Fin 515 Week 4 Weekly Problems and Midterm Exam

A bond with an annual coupon of $70 and originally sold at par for $1,000. The current market interest rate (yield to maturity) is 8%. This bond will sell at _______. Assuming no change in market interest rates, the bond will present the holder with capital ________ as it matures.

Problem 1: Jonathon Barrs is a manager for Easy Manufacturing, LLC. He wishes to evaluate three possible investments. These investments are for the purchase of new machine tools from Germany, Japan, and a local US manufacturer. The firm earns 10% on its investments and they have a risk index of 5%. The chart below lays out the expected return and expected risks of the three projects.

9. What is the Cost of Debt, before and after taxes? Using the interest rate for the largest debt…cannot use the weighted interest rate for the debt since it includes capital lease obligations with no stated rate and could not find in the notes to the financials. 5.4% After tax cost is .054 x (1-.36) = 3.5%

1. This is a closed book exam. You may only have pens, pencils and a calculator at

* b.Assume the firm’s stock now sells for $20 per share. The company wants to sell some 20-year, $1,000 par value bonds with interest paid annually. Each bond will have attached 50 warrants, each exercisable into 1 share of stock at an exercise price of $25. The firm’s straight bonds yield 12%. Assume that each warrant will have a market value of $3 when the stock sells at $20. What coupon interest rate, and dollar coupon, must the company set on the bonds with warrants if they are to clear the market? (Hint: The convertible bond should have an initial price of $1,000.)

7. Trevor's Tires is offering a set of 4 premium tires on sale for $550. The credit terms are 24 months at $20 per month. What is the interest rate on this offer?

a. What is the CD’s value at maturity (future value) if it pays 10 percent annual interest?

24. Mobilee Oil Company accepted a $10,000, 120-day note, dated March 3, at 8.5% to settle a past due accounts receivable. Mobilee Oil discount the note to raise cash on May 10 at a discounted rate of 9%. What proceeds did Mobilee Oil receive?

8. What is the net present value of the following cash flows discounted at 12%?

n. WACC has market interest rates and market risk aversion, firms debt/equity mix and firm’s business risk which all go to cost of debt and cost of equity which both areas end up at the value.

a. How much would the payment be if rate of interest is 5% and you only financed the truck for 48 months?

Sonja is seriously injured in an auto accident. After six months, she is still unable to return to work. She has no income from her job, and the insurance premium payments are financially burdensome. In this case Sonja has an ordinary life insurance with the waiver-of-premium attached so after six months all premiums would be waived if Sonja is totally disabled. Under some policies, a retroactive refund of the premium paid during the first six months would be paid. (Rejda, George, McNamara, 2014).

2. The discount rate for this bond would be 0.70%. I started with an appropriate discount rate to derive my bond purchase price, since I would not purchase a bond without finding out ahead of time what a good price should be.

2. (TCO C) Your company has been offered credit terms of 4/30, net 90 days. What will be the nominal annual percentage cost of its nonfree trade credit if it pays 120

3. A european corporation has issued bonds with a par value of Sfr 1,000 and an annual coupon of 5 percent. The last coupon on these bonds was paid four months ago, and their current clean price is 90 percent.