It appears that George is running a profitable business. George is aware you are in an MBA Managerial Finance class and comes to you for advice on his working capital practices. More specifically George asks you to do the following:

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Describe his working capital practices, including his methods of capital budgeting analysis techniques.

Analyze the potential pitfalls in his capital budgeting practices that George should be aware of.

Develop a simple statement of cash flows for George’s Trains using any information gleaned from the video. What areas of improvement do you recommend and why?

he following are estimates for two stocks.

The market index has a standard deviation of 18% and the risk-free rate is 6%.

a. What are the standard deviations of stocks A and B? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

b. Suppose that we were to construct a portfolio with proportions:

Compute the expected return, standard deviation, beta, and nonsystematic standard deviation of the portfolio. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Enter your answer for Beta as a number, not a percent. Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)

You are the consumer staples analyst for a large corporate and investment bank. The bank’s management has committed to shareholders to lift the bank ROE from the current 5% to 8% within a year and to 10% within 2 years.

Your institution can borrow money at the following maturity and cost:

Overnight 0.10% . 1-month 0.20% 3-month 0.25% 6-month 0.50%

1-year 0.75% . 3-year 1.50% . 5-year 2.00% . 7-year 2.50% 10-year 3.0%

You are looking at 2 loan applications for $200M each from Foodco and Safeco, two companies you know and cover for years, both of which have an established relationship with your bank. Foodco’s cost of borrowing in the market is UST +250 while Safeco’s UST+400. As Safeco is considered the riskier of the two, any loan towards Safeco will have to generate more loss reserves. Both loans will be senior secured and thus collateralized. Safeco pledges as collateral real estate holdings plus business receivables (50/50) while Foodco pledges delivery trucks plus $20M of cash deposits. The appraised value of the collateral covers the loan fully. For Foodco the loan reserve (based on its implied probability of default) is 30 basis points per annum while for Safeco is 60 basis points per annum. Both companies “leak” to you that they already have received bids from competitors in the neighborhood of 5.5% and 6.0% respectively for a 10yr loan. What do you do and why?

Assume that security returns are generated by the single-index model,

R_i = α_i + β_iR_M + e_i

where R_i is the excess return for security i and R_M is the market’s excess return. The risk-free rate is 2%. Suppose also that there are three securities A, B, and C, characterized by the following data:

a. If σ_M = 18%, calculate the variance of returns of securities A, B, and C.

b. Now assume that there are an infinite number of assets with return characteristics identical to those of A, B, and C, respectively. What will be the mean and variance of excess returns for securities A, B, and C? (Enter the variance answers as a percent squared and mean as a percentage. Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to the nearest whole number.)

1.     Consider the following Balance Sheet for Total Caribbean Bank(TCB) (in millions)

a.      What is TCB expected net interest income (NII) at year end? (1mark)

b.     What is TCB expected net interest income at year end if interest rates grew by 500 basis points. (1 mark)

c.      What is TCB expected net interest income at year end if interest rates fell by 200 basis points on assets, but decline by 2% on liabilities.

(2 marks)

Suppose that there are two independent economic factors, F₁ and F₂. The risk-free rate is 3%, and all stocks have independent firm-specific components with a standard deviation of 52%. Portfolios A and B are both well-diversified with the following properties:

What is the expected return-beta relationship in this economy? Calculate the risk-free rate, r_f, and the factor risk premiums, RP₁ and RP₂, to complete the equation below. (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your answers to two decimal places.)

E(r_P) = r_f + (β_P1 × RP₁) + (β_P2 × RP₂)

Cullumber Communication Corp. is investing $9,882,700 in new technologies. The company’s management expects significant benefits in the first three years after installation (as can be seen by the following cash flows), and smaller constant benefits in each of the next four years.

What is the discounted payback period for the project assuming a discount rate of 10 percent? (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25. If discounted payback period exceeds life of the project, enter 0 for the answer.)

Do we have a duty of loyalty to our employer(s)? Drawing on at least two of the readings from Chapter 10, explain why or why not, being sure to support your conclusion with reasoned argument. If we do have a duty of loyalty, what kinds of actions does this duty make it unethical to perform (e.g., whistleblowing)? Explain why. What criticism(s) might someone raise against your view/conclusion? What argument(s) would you offer in response?

A project has the following cash flows: Year Cash Flow 0 $ 71,500 1 –51,000 2 –28,800 What is the IRR for this project? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Internal rate of return 8.4 % What is the NPV of this project if the required return is 5 percent? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Net present value $ What is the NPV of the project if the required return is 0 percent? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Net present value $ What is the NPV of the project if the required return is 23 percent? (A negative answer should be indicated by a minus sign. Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Net present value

• Discuss the three most common depreciation methods used in business practice. Why would a company choose one method over another? Why might a company choose to depreciate some assets using one method and another method for others? Why is recording depreciation and choosing the appropriate method an important topic for businesses to consider?
• Intangible assets can add significant value to a companies balance sheet. What are some common intangible assets? How do they add value to a company? Why are some intangible assets amortized and others are not?

