Describe legal rights and privileges of common stockholders

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Read the Chapter 7 Mini Case in Financial Management: Theory and Practice. Using complete sentences and academic vocabulary, please answer questions a through d.

Using the mini case information, write a 250-500 word report presenting potential ethical issues that may arise from expanding into other related fields. In your discussion, proactively strategize about possible expansion by explaining opportunities to promote ethical standards within your organization.APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

The purpose of this assignment is to explain core concepts related to stocks and to analyze the ethical implications of decisions and promote ethical standards within organizations.

MINI CASE 4:
Your employer, a mid-sized human resources management company, is considering expansion into related fields, including the acquisition of Temp Force Company, anemployment agency that supplies word processor operators and computer programmersto businesses with temporary heavy workloads. Your employer is also considering thepurchase of a Biggerstaff&Biggerstaff (B&B), a privately held company owned by twobrothers, each with 5 million shares of stock. B&B currently has free cash flow of $24 million, which is expected to grow at a constant rate of 5%. B&B' s financial statementsreport marketable securities of $100 million, debt of $200 million, and preferred stock of$50 million. B&B' s WACC is 11%. Answer the following questions.

a. Describe briefly the legal rights and privileges of common stockholders.

b. (1) Write out a formula that can be used to value any stock, regardless of its dividend pattern.
(2) What is a constant growth stock? How are constant growth stocks valued?
(3) What happens if a company has a constant g that exceeds its rs ? Will many stocks have expected g >rs in the short run (i.e., for the next few years)? In the long run(i.e., forever)?

c. Assume that Temp Force has a beta coefficient of 1.2, that the risk-free rate (the yield on T-bonds) is 7.0%, and that the market risk premium is 5%. What is the requiredrate of return on the firm' s stock?

d. Assume that Temp Force is a constant growth company whose last dividend (D0 ,which was paid yesterday) was $2.00 and whose dividend is expected to growindefinitely at a 6% rate.

(1) What is the firm' s current estimated intrinsic stock price?

(2) What is the stock' s expected value 1 year from now?

(3) What are the expected dividend yield, the expected capital gains yield, and the expected total return during the first year?

MINI CASE 3:

The purpose of this assignment is to explain core concepts related to fixed income securities.

Read the Chapter 5 Mini Case in Financial Management: Theory and Practice. Using complete sentences and academic vocabulary, please answer questions a through f.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

Sam Strother and Shawna Tibbs are vice presidents of Mutual of Seattle InsuranceCompany and co-directors of the company' s pension fund management division. Animportant new client, the North-Western Municipal Alliance, has requested that Mutualof Seattle present an investment seminar to the mayors of the represented cities, and Strother and Tibbs, who will make the actual presentation, have asked you to help them by answering the following questions.

a. What are the key features of a bond?

b. What are call provisions and sinking fund provisions? Do these provisions make bonds more or less risky?

c. How does one determine the value of any asset whose value is based on expectedfuture cash flows?

d. How is the value of a bond determined? What is the value of a 10-year, $1,000 par value bond with a 10% annual coupon if its required rate of return is 10%?

e. (1) What would be the value of the bond described in part d if, just after it had been issued, the expected inflation rate rose by 3 percentage points, causing investorsto require a 13% return? Would we now have a discount or a premium bond?

(2) What would happen to the bond' s value if inflation fell and rd declined to 7%? Would we now have a premium or a discount bond?

(3) What would happen to the value of the 10-year bond over time if the required rate of return remained at 13%? If it remained at 7%? (Hint: With a financialcalculator, enter PMT, I/YR, FV, and N, and then change N to see what happensto the PV as the bond approaches maturity.)

f. (1) What is the yield to maturity on a 10-year, 9% annual coupon, $1,000 par value bond that sells for $887.00? That sells for $1,134.20? What does the fact that abond sells at a discount or at a premium tell you about the relationship betweenrd and the bond' s coupon rate?

(2) What are the total return, the current yield, and the capital gains yield for the discount bond? (Assume the bond is held to maturity and the company does notdefault on the bond.)

Reference:
Brigham, E. &Ehrhardt, M. (2014). Financial Management Theory and Practices (14th Ed.). Mason, OH: Cengage Learning.

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The answer contains solution to 2 minicases (4 and 3). Case 4 relates to a mid-sized human resource management company. The solution includes the legal rights and privileges of common stockholders, valuation of stock, required rate of return, etc. Case 3 includes the features of the bonds, call provisions and sinking fund provisions, valuation of bond, etc.

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Hi, I have two minicases to be answered. I am attaching the word document with cases and instruction. Thank you, Read the Chapter 7 Mini Case on pages 322-323 in Financial Management: Theory and Practice. Using complete sentences and academic vocabulary, please answer questions a through d. Using the mini case information, write a 250-500 word report presenting potential ethical issues that may arise from expanding into other related fields. In your discussion, proactively strategize about possible expansion by explaining opportunities to promote ethical standards within your organization. APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected. The purpose of this assignment is to explain core concepts related to fixed income securities. Read the Chapter 5 Mini Case on page 230 in Financial Management: Theory and Practice. Using complete sentences and academic vocabulary, please answer questions a through f. APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

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