TOPIC $1$st

$1/.$ ABC is considering two mutually exclusive investment projects

which have a shelf life of two years. The cash flows of the two programs $($in thousands

euros$),$ as well as the corresponding probabilities of their realization are presented

in the tables below:

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INVESTMENT A

Year $0$ Year $1$ Year $2$

Cost Probability Cash Flow Probability Cash Flow

$-400$

$40\%440$

$60\%460$

$40\%420$

$60\%380$

$70\%410$

$30\%360$

INVESTMENT B

Year $0$ Year $1$ Year $2$

Cost Probability Cash Flow Probability Cash

Flow

$-700$

$35\%480$

$40\%490$

$60\%480$

$65\%340$

$55\%380$

$45\%330$

A$/.$ Consider, based on the criterion of Expected Net Present Value,

which of the two investments would you choose, given that its weighted average cost

capital in the case of Investment A is estimated at $10\%,$ Investment B at $8\%,$

while the risk$-$free interest rate is $3\%.$

B$/.$ Let's say at the end of the first year a prospective buyer comes along

and submits an offer to buy the investment you chose to

implement in query a$/.$ According to his offer, he intends to her

buy instead of the amount of $400,000$ euros. Considering his offer,

justify whether or not it is profitable to sell the investment at the end of the first year.

$2/.$

A$/.$ Outline the similarities and differences of the equivalence method

with the certainty and method of adjusting the discount rate.

B$/.$ Assume that an initial cost investment of $1,000$ monetary units and

life of one year yields a cash flow equal to $1,500$ monetary units. The

discount rate adjusted to the risk of the particular investment

is estimated at $14\%,$ while the risk$-$free rate is $2\%.$ How much should it be$?$

equivalence factor with certainty to give us the same Net Present

Value the discount rate adjustment method and the method

equivalence with certainty?

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SUBJECT $2$

A$.$ If a firm sells $100,000$ units of a product at $15$ euros per unit, it has

fixed costs of $200,000$ euros and variable costs of $11$ euros per unit of product, and

increase its sales by $10\%,$ by what percentage will net operating income increase

its profits?

B$.$ If the above company succeeds in reducing the variable cost per unit

of product at $9$ euros $($with the rest of the assumptions remaining the same as in $2$A$),$ at what

product level $($in units sold$)$ and at what sales value its profits

of business before interest and taxes are zeroed out?

C$.$ Based on the data of fixed costs $(200,000$ euros$)$ and sales of $2$A $(100,000$

units of product at $15$ euros per unit$),$ the variable cost of $2$B $(9$ euros per

unit of product$)$ and assuming that the business has an invested capital of $4,000,000$

of which $2/3$ are loan funds with a borrowing rate of $5\%,$ who is the

degree of financial leverage of the firm?