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PART VI: THE COST OF CAPITAL, CAPITAL STRUCTURE, AND DIVIDEND POLICY

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Breakeven Analysis Business Classification Code

WACC: Practical Guide

• Breakeven Analysis Web Sites
  1. TANRO|Break Even Analysis. "Cool" online Business Simulation introduces you to Break-Even Analysis. You play the role of a beginning finance professional in a fictitious lawnmowing manufacturer named Tanro who has to help make critical business decisions. Along the way you will learn some basic break-even financial fundamentals through an interactive experience.
     http://www.knowledgedynamics.com/demos/Breakeven/index.htm
• Business Classification Code Web Sites
  1. NAICS Association. Provides a collection of NAICS (pronounced "nakes") and SIC products, information, and resources.
     http://www.naics.com/
  2. NAICS -- North American Industry Classification System. NAICS replaces the U.S. Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) system.
     http://www.census.gov/eos/www/naics
• "Declaration, Ex-dividend, and Record Date Defined". Nice article on some of the procedural aspects of dividend policy courtesy of the folks at Investopedia.com.
  http://www.investopedia.com/articles/02/110802.asp
• DirectInvesting.com. Information on Direct Investment Plans, also known as dividend reinvestment plans (DRPs or DRIPs).
  http://www.directinvesting.com/
• DRIP Investor. Brings you the latest information on Dividend Reinvestment Plans (DRIPs).
  http://www.dripinvestor.com/
• Fundamental Analysis 101: Zooming in on Net Operating Income. Nice tutorial on Net Operating Income (NOI), which sometimes goes by the name of NOPAT (net operating profit after taxes) or NOPLAT (net operating profit less adjusted taxes).
  http://www.investopedia.com/articles/fundamental/101602.asp
• "How Do CFOs Make Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Decisions?". Compressed version of a paper that won the Jensen prize for the best JFE paper in corporate finance in 2001.
  http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~charvey/Research/Published_Papers/P76_How_do_CFOs.pdf
• Online Tutorial #7: How Do You Calculate A Company's Cost of Capital? One of a series of online tutorials and downloadable spreadsheets to supplement the book "Expectations Investing" by Rappaport and Mauboussin.
  https://www.expectationsinvesting.com/online-tutorial-7

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