Question 1:

1 Assume that the company that you selected for the Module 1 SLP has a bond outstanding that matures in 20 years and has a coupon rate of 6.5%. The par value of the bond is $1,000.

a If the yield to maturity is 8% and the bond pays interest on an annual basis, what's the current price of the bond? Is the bond selling for a premium or discount? How can you tell?

b If the yield to maturity is 8% but the bond pays interest on a semi-annual basis instead of an annual basis, what's the current price of the bond? Is it different from the value when using annual compounding? Explain.

c Now, assume that the economy enters into a recession and interest rates fall. The bond's yield to maturity is now 5%. What's the bond's new price? How does the price compare with your answer in part a? Why did the bond's value change?

A bond matures in ten years and is currently selling for $1,125. The bond pay interest annually, has a par value of $1,000, and a yield to maturity of 10.75%. What's the bond's current yield?

Module 3

Question 2:

A manufacturer is considering venturing into the golf club manufacturing business with a new driver golf club. Your job is to determine if the company should create this new driver golf club or not. Regarding the costs at t=0 (today), the machinery to create the golf club would cost $2,000,000. It would cost $50,000 to install the machinery and inventories would increase by $100,000. The machinery is expected to last ten years and would be depreciated with straight-line depreciation. The project is expected to last ten years when the project would be ended. The project's cash inflows are expected at begin at t=1 (that is, year 1) and continue through t=10 (year 10). At t=10, the machinery is anticipated to have a salvage value of $40,000. The company expects to sell 500 golf clubs per year at an anticipated price of $500 per golf club. Operating costs, excluding depreciation, are anticipated to be 75% of sales each year.

The project's cost of capital is 12% and the firm's tax rate is 35%.

Determine the project's cash flows for years t=0 to t=10. Please use Excel to estimate the project's cash flows.

Question 3:

Part I

Assume that a company has $20 million in revenue and its cost of goods sold is 70% of its sales. Additionally, the firm has $3 million of inventories, $2 million in payables, and $2 million in receivables. What's the firm's cash conversion cycle (CCC)? What does this indicate? Do you think that the company should improve its CCC? If so, what are some ways that it can do that? If not, why do you think that's the case?

Part II

Assume that a firm has a payables deferral period of 40 days, an inventory conversion period of 62 days, and an average collection period of 29 days.

2 What's the firm's cash conversion cycle?

3 Assume that all of the firm's sales are on credit. If the firm has annual sales of $4 million, what's the accounts receivable investment How many times a year will the firm turn over its inventory?