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Exhibit 1 Flight plan Consulting, Inc. (B) Balance Sheet December 31,2001 ($000s) Current Assets $1,500 Current Liabilities $400 Fixed Assets 1,500 Long-Term Debt 600 Common
Exhibit 1
Flight plan Consulting, Inc. (B)
Balance Sheet
December 31,2001
($000s)
Current Assets $1,500 Current Liabilities $400
Fixed Assets 1,500 Long-Term Debt 600
Common Stock 400
($1 par)
Retained Earnings 1,600
Total Assets $3,000 Total $3,000
Exhibit 2
Flight Plan Consulting, Inc.
Selected Capital Market, Company, Industry Data
FPC, Inc. may issue long-term debt at par, with a coupon rate of 5 percent; its existing $1,000 par bonds carried a coupon rate of 7% (see FPC, Inc. A).
The firms stock price had risen to $21.50 in recent weeks, and the increase in the firms net income after-tax is 16%.
A broad market average of common stocks had risen at an annualized rate of 15 percent in recent weeks. The return on that average is now 16%. (The yield on 10-year U.S.Government bonds is 5.01%. The stock of FPC, Inc. was 10 percent more volatile that the market average of stocks.) Flight Plan Consulting falls into the 30% (combined) tax bracket.
Many specialized consulting firms, if they experienced substantial net income growth, have a long-term debt to total asset ratio of approximately 40 percent on average.
Calculate the Marginal weighted average cost of capital (WACC) for FPC, INC.
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