Chapter 5 Notes Three general reasons for holding onto cash: 1. managing transaction needs 2. preparing for cash emergencies 3. making a temporary investment -very conservative advice suggest you should have enough liquid assets to cover 5 to 8 months of regular expenses -others suggest 2 months is more than enough Four rules to help better cash management outcomes: 1. keep track of your cash by balancing your checkbook every month 2. develop a system to ensure that
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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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( Answers to Mini-Case Questions BioCom Inc. This mini-case provides a review of the methodology and rationale associated with the various capital budgeting evaluation methods such as payback period‚ discounted payback period‚ NPV‚ IRR‚ MIRR‚ and PI. 1. Compute the payback period for each project. |Time of Cash Flow |Nano Test Tubes |Microsurgery Kit | |Investment |−$11‚000.00 |−$11‚000.00
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Executive Review Porsche is a company that prides itself in quality and customer satisfaction. Because of this customers are always considered to be first priority for the company. The only issue with this business method is that the shareholders do not feel valued. Porsche operates more like a family-owned firm instead of focusing mainly on shareholder value. While operating like a family-owned firm may be admired by some‚ it also has a downside. The company has been somewhat infamous for occasional
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admission ticket tomorrow if you don’t mind. I promise you that this will never happen again and again I’m really so sorry Mrs. Hernandez. As the book progress‚ Scarlett’s personality is becoming worse and worse. I really can’t believe that in chapter 32‚ she thought a "good" plan to marry Rhett and to use his money to pay Tara. I know she’s struggling to find a way to get
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End-of-Chapter Question Solutions 1 ____________________________________________________________ ________________________________ CHAPTER 5: FOREIGN CURRENCY DERIVATIVES 1. Options versus Futures. Explain the difference between foreign currency options and futures and when either might be most appropriately used. An option is a contract giving the buyer the right but not the obligation to buy or sell a given amount of foreign exchange at a fixed price for a specified time period. A future
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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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by examining whether it is at least profitable enough to pay off its interest expenses. | Total Asset Turnover | Tells us the amount of sales generated for every dollar worth of assets. | Equity Multiplier | Tells us how a company uses debt to finance its assets. | Long-term Debt Ratio | Measures the percentage of the overall company’s assets that are owned by the equity and debt. | Times Interest Earned Ratio | (TIE) Tells us about a company’s ability to meet it’s debt obligations. This could
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Mini Cases: Cost of Capital Part A: Cost of Debt Mini Case 1: Cost of perpetual/Irredeemable debt Ashok Leyland issued Rs 100 Lakhs 12% debentures of Rs. 100 each. Calculate the cost of debt in each of the following cases. (Assume corporate tax rate being 40%). Case (a) If debentures are issued at par with no floatation cost. Case (b) If debentures are issued at par with 5% floatation cost. Case (c) If debentures are issued at 10% premium with 5% floatation cost. Case (d) If debentures are issued
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special equipment is a sunk cost and is not relevant to the decision. The common costs are allocated and will continue regardless of whether or not the racing bikes are discontinued; thus‚ they are not relevant to the decision. Alternative Solution: |
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