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1 Managerial Finance Practice Exam 4 Make sure you show all work on every problem. Problem 1 You are a financial analyst for the Dickman Company. The director of capital budgeting has asked you to analyze two proposed capital investments, Project X and Y. Each project has a cost of $10,000 and the cost of capital for both projects is 12 percent. The projects’ expected net cash flows are as follows: Year________________Project X_________Project Y 0 ($10,000) ($10,000) 1 6,500 3,500 2 3,000 3,500 3 3,000 3,500 4 1,000 3,500 A. Calculate the IRR, NPV, MIRR, and payback for each project.
2 B. If these two projects are independent, which project should you select? Explain. C. What does MIRR try to accomplish as compared to IRR? D. Explain how the timing of the cash flows impacts a project’s NPV as interest rate (cost of capital) changes? E. What are other factors one might consider in choosing a project?
3 Problem 2 AVI is evaluating a new digital switching system that will cost $500,000. The digital system is depreciated by MACRS, 5-year life. At the end of the 5 years, AVI expects to sell the system for $150,000. The new digital system should have a favorable impact on operating cash flows, increasing revenues by $100,000 annually and decreasing cash operating expenses by $50,000 annually. The new equipment needs an investment in spare parts of $40,000. Andrew Valley Interests is in the 40% tax bracket and has a 12% cost of capital. Consider each of the following questions. A. What is the cash flow in year 0 (Cfo)? B. Develop the change in depreciation schedule. C. What are the incremental cash flows that will occur from operating the new machinery?
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4 D. What is the total cash flow in the last year? E. Should AVI buy the machine (NPV)? F. How would inflation impact this analysis? 4 pts
5 Problem 3 Erickson, Inc. is in the process of determining its capital budget for the next fiscal year. The firm’s current capital structure, which it considers to be optimal, is contained in the following balance sheet: Erickson, Inc. Balance Sheet (in millions of dollars) Current assets $110 Accounts Payable $ 30 Fixed assets 260 Other current liabilities 20 Total assets 370 Long-term debt 128 Preferred stock 32 Common stock (20 million shares at par) 20 Contributed capital in excess of par 30 Retained earnings 110 Total liabilities and equity $370 Discussions between the firm’s financial officers and the firm’s investment and commercial bankers have yielded the following information: F. Erickson can borrow $40 million from the bank at a pretax cost of 8 percent. G. Erickson can borrow $80 million by issuing bonds at a net price $1000 per bond. The bonds would carry a 10 percent coupon rate and mature in 20 years. C. Additional debt can be issued at a 16 percent cost. D. Preferred stock can be issued at a cost of 16.5 percent. E. Erickson expects to generate $140 million in net income and pay $2 per share in dividends. F. The $2 per share dividend (D 1 ) represents a growth of 5.5 percent over the previous year’s dividend. This growth rate is expected to continue for the foreseeable future. The firm’s stock is trading at $16 per share. G. Erickson can raise external equity by selling common stock at a net price of $15 per share. H. Erickson’s marginal tax rate is 40 percent. Project Required Investment Expected Return on Project A $140,000,000 17.0% B 130,000,000 16.0 C 100,000,000 15.0 D 80,000,000 14.2 E 24,000,000 13.0 F 16,000,000 10.9
6 A. Identify (list) the sources for purchasing capital. B. What is Erickson’s capital structure mix? (percentages) C. What are the component costs for Erickson? (Hint: 6) D. What are the points where Erickson’ s sources of funds run out based on capital spending?
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7 E. What are the Ka’s facing Erickson? F. Graph the IOS/MCC schedule. G. What is the optimal capital budget? H. What other information would the finance manager like to have to help her determine whether or not to take on these projects?
8 Multiple choice - 1. Use the following chart. Company Bold & Company Calm are two separate companies. Company Cool Portfolio is a combination of both companies' stocks. Answer multiple choice questions 1-5 based on this graph. 1. Which statement is true about Combined Company Cool’s por tfolio risk? A. The two stock’s must be positively correlated. B. The market risk has been removed and the portfolio has less risk. C. The portfolio risk is greatly reduced by the mix of the two individual stocks. D. The expected return on this portfolio is much less that the expected return of each individual stock.
9 2. The correlation of Company Bold and Company Calm is A. an insignificant factor in combining them into a portfolio. B. near zero as seen in the Cool portfolio. C. negative as seen by the reduction of systematic risk in the Cool portfoilio. D. negative as seen by the reduction of unsystematic risk in the Cool portfoilio. 3. The unsystematic risk of Company Bold is A. low as compared to Company Calm. B. being diversified away when combined with Company Calm. C. lower than the risk portrayed by Company Calm. D. expanded as the return on investment gets larger. 4. Which of the following statements are true about the Cool portfolio if it is used as a representation of the market (an index)? A. Its beta is 1. B. Its beta is 0. C. Its beta is -1. D. Its beta reduces the risk of the market. 5. Which statement is true as it relates to the Cool’s portfolio standard deviation? A. The total risk as defined by standard deviation is reduced. B. The probabilities associated with each stock’s expected return have changed. C. Beta is a better measurement of total risk. D. All the above are true.
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