Company A, today expects to earn $8.50 per share for each of the future operating periods (beginning at Time 1), today if the firm makes no new investments and returns the earnings as dividends to the shareholders. However, the CEO has discovered an opportunity to retain and invest 20 percent of the earnings beginning three years from today. This opportunity to invest will continue for each period indefinitely. He expects to earn 10 percent on this new equity investment, the return beginning one year after each investment is made. The firm’s equity discount rate is 12 percent.

a. What is the price per share of Company A's stock without making the new investment?

b. If the new investment is expected to be made, per the preceding information, what would the price of the stock be now?

c. Suppose the company could increase the investment in the project by whatever amount it chose. What would the retention ratio need to be to make this project attractive?

You work in a Finance department and are asked to analyze the economics of an existing jet, which would be retired in four years. A new jet is purchased each time a jet is retired because the CEO travels regularly. If other managers use the existing jet, the company would save $1,000,000 each year on commercial airline flights, however, operating costs (e.g. fuel, maintenance) for the existing jet would be $700,000 greater each year, and the jet would need to be replaced at the end of three years instead of four. Assume the company does not pay taxes. The opportunity cost of capital is 8%. Assume a new jet costs $10 million and has a life of ten years. Assume GE would not allow other managers to use a new jet.

Should the company allow other officers to use the existing jet (i.e. allow managers to use the existing jet for three years, but not use the new jet)?

You have been hired as a staff accountant by a small company that recently completed an initial public offering (IPO) of its common stock. At its inception, the company had been financed by Pegasus, an investment group. Pegasus had bought a significant amount of the company’s debt (equal to a third of its total assets) in the form of convertible bonds. The stock price has appreciated significant since the IPO, and Pegasus has decided to convert its debt securities into equity, giving Pegasus a 28% stake in the company. Your CEO, Dane Hathaway, argues that this conversion should not be reported on the cash flow statement. “It didn’t involve any cash both way, and it’s not like the structure of our business has changed. We haven’t increased or changed our fixed assets, and we haven’t given anything up.”

Research the appropriate Codification and prepare a business memo explaining whether Dane's reasoning is correct and citing your references.

At the most recent strategic planning meeting, the board of directors of your company has voted to issue additional stock to raise capital for major expansions for the company in the next five years. The board is considering $5 billion. Take the most recent financial statements and prepare a set of projected financial statements based on the given assumptions. The CEO requests that you prepare a written report (including the financial statements) for her. The company is Starbucks.

Generate a projected income statement based on the given scenario. Analyze the impact on the income statement based on the given scenario.

Generate a projected statement of retained earnings based on the given scenario. Analyze the impact on the statement of retained earnings based on the given scenario.

Generate a projected balance sheet based on the given scenario. Analyze the impact on the balance sheet based on the given scenario.

Generate a projected cash flow statement based on the given scenario. Analyze the impact on the cash flow statement based on the given scenario.

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You are the finance manager of a company and currently your company has $100 million in cash that will not be needed for a few more weeks. You are thinking about arbitrage opportunities using Euro and GBP in order to put the cash reserves into use and hopefully earn more money for your company. You have to make a decision about details of your arbitrage with regard to which currency to buy in which order. Check exchange rates, find current rates for USD, Euro, and GBP, and share the details of your arbitrage plan with your CEO. Is it poosible to find an arbitrage trade to generate some profits (assume you will have no trading costs)? If so, what should be the order of your transactions in order to make a profit from this arbitrage operations?

I received a response stating "need enough knowledge" and about "exchange rates". I am not sure what that means, please elaborate instead of 2-3 word responses.

Today is 15 April 2020.

You are an audit manager of QUTPG Partners and are planning the audit of RST Co for the year ending 30 June 2020. The company is a manufacturer of digital devices and your have already had a planning meeting, with the finance director. Forecast revenue is $137.2m and profit before tax is $8.4m. The following notes from the planning meeting have been given to you.

