Case Studies in Finance

Forward Preface Note to Student on Cases Ethics Setting Some Themes 1 Warren E. Buffett, 2005 2 Bill Miller and Value Trust 3 Ben & Jerry's Homemade 4 The Battle for Value, 2004: FedEx Corp. vs. United Parcel Service, Inc. 5 Genzyme and Relational investors Financial Analysis and Forecasting 6 The Thoughtful Forecaster 7 The Financial Detective, 2005 8 Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc. 9 The Body Shop International PLC 2001: An Introduction to Financial Modeling 10 Value Line Publishing: October 2002 11 Horniman Horticulture 12 Guna Fibres, Ltd. Estimating Cost of Capital 13 "Best Practices" in Estimating the Cost of Capital: Survey and Synthesis" 14 Roche Holdings AG: Funding the Genentech Acquisition 15 Old Nike case or New Heinz Case 16 Teletech Corporation, 2005 17 The Boeing 7E7 Capital Budgeting 18 The Investment Detective 19 Worldwide Paper Company 20 Target Corporation 21 Aurora Textile Company 22 Compass Records 23 The Procter and Gamble Company: Crest Whitestrips 24 Victoria Chemicals plc (A): The Merseyside Project 25 Victoria Chemicals plc (B): Merseyside and Rotterdam Projects 26 Star River Electronics Ltd. 27 Jacobs Division 28 UVa Hospital System: The Long-term Acute Care Hospital Project Management of Equity: Dividends and Repurchases 29 Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation 30 Autozone Management of Capital Structure 31 An Introduction to Debt Policy and Value 32 Structuring Corporate Financial Policy: Diagnosis of Problems and Evaluation of Strategies 33 California Pizza Kitchen 34 The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: Capital Structure, Valuation, and Cost of Capital 35 Deluxe Corporation 36 Horizon Lines Financing Tactics: Foreign Exchange, Leases, Covertible Bonds 37 Carrefour S.A. 38 Baker Adhesives 39 J&L Railroad 40 Primus Automation Division, 2002 41 MoGen, Inc. Valuing the Enterprise 42 Methods of Valuation: Mergers and Acquisitions 43 American Greetings 44 Arcadian Microarray Technologies, Inc. 45 JetBlue Airways IPO Valuation 46 Rosetta Stone 47