Research Project Part 2 - Ford Motor Co

Integrative Case 4 Enviro Plastics Company Since its inception, Enviro Plastics Company has been revolutionizing plastic and trying to do its part to save the environment. Enviro’s founder, Marion Cosby, developed a biodegradable plastic that her company is marketing to manufacturing companies throughout the southeastern United States. After operating as a private company for six years, Enviro went public in 2015 and is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange. As the chief financial officer of a young company with lots of investment opportunities, Enviro’s CFO closely monitors the firm’s cost of capital. The CFO keeps tabs on each of the individual costs of Enviro’s three main financing sources: long-term debt, preferred stock, and common stock. The target capital structure for Enviro is given by the weights in the following table: At the present time, Enviro can raise debt by selling 20-year bonds with a $1,000 par value and a 10.5% annual coupon interest rate. Enviro’s corporate tax rate…

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Question 4.4                                                                                                                  Celebration Greeting Cards Incorporated is starting a new business venture and are in the process of evaluating its product lines. Information for one new product, traditional parchment grade cards, is as follows: Sixteen times each year, a new card design will be put into production. Each new design will require $600 in setup costs. The parchment grade card product line incurred $75,000 in development costs and is expected to be produced over the next four years. Direct costs of producing the designs average $0.50 each. Indirect manufacturing costs are estimated at $50,000 per year. Customer service expenses average $0.10 per card. Current sales are expected to be 2,500 units of each card design. Each card sells for $3.50. Sales units equal production units each year.   Required   What is the total estimated life-cycle operating income?

ACC 202 Milestone One: Operational Costs Data Appendix   You plan to open a small business for manufacturing pet collars, leashes, and harnesses. You have found a workshop space you can use for sewing your products. After some research and planning, you have estimates for the various operating costs for your business.   The total square footage for the sewing rooms is 1,500 square feet broken into three areas (500 square feet each). You have taken out a loan for start-up costs, and the monthly payment is $550; it goes into effect immediately and should be accounted for in your costs. You will also collect a modest salary for the first year of $500 per month; remember to divide evenly among the services.   Salary and Hiring Data One collar maker, who will be paid $16.00 per hour and work 40 hours per week One leash maker, who will be paid $16.00 per hour and work 40 hours per week One harness maker, who will be paid $17.00 per hour and work 40 hours per week One receptionist, who will…

financial management ch 15 hw please show work. question 10 ​(EBIT-EPS analysis)  Three recent graduates of the computer science program at the University of Tennessee are forming a company that will write and distribute new application software for the iPhone. ​ Initially, the corporation will operate in the southern region of Tennessee, Georgia, North​ Carolina, and South Carolina. A small group of private investors in the​ Atlanta, Georgia area is interested in financing the startup company and two financing plans have been put forth for​ consideration:   • The first​ (Plan A) is an​ all-common-equity capital structure.   ​$2.5 million dollars would be raised by selling common stock at ​$20 per common share.   • Plan B would involve the use of financial leverage.   ​$1.1 million dollars would be raised by selling bonds with an effective interest rate of 10.6 percent​ (per annum), and the remaining ​$1.4 million would be raised by selling common stock at the ​$20 price per share.…

Question 17  Home Builder​ Supply, a retailer in the home improvement​ industry, currently operates seven retail outlets in Georgia and South Carolina. Management is contemplating building an eighth retail store across town from its most successful retail outlet. The company already owns the land for this​ store, which currently has an abandoned warehouse located on it. Last​ month, the marketing department spent $15,000 on market research to determine the extent of customer demand for the new store. Now Home Builder Supply must decide whether to build and open the new store. Which of the following should be included as part of the incremental earnings for the proposed new retail​ store? a. The original purchase price of the land where the store will be located. b. The cost of demolishing the abandoned warehouse and clearing the lot. c. The loss of sales in the existing retail​ outlet, if customers who previously drove across town to shop at the existing outlet become customers of…

REA MODEL—CRYOGENICS' FIXED ASSET SYSTEM Cryogenics Inc. is a leading developer, designer, and manufacturer of tanks, moveable containers, and trailers for the most efficient storage and distribution of liquid helium and hydrogen. Cryogenics started as a private company when founded in 1960 by industrialist William Hodges. It has since gone public and has grown to support a staff 250 employees between its Tulsa, Oklahoma, and Prague, Czech Republic, operations to meet the global demand for liquid helium and hydrogen storage with the highest performance ratings in the industry. The following describes Cryogenics' fixed asset system.   Asset acquisition begins when the department manager recognizes the need to obtain or replace an existing fixed asset. The manager prepares two copies of a purchase requisition; one is filed in the department, and one is sent to the purchasing department. The purchasing department uses the purchase requisition to prepare three copies of a purchase order.…

