Solutions Manual Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
13th Edition Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan
Chapters 1 - 27
,CHAPTER 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance
CHAPTER 2: Financial Statements, Taxes, And Cash Flow
CHAPTER 3: Working with Financial Statements
CHAPTER 4: Long-Term Financial Planning and Growth
CHAPTER 5: Introduction to Valuation: The Time Value of Money
CHAPTER 6: Discounted Cash Flow Valuation
CHAPTER 7: Interest Rates and Bond Valuation
CHAPTER 8: Stock Valuation
CHAPTER 9: Net Present Value and Other Investment Criteria
CHAPTER 10: Making Capital Investment Decisions
CHAPTER 11: Project Analysis and Evaluation
CHAPTER 12: Some Lessons from Capital Market History
CHAPTER 13: Return, Risk, And the Security Market Line
CHAPTER 14: Cost of Capital
CHAPTER 15: Raising Capital
CHAPTER 16: Financial Leverage and Capital Structure Policy
CHAPTER 17: Dividends and Payout Policy
CHAPTER 18: Short-Term Finance and Planning
CHAPTER 19: Cash and Liquidity Management
CHAPTER 20: Credit and Inventory Management
CHAPTER 21: International Corporate Finance
CHAPTER 22: Behavioral Finance: Implications for Financial Manage
CHAPTER 23: Enterprise Risk Management
CHAPTER 24:Options and Corporate Finance
CHAPTER 25: Option Valuation
CHAPTER 26: Mergers and Acquisitions
CHAPTER 27: Leasing
,CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE
FINANCE
Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions
1. Capital budgeting (deciding whether to expand a manufacturing plant), capital structure (deciding
whether to issue new equity and use the proceeds to retire outstanding debt), and working capital
management (modifying the firm’s credit collection policy with its customers).
2. Disadvantages: unlimited liability, limited life, difficulty in transferring ownership, hard to raise
capital funds. Some advantages: simpler, less regulation, the owners are also the managers,
sometimes personal tax rates are better than corporate tax rates.
3. The primary disadvantage of the corporate form is the double taxation to shareholders of distributed
earnings and dividends. Some advantages include: limited liability, ease of transferability, ability to
raise capital, unlimited life, and so forth.
4. In response to Sarbanes-Oxley, small firms have elected to go dark because of the costs of
compliance. The costs to comply with Sarbox can be several million dollars, which can be a large
percentage of a small firms profits. A major cost of going dark is less access to capital. Since the
firm is no longer publicly traded, it can no longer raise money in the public market. Although the
company will still have access to bank loans and the private equity market, the costs associated with
raising funds in these markets are usually higher than the costs of raising funds in the public market.
5. The treasurer’s office and the controller’s office are the two primary organizational groups that
report directly to the chief financial officer. The controller’s office handles cost and financial
accounting, tax management, and management information systems, while the treasurer’s office is
responsible for cash and credit management, capital budgeting, and financial planning. Therefore,
the study of corporate finance is concentrated within the treasury group’s functions.
6. To maximize the current market value (share price) of the equity of the firm (whether it’s publicly-
traded or not).
7. In the corporate form of ownership, the shareholders are the owners of the firm. The shareholders
elect the directors of the corporation, who in turn appoint the firm’s management. This separation of
ownership from control in the corporate form of organization is what causes agency problems to
exist. Management may act in its own or someone else’s best interests, rather than those of the
shareholders. If such events occur, they may contradict the goal of maximizing the share price of the
equity of the firm.
8. A primary market transaction.
,B-2 SOLUTIONS
9. In auction markets like the NYSE, brokers and agents meet at a physical location (the exchange) to
match buyers and sellers of assets. Dealer markets like NASDAQ consist of dealers operating at
dispersed locales who buy and sell assets themselves, communicating with other dealers either
electronically or literally over-the-counter.
10. Such organizations frequently pursue social or political missions, so many different goals are
conceivable. One goal that is often cited is revenue minimization; i.e., provide whatever goods and
services are offered at the lowest possible cost to society. A better approach might be to observe that
even a not-for-profit business has equity. Thus, one answer is that the appropriate goal is to
maximize the value of the equity.
11. Presumably, the current stock value reflects the risk, timing, and magnitude of all future cash flows,
both short-term and long-term. If this is correct, then the statement is false.
12. An argument can be made either way. At the one extreme, we could argue that in a market economy,
all of these things are priced. There is thus an optimal level of, for example, ethical and/or illegal
behavior, and the framework of stock valuation explicitly includes these. At the other extreme, we
could argue that these are non-economic phenomena and are best handled through the political
process. A classic (and highly relevant) thought question that illustrates this debate goes something
like this: “A firm has estimated that the cost of improving the safety of one of its products is $30
million. However, the firm believes that improving the safety of the product will only save $20
million in product liability claims. What should the firm do?”
13. The goal will be the same, but the best course of action toward that goal may be different because of
differing social, political, and economic institutions.
14. The goal of management should be to maximize the share price for the current shareholders. If
management believes that it can improve the profitability of the firm so that the share price will
exceed $35, then they should fight the offer from the outside company. If management believes that
this bidder or other unidentified bidders will actually pay more than $35 per share to acquire the
company, then they should still fight the offer. However, if the current management cannot increase
the value of the firm beyond the bid price, and no other higher bids come in, then management is not
acting in the interests of the shareholders by fighting the offer. Since current managers often lose
their jobs when the corporation is acquired, poorly monitored managers have an incentive to fight
corporate takeovers in situations such as this.
