Solutions Manual For Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 13th Edition by Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan, Verified Chapters 1 - 27, Complete Newest Version

Solutions Manual Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13th
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Edition Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan
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Chapters 1 - 27
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,CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance
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CHAPTER 2: Financial Statements, Taxes, And Cash Flow
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CHAPTER 3: Working with Financial Statements
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CHAPTER 4: Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth
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CHAPTER 5: Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money
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CHAPTER 6: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
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CHAPTER 7: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
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CHAPTER 8: Stock Valuation
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CHAPTER 9: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
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CHAPTER 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions
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CHAPTER 11: Project Analysis and Evaluation
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CHAPTER 12: Some Lessons from Capital Market History
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CHAPTER 13: Return, Risk, And the Security Market Line
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CHAPTER 14: Cost of Capital
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CHAPTER 15: Raising Capital
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CHAPTER 16: Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy
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CHAPTER 17: Dividends and Payout Policy
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CHAPTER 18: Short-Term Finance and Planning
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CHAPTER 19: Cash and Liquidity Management
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CHAPTER 20: Credit and Inventory Management
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CHAPTER 21: International Corporate Finance
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CHAPTER 22: Behavioral Finance: Implications for Financial Manage
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CHAPTER 23: Enterprise Risk Management
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CHAPTER 24:Options and Corporate Finance
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CHAPTER 25: Option Valuation
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CHAPTER 26: Mergers and Acquisitions
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CHAPTER 27: Leasing
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INTRODUCTION TO c




CORPORATEFINANCE
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Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions
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1. Capital budgeting (deciding whether to expand a manufacturing plant), capital structure (deciding
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whether to issue new equity and use the proceeds to retire outstanding debt), and working capital
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management (modifying the firm‘s credit collection policy with its customers).
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2. Disadvantages: unlimited liability, limited life, difficulty in transferring ownership, hard to raise
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capital funds. Some advantages: simpler, less regulation, the owners are also the managers,
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sometimes personal tax rates are better than corporate tax rates.
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3. The primary disadvantage of the corporate form is the double taxation to shareholders of distributed
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earnings and dividends. Some advantages include: limited liability, ease of transferability, ability to
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raise capital, unlimited life, and so forth.
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4. In response to Sarbanes-Oxley, small firms have elected to go dark because of the costs of
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compliance. The costs to comply with Sarbox can be several million dollars, which can be a large
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percentage of a small firms profits. A major cost of going dark is less access to capital.
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cSince the firm is no longer publicly traded, it can no longer raise money in the public market.
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Although the company will still have access to bank loans and the private equity market, the costs
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associated with raising funds in these markets are usually higher than the costs of raising funds in the
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public market.
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5. The treasurer‘s office and the controller‘s office are the two primary organizational
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cgroups that report directly to the chief financial officer. The controller‘s office handles cost and
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financial accounting, tax management, and management information systems, while the treasurer‘s
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office is responsible for cash and credit management, capital budgeting, and financial
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planning. Therefore, the study of corporate finance is concentrated within the treasury group‘s
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functions.
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6. To maximize the current market value (share price) of the equity of the firm (whether it‘s publicly-
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traded or not).
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7. In the corporate form of ownership, the shareholders are the owners of the firm. The shareholders
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elect the directors of the corporation, who in turn appoint the firm‘s management. This separation of
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ownership from control in the corporate form of organization is what causes agency problems to
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exist. Management may act in its own or someone else‘s best interests, rather than those of the
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shareholders. If such events occur, they may contradict the goal of maximizing the share price of the
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equity of the firm.
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8. A primary market transaction.
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, B-2 SOLUTIONS
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9. In auction markets like the NYSE, brokers and agents meet at a physical location (the exchange) to
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cmatch buyers and sellers of assets. Dealer markets like NASDAQ consist of dealers operating at
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dispersed locales who buy and sell assets themselves, communicating with other dealers either
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electronically or literally over-the-counter.
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10. Such organizations frequently pursue social or political missions, so many different goals are
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conceivable. One goal that is often cited is revenue minimization; i.e., provide whatever goods and
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services are offered at the lowest possible cost to society. A better approach might be to observe that
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even a not-for-profit business has equity. Thus, one answer is that the appropriate goal is to
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maximize the value of the equity.
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11. Presumably, the current stock value reflects the risk, timing, and magnitude of all future cash flows,
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both short-term and long-term. If this is correct, then the statement is false.
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12. An argument can be made either way. At the one extreme, we could argue that in a market
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economy,all of these things are priced. There is thus an optimal level of, for example, ethical and/or
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illegal behavior, and the framework of stock valuation explicitly includes these. At the other
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extreme, we could argue that these are non-economic phenomena and are best handled through the
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political process. A classic (and highly relevant) thought question that illustrates this debate goes
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something like this: ―A firm has estimated that the cost of improving the safety of one of its
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products is $30 million. However, the firm believes that improving the safety of the product will
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only save $20 million in product liability claims. What should the firm do?‖
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13. The goal will be the same, but the best course of action toward that goal may be different because of
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differing social, political, and economic institutions.
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14. The goal of management should be to maximize the share price for the current shareholders. If
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management believes that it can improve the profitability of the firm so that the share price will
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exceed $35, then they should fight the offer from the outside company. If management believes that
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this bidder or other unidentified bidders will actually pay more than $35 per share to acquire the
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company, then they should still fight the offer. However, if the current management cannot increase
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the value of the firm beyond the bid price, and no other higher bids come in, then management is not
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acting in the interests of the shareholders by fighting the offer. Since current managers often lose
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their jobs when the corporation is acquired, poorly monitored managers have an incentive to fight
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corporate takeovers in situations such as this.
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15. We would expect agency problems to be less severe in other countries, primarily due to the
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relatively small percentage of individual ownership. Fewer individual owners should reduce the
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number of diverse opinions concerning corporate goals. The high percentage of institutional
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ownership might lead to a higher degree of agreement between owners and managers on decisions
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concerning risky projects. In addition, institutions may be better able to implement effective
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monitoring mechanisms on managers than can individual owners, based on the institutions‘ deeper
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resources and experiences with their own management. The increase in institutional ownership of
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stock in the United States and the growing activism of these large shareholder groups may lead to a
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reduction in agency problems for U.S. corporations and a more efficient market for corporate
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control.
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