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Chapter 4: 4-9-28BP (page 284)
Question: What is the present value of a 10-year annuity of $3,000 per period in which payments come at the beginning of each period? The interest rate is 12 percent.
Answer
The future value of the annuity is $18,984.75.
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Assume a firm has earnings before depreciation and taxes of \(200,000 and no depreciation. It is in a 40 percent tax bracket.
a. Compute its cash flow.
b. Assume it has \)200,000 in depreciation. Recompute its cash flow.
c. How large a cash flow benefit did the depreciation provide?
Murray Motor Company wants you to calculate its cost of common stock. During the next 12 months, the company expects to pay dividends (D1) of \(2.50 per share, and the current price of its common stock is \)50 per share. The expected growth rate is 8 percent.
a. Compute the cost of retained earnings (Ke). Use Formula 11-5.
b. If a $3 flotation cost is involved, compute the cost of new common stock (Kn). Use Formula 11-6.
If inflationary expectations increase, what is likely to happen to the yield to maturity on bonds in the marketplace? What is also likely to happen to the price of bonds?
Question: Betty Bronson has just retired after 25 years with the electric company. Her total pension funds have an accumulated value of $180,000, and her life expectancy is 15 more years. Her pension fund manager assumes he can earn a 9 percent return on her assets. What will be her yearly annuity for the next 15 years?
The Caffeine Coffee Company uses the modified internal rate of return. The firm has a cost of capital of 11 percent. The project being analyzed is as follows (\(26,000 investment):
Year | Cash flow |
1 | \)12,000 |
2 | 11,000 |
3 | 9,000 |
a. What is the modified internal rate of return? An approximation from Appendix B is adequate. (You do not need to interpolate.)
b. Assume the traditional internal rate of return on the investment is 17.5 percent. Explain why your answer in part a would be lower.
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