This exercise comes in two parts. Part I involves an analysis of a set of financial statements and Part II involves forecasting and valuation based on those financial statements.

Part I: analysis

The following is a comparative balance sheet for a firm for fiscal year 2009 (in millions of dollars):

The following is the statement of common shareholders' equity for 2009 (in millions of dollars):
Balance, end of fiscal year 2008...............$1,430
Share issues from exercised employee stock options..........810
Repurchase of 24 million shares................(720)
Cash dividend.......................(180)
Tax benefit from exercise of employee stock options........12
Unrealized gain on investments..................50
Net income........................468
Balance, end of fiscal year 2009................$1,870
The firm's income tax rate is 35 percent. The firm reported $15 million in interest income and $98 million in interest expense for 2009. Sales revenue was $3, 726 million.
a. Calculate the loss to shareholders from the exercise of employee stock options during 2009.
b. The shares repurchased were in settlement of a forward purchase agreement. The market price of the shares at the time of the repurchase was $25 each. What was the effect of this transaction on the income for the shareholders?
c. Prepare a comprehensive income statement that distinguishes after-tax operating income from financing income and expense. Include gains or losses from the transactions in parts (a) and (b) above.
d. Prepare a reformulated comparative balance sheet that distinguishes assets and liabilities employed in operations from those employed in financing activities. Calculate the firm's financial leverage and operating liability leverage at theendof2009.
e. Calculate free cash flow for 2009.
Part II: Forecasting and Valuation
Use a cost of capital for operations of 9 percent. Sales revenue is forecasted to grow at a 6 percent rate per year in the future, on a constant asset turnover of 1.25. Operating profit margins of 14 percent are expected to be earned each year.
a. Forecast return on net operating assets (RNOA) for 2010.
b. Forecast residual operating income for 2010.
c. Value the shareholders' equity at the end of the 2009 fiscal year using residual income methods.
d. Forecast abnormal growth in operating income for 2011.
e. Value the shareholders' equity at the end of 2009 using abnormal earnings growth methods.
f. After reading the stock compensation footnote for this firm, you note that there are employee stock options on 28 million shares outstanding at the end of 2009. These options vest in 2011 and after. A modified Black-Scholes valuation of these options is $15 each. How does this information change your valuation?
g. Forecast (net) comprehensive income for2010.

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2009 2008 2008 S 60 50 Accounts payable $1,200 $1,040 940 790 Long-term debt 840 ,970 240 2.710 Common equsity 1870 1430 2009 Operating cash Shortterm nwestments Accrued iabilities 4 (at market) Accounts receivable Inventory Property and plant 550 500 910 840 $5,300 4,890 $5.300 S4,890