Questions and Answers of Analysis Financial Management

=b. What percentage decline in earnings before interest and taxes could Natural Selection have sustained before failing to cover(1) Principal repayment requirements(2) Common dividend payments?
=11. Given the following information, complete the balance sheet shown below.(All sales are on credit. All calculations assume a 365-day year.Payables period is based on cost of goods sold.)
=12. You will need to use the Standard & Poor's Market Insight website(www.mhhe.com/edumarketinsight) for this problem. Observe the sales-to-net property, plant, and equipment ratio for fiscal 2003
=a. What does the ratio tell you about these companies?
=b. How can you explain the wide differences you observe in the ratio?
=13. An Excel spreadsheet containing Costco Wholesale Corporation's financial statements for 2001–2003 is available for download at www.mhhe.com/higgins8e. (Select Student Edition > Choose a
=14. Use Gap, Inc.'s, financial statements available on the Web at www.mhhe.com/higgins8e to answer the questions below. (Select Student Edition > Choose a Chapter > Excel Spreadsheets.) Use the
=b. What percentage decline in earnings before interest and taxes could Gap have sustained in fiscal years 2003 and 2004 before failing to cover(1) Principal repayment requirements,(2) Common
=c. Prepare common-size financial statements for Gap, Inc., for 2002–2004.
=2. Harlin Fencing Company's sales, all on credit, for the past three months were:
=a. Estimate Harlin's cash receipts in October if the company's collection period is 30 days.
=b. Estimate Harlin's cash receipts in October if the company's collection period is 45 days.
=4. Table 3.5 presents a computer spreadsheet for estimating R&E Supplies'external financing required for 2006. The text mentions that with modifications to the equations for equity and net sales,
=5. Using a computer spreadsheet, the information presented below, and the modified equations determined in question 4 above, extend the forecast for R&E Supplies contained in Table 3.5 through 2007.
=6. This and the following two problems demonstrate that pro forma forecasts, cash budgets, and cash flow forecasts all yield the same estimated need for external financing—provided you don't make
=7. Continuing problem 6, Pepperton's annual income statement and balance sheet for December 31, 2005 appear below. Additional information about the company's accounting methods and the treasurer's
=a. Use this information and the information in problem 6 to construct a pro forma income statement for the first quarter of 2006 and a pro forma balance sheet for March 31, 2006. What is your
=b. Does the March 31, 2006, estimated external financing equal your cash surplus (deficit) for this date from your cash budget in problem 6? Should it?
=c. Do your pro forma forecasts tell you more than your cash budget does about Pepperton's financial prospects?
=d. What do your pro forma income statement and balance sheet tell you about Pepperton's need for external financing on February 28, 2006?
=8. Based on your answer to question 7, construct a first-quarter 2006 cash flow forecast for Pepperton.
=9. Toys-4-Kids manufactures plastic toys. Sales and production are highly seasonal. Below is a quarterly pro forma forecast indicating external financing needs for 2006. Assumptions are in
=a. How do you interpret the negative numbers for income taxes in the first two quarters?
=b. Why are cash balances in the first two quarters greater than the minimum required $200,000? How were these numbers determined?
=c. How was “external financing required” appearing at the bottom of the forecast determined?
=d. Do you think Toys-4-Kids will be able to borrow the external financing required as indicated by the forecast?
=10. Continuing with Toys-4-Kids introduced in the preceding problem, the company's production manager has argued for years that it is inefficient to produce on a seasonal basis. She believes the
=a. Prepare a revised pro forma forecast assuming level production. In your forecast assume that quarterly accounts payable under level production equal 10 percent of average quarterly sales for the
=b. What is the effect of the switch from seasonal to level production on annual profits?
=c. What effect does the switch have on the company's ending inventory? On the company's need for external financing?
=d. Do you think the company will be able to borrow the amount of money required by level production? What obsolescence risks does the company incur by building up inventory in anticipation of future
=11. You will need to use the Standard & Poor's Market Insight website(http://www.mhhe.com/edumarketinsight) for this problem. Market Insight presents a spreadsheet entitled “Forecasted Values.”
=a. How are these forecasts generated? Are they more than simple extrapolation of past trends?
=b. How useful might these forecasts be for projecting a company's future financing needs?
=12. This problem asks you to construct a simple simulation model. If you do not own simulation software, you can download to your computer a free, full-strength version of Crystal Ball for a
=a. Problem 5 above asked you to extend the forecast for R&E Supplies contained in Table 3.5 through 2007. Using the same spreadsheet, simulate R&E Supplies' external funding requirements in 2007
=13. This problem asks you to prepare one- and five-year financial forecasts for Jasmine Apparel Company. An Excel spreadsheet containing the company's 2005 financial statements and management's
=14. The financial statements and additional information for Suunto Equipment Corp. appear at www.mhhe.com/higgins8e. (Select Student Edition > Choose a Chapter > Excel Spreadsheets.) The company's
=2. If the stock market in the United States is efficient, how do you explain the fact that some people make very high returns? Would it be more difficult to reconcile very high returns with
=3. A company wants to raise $500 million in a new stock issue. The company's investment banker indicates that a sale of new stock will require 8 percent underpricing and a 7 percent spread. (Hint:
=a. Assuming the company's stock price does not change from its current price of $75 per share, how many shares must the company sell and at what price to the public?
=b. How much money will the investment banking syndicates earn on the sale?
=c. Is the 8 percent underpricing a cash flow? Is it a cost? If so, to whom?
=4. Suppose in Figure 5.4 that the stock prices of target firms in acquisitions responded to acquisition announcements over a three-day period rather than almost instantly.
=a. Would you describe such an acquisition market as efficient? Why, or why not?
=b. Can you think of any trading strategy to take advantage of the delayed price response?
