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Weekly tasks or assignments (Individual or Group Projects) will be
due by Monday, and late submissions will be assigned a late penalty in
accordance with the late penalty policy found in the syllabus. NOTE: All
submission posting times are based on midnight Central Time.
Key Assignment Draft
Your next assignment as a financial management intern is to apply the
knowledge that you acquired while engaging in the cost of capital
discussion that you had with your colleagues. In this task, you will be
calculating the weighted cost of capital for a firm using the book value
of the components and the concepts presented in this phase.
Using the most current annual financial statements from the company
you analyzed in Phase 1, determine the percentage of the firm’s assets
that are currently be financed with debt (total liabilities), preferred
stock, and common stock (common equity). It is very possible that your
firm will have very little or no preferred stock, so in this class, the
percent would be “zero.” Your ratios should add up to 100%. You will
also need to calculate the firm’s average tax rate using the income tax
expense divided by the firm’s income before taxes. Use the following
tables:
| Company |
Total Assets |
Total Liabilities |
Total Preferred Stock |
Total Common Equity |
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| Company |
Income before Tax |
Income Tax Expense |
Average Tax Rate (%) |
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The first component to determine is the cost of debt. You mentor
suggests using the Web site that you used in the previous Phase to find
the pretax yield-to-maturity of a bond with at least 5 years left before
maturity. Using the following table, calculate the firm’s after-tax
cost of debt:
| Yield to Maturity |
1 – Average Tax Rate |
After-tax Cost of Debt |
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Now you will need to calculate the cost of preferred stock. You can use the following table:
| Annual Dividend |
Current Value of Preferred Stock |
Cost of Preferred Stock (%) |
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To calculate the cost of common equity, you can use the CAPM model.
Using current stock data, the yield on the 5-year treasury bond, and the
return on the market calculated in Phase 2, you can calculate the cost
of common equity using the following table:
| 5-year Treasury Bond Yield
(risk-free rate) |
Stock’s Beta |
Return on the Top 500 Stocks (market return) |
Cost of Common Equity |
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Now, you can use the cost and ratios from above to calculate the
firm’s weighted average cost of capital (WACC) using the following
table:
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After-Tax Cost of Debt |
Cost of Preferred Stock |
Cost of Common Equity |
WACC |
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| Weight of Component |
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| Weighted Cost of Component |
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- After completing the required calculations, explain your results in a
Word document, and attach the spreadsheet showing your work. Be sure to
explain the following:
- How would you expect the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) to
differ if you had used market values of equity rather than the book
value of equity, and why?
- What would you expect would happen to the cost of equity if you had to raise it by selling new equity, and why?
- If the after-tax cost of debt is always less expensive than equity, why don’t firms use more debt and less equity?
- What are some of the advantages and disadvantages of raising capital by using debt?
- How would “floatation costs” impacted the WACC, and how could they have been incorp
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