual compounding:
• Zero coupon bonds

Bond yields:

• Yield to maturity:
• Effective annual yield
• Realized Yield:

Interest rate risk

• Bond theorems:
• Bond theorem application

The determinants of corporate borrowing costs:

• Marketability:
• Call provision
• Default risk
  • Bond ratings

The term structure of interest rate

• Yield curve
• Factors that shape the yield curve: