• Q : Determining the present value of the payment....
    Finance Basics :

    Five years after an accident, you received $100,000 to pay the medical expenses incurred at the time of the accident. What is the present value (at the time of the accident) of the payment? Assume i

  • Q : Operating cash flow-cash flow to creditors....
    Finance Basics :

    What is the operating cash flow, cash flow to creditors and if net fixed assets increased by $23,800 during the year, what was the addition to net working capital?

  • Q : Company cost of equity capital....
    Finance Basics :

    David Ortiz Motors has a target capital structure of 30% debt and 70% equity. The yield to maturity on the company's outstanding bonds is 12%, and the company's tax rate is 40%. Ortiz's CFO has calc

  • Q : After-tax cost of new debt....
    Finance Basics :

    Porky Pine Co. is issuing a $1,000 par value bond that pays 8.5% interest annually. Investors are expected to pay $1,100 for the 12-year bond. Porky will pay $50 per bond in flotation costs. What i

  • Q : What is the beta of a stock....
    Finance Basics :

    What is the beta of a stock when its expected return is 30%, its standard deviation of return is 32%, its correlation coefficient with the market is 0.4%, and the return to the market portfolio is 2

  • Q : Computing a bid price....
    Finance Basics :

    Alson Enterprises needs someone to supply it with 185,000 cartons of machine screws per year to support its manufacturing needs over the next five years, and you've decided to bid on the contract.

  • Q : Determining current price of far side corp....
    Finance Basics :

    Far Side Corp. is expected to pay the following dividends over the next four years: $6, $12, $8, and $4. Afterward, the company pledges to maintain a constant 5 percent growth rate in dividend forev

  • Q : Calculate the project annual free cash flow....
    Finance Basics :

    Cost savings equal to $200,000 for the first year of operation of the center; initial investment $800,000 that will depreciate. Calculate the project's annual free cash flow

  • Q : Pretax or the aftertax cost of debt....
    Finance Basics :

    What is the pretax cost of debt? What is the aftertax cost of debt? Which is more relevant, the pretax or the aftertax cost of debt? Why?

  • Q : Determining the tax liability....
    Finance Basics :

    During 2010, Sparrow Corporation, a calendar year C corporation, had operating income of $510,000, operating expenses of $370,000, a short-term capital loss of $25,000, and a long-term capital gain

  • Q : Determining the annualized interest rate....
    Finance Basics :

    Buddy Bolly just received his annual bank statement. One year ago, Buddy deposited $10,000 in a savings account. Today, his balance is $10,509.45. Buddy's savings account interest is compounded qua

  • Q : Achieve the target debt ratio....
    Finance Basics :

    Meyer Inc's assets are $625,000, and its total debt outstanding is $185,000. The new CFO wants to establish a debt ratio of 55%. The size of the firm does not change. How much debt must the company

  • Q : Percent return on the company stock....
    Finance Basics :

    The company has just paid a dividend of $12 per share and has announced that it will increase the dividend by $4 per share for each of the next 6 years, and then never pay another dividend. If you r

  • Q : Mergers and acquisitions planning....
    Finance Basics :

    What are the basic principles to keep in mind in mergers and acquisitions planning?

  • Q : Profitability ratios of cisco systems....
    Finance Basics :

    Profitability ratios: Cisco Systems has total assets of $35.594 billion, total debt of $9.678 billion, and net sales of $22.045 billion. Their net profit margin for the year was 20 percent, while th

  • Q : Lockbox system worth which is on an annual basis....
    Finance Basics :

    If HGC has an opportunity cost of 10%, how much is the lockbox system worth on an annual basis? What is the maximum monthly charge HGC should pay for the lockbox system?

  • Q : Cost of acquisition on statement of cash flows....
    Finance Basics :

    A software company acquires a smaller company in order to acquire the patents that it holds. Where will the cost of this acquisition be recorded on the statement of cash flows?  

  • Q : Lowest-cost source of funding....
    Finance Basics :

    Calculate the lowest-cost source of funding for Glenwood National Bank and the next cheapest source for borrowing over the next three days (today, tomorrow, and the next day). What are the relative

  • Q : What is the expected return on a portfolio....
    Finance Basics :

    What is the expected return on a portfolio that is equally invested in the two assets? If a portfolio of the two assets has a beta of .50, what are the portfolio weights? If a portfolio of the two ass

  • Q : Estimating return on equity....
    Finance Basics :

    Calculate return on equity (ROE) under each of there three economic scenarios before any debt is issued. Also calculate the percentage changes in ROE for economic expansion and recession, assuming n

  • Q : Compute the cost of debt....
    Finance Basics :

    Compute the cost of debt. Assume AirJet Best Parts Inc. is considering issuing new bonds. Select current bonds from one of the main competitors as a benchmark. Key competitors include Raytheon, Boei

  • Q : Calculating project equivalent annual cost....
    Finance Basics :

    A 9-year project has an initial fixed asset investment of $256,200, an initial NWC investment of $24,400, and an annual OCF of -$39,040. The fixed asset is fully depreciated over the life of the pro

  • Q : Sole method of analyzing proposed small project....
    Finance Basics :

    Why is payback often used as the sole method of analyzing a proposed small project?

  • Q : Corporate cost of capital....
    Finance Basics :

    Its cost of equity (fund capital) estimate is 13.5 percent and its cost of tax-exempt debt estimate is 7 percent. What is the hospital's corporate cost of capital?

  • Q : Estimating after-tax cost of debt....
    Finance Basics :

    Calculate the after-tax cost of debt for the Wallace Clinic, a for-profit healthcare provider, assuming that the coupon rate set on its debt is 11 percent and its tax rate is

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