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Corporate Finance

Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe and Jordan
13th edition

, CHAPTER 2 - 2




CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE
FINANCE
Answers to Concept Questions

1. In the corporate form of ownership, the shareholders are the owners of the firm. The shareholders elect
the directors of the corporation, who in turn appoint the firm’s management. This separation of
ownership from control in the corporate form of organization is what causes agency problems to exist.
Management may act in its own or someone else’s best interests, rather than those of the shareholders.
If such events occur, they may contradict the goal of maximizing the share price of the equity of the
firm.

2. Such organizations frequently pursue social or political missions, so many different goals are
conceivable. One goal that is often cited is revenue minimization; i.e., provide whatever goods and
services are offered at the lowest possible cost to society. A better approach might be to observe that
even a not-for-profit business has equity. Thus, one answer is that the appropriate goal is to maximize
the value of the equity.

3. Presumably, the current stock value reflects the risk, timing, and magnitude of all future cash flows,
both short-term and long-term. If this is correct, then the statement is false.

4. An argument can be made either way. At the one extreme, we could argue that in a market economy,
all of these things are priced. There is thus an optimal level of, for example, ethical and/or illegal
behavior, and the framework of stock valuation explicitly includes these. At the other extreme, we
could argue that these are non-economic phenomena and are best handled through the political process.
A classic (and highly relevant) thought question that illustrates this debate goes something like this:
“A firm has estimated that the cost of improving the safety of one of its products is $30 million.
However, the firm believes that improving the safety of the product will only save $20 million in
product liability claims. What should the firm do?”

5. The goal will be the same, but the best course of action toward that goal may be different because of
differing social, political, and economic institutions.

6. The goal of management should be to maximize the share price for the current shareholders. If
management believes that it can improve the profitability of the firm so that the share price will exceed
$35, then they should fight the offer from the outside company. If management believes that this
bidder, or other unidentified bidders, will actually pay more than $35 per share to acquire the company,
then they should still fight the offer. However, if the current management cannot increase the value of
the firm beyond the bid price, and no other higher bids come in, then management is not acting in the
interests of the shareholders by fighting the offer. Since current managers often lose their jobs when
the corporation is acquired, poorly monitored managers have an incentive to fight corporate takeovers
in situations such as this.

, CHAPTER 2 - 3


7. We would expect agency problems to be less severe in other countries, primarily due to the relatively
small percentage of individual ownership. Fewer individual owners should reduce the number of
diverse opinions concerning corporate goals. The high percentage of institutional ownership might
lead to a higher degree of agreement between owners and managers on decisions concerning risky
projects. In addition, institutions may be better able to implement effective monitoring mechanisms
on managers than can individual owners, based on the institutions’ deeper resources and experiences
with their own management.

8. The increase in institutional ownership of stock in the United States and the growing activism of these
large shareholder groups may lead to a reduction in agency problems for U.S. corporations and a more
efficient market for corporate control. However, this may not always be the case. If the managers of
the mutual fund or pension plan are not concerned with the interests of the investors, the agency
problem could potentially remain the same, or even increase, since there is the possibility of agency
problems between the fund and its investors.

9. How much is too much? Who is worth more, Larry Ellison or Tiger Woods? The simplest answer is
that there is a market for executives just as there is for all types of labor. Executive compensation is
the price that clears the market. The same is true for athletes and performers. Having said that, one
aspect of executive compensation deserves comment. A primary reason executive compensation has
grown so dramatically is that companies have increasingly moved to stock-based compensation. Such
movement is obviously consistent with the attempt to better align stockholder and management
interests. In recent years, stock prices have soared, so management has cleaned up. It is sometimes
argued that much of this reward is due to rising stock prices in general, not managerial performance.
Perhaps in the future, executive compensation will be designed to reward only differential
performance, i.e., stock price increases in excess of general market increases.

10. Maximizing the current share price is the same as maximizing the future share price at any future
period. The value of a share of stock depends on all of the future cash flows of company. Another way
to look at this is that, barring large cash payments to shareholders, the expected price of the stock must
be higher in the future than it is today. Who would buy a stock for $100 today when the share price in
one year is expected to be $80?

,CHAPTER 2
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND CASH
FLOW
Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions

1. True. Every asset can be converted to cash at some price. However, when we are referring to a liquid
asset, the added assumption that the asset can be quickly converted to cash at or near market value is
important.

2. The recognition and matching principles in financial accounting call for revenues, and the costs
associated with producing those revenues, to be “booked” when the revenue process is essentially
complete, not necessarily when the cash is collected or bills are paid. Note that this way is not
necessarily correct; it’s the way accountants have chosen to do it.

3. The bottom line number shows the change in the cash balance on the balance sheet. As such, it is not
a useful number for analyzing a company.

