Cases in Corporate Finance

List of Exhibits Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction PART I: Financial Planning and Working capital management 1 Monark Building Materials: Estimating Working Capital Fund Requirements 2 Amber Enterprises: Working Capital Assessment for Seasonal Business 3 ValueBuy Retail: Working Capital Requirement for High Growth Business 4 Ashok Leyland: Managing Liquidity through the Cycles 5 Shoppers Stop: The Covid-19 Halt 6 Cash Budgeting at Parishkar Cleantech 7 Spark Electricals: Reviewing FMEG Business Credit Policy 8 Break-Even Analysis of Sri Krishna Restaurant 9 Ikon Paints: Long-Term Financial Plan 10 Credit Rating of Dinesh Organics 11 Tata International PART II: Capital Budgeting Decisions 12 Ranjit’s Delivery Vans: Making the Replacement Decision 13 Moody Singh’s Food Truck: Scaling up the Business 14 DBS Auto’s Electric Two-Wheelers: Cash Flow Projections 15 Evaluating Investment Choices for “The Oriental” Restaurant 16 BreathFresh: Evaluating Launch of Ayurvedic Toothpaste 17 AMEX: Evaluating New Business Opportunity 18 Safewheels: Evaluating Investment in Electric Vehicles (EV) Fleet 19 PVR Cinema: Should it Take OTT Plunge? 20 Neogene Tyres: Capital Budgeting Under Uncertainty 21 Ashian Biotech: The AntiCov Vaccine Project PART III: Risk and Return, and Cost of Capital 22 InvestmentWaves (A): Assessing Client’s Life Insurance Requirement 23 InvestmentWaves (B): Assessing LIC’s New Jeevan Shanti 24 WealthFrog: Risk-Return Trade-off of Individual Assets vs Portofino of Assets 25 Kirtan’s Dilemma: How to Use Risk-Return Analysis to Build a Superior Portfolio? 26 BlueStar AMC: Assessing Impact of New Valuation Norms on Debt Funds 27 Apex Frozen Foods: The Cost of Capital 28 Huarache India Ltd: The Cost of Capital 29 Balaji Wafers Pvt. Ltd: The Cost of Capital 30 ITC Ltd: The Divisional Cost of Capital 31 DBS Auto’s Electric Two-Wheelers: Cost of Capital 32 Bhagyodya Stampings Pvt. Ltd: Hedge or not to Hedge? 33 Great Eastern Shipping – Risk Management PART IV: Capital Structure and Dividend Decisions 34 The Hotel Industry’s Leverage at Play 35 Avenue Supermarts’ Capital Structure 36 Reliance Industries Limited: Capital Structure Decision 37 Yes Bank: The AT-1 Bonds Saga 38 InvestmentWaves (C): Evaluating Cash Dividend vs Homemade Dividend 39 Dividend Payout at Mahindra and Mahindra 40 Investor Payouts at Wipro PART V: Business Valuation 41 The Valuation of KrissKross Hotels 42 Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd: Challenges in Valuation of Financial Services Firm 43 Ashian Biotech: Acquisition of Myanti Biopharma 44 Valuation of 212 Degrees Fahrenheit 45 PVR’s Acquisition for SPI Cinema: An Expensive Southern Excursion? 46 Reliance Industries Limited (A): Valuation of RIL’s O2C Business 47 Reliance Industries Limited (B): Valuation of Jio Platforms 48 Reliance Industries Limited (C): Valuation of Reliance Retail 49 Swift Communications: Valuing Synergy Gains in an Acquisition 50 ITC Ltd: EVA Analysis of FMCG and Hotel Divisions 51 Venu’s ESOP Choices (A): ESOPs of a Listed Company 52 Venu’s ESOP Choices (B): ESOPs of a Start-Up PART VI: Long-Term Financing 53 Rossari BioTech: An IPO in the Indian Stock Market 54 Reliance Industries Ltd: The Tale of India’s Largest Rights Issue 55 Bharti Airtel’s FCCB 56 BPL Limited: In Search of Innovative Financing Options 57 Financing Joyzz Nutrixx 58 Nirma’s Acquisition of Lafarge India 59 Financing Decision at BlackGold Petroleum Company Ltd: Corporate Finance vs Project Finance 60 PowerGrid InvIT: What Is in It for the Issuer and Investors? Index