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remain unlevered constantly. If OPC does not shrink the something-due, the concourse conciliate use the

$2.5 pet in currency to buy end some of its supply on the unconcealed market. Repurchasing

supply also has no affair requires. The concourse conciliate produce $1,300,000 of annual

rights precedently profit and taxes in fixity inconsiderebuke of its high constituency.

The fast instantly pays out all rights as dividends at the end of each year.

OPC is question to a municipal tax rebuke of 35 percent, and the required rebuke of requite

on the fast’s unlevered equity is 20 percent. The single tax rebuke on profit proceeds

is 25 percent, and there are no taxes on equity arrangement. Assume there are no

withdrawal requires.

a.

What is the rate of OPC if it chooses to shrink all of its something-due and beseem an

unlevered fast?

b.

What is the rate of OPC if is decides to rescue supply instead of retiring its

debt?

(

Hint:

Use the equation for the rate of a levered fast delay single tax on inter-

est proceeds from the earlier height.)

c.

Assume that expected delaydrawal requires feel a offer rate of $400,000. How

does this govern OPC’s resolution?

McKENZIE CORPORATION’S CAPITAL BUDGETING

Sam McKenzie is the planter and CEO of McKenzie Restaurants, Inc., a regional com-

pany. Sam is regarding unconcealeding diverse new restaurants. Sally Thornton, the concourse’s

CFO, has been put in entrust of the high budgeting resolution. She has examined the

potential for the concourse’s disquisition and sturdy that the good-fortune of the new restau-

rants conciliate rest critically on the recite of the husbanding balance the direct few years.

McKenzie currently has a manacle end unappropriated delay a visage rate of $29 pet that

is due in one year. Covenants associated delay this manacle end hinder the issuance of any

additional something-due. This limitation media that the disquisition conciliate be perfectly financed delay

equity at a require of $5.7 pet. Sally has summarized her resolution in the aftercited consideration,

which shows the rate of the concourse in each recite of the husbanding direct year, twain delay

and delayout disquisition:

Economic

Growth Probability

Without

Expansion Delay Expansion

Low .30 $25,000,000 $27,000,000

Normal .50 30,000,000 37,000,000

High .20 48,000,000 57,000,000

1.

What is the expected rate of the concourse in one year, delay and delayout disquisition?

Would the concourse’s supplyholders be meliorate off delay or delayout disquisition? Why?

2.

What is the expected rate of the concourse’s something-due in one year, delay and delayout the

expansion?

3.

One year from now, how greatly rate fabrication is expected from the disquisition? How

greatly rate is expected for supplyholders? Bondholders?

4. If the concourse announces that it is not amplifying, what do you ponder conciliate occur to

the figure of its manacles? What conciliate occur to the figure of the manacles if the concourse does

expand?

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5.

If the concourse opts not to amplify, what are the implications for the concourse’s coming

borrowing needs? What are the implications if the concourse does amplify?

6. Because of the manacle stipulation, the disquisition would feel to be financed delay equity.

How would it concern your acceptance if the disquisition were financed delay currency on workman

instead of new equity?

Some Useful Formulas of Financial Constituency

The Miller Model and the Graduated

Income Tax

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