SOLUTION MANUAL FOR
Principles Of Corporate Finance
14th Edition By Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers,
ALL Chapters (1 - 34)
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance
Chapter 2: How to Calculate Present Values
Chapter 3: Valuing Bonds
Chapter 4: Valuing Stocks
Chapter 5: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
Chapter 6: Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value Rule
Chapter 7: Introduction to Risk, Diversification, and Portfolio Selection
Chapter 8: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Chapter 9: Risk and the Cost of Capital
Chapter 10: Project Analysis
Chapter 11: How to Ensure That Projects Truly Have PositiveNPVs
Chapter 12: Efficient Markets and Behavioral Finance
Chapter 13: An Overview of Corporate Financing
Chapter 14: How Corporations Issue Securities
Chapter 15: Payout Policy
Chapter 16: Does Debt Policy Matter?
Chapter 17: How Much Should a Corporation Borrow?
Chapter 18: Financing and Valuation
Chapter 19: Agency Problems and Corporate Governance
Chapter 20: Stakeholder Capitalism and Responsible Business
Chapter 21: Understanding Options
Chapter 22: Valuing Options
Chapter 23: Real Options
Chapter 24: Credit Risk and the Value of Corporate Debt
Chapter 25: The Many Different Kinds of Debt
Chapter 26: Leasing
Chapter 27: Managing Risk
Chapter 28: International Financial Management
Chapter 29: Financial Analysis
Chapter 30: Financial Planning
Chapter 31: Working Capital Management
Chapter 32: Mergers
Chapter 33: Corporate Restructuring
,Chapter 34: Conclusion: What We Do and Do Not Know about Finance
CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Corporate Finance
The values shown in the solutions may be rounded for display purposes. However, the answers were
derived using a spreadsheet without any intermediate rounding.
Answers to Problem Sets
1. a. real
b. executive airplanes
c. brand names
d. financial
e. bonds
*f. investment or capital expenditure
*g. capital budgeting or investment
h. financing
*Note that f and g are interchangeable in the question.
Est time: 01-05
2. A trademark, a factory, undeveloped land, and your work force (c, d, e, and g) are all real assets.
Real assets are identifiable as items with intrinsic value. The others in the list are financial assets,
that is, these assets derive value because of a contractual claim.
Est time: 01-05
3. a. Financial assets, such as stocks or bank loans, are claims held by investors.
Corporations sell financial assets to raise the cash to invest in real assets such as plant
and equipment. Some real assets are intangible.
b. Capital expenditure means investment in real assets. Financing means raising the cash
for this investment.
, c. The shares of public corporations are traded on stock exchanges and can be purchased
by a wide range of investors. The shares of closely held corporations are not publicly
traded and are held by a small group of private investors.
d. Unlimited liability: Investors are responsible for all the firm‘s debts. A sole proprietor has
unlimited liability. Investors in corporations have limited liability. They can lose their
investment, but no more.
Est time: 01-05
4. Items c and d apply to corporations. Because corporations have perpetual life, ownership can be
transferred without affecting operations, and managers can be fired with no effect on ownership.
Other forms of business may have unlimited liability and limited life.
Est time: 01-05
5. Separation of ownership facilitates the key attributes of a corporation, including limited liability for
investors, transferability of ownership, a separate legal personality of the corporation, and
delegated centralized management. These four attributes provide substantial benefit for
investors, including the ability to diversify their investment among many uncorrelated returns—a
very valuable tool explored in later chapters. Also, these attributes allow investors to quickly exit,
enter, or short sell an investment, thereby generating an active liquid market for corporations.
However, these positive aspects also introduce substantial negative externalities as well. The
separation of ownership from management typically leads to agency problems, where managers
prefer to consume private perks or make other decisions for their private benefit—rather than
maximize shareholder wealth. Shareholders tend to exercise less oversight of each individual
investment as their diversification increases. Finally, the corporation‘s separate legal personality
makes it difficult to enforce accountability if they externalize costs onto society.
Est time: 01-05
6. Shareholders fwill fonly fvote fto fmaximize fshareholder fwealth. fShareholders fcan fmodify
ftheir fpattern fof fconsumption fthrough fborrowing fand flending, fmatch frisk fpreferences, fand
fhopefullyfbalance ftheir fown fcheckbooks f(or fhire fa fqualified fprofessional fto fhelp fthem
f with fthese ftasks).
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7. If fthe finvestment fincreases fthe ffirm‘s fwealth, fit fincreases fthe ffirm‘s fshare fvalue. fMs.
fEspinozafcould fthen fsell fsome for fall fthese fmore fvaluable fshares fto fprovide ffor fher
fretirement fincome.
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8. a. Assuming fthat fthe fencabulator fmarket fis frisky, fan f8% fexpected
freturn fonfthe fF&H fencabulator finvestments fmay fbe finferior fto fa f4%
freturn fon fU.S.
government fsecurities, fdepending fon fthe frelative frisk fbetween fthe ftwo fassets.
b. Unless fthe ffinancial fassets fare fas fsafe fas fU.S. fgovernment fsecurities, ftheir fcost f of
fcapitalfwould fbe fhigher. fThe fCFO f could fconsider fexpected freturns fon fassets fwith
fsimilar frisk.
