Learning Team Reflection
Augusto Alvarez, Ani Hakobyan, Stephanie Kirk, Cristina Linares, Debbie Voeks
FIN/571 Foundations of Corporate Finance
June 23, 2014
Clifford Merchant
Learning Team Reflection
Introduction
Turning tangible assets into investments is nothing new, investors did the same thing during previous market downturns, and they did not always come out ahead. A year ago, 49 years old Peggy Parks, who worked as a building code auditor got tired of watching her retirement savings investments going in the wrong direction and resulting in losing half of her 401(K) investments. To ...view middle of the document...
By investing in more than one asset Peggy decreases her risk and improves her retirement plan.
Other step that Peggy could take in order to improve the capital is to sell additional offspring from the current herd, and reinvested the revenue into more diverse bloodlines. This step will help the herd size to grow and more wool to be produced. It is anticipated that Peggy will incur costs associated with land use, feed, nutritional supplements, supplies and veterinary bills. As her herd expands she will need to expand capacity of her facilities in the form of a new barn. Construction expense for expansion should be approximately $40,000. This capital expense will provide Peggy with the space and capacity to increase her herd size as well as act as a central hub for the alpaca business in her community. Peggy is hoping to add to her revenue stream by doing grooming and wool harvest for other farmers, charging stud services as well as increasing the size of her own herd. Also since the animals are insurable than Peggy’s...