| Corporate Finance2 CreditsBU.231.620.62Thursday 6pm – 9pm‚ 10/18/2012--12/13/2012Fall2‚ 2012Columbia‚ Columbia Center‚ 218 | Instructor Shabnam Mousavi Contact Information Phone Number: (410)234-9450 E-mail Address: shabnam@jhu.edu Office Hours Monday/Thursday 10am-noon Required Text and Learning Materials (1) Berk‚ J. and P. DeMarzo. 2007. Corporate Finance. 2nd Edition. Pearson‚ Addison-Wesley with MyLab access. The ISBN is 0-13-295-040-5. (2) Lecture Notes. The lecture
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Solutions to questions 1. Finance involves three main areas—corporate finance‚ financial institutions and markets‚ and investments—that are closely related and complementary. For example‚ in corporate finance the central issues are how to acquire and employ or invest funds. To acquire funds a financial manager must deal with financial institutions‚ so some knowledge of the operations of financial institutions and markets is essential. Similarly‚ corporate finance involves investments because decisions
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Solutions to Chapter 10 Introduction to Risk‚ Return‚ and the Opportunity Cost of Capital capital gain + dividend ($44 − $40) + $2 = = 0.15 = 15.0% initial share price $40 1. Rate of return = Dividend yield = dividend/initial share price = $2/$40 = 0.05 = 5% Capital gains yield = capital gain/initial share price = $4/$40 = 0.10 = 10% 2. Dividend yield = $2/$40 = 0.05 = 5% The dividend yield is unaffected; it is based on the initial price‚ not the final price. Capital gain = $36 – $40
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PROBLEM SET 5: INTEREST RATES‚ AMORTIZING LOANS‚ BOND VALUATION‚ STOCK VALUATION 1. A typical credit card agreement quotes an interest rate of 18 percent APR. Monthly payments are required. What is the actual interest rate you pay on such a credit card? 2. After carefully going over your budget‚ you have determined you can afford to pay €632 per month toward a new sports car. You call up your local bank and find out that the going rate is 1 percent per month for 48 months. How much you can borrow
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1. Tom believes the company should use the extra cash to pay a special one-time dividend. How will this proposal affect the stock price? How will it affect the value of the company? Electronic Timing‚ Inc. (ETI) needs to be careful on how it dispenses the extra cash as a dividend. Issuing the extra cash as a dividend would mean that the shareholders collectively will probably drop by the same amount because of the transfer of wealth from the company to the shareholders individually. Hence‚ the
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Final Exam Practice Problems 1. Firm ABC’s only outstanding debt is $100‚000 worth of coupon bond (market value). Its yield to maturity is 8%. Given that its tax rate is 40%‚ what is its effective cost of debt? Effective cost of debt = cost of debt * (1-tax rate) =8%*(1-40%)=4.8% 2. Firm ABC has a stock currently traded at $20. The next year’s dividend will be $0.20. The dividend growth rate is forecasted to be 6% forever. Risk-free rate is 3%‚ and market risk premium is 4%. Assume that Constant
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24. We can use the debt-equity ratio to calculate the weights of equity and debt. The debt of the company has a weight for long-term debt and a weight for accounts payable. We can use the weight given for accounts payable to calculate the weight of accounts payable and the weight of long-term debt. The weight of each will be: Accounts payable weight = .15/1.15 = .13 Long-term debt weight = 1/1.15 = .87 Since the accounts payable has the same cost as the overall WACC‚ we can write the equation for
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In this chapter we will study that how more than one factor which is associated with expected return‚ are evaluated on capital asset pricing model. We have described earlier that beta specifies the inclination level or slope of characteristic line and this is denoted by βj. Extended capital asset pricing model evaluates many factors other than beta‚ to calculate the expected return of a security. We can add or include some other factors to the equation of expected return of a security‚ to gain more
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EF4313 - Individual Case Questions: “Massey-Ferguson‚ Ltd. (1980)” You are responsible for handing in written answers to the following questions drawn from the Massey-Ferguson case. You can work with others on this assignment‚ but each individual must hand in their own set of answers. 1. Net sales for Massey-Ferguson actually increased between 1979 and 1980. Despite this‚ net income and income from continuing operations both dropped sharply in 1980. Which item on the income statement
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Department of Finance‚ HKUST Spring 2013 Email: Xuewenliu@ust.hk Office hour: 13:30-14:30 Tuesday Assessment: Assignments (12%)‚ Midterm-exam (18%)‚ Projects and presentations (15%)‚ and Final exam (55%) Textbooks: 1. Corporate Finance‚ by J. Beck and P. DeMarzo‚ 2nd edition 2011‚ Pearson Education‚ Inc. Hereafter BD. 2. Financial Markets and Corporate Strategy‚ by M. Grinblatt and S. Titman‚ 2nd edition‚ 2002‚ Irwin McGraw Hill. Hereafter GT. I. Introduction to Corporate Finance 1. Corporations
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