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Ryerson University CFIN 401 Section 610 Midterm Exam Version A Fall 20XX There are 2.0 hours in this exam. Student Name ____________________________ (Please Print) Student Number _________________________________ Notes: 1. This is a closed book exam. You may only have pens, pencils , a calculator and one cheat sheet double sided on 8 ½ by 11 paper at your desk. 2. Please fill out the scanner sheet as you go along in the exam. You will not be given extra time at the end of the exam to fill it out. 3. Select the best possible answer for each multiple-choice question 4. Each of the 40 MC questions is worth 1 mark Marks: Available Total 40 _________ There are 10 pages in this exam. 1
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1. You have invested $4,500 in an account that earns 8% compounded semi-annually. You plan on making additional payments of $75 per month into this account for the next five years. How much will your investment be worth in 5 years? a. $11,344 b. $ 12,153 c. $12,654 d. $13,321 e.$13,538 2. You plan on buying a bottling machine for $2 million, which can be salvaged for $400,000 in 8 years. Your tax rate is 43% and the CCA rate is 30%. Your cost of capital is 13%. What is present value of the CCA tax sheild? a. $338,447 b. $378,521 c. $422,781 d.$458, 402 e. $ 520,348 3. You have the following two bonds that are identical except for coupon rate and price. What is the price of bond B?. Bond A Bond B Price $937.69 ? Years to maturity 10 10 Coupon rate (semi-annual) 9% 8% Face Value $1000 $1000 a. $811.21 b. $ 875.77 c. $891.52 d.$909.20 e. $955.72 3
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4. You have the following information on the following stock. P 0 = $10.72. g =3.5% r = 12% EPS 0 = $2.2 What is the dividend payout ratio? a. 0.3 b. 0.4 c. 0.5 d. 0.6 e. 0.7 5. Your firm is financed by 40% equity and 60% debt. The cost of equity is16% and the cost of debt is 7%. Your corporate tax rate is 37%. What is your weighted average cost of capital (WACC)? a. 7.77% b. 8.09% c. 8.78% d. 9.05% e. 9.58% 6. You need to finance a project that will cost $17 million. The floatation costs on raising the funds are 6%. How much money do you need to rise to be able to afford the project? a. $15,980,000 b. $16,827,203 c. $17,000,000 d. $17,308,221 e. $18, 085,106 7. Duff Beer’s WACC is 10.8504%. Duff’s cost of equity is 17%, and their cost of debt is 9%. If Duff’s debt to equity ratio is 1.3, what is Duff’s tax rate? a.28% b.30% c. 32% d. 34% e. 36% 4
Use the following information for questions 8-11. Megalo-Mart is financed by 2 classes of equity and one class of debt. Class A equity just paid a dividend of $1.45 which is expected to grow at 2.75% perpetually, and is priced at $13.24. Class B equity returns have a covariance with the market returns of 0.04125. The risk free rate is 4%, the expected return on the market is 12% and the variance of market returns is 3.75%. The debt has 20 years to maturity, with a coupon rate of 8% paid annually , a face value of $1000 and is selling at 95% of par. The debt to equity ratio is 0.8 and the class B equity has twice the value of the class A equity. The tax rate is 37%. The floatation costs of debt equal 3% and the floatation costs of both classes of equity is 5.5%. Megalo-Mart is planning to purchase a propane pump that costs $2 million 8. What is the cost of the class A equity? a. 12.5% b. 13% c.13.5% d. 14% e. 14.5% 9. What is the cost of the class B equity? a.12.2% b. 12.8% c. 13.2% d.13.8% e. 14.2% 10. What is the after-tax WACC? a. 7.2651% b. 8.5438% c. 9. 7216% d. 10.7014% e. 11.3315% 11. How much does Megalo-Mart need to raise to purchase the propane pump? a. $2, 091,808.06 b. $2, 220.381.55 c. $2,520,421.32 d. $2,787,642.78 e. $2,987,622.03 5
12. Mr. Van Driesen is trying to decide whether or not to buy or lease a computerized grading system for his class. He can buy it for $12,000 or lease it for $1800 per year for the next five years. He can get the funds for the lease, by borrowing at 8% from the schools line of credit. The grader has no salvage value and fits into the 25% CCA bracket. The tax rate is 33%. What is the NAL? a. $2,898.4 b. $3,164.5 c. $3, 375.18 d. $3,554.3 e. $3,841.2 Use the following information for questions 13-16. You are looking at purchasing a widget producing machine that will cost $11 million which will be salvageable in 9 years for $3 million. The machine will increase revenues by $7.5 million per year and will fall into the 30% CCA bracket. You can lease the machine for $2.75 million per year. Your pre-tax cost of debt is 8.5%. Your corporate tax rate is 35%. 13. What is the present value of the CCA tax shield? a. $1,725,455 b. $1,989,546 c. $2,102,366 d. $2,442,394 e. $2 ,619,634 14. What is the NPV of the purchase? a. $25, 421,228 b. $27 ,323,257 c. $28,541,725 d. $28,652,337 e. $28,987,251 15. What is the net advantage to leasing (NAL)? a. -$7,241,582.43 b. -$6,975,354.39 c.-$6, 567,796 d. -$6,254,308.20 e. -$6,105,882.09 16. What would the pre-tax lease payment have to be for you to be indifferent between leasing or buying? 6
