This stage is used to help realise if the current financial position is likely to lead to achieving the goals you set out – this can be done through research of seeking out professional advice. The next stage is Decide – this is where you decide on your action points to achieve your goals. This can be done through deciding to use financial products to achieve your goals, setting budget to decrease expenditures or exploring increasing income or holding back on planned expenditures. Stage 3, Act, is the implementation stage. This is putting your action points from the Decide stage into action to achieve the goals laid out in the assess stage – whether it is shopping around for the best value financial products, or looking for ways to increase your income.
I would make an investment in the company’s 5% convertible bonds. Sepracor’s ROA and ROE is above the average and showing that it is profitable; however, the company’s debt to asset ratio is above 1, which means that most of its assets are financed through debt instead of equity. Sepracor would be in trouble if its creditors were to start demanding repayment. C.) To make valid comparisons between Sepracor and Bayer, you would have to compare the rules for fair value under the U.S GAAP and iGAAP. Under IFRS, convertible bonds are separately recorded as liabilities and stockholder’s equities.
Ratio Analysis Memo for Riordan Manufacturing, Inc. By Teri N. Owens University of Phoenix XACC/291 STEVEN GERMAN November 23, 2014 * Liquidity ratios 1. Current ratio $14,524,790 / $2,750,057 = 5.3% 2. Acid-Test $5,605,347 / 2,750,057 = 2.03 3. Receivables turnover 12564004 / 2669824.5 = 4.7 times 4. Inventory turnover 56,534,254 / 8,517,203 = 6.6 * Profitability ratios 5.
They then develop target leverage ratios and use the WACC to determine the cost of capital for the whole corporation as well as each of the three divisions. 1. What is the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for Marriott Corporation (2 points)? 2 Cost of Debt = risk free weight + debt rate premium above gov’t = 8.95% + 1.30% = 10.25% Levered Beta βE = βU * [1 + (1-tax rate)(target leverage / (1 - target leverage))] = 0.80 * [1 + (1-0.44)(0.60 / (1 – 0.60))] = 1.472 Cost of Equity = risk-free rate + βE(risk premium) = 0.0895 + 1.472(.0743) = 0.2079 rME = 8.95% + 1.472 * 7.43% = 19.89% WACC = (1-T) * pretax cost
Debit - Duty or obligation to pay money, deliver goods, or render service under an express or implied agreement. Use of debt in a firm's financial structure creates financial leverage that can multiply yield on investment provided returns generated by debt exceed its cost. Because the interest paid on debt can be written off as an expense, debt is normally the cheapest type of long-term financing. 11. Yield - Annual income earned from an investment, expressed usually as a percentage of the money invested.
In each case, what is the value to MCI shareholders? 3. Merger arbitrage (or risk arbitrage) funds speculate on the completion of stock and cash mergers, typically buying the target and hedging the risk of the acquirer’s shares accordingly to exchange ratio in stock mergers. What positions would risk arbitragers take in this deal? How would their positions change if the board appears to favour Quest offer?
Evaluations of this information provides insight regarding a company’s ability to productively useeconomic resources as well as providing a basis for further shareholder assessments of prospective risks and returns. Based on this, one may conclude it is an extraordinarily basic yet important element of financial infrastructure. These evaluations consist of three reports that provide a company options for communicating the state of the internal control structure. The options can be evaluated under established criteria commonly found in Committee of Sponsoring Organizations (COSO), Control Objectives for Information and related Technology (COBIT), and International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 17799/27002
Distinguish among operating, investing, and financing activities. Managers’ activities and responsibilities can be classified into three broad functions. List and discuss each function. Identify and discuss the relevant costs in accepting an order at a special price Smith & Company claims that the relevant range concept is only important for variable costs. Explain the relevant range concept and discuss whether you agree with Smith & Company.
Case 3.3 WorldCom: Significant Business Acquisitions 1. Consult Paragraphs 710 of PCAOB Auditing Standard No. 12. Identify three specific factors about WorldCom’s strategy that might cause you to elevate the risk of material misstatement. According to Paragraphs 7-10 of PCAOB Auditing Standard No.
FINANCE CASE STUDY “Wonder Bars” Important information * Interest bearing debt of the company in 1994 ― $ 76,132,000 with a weighted average interest rate of 8.2% 8.25% sinking fund, n=12 years, $133 million * Coupon interest = 9.375%, $100 million WB had two long term bond outstanding Common stock, 75 million shares * Class B stock, $10 million shares The firm has 2 classes of common stocks Both stock have a price of 35$ / share and the beta of the company is 0.95 * Treasury bill = 5% * S&P 500 index = 12% in 10 years * Federal and state income tax = 40% * Sonzoni Food beta = 0.9 SOLUTION Question 1: What is WB’s capital structure? Capital structure is a way to determine