You are a homebuilder with excess houses in inventory and the local economy heading towards a recession. In order to stimulate home sales, you offer the following promotion: 1.5% annual interest for the first 3 years of your new mortgage!

You have contracted with a local bank to offer 30-year, fully amortizing mortgages for your buyers at a rate of 3.95% per year with a .8 Loan-to-Value (LTV) ratio.

You have agreed to pay the bank the Present Value of the difference in monthly payments between their rate of 3.95%/year and your “teaser” rate of 1.5%/year.

Your promotion is working, and soon you have a home under contract to sell for $300,000. Using a Discount Rate of 5%/year, what is the amount which you willpay the bank at closing to compensate them for the 3-year teaser interest rate?

Use Excel. Use $$$ please

3. The cost of debt

What do lenders require, and what kind of debt costs the company?

The cost of debt that is relevant when companies are evaluating new investment projects is the marginal cost of the new debt to be raised to finance the new project.

Consider the case of Peaceful Book Binding Company (PBBC):

Peaceful Book Binding Company is considering issuing a new 30-year debt issue that would pay an annual coupon payment of $100. Each bond in the issue would carry a $1,000 par value and would be expected to be sold for a price equal to its par value.

PBBC’s CFO has pointed out that the firm would incur a flotation cost of 1% when initially issuing the bond issue. Remember, the flotation costs will be _________the proceeds the firm will receive after issuing its new bonds. The firm’s marginal federal-plus-state tax rate is 35%.

To see the effect of flotation costs on PBBC’s after-tax cost of debt (generic), calculate the after-tax cost of the firm’s debt issue with and without its flotation costs, and select the correct after-tax costs (in percentage form):

This is the cost of _______ debt, and it is different from the average cost of capital raised in the past.

2. Solving for the WACC

9.97

The WACC is used as the discount rate to evaluate various capital budgeting projects. However, it is important to realize that the WACC is only an appropriate discount rate for a project of average risk—in other words, a project that has the same beta as the company. If a project has less risk than the overall company risk, it should be evaluated with a lower discount rate; if a project is riskier than the overall company risk, it should be evaluated using a discount rate higher than the company WACC.

Analyze the cost of capital situations of the following company cases, and answer the specific questions that finance professionals need to address.

Consider the case of Turnbull Co.

Turnbull Co. has a target capital structure of 58% debt, 6% preferred stock, and 36% common equity. It has a before-tax cost of debt of 8.2%, and its cost of preferred stock is 9.3%.

If Turnbull can raise all of its equity capital from retained earnings, its cost of common equity will be 12.4%. However, if it is necessary to raise new common equity, it will carry a cost of 14.2%.

If its current tax rate is 40%, how much higher will Turnbull’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) be if it has to raise additional common equity capital by issuing new common stock instead of raising the funds through retained earnings? (Note: Do not round your intermediate calculations.)

0.65%

0.55%

0.88%

0.81%

Turnbull Co. is considering a project that requires an initial investment of $1,708,000. The firm will raise the $1,708,000 in capital by issuing $750,000 of debt at a before-tax cost of 9.6%, $78,000 of preferred stock at a cost of 10.7%, and $880,000 of equity at a cost of 13.5%. The firm faces a tax rate of 40%. What will be the WACC for this project? ______ (Note: Do not round intermediate calculations.)

Consider the case of Kuhn Co.

Kuhn Co. is considering a new project that will require an initial investment of $4 million. It has a target capital structure of 58% debt, 6% preferred stock, and 36% common equity. Kuhn has noncallable bonds outstanding that mature in five years with a face value of $1,000, an annual coupon rate of 10%, and a market price of $1,050.76. The yield on the company’s current bonds is a good approximation of the yield on any new bonds that it issues. The company can sell shares of preferred stock that pay an annual dividend of $8 at a price of $92.25 per share. You can assume that Jordan does not incur any flotation costs when issuing debt and preferred stock.

Kuhn does not have any retained earnings available to finance this project, so the firm will have to issue new common stock to help fund it. Its common stock is currently selling for $33.35 per share, and it is expected to pay a dividend of $2.78 at the end of next year. Flotation costs will represent 3% of the funds raised by issuing new common stock. The company is projected to grow at a constant rate of 9.2%, and they face a tax rate of 40%. Determine what Kuhn Company’s WACC will be for this project _______.     

Given certain international transactions, determine if they cause a supply/demand of the U.S. dollar as well as a depreciation/appreciation of the U.S. dollar? "at least 1 paragraph required"

This is all that was given is just wants really an opinion on it

As a manager of an MNE( Multinational Enterprise) what are the implications of a STRENGTHENING DOMESTIC CURRENCY on a companies?

A. Profits

B. Revenues

C. Exports/Imports

Textbook Question 3

Use what you have learned about the time value of money to analyze each of the following decisions:

Decision #1:   Which set of Cash Flows is worth more now?

Assume that your grandmother wants to give you generous gift. She wants you to choose which one of the following sets of cash flows you would like to receive:

Option A: Receive a one-time gift of $ 10,000 today.   

Option B: Receive a $1500 gift each year for the next 10 years. The first $1500 would be

     received 1 year from today.                 

Option C: Receive a one-time gift of $18,000 10 years from today.

Compute the Present Value of each of these options if you expect the interest rate to be 3% annually for the next 10 years.    Which of these options does financial theory suggest you should choose?

       Option A would be worth $__________ today.

      Option B would be worth $__________ today.

       Option C would be worth $__________ today.

       Financial theory supports choosing Option _______

Compute the Present Value of each of these options if you expect the interest rate to be 6% annually for the next 10 years. Which of these options does financial theory suggest you should choose?

