Discounted Cash Flow Homework Problems Please post the answers (and show your work) in the assignments section by midnight the last day of the week assigned. 1. Calculate the future value of 1‚535 invested today for 8 years at 6 percent. (5 points) $1535 * 1.5938 = $2‚446 2. What is the total present value of the following cash stream‚ discounted at 8 percent? (5 points) |Year |Amount |Rate |PV | |1 | $ 400
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1. A company needs to elect 10 directors. A shareholder owns 80 shares. What is the maximum number of votes that he or she can cast for a favorite candidate under (10 points) a. Straight voting? 80 b. Cumulative voting? 80*10 = 800 2. “If the efficient-market hypothesis is true‚ the pension fund manager might as well select a portfolio by throwing darts at the Wall Street Journal.” Explain why this is not so. (10 points) This strategy does not consider risk. 3. The NuPress Valet Company
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that lived through the Great Depression. Regardless of the industry‚ currency is in short supply. Capital‚ worth‚ and the company’s value‚ is the challenge. Cash flow is extremely important for administrators at this perplexing time in history; alterations to this cash flow issue require a inflexible level of explanation‚ especially as the cash amount of the adaptation increases. This brutal state of mind is in conflict with the understanding that coincides with decisions made in the current health
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Cash Flow Preparation FIN/200 September 8‚ 2011 Axia College of University of Phoenix WEEK 1 ASSIGNMENT – CASH FLOW PREPARATION 1. Prepare a statement of cash flows for the Widget Corporation. Follow the general procedures indicated in Table 2–10. ___________________________________________________________________ WIDGET CORPORATION Income Statement For the Year Ended December 31‚ 2008 Sales $2‚200‚000 Cost of goods sold 1‚300‚000 Gross profits 900‚000 Selling and administrative
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types of questions appear in the exam. 1. $200 invested today and earning 8 per cent per annum compounded semi-annually will grow to what amount at the end of three years? (A) (B) $251.94 (C) $380.75 (D) 2. $158.80 $253.06 Bill plans to fund his individual retirement account with the maximum contribution of $2‚000 at the end of each year for the next 20 years. If Bill can earn an effective return of 12 per cent per annum on his contributions‚ how much will he have accumulated
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WHY PROFIT DOES NOT EQUAL CASH Why is profit not equal to cash coming in? Some differences such as loans received which do not impact the profit and loss statement are pretty obvious. Others may not be as obvious but you can break them down into three main areas: - Revenue is booked at sale. In many cases a sale is recorded for accounting purposes in the profit and loss statement when a company delivers a product or service. In many cases‚ no cash has been exchanged at the time of
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1 – Methodological Approach In this case‚ American CC – the intended acquirer of AirThread Connections- will use leveraged buyout (LBO) model‚ which means the company will finance the acquisition through bank loan or some other borrowing methods. Hence‚ the debt-to-equity ratio will change in time. Since we will need to estimate the discount rate any time the capital structure changes‚ neither WACC nor APV would be reliable alone. Therefore‚ Ms. Zhang should use the combination of WACC and APV
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year from now. If the required return is 9 percent‚ what is the value of the investment? What would the value be if the payments occurred for 40 years? For 75 years? Forever? 2. Calculating Annuity Cash Flows. If you put up $25‚000 today in exchange for a 7.9 percent‚ 12year annuity‚ what will the annual cash flow be? 3. Calculating Perpetuity Values. Dawa Financial is trying to sell you an investment policy that will pay you and your heirs $35‚000 per year forever. If the required rate of return on
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Capital Cash Flows: A Simple Approach to Valuing Risky Cash Flows Richard S. Ruback* This paper presents the Capital Cash Flow (CCF) method for valuing risky cash flows. I show that the CCF method is equivalent to discounting Free Cash Flows (FCF) by the weighted average cost of capital. Because the interest tax shields are included in the cash flows‚ the CCF approach is easier to apply whenever debt is forecasted in levels instead of as a percent of total enterprise value. The CCF method retains
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financing problem is very common to many other family companies. Family members are not interested in the family business‚ they would rather liquidate their equity and use it to do something else. Compare with traditional buy-out and leveraged recapitalization‚ the offer from Heritage seems the best option even though the price is undervalued. The first reason‚ Heritage Partners is an expert in the market segment of mature but successful family companies. They are aware of the firm’s operating activities
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