Your factory has been offered a contract to produce a part for a new printer. The contract would last for
33
years and your cash flows from the contract would be
$ 5.24$5.24
million per year. Your upfront setup costs to be ready to produce the part would be
$ 7.82$7.82
million. Your discount rate for this contract is
7.6 %7.6%.
a. What does the NPV rule say you should do?
b. If you take the contract, what will be the change in the value of your firm?
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Rate the three most important concepts of Working Capital, Financial budgeting, and The Cash Budget in order of importance (one being the most important; three, the least). Provide a rationale for your ratings.
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Subject: Insurance Practices
Q4:
There are two major types of risk management tools, namely, risk control and risk financing. Discuss the details of these tools with examples.
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Compare a value firm with a growth firm? What are some metrics that one can normally use to characterize firms in the value or growth category? How does valuation of a growth company compare to that of a value company? Can a growth company become a value company? How? Provide the name of a company that you think used to be a growth company that is now a value firm. Compare how your valuation of a growing company would differ from that of a declining company. How does the macro economy affect your valuation of each (inflation, economic growth, value of the dollar)?
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A $16,000 bond redeemable at par on July 27, 2012 is purchased on October 19, 2002. Interest is 6.9% payable semi-annually and the yield is 7.3% compounded semi-annually.
a. What is the cash price?
b. What is the accrued interest?
c. What is the quoted price?
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What is EBITDA? How does it compare to operating income? Which is likely to be the largest? Identify and discuss several liquidity ratios? Current ratio, quick ratio? Can the quick ratio ever be greater than the current ratio? Profitability ratios? Gross margin?
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Compare and contrast the valuation of a business using discounted cash flow (DCF) and relative valuation (multiples). What elements do you need to know in order to proceed with each methodology? In what cases would you advise against using DCF? Relative valuation? How would a Federal Reserve interest rate increase affect your valuation? Suppose you decided to use DCB. Discuss how you would estimate the risk premium for the company.
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Anderson Corp just issued a stock dividend of$2.00 yesterday. The company plans on increasing the dividend by 6% per year for the next 5 years. After which, the dividend will grow at 3% forever. The required rate of return is 10%.
A) Calculate the current price of the stock
B)Calculate what the price of the stock should be in 1 year
C) Calculate the Dividend yield and capital gains yield during the first year.
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True or False:
This question has 5 parts:
a) the slope coefficient computed by regressing a particular stock's historical returns on the s&p 500 returns is called beta,the stock's beta with respect to the s&p 500 index; beta is important in finding variance-minimizing hedged portfolis.
b)a swap provides a means for replacing a stream of uncertain and variable payments with a fixed, non-variable payment stream that is certain.
c)the zero-cost collar options trading strategy involves buying a call option and selling a put option on the same stock with the same expiration date, same premium, and a higher strike price than the call option.
d)suppose you go long 10 Eurodollar futures contracts at price of 97. when the futures contracts settle at expiration, 3-month LIBOR is 1%.j ignoring commissions and margin interest, your position results in a $50,000 loss.
e)the current u.s. dollar/Chinese yuan currency spot rate is $0.13 per yuan. the fair value price for the U.S. dollar /Chinese yuan exchange rete for a 2-year forward contract is $0.1408. If the U.S. dollar denominated annual interest rate is 6%, the Chinese yuan-denominated annual interest rate must be 3%.