Planning Meeting Notes

• RST Co holds inventory in four warehouses in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra respectively. RST Co plans to conduct a full inventory stocktake at the warehouses on 1, 2, 3 and 4 July. Any necessary adjustments will be made to reflect post year-end movements of inventory. RST Co has an internal audit function and an internal audit team will attend the inventory counts. Inventories are measured at the lower of cost and net realisable value. Cost includes the purchase price of raw materials, labour and other production costs, and other general overheads including head office administrative costs.
• During the year, RST Co paid $2.2m to purchase a patent which allows the company the exclusive right for five years to customise their portable audio player to gain a competitive advantage in the market. The $2.2m has been expensed in the current year statement of profit or loss. To finance this purchase, RST Co raised $2.4m through new share issuance.
• It was discovered that, in January 2020, a significant fraud had been colluded by four employees in the sales ledger department by stealing funds from wholesale customer receipts. They allocated later customer receipts against the older receivables to cover the stolen funds. RST Co had reported to the police and subsequently dismissed the four employees.
• As a result of the vacancies in the sales ledger department, RST Co has outsourced its sales ledger processing to U Services, an external service organisation since 1March 2020. U Services handles all elements of the sales ledger cycle, including sales invoicing, chasing receivables balances, and sending monthly reports of sales and receivable amounts to RST Co.
• In December 2019, the financial accountant of RST Co was dismissed. He had been employed by the company for ten years, and he has threatened to sue the company for unfair dismissal. Until his replacement commences work in March, the financial accountant’s responsibilities have been allocated to other staff in the finance department. However, in January and February 2020, no reconciliations of supplier statement have been performed, and no reconciliations of purchase ledger control account have been performed.
• In January 2019, a receivable balance of $1.8m was written off by RST Co when a customer had declared bankruptcy. In February 2020, the liquidators of the customer company publicly announced that it was likely that most of its creditors would receive a pay-out of 30% of the balance owed. As a result, RST Co has included a current asset of $540,000 in the balance sheet and other income in the statement of profit or loss.

• Required:

  (a) Describe QUTPG Partners’ responsibilities in relation to the prevention and detection of fraud and error.

  (b) Describe EIGHT audit risks, and explain the auditor’s response to each risk in planning the audit of RST Co.

Janice Underwood, an MBA student in Southeastern University , has been hired as a night manager of Campus Deli and Sub Shop (CDSS), which is located adjacent to the campus. Sales were $ 875,000 last year; variable costs were 60 % of sales; and fixed costs were $ 50,000. Therefore, EBIT totalled $ 300,000. Since the university ‘s enrollment is capped, the store’s EBIT is expected to be constant over time. Since no expansion capital is required, CDSS pays out all earnings as dividends.

CDSS is currently all equity financed, and its 100,000 shares outstanding sell at a price of $ 10 per share. The firm’s tax rate is 34 %. Underwood believes that the firm will be better off if some debt financing is used.She needs some justification for her suggestion. She developed the following estimates of the costs of debt and equity at different debt levels ( in thousands of dollars ):

Amount   borrowed                                    cost of debt                 cost of equity

$     0                                                                  _                               15.0%

   200                                                              10.0%                          15.5

   400                                                              11.0                              16.5

   500                                                              13.0                              18.0

   600                                                              16.0                              20.0

If the firm were recapitalized, the borrowed funds would be used to repurchase stock. Stockholders ,in return, would use the funds provided by the repurchase    to buy equities in other fast food companies similar to CDSS. Underwood needs help in answering the following questions:

1.Calculate CDSS’s expected EPS at debt levels of $0, $ 200,000, $400,000,$ and 600,000. How many shares would remain after recapitalization under each scenario? Assume that shares are repurchased at the current market price of $ 10per share?

2. What would be the stock price under each case defined above?

3.If CDSS’s fixed costs total $ 50,000, what is its degree of operating leverage?

4. What will be CDSS’s degree of financial leverage at a debt level of $ 500,000?

Business Weekly conducted a survey of graduates from 30 top MBA programs. On the basis of the survey, assume the mean annual salary for graduates 10 years after graduation is 169000 dollars. Assume the standard deviation is 43000 dollars. Suppose you take a simple random sample of 77 graduates. Find the probability that a single randomly selected policy has a mean value between 168019.9 and 175860.4 dollars. P(168019.9 < X < 175860.4) = (Enter your answers as numbers accurate to 4 decimal places.) Find the probability that a random sample of size n = 77 n=77 has a mean value between 168019.9 and 175860.4 dollars. P(168019.9 < M < 175860.4) = (Enter your answers as numbers accurate to 4 decimal places.)

Business Weekly conducted a survey of graduates from 30 top MBA programs. On the basis of the survey, assume the mean annual salary for graduates 10 years after graduation is 121000 dollars. Assume the standard deviation is 41000 dollars. Suppose you take a simple random sample of 79 graduates.

Find the probability that a single randomly selected salary exceeds 117000 dollars.
P(X > 117000) =

Find the probability that a sample of size n=79 is randomly selected with a mean that exceeds 117000 dollars.
P(M > 117000) =

Enter your answers as numbers accurate to 4 decimal places.