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a. $842,665.04 b. $891,268.83 c. $927,654.33 d. $1, 371,182.05 e. $1,582,545.21 17. You are looking buying a nuclear reactor which has a fair market value of $13,754,655. Alternately, you can lease it for the next ten years. Your after tax cost of debt is 7.5%. Your tax rate is 35%. What would the minimum pre-tax lease payment have to be for it to qualify as a capital lease? a. $1,022,374.66 b. $1,677,649.96 c. $ 2,774,574.93 d. $3,451,882.01 e. $3,992,525.37 18. Which of the following are good reasons for leasing? I. Taxes may be reduced II. May reduce some uncertainty III. Balance sheet, especially leverage ratios, may look better if the lease does not have to be accounted for on the balance sheet IV. May encumber fewer assets than secured borrowing V. 100% financing – leases normally do not require either a down-payment or a security deposit a. I. II. And III b. I, II, and IV c. II, IV, and V d. II, III, and V e. I, III, and V Use the following information to answer questions 19 and 20. Arlen Propane is financed purely by equity with 20,000 shares outstanding and an all equity value of $1,300,000. Arlene is considering refinancing by borrowing $780,000 at 8% interest to repurchase shares. Burns is expecting an EBIT of $230,000. There are no taxes. 7
19. What is the EPS under each capital structure? a.$11.5 and $18.8 b. $13.7 and $21.55 c.$11.5 and $20.95 d. $13.7 and $24.75 e. $11.5 and 20. At what level of EBIT would they be indifferent between the all equity structure and taking on debt? a. $76,000 b. $84,000 c. $96,000 d. $ 104,000 e. $116,000 Use the following information to answer questions 21-25. Modigliani Corporation expects it’s EBIT to be $270,000 perpetually and their cost of unlevered equity is 15%. Their tax rate is 30%. They are contemplating borrowing $750,000 at an interest rate of 9% to repurchase shares. 21. What is the value of the unlevered firm? a. $1,240,000 b. $1 ,260,000 c. $1,280,000 d.$1,300,000 e. $1,320,000 22. What is the value of the firm after re-structuring? a. $1,425,000 b. $1,445,000 c. $1,465,000 d. $1, 485,000 e. $2,005,000 23. What is the cost of equity after restructuring? a. 18.29% b. 18.89% c. 19.29% d. 19.89% 8
e. 20.29% 24. What is the WACC after restructuring? a. 11.9697% b. 12.729% c. 12.9697% d. 13.729% e. 13.9697% 25. If Miller owned 1000 shares of Modigliani Corporation and preferred the original capital structure, how could he replicate the returns he would get under the original structure (round to the nearest share bought or sold). a. Borrow enough money at 9% to buy 450 shares b. Sell 505 shares and invest the proceeds at 9% c. Borrow enough money at 9% to buy 505 shares d. Sell 1020 shares and invest the proceeds at 9% e. Borrow enough money at 9% to buy 1020 shares Use the following information for questions26-28. Ross Westerfield Corporation is an all equity corporation with 20,000 shares outstanding at a market price of $70 and they are expecting perpetual EBIT of $160,000. RW has a 100% dividend payout ratio. They are considering borrowing money at 10% to raise their debt to equity ratio to 2. Coach Buzzcut owns 300 shares of RW. There are no taxes 26. Show Buzzcuts cash flows under the current capital structure a. $2,000 b. $2,200 c. $2 ,400 d. $2,600 e. $2,800 27. Show Buzzcuts cash flow under the proposed capital structure. a. $2,400 b. $2,600 9
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c. $2,800 d. $ 3,000 e. $3,200 28. If RW stuck with the original capital structure, show how Buzzcut could replicate the proposed capital structure. a. Sell 200 shares and lend at 10% b. Borrow enough money at 10% to buy 200 more shares c. Sell 600 shares and lend at 10% d. Borrow enough money at 10% to buy 600 more shares e. None of the above 29. Gribble Bug Exterminators are financed by pure equity and expect EBIT to be $22,000 perpetually, and have a cost of equity of 13%, with a tax rate of 35%. Assume that M&M Proposition 1 & 2 hold and there are no bankruptcy costs . What is the value of the firm under the optimal capital structure ? a. $120,500 b.$129,250 c. $132,750 d. $139,750 e. $ 148,500 30. Burns Nuclear Plant is facing bankruptcy and can be liquidated for $40 million. If Burns can restructure and sell off any unprofitable divisions they can manage to reduce the riskiness of future cash flows and bring their WACC to 11.5%. Burns has a tax rate of 33%. What would the minimum perpetual pre-tax operating cash flows have to be for restructuring to be viable? a. $4,600,000.00 b. $5,665,384.22 c. $6, 865,671.64 d. $7,332, 107.54 e.$7, 869,475.31 10