Est ftime: f06-10
Principles Of Corporate Finance
14th Edition By Richard Brealey, Stewart Myers,
ALL Chapters (1 - 34)
, TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance
Chapter 2: How to Calculate Present Values
Chapter 3: Valuing Bonds
Chapter 4: Valuing Stocks
Chapter 5: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
Chapter 6: Making Investment Decisions with the Net Present Value Rule
Chapter 7: Introduction to Risk, Diversification, and Portfolio Selection
Chapter 8: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Chapter 9: Risk and the Cost of Capital
Chapter 10: Project Analysis
Chapter 11: How to Ensure That Projects Truly Have PositiveNPVs
Chapter 12: Efficient Markets and Behavioral Finance
Chapter 13: An Overview of Corporate Financing
Chapter 14: How Corporations Issue Securities
Chapter 15: Payout Policy
Chapter 16: Does Debt Policy Matter?
Chapter 17: How Much Should a Corporation Borrow?
Chapter 18: Financing and Valuation
Chapter 19: Agency Problems and Corporate Governance
Chapter 20: Stakeholder Capitalism and Responsible Business
Chapter 21: Understanding Options
Chapter 22: Valuing Options
Chapter 23: Real Options
Chapter 24: Credit Risk and the Value of Corporate Debt
Chapter 25: The Many Different Kinds of Debt
Chapter 26: Leasing
Chapter 27: Managing Risk
Chapter 28: International Financial Management
Chapter 29: Financial Analysis
Chapter 30: Financial Planning
Chapter 31: Working Capital Management
Chapter 32: Mergers
Chapter 33: Corporate Restructuring
,Chapter 34: Conclusion: What We Do and Do Not Know about Finance
CHAPTER 1
Introduction to Corporate Finance
The values shown in the solutions may be rounded for display purposes. However, the answers were
derived using a spreadsheet without any intermediate rounding.
Answers to Problem Sets
1. a. real
b. executive airplanes
c. brand names
d. financial
e. bonds
*f. investment or capital expenditure
*g. capital budgeting or investment
h. financing
*Note that f and g are interchangeable in the question.
Est time: 01-05
2. A trademark, a factory, undeveloped land, and your work force (c, d, e, and g) are all real assets.
Real assets are identifiable as items with intrinsic value. The others in the list are financial assets,
that is, these assets derive value because of a contractual claim.
Est time: 01-05
3. a. Financial assets, such as stocks or bank loans, are claims held by investors.
Corporations sell financial assets to raise the cash to invest in real assets such as plant
and equipment. Some real assets are intangible.
b. Capital expenditure means investment in real assets. Financing means raising the cash
for this investment.
, c. The shares of public corporations are traded on stock exchanges and can be purchased
by a wide range of investors. The shares of closely held corporations are not publicly
traded and are held by a small group of private investors.
d. Unlimited liability: Investors are responsible for all the firm‘s debts. A sole proprietor has
unlimited liability. Investors in corporations have limited liability. They can lose their
investment, but no more.
Est time: 01-05
4. Items c and d apply to corporations. Because corporations have perpetual life, ownership can be
transferred without affecting operations, and managers can be fired with no effect on ownership.
Other forms of business may have unlimited liability and limited life.
Est time: 01-05
5. Separation of ownership facilitates the key attributes of a corporation, including limited liability for
investors, transferability of ownership, a separate legal personality of the corporation, and
delegated centralized management. These four attributes provide substantial benefit for
investors, including the ability to diversify their investment among many uncorrelated returns—a
very valuable tool explored in later chapters. Also, these attributes allow investors to quickly exit,
enter, or short sell an investment, thereby generating an active liquid market for corporations.
However, these positive aspects also introduce substantial negative externalities as well. The
separation of ownership from management typically leads to agency problems, where managers
prefer to consume private perks or make other decisions for their private benefit—rather than
maximize shareholder wealth. Shareholders tend to exercise less oversight of each individual
investment as their diversification increases. Finally, the corporation‘s separate legal personality
makes it difficult to enforce accountability if they externalize costs onto society.
Est time: 01-05
6. Shareholders fwill fonly fvote fto fmaximize fshareholder fwealth. fShareholders fcan fmodify
ftheir fpattern fof fconsumption fthrough fborrowing fand flending, fmatch frisk fpreferences, fand
fhopefullyfbalance ftheir fown fcheckbooks f(or fhire fa fqualified fprofessional fto fhelp fthem
f with fthese ftasks).
Est ftime: f01-05
7. If fthe finvestment fincreases fthe ffirm‘s fwealth, fit fincreases fthe ffirm‘s fshare fvalue. fMs.
fEspinozafcould fthen fsell fsome for fall fthese fmore fvaluable fshares fto fprovide ffor fher
fretirement fincome.
Est ftime: f01-05
8. a. Assuming fthat fthe fencabulator fmarket fis frisky, fan f8% fexpected
freturn fonfthe fF&H fencabulator finvestments fmay fbe finferior fto fa f4%
freturn fon fU.S.
government fsecurities, fdepending fon fthe frelative frisk fbetween fthe ftwo fassets.
b. Unless fthe ffinancial fassets fare fas fsafe fas fU.S. fgovernment fsecurities, ftheir fcost f of
fcapitalfwould fbe fhigher. fThe fCFO f could fconsider fexpected freturns fon fassets fwith
fsimilar frisk.
Est ftime: f06-10