u can just answer true or false, but if u can simply explain why, It will be better. thank you
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HappyPups makes pet cameras and will be introducing their newest product, the Furbo. The Furbo is a camera that allows dog owners to check in on their pup, give their pup a treat, and talk to them while they are away. HappyPups spent $375,000 on consumer demand studies and an additional $40,000 on research and development to get the perfect product for all pet lovers. Each Furbo will sell for $195. It is expected that Furbo product will generate additional revenue from the sale of treats that are compatible with device. It is expected that 50% of Furbo purchases will result in an additional $15 net profit from treat sales at time of purchase. The Furbo has a variable cost of $125.00, and the project will incur an annual fixed cost of $1,400,000 each year. HappyPups will need to purchase a new machine to manufacture the Furbo for $2,000,000, and will be depreciated using the 3-yr MACRS schedule. HappyPups anticipates it will be able to sell the machine for $750,000 at the end of the project in three years. In order to promote the product, HappyPups will initially set aside $1,000,000 worth of inventory at the beginning of the project and will readjust NWC levels to reflect 10% of Furbo Sales (not including the treats). All inventory will be liquidated at the end of project. However, by introducing the Furbo, HappyPups anticipate that will take away roughly $1,000,000 in revenue each year from its existing pet camera line. The required return for the project is 20%, and the tax rate is 21%
Year |
MACRS |
1 |
33.33% |
2 |
44.45% |
3 |
14.81% |
4 |
7.41% |
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As a member of the Finance Department of Ranch Manufacturing, your supervisor has asked you to compute the appropriate discount rate to use when evaluating the purchase of new packaging equipment for the plant. Under the assumption that the firm's present capital structure reflects the appropriate mix of capital sources for the firm, you have determined the market value of the firm's capital structure as follows: To finance the purchase, Ranch Manufacturing will sell 10-year bonds paying interest at a rate of 7.2 percent per year (with semiannual payment) at the market price of $1 comma 044. Preferred stock paying a $2.02 dividend can be sold for $24.97. Common stock for Ranch Manufacturing is currently selling for $54.31 per share and the firm paid a $3.09 dividend last year. Dividends are expected to continue growing at a rate of 5.3 percent per year into the indefinite future. If the firm's tax rate is 30 percent, what discount rate should you use to evaluate the equipment purchase?
Source of Capital Market Values
Bonds $3,500,000
Preferred stock $2,300,000
Common stock $6,000,000
a. Calculate component weights of capital.
The weight of debt in the firm's capital structure is ?
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An investor has two bonds in his portfolio that have a face value of $1,000 and pay an 11% annual coupon. Bond L matures in 13 years, while Bond S matures in 1 year. What will the value of the Bond L be if the going interest rate is 7%, 9%, and 12%? Assume that only one more interest payment is to be made on Bond S at its maturity and that 13 more payments are to be made on Bond L. Round your answers to the nearest cent. 7% 9% 12% Bond L $ $ $ Bond S $ $ $ Why does the longer-term bond’s price vary more than the price of the shorter-term bond when interest rates change? Long-term bonds have lower reinvestment rate risk than do short-term bonds. The change in price due to a change in the required rate of return increases as a bond's maturity decreases. Long-term bonds have greater interest rate risk than do short-term bonds. The change in price due to a change in the required rate of return decreases as a bond's maturity increases. Long-term bonds have lower interest rate risk than do short-term bonds.
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Let us say you are a manager of a given Multinational Corporation and requested to solicit a fund of $300 Million for a new project. Explain the source of fund you will be looking for? Tell us the step-by-step action you will make in getting this fund from the sources you identified.
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Using the CAPM, calculate the 2016 expected return on Facebook’s shares.
Assumptions:
Risk-free rate, Rf = 2.5%
E(Rm) = 7.5%
Use the SP500 index to proxy for the market portfolio.
Hints to calculate beta:
- Use daily stock returns during 2016 (start date 01-Jan-2016, end date 31-Dec-2016).
- Download stock prices for Facebook and the SP500 with ticker name FB and ^GSPC, respectively, from www.finance.yahoo.com.
- Use adjusted prices to calculate returns.
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19) There are two competing proposals for the redevelopment of a piece of vacant land in Accra. One is to construct an office block on the site and the other is to construct a casino.
Year |
Office |
Casino |
0 |
-300 |
-300 |
1 |
-30 |
-400 |
2 |
90 |
50 |
3 |
180 |
100 |
4 |
215 |
800 |
(a) Calculate the Net Present Value of each project using a discount rate of 6% and comment on your results
(b) Calculate the payback of period of each project and comment on your results
(c) Based on the internal rate of return criteria, explain the advice you would give to your client if the internal rate of returns for Office and Casino are 16% and 17.8% respectively
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