Your client is 24 years old. She wants to begin saving for retirement, with the first payment to come one year from now. She can save $13,000 per year, and you advise her to invest it in the stock market, which you expect to provide an average return of 6% in the future. If she follows your advice, how much money will she have at 65? Round your answer to the nearest cent. $ How much will she have at 70? Round your answer to the nearest cent. $ She expects to live for 20 years if she retires at 65 and for 15 years if she retires at 70. If her investments continue to earn the same rate, how much will she be able to withdraw at the end of each year after retirement at each retirement age? Round your answers to the nearest cent. Annual withdrawals if she retires at 65: $ Annual withdrawals if she retires at 70: $

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A corporation recently purchased some preferred stock that has a before-tax yield of 8.5%. The company has a tax rate of 40%. What is the after-tax return on the preferred stock? A. 7.48% B. 6.65% C. 7.04% D. 7.74% E. 7.28%

In a surprise announcement, NASA released details of a major contract with Lockheed-Martin (LMT) that would increase LMT's market value by $7.5 billion. It was widely expected by the market that this contract would be awarded to LMT's major competitor Boeing (BA). Assume that Boeing has 800 million shares outstanding and Lockheed Martin has 425 million shares outstanding. Prior to this announcement, the market felt that the probability of Boeing winning the contract was 90% and that Lockheed-Martin's chance was only about 10%. What do you anticipate will happen to Lockheed-Martin and Boeing's stock prices are a result of this surprise announcement? Show calculations.

Sandy is a single and has the following situation for the year: Sandy's income of $80,000; dividend income of $20,000; interest income of $2,000; short-term capital gain of $8,000 and long-term capital gain of 14,000. She also paid $1,000 on interest charges on her credit card. Her other total exemptions and itemized deductions is 22,000; these amounts will be deducted from her gross income to determine her taxable income. If she is files as a single individual, what is Sandy's marginal tax rate? Use the individual tax rate provided below. Individual Tax Rates: Single Individual Taxable Income You Pay This Amount on the Base of the Bracket Plus This Percentage on the Excess over the Base (Marginal Rate) Average Tax Rate at the Top of Bracket Up to $8925 $0 10.0% 10.0% $8925-36350 $892.50 15.0 13.8 $36250-87850 $4991.25 25.0 20.4 $87850-183250 $17891.25 28.0 24.3 183250-398350 $44603.25 33.0 29.0 $398350-400000 $115586.25 35.0 29.0 Over $400000 $116163.75 39.6 39.6 A. 10.0% B. 20.0% C. 25.0% D. 28.0% E. None of the above

A bank finds that its assets are not matched with its liabilities. It is taking floating-rate deposits and making fixed -rate loans. How can swaps be used to offset the risk?

• What roles have you played in public health finance, and/or what situations have you experienced in which public health finance played a role? For example, you might describe one of the following:
  • How you created a budget for your department, project, or program
  • The role you played in your organization during a merger
  • How you've kept up to date with ever-changing financial technologies
• If you have not worked in a public health role yet, describe skills you have used elsewhere that you believe you can transfer to public health finance.

MGM Co. has been approached to bid on a contract to sell 5,000 voice recognition (VR) computer keyboards per year for four years. Due to technological improvements, beyond that time they will be outdated and no sales will be possible. The equipment necessary for the production will cost $3 million and will be depreciated on a straight-line basis to a zero salvage value. Production will require an investment in a net working capital of $395,000 to be returned at the end of the project, and the equipment can be sold for $305,000 at the end of production. Fixed costs are $570,000 per year, and variable costs are $75 per unit. In addition to the contract, you feel your company can sell 11,400, 13,500 17,900, and 10,400 additional units to companies in other countries over the next four years, respectively, at a price of $180. This price is fixed. The tax rate is 21 percent, and the required return is 12 percent. Additionally, the president of the company will undertake the project only if it has an NPV of $120,000. What bid price should you set for the contract? (Can NOT use Excel)

What is a projected profit and loss statement and what is its relationship to the business plan? (100–150 words)

MGM Co. has decided to sell a new line of golf clubs. The clubs will sell for $850 per set and have a variable cost of $400 per set. The company has spent $300,000 for a marketing study that determined the company will sell 68,500 sets per year for seven years. The marketing study also determined that the company will lose sales of $12,400 sets of its high-priced clubs. The high-priced clubs sell at $1,200 and have variable costs of $660. The company will also increase sales of its cheap clubs by 14,400 sets. The cheap clubs sell for $420 and have variable costs of $210 per set. The fixed costs each year will be $10,400,000. The company has also spent $2,500,000 on research and development for the new clubs. The plant and equipment required will cost $38,500,000 and will be depreciated on a straight-line basis. The new clubs will also require an increase in net working capital of $2,900,000 that will be returned at the end of the project. The tax rate is 21 percent, and the cost of capital is 12 percent.