Question 4 You are Chief Financial Officer of the ABC Corporation. ABC has two divisions, one of which distributes alcohol, while the other manufactures bottles for brewers and beverage companies. The company is considering a capacity expansion project in the alcohol distribution division, and the Board of Directors has asked you to provide a financial analysis of the project. • The project would require an initial investment of $100 million for a new distribution center. In addition, $20 million in additional working capital would need to be committed to the project. The working capital will be recovered at the end of the project life.   • The distribution center facilities would be depreciated on a straight-line basis over five years. At the end of five years, you estimate that the center will be sold for $20 million.   • The distribution center is expected to generate cash revenues of $85 million per year and cash operating costs of $50 million per year in each of the next five…

Question 1 The GFA Company, originally established 16 years ago to make footballs, is now a leading producer of tennis balls, baseballs, footballs, and golf balls. Nine years ago, the company introduced “High Flite,” its first line of high-performance golf balls. GFA management has sought opportunities in whatever businesses seem to have some potential for cash flow. Recently Mr Dawadawa, vice president of the GFA Company, identified another segment of the sports ball market that looked promising and that he felt was not adequately served by larger manufacturers. As a result, the GFA Company investigated the marketing potential of brightly coloured bowling balls. GFA sent a questionnaire to consumers in three markets: Accra, Kumasi, and Koforidua. The results of the three questionnaires were much better than expected and supported the conclusion that the brightly coloured bowling balls could achieve a 10 to 15 percent share of the market. Of course, some people at GFA complained about…

Solve the Dilemma LO 15-7 Recommend the most appropriate financial institution for a hypothetical small business. Seeing the Financial Side of Business Dr. Stephen Hill, a successful optometrist in Indianapolis, Indiana, has tinkered with various inventions for years. Having finally developed what he believes is his first saleable product (a truly scratch-resistant and lightweight lens), Hill has decided to invest his life savings and open Hill Optometrics to manufacture and market his invention. Page 504 Unfortunately, despite possessing true genius in many areas, Hill is uncertain about the "finance side" of business and the various functions of different types of financial institutions in the economy. He is, however, fully aware that he will need financial services such as checking and savings accounts, various short-term investments that can easily and quickly be converted to cash as needs dictate, and sources of borrowing capacity -should the need for either short- or long-term…

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Problem 5.55 Manchester Technology, Inc., manufactures several different types of printed circuit boards; however, two of the boards account for the majority of the company’s sales. The first of these boards, a televi-sion circuit board, has been a standard in the industry for several years. The market for this type of board is competitive and price-sensitive. Manchester plans to sell 65,000 of the TV boards in 20x1 at a price of $150 per unit. The second high-volume product, a personal computer circuit board, is a recent addition to Manchester’s product line. Because the PC board incorporates the latest technol-ogy, it can be sold at a premium price. The 20x1 plans include the sale of 40,000 PC boards at $300 per unit.Manchester’s management group is meeting to discuss how to spend the sales and promotion dol-lars for 20x1. The sales manager believes that the market share for the TV board could be expanded by  concentrating  Manchester’s  promotional  efforts  in  this  area.  In…

Question • S7.25 Zan Azlett and Angela Zesiger have joined forcesto start A&Z Lettuce Products, a processor of packaged shredded lettuce for institutional use. Zan has years of food processingexperience, and Angela has extensive commercial food preparation experience. The process will consist of opening crates oflettuce and then sorting, washing, slicing, preserving, and finallypackaging the prepared lettuce. Together, with help from vendors,they think they can adequately estimate demand, fixed costs, revenues, and variable cost per 5-pound bag of lettuce. They think alargely manual process will have monthly fixed costs of $37,500and variable costs of $1.75 per bag. A more mechanized processwill have fixed costs of $75,000 per month with variable costs of$1.25 per 5-pound bag. They expect to sell the shredded lettucefor $2.50 per 5-pound bag.a) What is the break-even quantity for the manual process?b) What is the revenue at the break-even quantity for the manualprocess?c) What is…

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1 Jlgu übja 1 Flint Systems is considering investing in production- management software that costs $630,000, has $67,000 residual value, and leads to cost savings of $1,650,000 per year over its five-year life. Calculate the average amount invested in the asset that should be used for calculating the accounting rate of return $697,000 .A $348,500 .B O $67,000 .c O $630,000 .D