CSM Machine Shop is considering a four-year project to improve its production efficiency. Buying a new machine press for $498,000 is estimated to result in $197,000 in annual pretax cost savings. Should the company buy and install the machine press?
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Smith Technologies is expected to generate $175 million in free cash flow next year, and FCF is expected to grow at a constant rate of 6% per year indefinitely. Smith has no debt or preferred stock, and its WACC is 12%. If smith has 65 million shares..
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Harrison Clothiers' stock currently sells for $26 a share. It just paid a dividend of $1.25 a share (that is, D0 = 1.25). The dividend is expected to grow at a constant rate of 10% a year. What stock price is expected 1 year from now?
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Maggie's Muffins, Inc., generated $2,000,000 in sales during 2013, and its year-end total assets were $1,400,000. Also, at year-end 2013, current liabilities were $1,000,000, consisting of $300,000 of notes payable, $500,000 of accounts payable, and ..
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The Maxwell Company is financed entirely with equity. The company is considering a loan of $1.83 million. The loan will be repaid in equal instalments over the next two years, and it has an interest rate of 8 percent. The company’s tax rate is 35 per..
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Would a multinational be able to hire values, or buy values, when staffing its subsidiary operations in your country? Why are motivational theories not universal?
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Stanley Inc. must purchase $6,000,000 worth of service equipment and is weighing the merits of leasing the equipment or purchasing. The company has a zero tax rate due to tax loss carry-forwards, and is considering a 5-year, bank loan to finance the ..
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Consider a firm with an EBIT of $567,000. The firm finances its assets with $1,170,000 debt (costing 6.1 percent) and 217,000 shares of stock selling at $13.00 per share. The firm is considering increasing its debt by $900,000, using the proceeds to ..
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You own a portfolio that has 35% invested in asset A, and 65% invested in asset B. Asset A’s standard deviation is 12% and asset B’s standard deviation is 18%. The correlation coefficient between the two assets is -0.7. The expected return on the por..
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Snider Industries sells on terms of 3/10, net 20. Total sales for the year are $1,724,500. Thirty percent of the customers pay on the 10th day and take discounts; the other 70% pay, on average, 68 days after their purchases. What is the days sales ou..
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A firm's dividends payable account increased $10,000 during the year. The firm also declared $35,000 of dividends. What is the complete disclosure in the direct method SCF for these events?
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The treasurer of Riley Coal Co. is asked to compute the cost of fixed income securities for her corporation. Even before making the calculations, she assumes the aftertax cost of debt is at least 1 percent less than that for preferred stock. Compute ..
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