4. The major difference is the treatment of interest expense. The accounting statement of cash flows
treats interest as an operating cash flow, while the financial cash flows treat interest as a financing
cash flow. The logic of the accounting statement of cash flows is that since interest appears on the
income statement, which shows the operations for the period, it is an operating cash flow. In reality,
interest is a financing expense, which results from the company’s choice of debt and equity. We will
have more to say about this in a later chapter. When comparing the two cash flow statements, the
financial statement of cash flows is a more appropriate measure of the company’s performance because
of its treatment of interest.

5. Market values can never be negative. Imagine a share of stock selling for –$20. This would mean that
if you placed an order for 100 shares, you would get the stock along with a check for $2,000. How
many shares do you want to buy? More generally, because of corporate and individual bankruptcy
laws, net worth for a person or a corporation cannot be negative, implying that liabilities cannot exceed
assets in market value.

6. For a successful company that is rapidly expanding, for example, capital outlays will be large, possibly
leading to negative cash flow from assets. In general, what matters is whether the money is spent
wisely, not whether cash flow from assets is positive or negative.

7. It’s probably not a good sign for an established company to have negative cash flow from operations,
but it would be fairly ordinary for a start-up, so it depends.

, CHAPTER 2 - 5


8. For example, if a company were to become more efficient in inventory management, the amount of
inventory needed would decline. The same might be true if the company becomes better at collecting
its receivables. In general, anything that leads to a decline in ending NWC relative to beginning would
have this effect. Negative net capital spending would mean more long-lived assets were liquidated
than purchased.

9. If a company raises more money from selling stock than it pays in dividends in a particular period, its
cash flow to stockholders will be negative. If a company borrows more than it pays in interest and
principal, its cash flow to creditors will be negative.

10. The adjustments discussed were purely accounting changes; they had no cash flow or market value
consequences unless the new accounting information caused stockholders to revalue the assets.

Solutions to Questions and Problems

NOTE: All end-of-chapter problems were solved using a spreadsheet. Many problems require multiple
steps. Due to space and readability constraints, when these intermediate steps are included in this solutions
manual, rounding may appear to have occurred. However, the final answer for each problem is found
without rounding during any step in the problem.

Basic

1. To find owners’ equity, we must construct a balance sheet as follows:

Balance Sheet
CA $ 5,400 CL $ 4,100
NFA 28,100 LTD 10,600
OE ??
TA $33,500 TL & OE $33,500

We know that total liabilities and owners’ equity (TL & OE) must equal total assets of $33,500. We
also know that TL & OE is equal to current liabilities plus long-term debt plus owners’ equity, so
owners’ equity is:

Owners’ equity = $33,500 – 10,600 – 4,100
Owners’ equity = $18,800

And net working capital (NWC) is:

NWC = CA – CL
NWC = $5,400 – 4,100
NWC = $1,300

, CHAPTER 2 - 6


2. The income statement for the company is:

Income Statement
Sales $497,000
Costs 276,000
Depreciation 43,000
EBIT $178,000
Interest 24,000
EBT $154,000
Taxes 32,340
Net income $121,660

One equation for net income is:

Net income = Dividends + Addition to retained earnings

Rearranging, we get:

Addition to retained earnings = Net income – Dividends
Addition to retained earnings = $121,660 – 30,000
Addition to retained earnings = $91,660

3. To find the book value of current assets, we use: NWC = CA – CL. Rearranging to solve for current
assets, we get:

CA = NWC + CL
CA = $275,000 + 945,000
CA = $1,220,000

The market value of current assets and fixed assets is given, so:

Book value CA $1,220,000 Market value NWC $1,250,000
Book value NFA 3,500,000 Market value NFA 5,400,000
Book value assets $4,720,000 Total $6,650,000


4. Taxes = .10($9,950) + .12($40,525 – 9,950) + .22($86,375 – 40,525) + .24($164,925 – 86,375)
+ .32($189,000 – 164,925)
Taxes = $41,307

The average tax rate is the total tax paid divided by taxable income, so:

Average tax rate = $41,307/$189,000
Average tax rate = .2186, or 21.86%

The marginal tax rate is the tax rate on the next $1 of earnings, so the marginal tax rate is 32 percent.

