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    Dublin International Corporation's Marginal Tax Rate

    Dublin International Corporation's marginal tax rate is 40%. It can issue 3-year bonds with a coupon rate of 8.5% and par value of $1,000. The bonds can be sold now at a price of $938.90 each. The underwriters will charge $25 per bond in flotation costs. Determine the appropriate after tax cost of debt for Dublin International t

    Compute Beginning Capital Balance, Paid in Capital

    Please see attached file for proper format. Mary Janane's capital statement reveals that her drawings during the year were $50,000. She made an additional capital investment of $25,000 and her share of the net loss for the year was $10,000. Her ending capital balance was $200,000. What was Mary Janane's beginning capital bala

    Internal Rate of Return on a Project

    The Golf Range is considering adding an additional driving range to its facility. The range would cost $76,000, would be depreciated on a straight line basis over its 7-year life, and would have a zero salvage value. The anticipated income from the project is $34,000 a year with $14,400 of that amount being variable cost. The fi

    Public budgeting: Write a proposal for an agency's budget and mission statement

    See attached file: Please use the APA format in writing these papers (well-organized). (APA Rules attached), the APA rules for formatting, quoting, paraphrasing, citing, and listing of sources are to be followed. Obtain a copy of an agency's budget and the agency's mission statement. Keeping in mind the mission and researc

    Capital Budgeting Case

    Can you help me with the following project? Capital Budgeting Case - From the given case information, calculate the firm's WACC then use the WACC to calculate NPV and evaluate IRR for proposed capital budgeting projects with a capital rationing constraint. After you choose the project(s), recalculate the capital structure ba

    Discounted cash flow analysis discounts project investments

    For a project to create firm value, the project cash flows must exceed the investment in into the project plus a return for the use of capital. Discuss how: The discounted cash flow analysis then discounts project investments and project cash inflows at the firm's cost of capital. A positive NPV project then adds firm

    Financial Management

    Which one of the following is TRUE? Answer IRR is superior to NPV for choosing between different projects. The NPV decision rule says to accept an investment if the NPV is negative. Payback ignores the project s cost. The IRR decision rule states that a project should be accepted if its IRR exceeds the required return. The

    Financial Management

    Which one of the following is FALSE for a project whose NPV equals zero? Answer The project earns more than the required return. The projects cash outflows are equal to the present value of the cash inflows. The project will have no impact on firm value. The IRR is equal to the required rate of return "Your company is

    Taxes, Straight-Line Depreciation, and Present Values

    A manager of Olympic Mutual Funds is contemplating acquiring servers to operate its Website. The servers will cost $660,000 cash and will have zero terminal salvage value. The recovery period and useful life are both 3 years. Annual pretax cash savings from operations will be $300,000. The income tax rate is 40%, and the requir

    Cost of Retained Earnings/WACC and Optimal Capital Budgeting

    XYZ company's investment budget and dividend payout plan for next year. a. XYZ expects next year's income after-tax to be $28,000,000. b. Earnings and dividends are growing at a constant rate of 10% per year. c. Last year's dividends was $2.73, d. Current stock price is $40.00 e. Cost of new debt is 12% f. XYZ's optima

    Calculating NPV and IRR for the given project

    Janes, Inc. is considering the purchase of a machine that would cost $430,000 and would last for 6 years, at the end of which, the machine would have a salvage value of $47,000. The machine would reduce labor and other costs by $109,000 per year. Additional working capital of $4,000 would be needed immediately, all of which woul

    IRR and NPV Methods

    The manufacturing department of Holmes Manufacturing Company must choose from six capital budgeting proposals outlined below. The department is subject to capital rationing and it has a budget ceiling of 1,000,000. The company's cost of capital is 15%. Using the criteria of IRR and NPV below, which projects should the department

    Capital budgeting

    I have a company that has a 8 year project life. The project requires an initial investment of $300 million to construct building and purchase equipment, and $20 million for shipping & installation fee. The fixed assets fall in the 7-year MACRS class. Salvage value of the fixed assets is $15 million. The number of units of the n

    Dunder-Miffline cash flow analysis, NPV of each project and profitability index

    See attached file. Dunder-Mifflin, Inc is analyzing the potential profitability of three printing jobs put up for bid by the State Department of Revenue: 1. the company's marginal city plus state plus federal tax rate is 50% 2. each job is expected to have a 6 yr. life 3. firm uses straight line depreciation 4. the ave

    What is the present value to be received?

    What is the present value of $800 to be received at the end of eight years, assuming the following annual interest rate? a. 4 percent, discounted annually b. 8 percent, discounted annually c. 20 percent, discounted quarterly d. 0 percent

    Finance Essay for a Senior Manager

    Imagine that you are a senior manager of a company operating in Hong Kong in a highly innovative and competitive market with an annual turnover of US $500,000,000 and that you have a first draft of what can be a good business opportunity with an estimated investment (sunk) cost of US $50,000,000. Your intuition is that it mi

    Manufacturing and Budgeting

    Bodin Company budgets on an annual basis. The following beginning and ending inventory levels (in units) are planned for the year 20x1. Two units of raw material are required to produce each unit of finished product. January 1 December 31 Raw material 35,000 45,000 Work in process 12,000 12,000

    Amortization schedule, TVM concepts, WACC NPV, Cost of Stock

    There are three questions attached here. The following is question three. QUESTION 3 Assume that Alnser Company has a project under consideration that requires an initial investment of 1,000,000 QR and will produce incremental after tax cash flows of 350,00 annually for five years. Alnser company decides to get the money f

    Capital Budgeting Problems for McKenzie Restaurants Inc.

    Sam McKenzie is the founder and CEO of McKenzie Restaurants,Inc., a region company. Sam is considering opening several new restaurants. Sally Thornton, the company's CFO, has been put in charge of the capital budgeting analysis.She has examined the potential for the company's expansion and determined that the success of the new

    IRR, NPV, WACC, MIRR, Stock Split & Lease

    See attached file for proper format of the tables. 1) Many firms use the weighted average cost of capital for the firm as the hurdle rate when comparing to IRR or as the discount rate in an NPV calculation. However, there is an implicit assumption being made when one does that. What problems can one encounter or what erro

    Budgeting and planning & control function of a budget

    See the attached data file. Part I. We have learned about the basic ideas of managerial accounting during the first two modules. Let's try to apply this knowledge and review a sample budget for a charter school. This budget is prepared assuming three levels of student enrollment (66, 100 and 120). Revenue and expenses proj

    No for profit organizations

    Do not-for-profit health care organizations earn a profit (assuming that they are financially successful)? If so: a. How do they show it on the income statement? b. What do they do with any such profit?

    Use NPV and IRR methods to evaluate the investment opportunities

    Veronica Tanner, the president of Tanner Enterprises, is considering two investment opportunities. Because of limited resources, she will be able to invest in only one for them. Project A is to purchase a machine that will enable factory automation; the machine is expected to have a useful life of four years and no salvage valu

    Capital Budgeting: New Heritage Doll Company

    Case New Heritage Doll Company Apply the metrics and information in the case study to make a recommendation about which of the two projects to accept. Give the Heritage Doll Company Case a quick read to understand what the issue is - which of the two proposed projects to accept - and to look at the format of the two case exh