Suppose you feel that the values are accurate to within only +/-10 percent. What are the best-case and worst-case NPVs? (Hint: The price and variable costs for the two existing sets of clubs are known with certainty; only the sales gained or lost are uncertain.)

Cost of capital is also known as the _____.
Check all that apply:
market capitalization rate
required return
minimum expected return an investment must offer to be attractive
appropriate discount rate
opportunity cost of investing in real assets instead of financial assets with the same risk

Use the tabular method

1.What is the future value of $100,000 invested today for 5 years @8% interest compounded annually? (future value of a sum)

2.What is the present value of $1,000,000 to be received in 10 years DISCOUNTED @ 7% per annum?(present value of a sum)

How do crypto currencies fit into the world of traditional currencies? How are they the same/different? What does the future hold for currencies?

CAPITAL BUDGETING

In December 2019, Bob Prescott, the controller for the Blue Ridge Mill, was considering the addition of new on-site long-wood woodyard. The addition would have two primary benefits: to eliminate the need to purchase short-wood from an outside supplier and create the opportunity to sell short-wood on the open market as a new market for Worldwide Paper Company (WPC). The new woodyard would allow the Blue Ridge Mill not only to reduce its operating costs but also to increase its revenues. The proposed woodyard will utilise new technology that allows tree-length logs, called long-wood, to be processed directly, whereas the current process required short-wood, which had to be purchased from the Shenandoah Mill.

This nearby mill, owned by a competitor, has excess capacity that allows it to produce more short-wood than it needs for its own pulp production. The excess is sold to several different mills, including the Blue Ridge Mill. Thus, adding the new long-wood equipment would mean that Prescott would no longer need to use the Shenandoah Mill as a short-wood supplier and that the Blue Ridge Mill would instead compete with the Shenandoah Mill by selling on the short-wood market. The question for Prescott was whether these expected benefits were enough to justify the $18m capital outlay plus the incremental investment in working capital over the six-year life of the investment.

Construction would start within a few months, and the investment outlay would be spent over two calendar years: $16m in 2020 and the remaining $2m in 2021. When the woodyard begins operating in 2021, it would significantly reduce the operating costs of the mill. These operating savings would come mostly from the difference in the cost of producing short-wood on-site versus buying it on the open market and were estimated to be $2m for 2021 and $3.5m per year thereafter.

Prescott also planned on taking advantage of the excess production capacity afforded by the new facility by selling short-wood on the open market as soon as possible. For 2021, he expected to show revenues of approximately $14m, as the facility came on-line and began to break into the new market. He expected shortwood sales to reach $20m in 2022 and continue at the $20m level through 2026. Prescott estimated that the cost of goods sold (before including depreciation expense) would be 75%.

In addition to the capital outlay of $18m, the increased revenues would necessitate higher levels of inventories and accounts receivable. Therefore the amount of working capital investment each year would equal 15% of incremental sales for the year. At the end of the life of the equipment, in 2026, all the networking capital on the books would be recoverable at cost fully.

Taxes would be paid at a 30% rate, and the equipment depreciation is to be calculated on a straight-line basis over the six-year life to zero balance. However, the new equipment is estimated to have a salvage value (scrap value) of $3m at the end of its life. WPC’s accountants have told Prescott that depreciation charges could not begin until 2021, when all the $18m had been spent and the equipment is in service.

WPC has a company policy to use 15% as the hurdle rate for such investment opportunities. The hurdle rate is based on the study of the company’s cost of capital conducted 5 years ago.

Required:

1. Prepare cash flow statement/s and compute the NPV and IRR of the proposed project. Comment on the feasibility of the project.

2. Outline reasons why Prescott may be uneasy using the 15% hurdle rate for a discount rate.

Empire Today Inc. has 10 million shares of common stock outstanding, 300,000 shares of 5% preferred stock outstanding, and 7 million of 6.7 percent semiannual bonds outstanding, par value $1,000 each. The common stock currently sells for $85 per share and has a beta of 1.15, the preferred stock currently sells for $103 per share, and the bonds have 20 years to maturity and sell for 93% of par. The market risk premium is 11 percent, T-bills are yielding 2.14 %, and the firm's tax rate is 25.7%.

1) Calculate the firm’s Weighted Average Cost of Capital and explain the meaning of WACC using your calculated solution.

2) The CFO is assessing a potential project which will yield an IRR of 9.3%. The project has the firm level risk. Should the CFO accept the project? Provide your explanations.

Define each term in short words and provide an example for each term as well:

1) Seasoned Equity Offering (SEO):

2) Security Market Line (SML):

3) Sinking Fund:

4) Syndicate:

5) Systematic Risk Principle:

6) Tender Offer:

7) Treasury Bond:

8) Treasury Stock:

9) Unsystematic Risk: