100% tevredenheidsgarantie Direct beschikbaar na je betaling Lees online óf als PDF Geen vaste maandelijkse kosten
logo-home
Eerder door jou gezocht
Eerder door jou gezocht
logo
Solutions Manual Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13th edition Ross, Wester field, €12,97
In winkelwagen
Snel navigeren naar
Voorbeeld
  2.  
  3. Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance
  4.  
  5. Fundamentals of Corporate Finance

Tentamen (uitwerkingen)

Solutions Manual Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13th edition Ross, Wester field,

 0 keer verkocht
  • Vak
  • Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
  • Instelling
  • Fundamentals Of Corporate Finance

Solutions Manual Fundamentals of Corporate Finance 13th edition Ross, Wester field, and Jordan Prepared by Brad Jordan University of Florida Joe Smolira Belmont CHAPTER1 INTRODUCTIONTOCORPORATE FINANCE Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions 1. Capital budgeting (deciding...

[Meer zien]

Voorbeeld 4 van de 474  pagina's

Document informatie

  • 6 juli 2024
  • 474
  • 2023/2024
  • Tentamen (uitwerkingen)
  • Vragen en antwoorden

Onderwerpen

  • solutions
  • manual
  • fundamentals of corporate
  • finance
  • 13th
  • edition
  • 13th edition
  • ross wester field
  • fundamentals of corporate finance 13th edition ros
  • solutions manual fundamentals of corporate finance

Geschreven voor

  • Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
Alle documenten voor dit vak (131)

Verkoper

avatar-seller
Solutionstestbank

Voorbeeld van de inhoud

Solutions Manual
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance13thedition
Ross, Wester field, and Jordan

Prepared by

Brad Jordan
University of Florida

Joe Smolira
Belmont University

,CHAPTER1
INTRODUCTIONTOCORPORATE
FINANCE
Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions

1. Capital budgeting (deciding whether to expand a manufacturing plant), capital structure (deciding
whether to issue new equity and use the proceeds to retire outstanding debt), and working capital
management (modifying the firm‘s credit collection policy with its customers).

2. Disadvantages: unlimited liability, limited life, difficulty in transferring ownership, difficulty in
raising capital funds. Some advantages: simpler, less regulation, the owners are also the managers,
sometimes personal tax rates are better than corporate tax rates.

3. The primary disadvantage of the corporate form is the double taxation to shareholders of distributed
earnings and dividends. Some advantages include: limited liability, ease of transferability, ability to
raise capital, and unlimited life.

4. In response to Sarbanes-Oxley, small firms have elected to go dark because of the costs of
compliance. The costs to comply with Sarbox can be several million dollars, which can be a large
percentage of a small firm‘s profits. A major cost of going dark is less access to capital. Since the
firm is no longer publicly traded, it can no longer raise money in the public market. Although the
company will still have access to bank loans and the private equity market, the costs associated with
raising funds in these markets are usually higher than the costs of raising funds in the public market.

5. The treasurer‘s office and the controller‘s office are the two primary organizational groups thatreport
directly to the chief financial officer. The controller‘s office handles cost and financial accounting,
tax management, and management information systems, while the treasurer‘s office is responsible
for cash and credit management, capital budgeting, and financial planning. Therefore,the study of
corporate finance is concentrated within the treasury group‘s functions.

6. To maximize the current market value (share price) of the equity of the firm (whether it‘s publicly
traded or not).

7. 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.

8. Aprimarymarket transaction.

,9. In auction markets like the NYSE, brokers and agents meet at a physical location (the exchange) to
match buyers and sellers of assets. Dealer markets like NASDAQ consist of dealers operating at
dispersed locales who buy and sell assets themselves, communicating with other dealers either
electronically or literally over-the-counter.

10. Such organizations frequently pursue social or political missions, so many different goals are
conceivable. One goal that is often cited is revenue minimization; that is, provide whatever goodsand
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.

11. 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.

12. An argument can be made either way. At the one extreme, we could argue that ina 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 noneconomic 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?‖

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. We would expect agency problems to be less severe in countries with a 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 maybe 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. 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.

, 16. How much is too much? Who is worth more, Mark Parker or LeBron James?The simplest answeris
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, that is, stock price increases in excess of general market increases.



CHAPTER2
FINANCIALSTATEMENTS,TAXES,AND CASH
FLOW
Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions

1. Liquidity measures how quickly and easily an asset can be converted to cash without significant loss
in value. It‘s desirable for firms to have high liquidity so that they have a large factor of safety in
meeting short-term creditor demands. However, since liquidity also has an opportunity cost
associated with it—namely that higher returns can generally be found by investing the cash into
productive assets—low liquidity levels are also desirable to the firm. It‘s up to the firm‘s financial
management staff to find a reasonable compromise between these opposing needs.

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. Historical costs can be objectively and precisely measured whereas market values can be difficult to
estimate, and different analysts would come up with different numbers. Thus, there is a trade-off
between relevance (market values) and objectivity (book values).

4. Depreciation is a noncash deduction that reflects adjustments made in asset book values in
accordance with the matching principle in financial accounting. Interest expense is a cash outlay, but
it‘s a financing cost, not an operating cost.

5. Market values can never be negative. Imagine a share of stock selling for –$20. This would meanthat
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.

Dit zijn jouw voordelen als je samenvattingen koopt bij Stuvia:

Bewezen kwaliteit door reviews

Bewezen kwaliteit door reviews

Studenten hebben al meer dan 850.000 samenvattingen beoordeeld. Zo weet jij zeker dat je de beste keuze maakt!

In een paar klikken geregeld

In een paar klikken geregeld

Geen gedoe — betaal gewoon eenmalig met iDeal, creditcard of je Stuvia-tegoed en je bent klaar. Geen abonnement nodig.

Direct to-the-point

Direct to-the-point

Studenten maken samenvattingen voor studenten. Dat betekent: actuele inhoud waar jij écht wat aan hebt. Geen overbodige details!

Veelgestelde vragen

Wat krijg ik als ik dit document koop?

Je krijgt een PDF, die direct beschikbaar is na je aankoop. Het gekochte document is altijd, overal en oneindig toegankelijk via je profiel.

Tevredenheidsgarantie: hoe werkt dat?

Onze tevredenheidsgarantie zorgt ervoor dat je altijd een studiedocument vindt dat goed bij je past. Je vult een formulier in en onze klantenservice regelt de rest.

Van wie koop ik deze samenvatting?

Stuvia is een marktplaats, je koop dit document dus niet van ons, maar van verkoper Solutionstestbank. Stuvia faciliteert de betaling aan de verkoper.

Zit ik meteen vast aan een abonnement?

Nee, je koopt alleen deze samenvatting voor €12,97. Je zit daarna nergens aan vast.

Is Stuvia te vertrouwen?

4,6 sterren op Google & Trustpilot (+1000 reviews)

Afgelopen 30 dagen zijn er 69052 samenvattingen verkocht

Opgericht in 2010, al 15 jaar dé plek om samenvattingen te kopen

Begin nu gratis

Laatst bekeken door jou

Samenvatting ·

(0)

Samenvatting interculturele communicatie hoofdstuk 2

€12,97
  • (0)
In winkelwagen
Toegevoegd