30-year U.S. Treasury bond offers a 4% coupon rate‚ paid semiannually. The market price of the bond is $1‚000‚ equal to its par value. a. What is the payback period for this bond? b. With such a long payback period‚ is the bond a bad investment? c. What is the discounted payback period for the bond assuming its 4% coupon rate is the required return? What general principle does this example illustrate regarding a project’s life‚ its discounted payback period‚ and its NPV? A8-1. a. Payback on this
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The dollar value LIFO method is another approach used for inventory valuation‚ it follows the last in first out but take into consideration the impact of inflation. The dollar value LIFO method is derived from the LIFO method and it’s designed to overcome the main problem of LIFO method which is liquidation. The dollar value LIFO method groups all type of goods in the inventory in a pool and the pool is measured by the total dollar amount instead of physical quantity. The balance sheet view differ
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Cash & Cash Equivalents Introduction: Cash & cash equivalents may constitute a significant proportion of the total assets of an entity. It is the most liquid asset found within the asset category of a company ’s balance sheet. It is an important criterion to evaluate the liquidity and the short term solvency of a business venture. Liquidity and short term solvency means the ability of the business to pay its short term liabilities. Inability to pay-off short term liabilities affects its credibility
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ACCOUNTING COMPETENCY EXAM SAMPLE EXAM 1. The accounting process does not include: a. b. c. 2. d. e. labor unions all of the above statement of owner’s equity income statement balance sheet d. e. both b and c all of the above This account does not appear on the income statement: a. b. c. 6. lenders prospective owners customers Expenses can be found in the: a. b. c. 5. balance sheet balance sheet and journals balance sheet and income statement
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borrowing methods. Hence‚ the debt-to-equity ratio will change in time. Since we will need to estimate the discount rate any time the capital structure changes‚ neither WACC nor APV would be reliable alone. Therefore‚ Ms. Zhang should use the combination of WACC and APV methods. As stated above‚ ACC will use the Leverage buy out (LBO) approach‚ which means that the debt to equity ratio of AirThread will not be the same from 2008 to 2012‚ so APV approach would be more suitable to valuate the cash flows
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Cash or Not? Whether or not cash should be eliminated is a big debate in our world today. Cash should not be eliminated to provide for safer control of your money. Without cash‚ plenty of problems appear like acts of crime‚ not having banking connections‚ and having your personal information on record. To start off with‚ criminals and hacking progress as technology does. In the Upfront magazine article called "The End of Cash"‚ the author says‚ "Security experts worry‚ for example‚ that hackers could
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Capital Budgeting Methods and Cash Flow Estimation Tasty Foods Corporation (Part A) November 5‚ 2012 Executive Summary: Tasty Foods has seen phenomenal growth throughout its lifetime in large part due to a continuous development of innovative new products. Although prosperous for Tasty Foods from its birth‚ this is a business initiative that in the past years‚ Tasty Foods has not maintained. Consumers are shifting towards a more health conscious lifestyle and until now Tasty Foods has not presented
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(8‚100) Tax cost (2‚730) (3‚075) (4‚590) Net cash flow $6‚020 $5‚175 $10‚710 Discount factor (6%) .943 .890 Present value $6‚020 $4‚880 $9‚532 NPV $20‚432 11. a. Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Before-tax cash flow $(500‚000) $52‚500 $47‚500 $35‚500 $530‚500 Tax cost (7‚875) (7‚125) (5‚325) (4‚575) After-tax cash flow 44‚625 40‚375 30‚175 525‚925 Discount factor (7%) .935 .873 .816 .763 Present value $(500‚000) $41‚724 $35‚247 $24‚623 $401‚281 NPV
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that is implied by traditional buy-out and leveraged recapitalizations. Fair market value of the firm: Rm: Prime rate = 9% rf: risk free rate = 7.2% Average Unleveraged beta bu = = .839 Assume that growth rate : g = 2%‚ RPm = 4% ‚ tax rate is 35% Unlevered cost of equity rsu = rf + RPm (bu) = 7.2% + 4%(.839) = 10.56% Operating cash flow using base case projections: 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 Cash Flow 7‚772 9‚233 9‚807 10‚292 10‚513 Interest Expenses 3‚587 3‚042 2‚324 1‚507 599
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Hey my fellow children‚ let’s talk about allowance. Do you get a weekly/ monthly allowance or do you only get money when your parents think that you have done well with your studies or your chores? How much money do you if you get allowance? Is it a whole lot of money or is it enough to get your needs satisfied from a day to day basis? From whichever way that you look at it‚ there is allowance given whether it is for a good deed done or just your time to get paid. But there is one thing that I would
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