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From:jeff.dasovich@enron.com
To:mark_guinney@watsonwyatt.com
Subject:Re: Fwd:Re: Home Depot case question(s)
Cc:chin@haas.berkeley.edu, jdasovic@enron.com, jeff.dasovich@enron.com,sama@haas.berkeley.edu, vavrek@haas.berkeley.edu
Bcc:chin@haas.berkeley.edu, jdasovic@enron.com, jeff.dasovich@enron.com,sama@haas.berkeley.edu, vavrek@haas.berkeley.edu
Date:Tue, 6 Feb 2001 06:01:00 -0800 (PST)

Be happy to talk tonite about how to pull this together. Can't do it until
8:30-9PM tonite, though. That too late? And, if that's not enough, I don't
have conferencing capability from home. Suggestions?

Best,
Jeff



"Mark Guinney" <Mark_Guinney@watsonwyatt.com<
02/06/2001 10:22 AM

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Subject: Fwd:Re: Home Depot case question(s)

FYI-

Tasker has approved my assumptions for the cash flow statement so we are free
to
answer the questions.

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Mark D. Guinney, CFA
Consultant
Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting
345 California Street, Ste. 1400
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Subject: Re: Home Depot case question(s)
Author: tasker@haas.berkeley.edu (Sarah Tasker)
Date: 02/06/2001 2:09 PM

Mark - I apologize for the delay in responding. I had to fly back East due
to a family illness and had problems accessing my email from there. Your
assumptions are fine. As to your previous email, I think the additional
B/S data on pp 9-47 and 9-48 gives you what you need for prior years.

Hope that helps - sorry again for the delay!

Sarah Tasker

At 06:45 PM 2/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
<Professor Tasker:
<
<I've constructed a pro forma cash flow statement for the next fiscal year for
<Home Depot. I wanted to solicit your input to see if I'm making some
incorrect
<assumptions. I've included my work in the attached spreadsheet
(applicable work
<is shaded in gray). The assumptions that I'm questioning are as followed:
<
<Instead of estimating net income I calculated EBIT; I did this since interest
<expense is a variable that could change given financing needs undertaken
<Taxes paid are difficult to calculate; I used previous years taxes from the
<income statement and increase it by 30% (assumed growth rate); the tax
credits
<the company enjoyed from previous years are difficult to assume
<At a minimum, I assumed that the company would have to pay for PPE on the
order
<of last year's depreciation plus 30%; I would consider this maintanence of
<assets as opposed to purchase of new assets, construction, etc.
<I calculated an additional PPE expense for 9 new stores and subtracted out
the
<$28 million in "construction in progress" from the previous year's balance
sheet
<(I assumed that this line item was construction for the new 9 sites)
<
<These are my main adjustments that I wanted to get some validation either
way so
<my group doesn't base our strategy and answers on incorrect assumptions.
<
<
<
<**********************************************
<Mark D. Guinney, CFA
<Consultant
<Watson Wyatt Investment Consulting
<345 California Street, Ste. 1400
<San Francisco, CA 94104
<(415) 733-4487 ph.
<(415) 733-4190 fax
<Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\HD.xls"
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From: tasker@haas.berkeley.edu (Sarah Tasker) at Internet
Date: 2/6/01 2:09PM -0500
To: Mark Guinney at ~WW_SFO
Subject: Re: Home Depot case question(s)
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