       Option A would be worth $__________ today.

       Option B would be worth $__________ today.

       Option C would be worth $__________ today.

      Financial theory supports choosing Option _______

Compute the Present Value of each of these options if you expect to be able to earn 9% annually for the next 10 years. Which of these options does financial theory suggest you should choose?

       Option A would be worth $__________ today.

       Option B would be worth $__________ today.

       Option C would be worth $__________ today.

       Financial theory supports choosing Option _______

Decision #2: Planning for Retirement

Erich and Mallory are 22, newly married, and ready to embark on the journey of life.   They both plan to retire 45 years from today. Because their budget seems tight right now, they had been thinking that they would wait at least 10 years and then start investing $3000 per year to prepare for retirement. Mallory just told Erich, though, that she had heard that they would actually have more money the day they retire if they put $3000 per year away for the next 10 years - and then simply let that money sit for the next 35 years without any additional payments – then they would have MORE when they retired than if they waited 10 years to start investing for retirement and then made yearly payments for 35 years (as they originally planned to do).   Please help Erich and Mallory make an informed decision:   

Assume that all payments are made at the END a year (or month), and that the rate of return on all yearly investments will be 7.2% annually.  

(Please do NOT ROUND when entering “Rates” for any of the questions below)

1. How much money will Erich and Mallory have in 45 years if they do nothing for the next 10 years, then put $3000 per year away for the remaining 35 years?

2. How much money will Erich and Mallory have in 10 years if they put $3000 per year away for the next 10 years?

b2) How much will the amount you just computed grow to if it remains invested for the remaining

35 years, but without any additional yearly deposits being made?

3. How much money will Erich and Mallory have in 45 years if they put $3000 per year away for each of the next 45 years?

How much money will Erich and Mallory have in 45 years if they put away $250

4. per MONTH at the end of each month for the next 45 years? (Remember to adjust 7.2% annual rate to a Rate per month!)

5. If Erich and Mallory wait 25 years (after the kids are raised!) before they put anything away for retirement, how much will they have to put away at the end of each year for 20 years in order to have $1,000,000 saved up on the first day of their retirement 45 years from today?

McGilla Golf is evaluating a new line of golf clubs. The clubs will sell for $920 per set and have a variable cost of $410 per set. The company has spent $137,500 for a marketing study that determined the company will sell 46,500 sets per year for seven years. The marketing study also determined that the company will lose sales of 8,700 sets of its high-priced clubs. The high-priced clubs sell at $1,420 and have variable costs of $550. The company also will increase sales of its cheap clubs by 11,300 sets. The cheap clubs sell for $410 and have variable costs of $140 per set. The fixed costs each year will be $9,250,000. The company has also spent $975,000 on research and development for the new clubs. The plant and equipment required will cost $28,350,000 and will be depreciated on a straight-line basis to a zero salvage value. The new clubs also will require an increase in net working capital of $2,290,000 that will be returned at the end of the project. The tax rate is 24 percent and the cost of capital is 15 percent. Calculate the payback period. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 3 decimal places, e.g., 32.161.) Calculate the NPV. (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Calculate the IRR. (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Three years from now (now =Year 0) the equipment that Dark Star Technologies uses to coat and protect the surfaces on its products will have to be replaced. Dark Star plans to operate the new equipment for 7 years (Years 4 to 10). The company is considering two procurement options.

Option 1: MAKE the manufacturing equipment in-house. The yearly acquisition costs associated with developing the equipment in-house are as follows: Year 1 = $200,000, Year 2 = $700,000, Year 3 = $1,000,000. The Annual Operation & Maintenance Cost of the in-house developed equipment will be $100,000 (Years 4 to 10). Assume the equipment has zero salvage value.

Option 2: BUY manufacturing equipment available from ACME Specialties. The acquisition cost associated with purchasing the equipment is $1,000,000 (Year 3). The Annual Operation and Maintenance Cost of the manufacturing equipment purchased from Acme Specialties will be $300,000 (Years 4 to 10). Assume the equipment has zero salvage value. For an interest rate = 10%

a) Calculate the equivalent cost at future Year 3 of Option 1 and Option 2. Year 3 is when the system goes into operation, i.e., the end of the production phase for Option 1 (MAKE) or when the purchased equipment is ready for use OPTION 2 (BUY).

b) Which option should Dark Star Technologies choose based on equivalent costs?

Please show what equations are used

I need to create a business plan for Johnson & Johnson, it does have to fit to their specific financial situations. Maybe just some examples? please help?

A. Financial Projections

How will you fund the business?

What is your desired debt and equity position?

Who will provide capital debt funds?

What role will leasing play in your financial strategy?

Will you use outside investors for equity capital?

How will you manage the financial risks your business faces?

What operating procedures, such as developing cash flow budgets or spending limits, will you have to ensure adequate money for debt repayment?

What are the important assumptions that underlie your projections? These assumptions may be associated with both external or internal factors.

What financial aspects of your business (equity, asset growth, ROA, ROE, etc.) will you monitor?

What procedures will be used for monitoring overall business performance?

What level of performance will your business shoot for? These should be targets for next year and in five years. They should be financial performance standards used to monitor the overall business.

What yield and output levels could you attain? What efficiency levels will you reach?

Using the FINRA Bond Center search engine, determine if any U.S. government agencies issue preferred stock. If you find a preferred stock issue from a U.S. government agency, create a screen capture of the first 10 lines or so of bond detail info retrieved by the search engine, and display it below. Be sure that it includes the “maturity date” and “bond type” fields. (Hint: remember that preferred stock is a hybrid bond-like equity security and is “perpetual”.)