Imaam Spinning Mills: Cost of Capital of a Private Company

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On January 2, 2018, the chief executive officer of a private company in Karachi, Pakistan, Imaam Spinning Mills (Imaam), was planning to expand the company’s product line and enter the weaving business by setting up a new weaving plant. He asked his chief financial officer to conduct a financial evaluation financial evaluation of the project. To do so, she needed to calculate the weighted average cost of capital, using the comparative method to calculate the cost of capital for the unlisted firm based on financial data from Imaam and comparable firms, and determine the feasibility of the project.
學習目標
This case can be used in financial management, corporate finance, and project management/capital budgeting courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. This case can be used for teaching the cost of capital, as it covers the basic concepts of levered beta and unlevered beta and how they are calculated. After working through the case and assignment questions, students will be able to do the following:<br><br><ul><li>Explain how to select comparable companies and how to use data from comparable companies in financial analysis.</li><li>Combine relevant information from comparable companies to calculate the cost of capital for an unlisted company.</li><li>Discuss the difficulties and uncertainties in financial analysis.</li><li>Explain the implications of the cost of capital.</li></ul>
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