=c. If you and many others pursued this trading strategy, what would happen to the price response to acquisition announcements?
=d. Some argue that market inefficiencies contain the seeds of their own destruction. In what ways does your answer to this problem illustrate the logic of this statement, if at all?
=5. The return an investor earns on a bond over a period of time is known as the holding period return, defined as interest income plus or minus the change in the bond's price, all divided by the
=a. What is the holding period return on a bond with a par value of $1,000 and a coupon rate of 6 percent if its price at the beginning of the year was$1,050 and its price at the end was $940? Assume
=b. Can you give two reasons the price of the bond might have decreased over the year?
=6. Companies generally can borrow money using bank debt or by issuing bonds. Why might a firm choose one method over the other?
=7.a. Suppose that Liquid Force's stock price consistently falls by an amount equal to one-half the dividend it pays on the payment date. Ignoring taxes, can you think of an investment strategy to
=b. If you and many others pursued this strategy, predict what would happen to Liquid Force's stock price on the dividend payment date.
=c. Suppose that Liquid Force's stock price consistently falls by an amount equal to twice the dividend payment on the payment date. Ignoring taxes, can you think of an investment strategy to take
=d. If you and many others pursued this strategy, predict what would happen to Liquid Force's stock price on the dividend payment date.e. In an efficient market, ignoring taxes and transaction costs,
=f. Given that investors receive returns from common stock in the form of dividends and capital appreciation, do you think that increasing dividends will benefit investors in efficient markets and in
=8. The common shares of Fortune Brands, Inc. (FO), owner of many brands including Knob Creek bourbons, Wild Horse wines, Titleist golf products, and Swingline staplers, are trading today on the NYSE
=a. Using the option pricer website mentioned in the appendix, estimate the value of your FO options.
=b. What is the estimated value of the options if their maturity is five months instead of three years? Why does the value of the options decline as the maturity declines?
=c. What is the estimated value of the options if their maturity is three years but FO's volatility is 55 percent? Why does the value of the options increase as volatility increases?
=9. Some refer to common stock as an option on a company's assets. Do you see any logic to this statement? What is the logic, if any?10. Use the Standard and Poor's Market Insight website,
=c. Based on the company's March, 2005 price, what rate of return did the investors who bought stock approximately 3 months earlier receive?
=d. Based on the number of common shares outstanding as of December 2004 (consult Excel Analytics, Annual Balance Sheet), what proportion of the company's shares were sold in this offering?
=8. An Excel spreadsheet containing selected financial information for Eight Ball Sporting Goods is available at www.mhhe.com/higgins8e. (Select Student Edition > Choose a Chapter > Excel
=7. Chapter 3, Problem 13, asks you to construct a five-year financial projection for Jasmine Apparel beginning in 2006. Based on your forecast, or the suggested answer at www.mhhe.com/higgins8e
=d. As an Oracle shareholder, would you endorse Oracle's investment in cash? As an Oracle senior executive, how would you defend the policy?
=c. In general terms, how does Oracle's huge investment in cash affect its return on equity and its sustainable growth rate?
=b. Calculate the ratio of cash and equivalents to total assets for Boeing and Oracle for fiscal year 2004.
=a. For fiscal year 2004, what is the largest single asset on Boeing Company's balance sheet, on Oracle Corp's. balance sheet?
=6. You will need to use the Standard & Poor's Market Insight website(www.mhhe.com/edumarketinsight) for this problem.
=d. Calculate UFC's sustainable growth rate in 2003 assuming the asset turnover increases to 0.4 and the financial leverage decreases to 1.6 times.
=c. How did UFC cope with its sustainable growth problems?
=b. Does UFC have a growth problem?
=a. Calculate UFC's sustainable growth rate for each year.
=5. Union Fidelity Company (UFC) has the following ratios for the years 1999 through 2003:
=d. Robert Half paid its first dividends in 2004. As an analyst, assess the company's decision to pay dividends.
=c. Considering economic conditions over the period, what was a likely cause of these problems?
=b. Comparing the company's sustainable growth rate with its actual growth rate in sales, what growth problems did the company face over this period?
=a. Calculate Robert Half's sustainable growth rate in each year.
=4. Robert Half International, Inc. (RHI), headquartered in Menlo Park, California, is the world's first and largest provider of temporary and permanent personnel in accounting, finance, and
=d. In March 1995, PCA announced a $7.5 million stock buy back, about equal in size to earnings that year. From a growth management perspective, was this a wise move?
=b. Comparing the company's sustainable growth rate with its actual growth rate in sales, what growth problems did PCA face over this period?
=a. Calculate PCA's sustainable growth rate in each year.
=3. PCA International, Inc., is one of the largest color portrait photography chains in North America. The company photographs, develops, and sells portrait packages through studios operated in Kmart
=c. How did the company cope with these problems? Do you see any difficulties with the way it addressed its growth problems over this period?If so, what are they?d. What advice would you offer
=2. Table 3.1 in the last chapter presents R&E Supplies' financial statements for the period 2002 through 2005, and Table 3.5 presents a pro forma financial forecast for 2006. Use the information in
=1. True or false? Why?a. A company's sustainable growth rate is the highest growth rate in sales it can attain without issuing new stock.b. The stock market is a ready source of new capital when a
This problem asks you to construct a simple simulation model. If you do not own simulation software, see the options for downloading simulation software under Additional Resources. R&E
A spreadsheet containing R&E Supplies' 2018 pro forma financial forecast, as shown in Table 3.5, is available for download from McGraw-Hill's Connect or your course instructor (see the Preface
Table 3.5 presents a computer spreadsheet for estimating R&E Supplies' external financing required for 2018. The text mentions that with modifications to the equations for equity and net sales,
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