, CHAPTER 2 - 7


5. To calculate OCF, we first need the income statement:

Income Statement
Sales $49,800
Costs 23,700
Depreciation 2,300
EBIT $23,800
Interest 1,800
Taxable income $22,000
Taxes (22%) 4,840
Net income $17,160

OCF = EBIT + Depreciation – Taxes
OCF = $23,800 + 2,300 – 4,840
OCF = $21,260

6. Net capital spending = NFAend – NFAbeg + Depreciation
Net capital spending = $3,100,000 – 2,300,000 + 327,000
Net capital spending = $1,127,000

7. The long-term debt account will increase by $34 million, the amount of the new long-term debt issue.
Since the company sold 4.6 million new shares of stock with a $1 par value, the common stock account
will increase by $4.6 million. The capital surplus account will increase by $56.4 million, the value of
the new stock sold above its par value. Since the company had a net income of $7.9 million, and paid
$1.9 million in dividends, the addition to retained earnings was $6 million, which will increase the
accumulated retained earnings account. So, the new long-term debt and stockholders’ equity portion
of the balance sheet will be:

Long-term debt $ 82,000,000
Total long-term debt $ 82,000,000

Shareholders’ equity
Preferred stock $ 3,100,000
Common stock ($1 par value) 16,100,000
Accumulated retained earnings 114,000,000
Capital surplus 107,400,000
Total equity $ 240,600,000

Total liabilities & equity $ 322,600,000

8. Cash flow to creditors = Interest paid – Net new borrowing
Cash flow to creditors = Interest paid – (LTDend – LTDbeg)
Cash flow to creditors = $305,000 – ($2,660,000 – 2,250,000)
Cash flow to creditors = –$105,000

, CHAPTER 2 - 8


9. Cash flow to stockholders = Dividends paid – Net new equity
Cash flow to stockholders = Dividends paid – [(Commonend + APISend) – (Commonbeg + APISbeg)]
Cash flow to stockholders = $654,000 – [($965,000 + 5,040,000) – ($780,000 + 4,780,000)]
Cash flow to stockholders = $209,000

Note, APIS is the additional paid-in surplus.

10. Cash flow from assets = Cash flow to creditors + Cash flow to stockholders
= –$105,000 + 209,000 = $104,000

Cash flow from assets = $104,000 = OCF – Change in NWC – Net capital spending
= $104,000 = OCF – (–$55,000) – 1,500,000

Operating cash flow = $104,000 – 55,000 + 1,500,000
Operating cash flow = $1,549,000

Intermediate

11. a. The accounting statement of cash flows explains the change in cash during the year. The
accounting statement of cash flows will be:

Statement of cash flows
Operations
Net income $148
Depreciation 94
Changes in other current assets –18
Change in accounts payable 18
Total cash flow from operations $242

Investing activities
Acquisition of fixed assets –$114
Total cash flow from investing activities –$114

Financing activities
Proceeds of long-term debt $9
Dividends –115
Total cash flow from financing activities –$106

Change in cash (on balance sheet) $22

, CHAPTER 2 - 9


b. Change in NWC = NWCend – NWCbeg
= (CAend – CLend) – (CAbeg – CLbeg)
= [($87 + 195) – 149] – [($65 + 177) – 131]
= $133 – 111
= $22

c. To find the cash flow generated by the firm’s assets, we need the operating cash flow and the
capital spending. So, calculating each of these, we find:

Operating cash flow
Net income $148
Depreciation 94
Operating cash flow $242

Note that we can calculate OCF in this manner since there are no taxes.

Capital spending
Ending fixed assets $420
Beginning fixed assets –400
Depreciation 94
Capital spending $114

Now we can calculate the cash flow generated by the firm’s assets, which is:

Cash flow from assets
Operating cash flow $242
Capital spending 114
Change in NWC –22
Cash flow from assets $106

12. With the information provided, the total of capital spending and the change in net working capital are:

Cash flows from the firm
Capital spending –$27,500
Additions to NWC –2,600
Capital spending and NWC cash flow –$30,100

And the cash flows to the investors of the firm are:

Cash flows to investors of the firm
Sale of long-term debt –$13,800
Sale of common stock –5,000
Dividends paid 13,800
Cash flows to investors of the firm –$5,000

, CHAPTER 2 - 10


13. a. The interest expense for the company is the amount of debt times the interest rate on the debt.
So, the income statement for the company is:

Income Statement
Sales $895,000
Cost of goods sold 461,000
Selling costs 215,000
Depreciation 108,000
EBIT $111,000
Interest 27,400
Taxable income $ 83,600
Taxes 17,556
Net income $ 66,044

b. And the operating cash flow is:

OCF = EBIT + Depreciation – Taxes
OCF = $111,000 + 108,000 – 17,556
OCF = $201,444

14. To find the OCF, we first calculate net income.

Income Statement
Sales $336,000
Costs 194,700
Other expenses 9,800
Depreciation 20,600
EBIT $110,900
Interest 14,200
Taxable income $96,700
Taxes 21,275
Net income $ 75,425

Dividends $21,450
Additions to RE $53,975

a. OCF = EBIT + Depreciation – Taxes
OCF = $110,900 + 20,600 – 21,275
OCF = $110,225

b. CFC = Interest – Net new LTD
CFC = $14,200 – (–5,400)
CFC = $19,600

Note that the net new long-term debt is negative because the company repaid part of its long-
term debt.

c. CFS = Dividends – Net new equity
CFS = $21,450 – 7,100
CFS = $14,350
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