Gregory is an analyst at a wealth management firm. One of his clients holds a $10,000 portfolio that consists of four stocks. The investment allocation in the portfolio along with the contribution of risk from each stock is given in the following table:

Gregory calculated the portfolio’s beta as 0.878 and the portfolio’s expected return as 12.59%.

Gregory thinks it will be a good idea to reallocate the funds in his client’s portfolio. He recommends replacing Atteric Inc.’s shares with the same amount in additional shares of Transfer Fuels Co. The risk-free rate is 6%, and the market risk premium is 7.50%.

According to Gregory’s recommendation, assuming that the market is in equilibrium, how much will the portfolio’s required return change?

0.73 percentage points

1.07 percentage points

1.15 percentage points

0.93 percentage points

Analysts’ estimates on expected returns from equity investments are based on several factors. These estimations also often include subjective and judgmental factors, because different analysts interpret data in different ways.

Suppose, based on the earnings consensus of stock analysts, Gregory expects a return of 13.16% from the portfolio with the new weights. Does he think that the revised portfolio, based on the changes he recommended, is undervalued, overvalued, or fairly valued?

Undervalued

Fairly valued

Overvalued

Suppose instead of replacing Atteric Inc.’s stock with Transfer Fuels Co.’s stock, Gregory considers replacing Atteric Inc.’s stock with the equal dollar allocation to shares of Company X’s stock that has a higher beta than Atteric Inc. If everything else remains constant, the portfolio’s beta would

increase or decrease

PART 1) An investor estimates that next​ year's sales for​ Dursley's Hotels,​ Inc., should amount to about 105 Million.The company has 3.1 million shares​ outstanding, generates a net profit margin of about 8.1​%, and has a payout ratio of 41​%. All figures are expected to hold for next year. Given this​ information, compute the following.

a. Estimated net earnings for next year.

b. Next​ year's dividends per share.

c. The expected price of the stock​ (assuming the​ P/E ratio is 28.3 times​ earnings).

d. The expected holding period return​ (latest stock​ price: ​$48.93 per​ share).

Part 2) Melissa Popp is thinking about buying some shares of R.H. Lawncare​ Equipment, at $53.35 per share. She expects the price of the stock to rise to $ 56.17 over the next 3 years. During that time she also expects to receive annual dividends of $ 6.81 per share.

a. What is the intrinsic worth of this​ stock, given a required rate of return of 9%​?

b. What is its expected​ return?

Which of the following statements is correct, assuming positive interest rates and holding other things constant? Group of answer choices

Banks A and B offer the same annual rate of interest, but A pays interest quarterly and B pays semiannually. A deposit in Bank A will have a higher value in five years.

Banks A and B offer the same nominal annual rate of interest, but A pays interest weekly and B pays quarterly. A deposit in Bank B will have a higher value in five years.

Banks A and B offer the same nominal annual rate of interest, but A pays interest daily and B pays semiannually. A deposit in Bank B will have a higher value in five years.

Banks A and B offer the same nominal annual rate of interest, but A pays interest quarterly and B pays monthly. A deposit in Bank B will have a higher value in five years.

Question 1 Part I

The capital structure of a company with relevant market information are shown as below:

Common stock: There are 55 million shares outstanding of $10 par. The stock has a beta coefficient of 1.8. The management of the company just paid an annual dividend of $1.5 per share and the market expects that the dividend growth rate to be 20 percent for coming three years and grow by 5 percent per year thereafter in the foreseeable future. The required rate of return on your company’s stock is 15 percent.

Preferred stock: 12 million shares currently selling at $96 per share, with dividend rate of 6 percent and face value of $100.

Debt: Three years ago, the company issued 9 million 15-years 8% semi-annual coupon bonds with par value of $1,000 that are still outstanding. The yield-to-maturity (in terms of an effective rate of return) on the bond is 16% per annum.

Market: The current Treasury bill yields 3 percent and the expected return on the market is 12 percent. The company is in the 40% corporate tax bracket. Required:

(a) Estimate the current common stock value using the Dividend Growth Model. (b) Calculate the bond price today. [answers in a whole dollar amount]

(c) Based on answers in above (a) and (b), determine the company’s capital structure weights (WE, WP, WD) for equities and debt. [answers in %]

(d) Compute the cost of equity (RE) using CAPM, cost of preferred stock (RP), and pre-tax cost of debt (RD). [answers in %]

(e) Assuming that the company is going to maintain the current capital structure, calculate the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of the company. [answer in %]

Richard Miyashiro purchased a condominium and obtained a 30-year loan of $198,000 at an annual interest rate of 8.15%. (Round your answers to the nearest cent.)

(a) What is the mortgage payment? $1473.61

(b) What is the total of the payments over the life of the loan? $

(c) Find the amount of interest paid on the mortgage loan over the 30 years. $