Fundamentals of Financial Management (MindTap Course List)
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Author: Eugene F. Brigham, Joel F. Houston
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Chapter 14, Problem 14SP
WACC AND OPTIMAL CAPITAL STRUCTURE Elliott Athletics is trying to determine its optimal capital structure, which now consists of only debt and common equity. The firm dots not currently use
Elliott uses the
- a. What is the firm's optimal capital structure, and what would be its WACC at the optimal capital structure?
- b. If Elliott's managers anticipate that the company's business risk will increase in the future, what effect would this likely have on the firm's target capital structure?
- c. If Congress were to dramatically increase the corporate tax rate, what effect would this likely have on Elliott's target capital structure?
- d. Plot a graph of the after-tax cost of debt, the
cost of equity , and the WACC versus (1) - e. the debt/capital ratio and (2) the debt /equity ratio.
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Toodles Inc. had sales
of $1,840,000.
administrative and selling expenses, and depreciation expenses were
Cost of goods sold,
$1,180,000, $185,000 and $365,000 respectively. In addition, the
company had an interest expense of $280,000 and a tax rate of 35
percent. (Ignore any tax loss carry-back or carry-forward provisions.)
Arrange the financial information for Toodles Inc. in
statement and compute its OCF?
an income
Footfall Manufacturing Ltd. reports
information at the end of the current year:
Net Sales
$100,000
Debtor's turnover ratio (based on 2
net sales)
Inventory turnover ratio
1.25
Fixed assets turnover ratio
0.8
Debt to assets ratio
0.6
Net profit margin
5%
Gross profit margin
25%
Return on investment
2%
the
following financial
Use the given information to fill out the templates for income
statement and balance sheet given below:
Income Statement of Footfall Manufacturing Ltd. for the year ending
December 31, 20XX
(in $)
Sales
100,000
Cost of goods
sold
Gross profit
Other expenses
Earnings before
Lax
Tax @50%
Earnings
tax
after
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