15. We would expect agency problems to be less severe in other countries, primarily due to the relatively
small percentage of individual ownership. Fewer individual owners should reduce the number of
diverse opinions concerning corporate goals. The high percentage of institutional ownership might
lead to a higher degree of agreement between owners and managers on decisions concerning risky
projects. In addition, institutions may be better able to implement effective monitoring mechanisms
on managers than can individual owners, based on the institutions’ deeper resources and experiences
with their own management. The increase in institutional ownership of stock in the United States and
the growing activism of these large shareholder groups may lead to a reduction in agency problems
for U.S. corporations and a more efficient market for corporate control.
, CHAPTER 1 B-3
16. How much is too much? Who is worth more, Larry Ellison or Tiger Woods? The simplest answer is
that there is a market for executives just as there is for all types of labor. Executive compensation is
the price that clears the market. The same is true for athletes and performers. Having said that, one
aspect of executive compensation deserves comment. A primary reason executive compensation has
grown so dramatically is that companies have increasingly moved to stock-based compensation.
Such movement is obviously consistent with the attempt to better align stockholder and management
interests. In recent years, stock prices have soared, so management has cleaned up. It is sometimes
argued that much of this reward is simply due to rising stock prices in general, not managerial
performance. Perhaps in the future, executive compensation will be designed to reward only
differential performance, i.e., stock price increases in excess of general market increases.
,CHAPTER 2
FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, TAXES AND
CASH FLOW
Answers to Concepts Review and Critical Thinking Questions
1. Liquidity measures how quickly and easily an asset can be converted to cash without significant loss
in value. It’s desirable for firms to have high liquidity so that they have a large factor of safety in
meeting short-term creditor demands. However, since liquidity also has an opportunity cost
associated with it—namely that higher returns can generally be found by investing the cash into
productive assets—low liquidity levels are also desirable to the firm. It’s up to the firm’s financial
management staff to find a reasonable compromise between these opposing needs.
2. The recognition and matching principles in financial accounting call for revenues, and the costs
associated with producing those revenues, to be “booked” when the revenue process is essentially
complete, not necessarily when the cash is collected or bills are paid. Note that this way is not
necessarily correct; it’s the way accountants have chosen to do it.
3. Historical costs can be objectively and precisely measured whereas market values can be difficult to
estimate, and different analysts would come up with different numbers. Thus, there is a tradeoff
between relevance (market values) and objectivity (book values).
4. Depreciation is a non-cash deduction that reflects adjustments made in asset book values in
accordance with the matching principle in financial accounting. Interest expense is a cash outlay, but
it’s a financing cost, not an operating cost.
5. Market values can never be negative. Imagine a share of stock selling for –$20. This would mean
that if you placed an order for 100 shares, you would get the stock along with a check for $2,000.
How many shares do you want to buy? More generally, because of corporate and individual
bankruptcy laws, net worth for a person or a corporation cannot be negative, implying that liabilities
cannot exceed assets in market value.
6. For a successful company that is rapidly expanding, for example, capital outlays will be large,
possibly leading to negative cash flow from assets. In general, what matters is whether the money is
spent wisely, not whether cash flow from assets is positive or negative.
7. It’s probably not a good sign for an established company, but it would be fairly ordinary for a start-
up, so it depends.
8. For example, if a company were to become more efficient in inventory management, the amount of
inventory needed would decline. The same might be true if it becomes better at collecting its
receivables. In general, anything that leads to a decline in ending NWC relative to beginning would
have this effect. Negative net capital spending would mean more long-lived assets were liquidated
than purchased.
, CHAPTER 2 B-5
9. If a company raises more money from selling stock than it pays in dividends in a particular period,
its cash flow to stockholders will be negative. If a company borrows more than it pays in interest, its
cash flow to creditors will be negative.
10. The adjustments discussed were purely accounting changes; they had no cash flow or market value
consequences unless the new accounting information caused stockholders to revalue the derivatives.
11. Enterprise value is the theoretical takeover price. In the event of a takeover, an acquirer would have
to take on the company's debt, but would pocket its cash. Enterprise value differs significantly from
simple market capitalization in several ways, and it may be a more accurate representation of a firm's
value. In a takeover, the value of a firm's debt would need to be paid by the buyer when taking over
a company. This enterprise value provides a much more accurate takeover valuation because it
includes debt in its value calculation.
12. In general, it appears that investors prefer companies that have a steady earning stream. If true, this
encourages companies to manage earnings. Under GAAP, there are numerous choices for the way a
company reports its financial statements. Although not the reason for the choices under GAAP, one
outcome is the ability of a company to manage earnings, which is not an ethical decision. Even
though earnings and cash flow are often related, earnings management should have little effect on
cash flow (except for tax implications). If the market is “fooled” and prefers steady earnings,
shareholder wealth can be increased, at least temporarily. However, given the questionable ethics of
this practice, the company (and shareholders) will lose value if the practice is discovered.
Solutions to Questions and Problems
NOTE: All end of chapter problems were solved using a spreadsheet. Many problems require multiple
steps. Due to space and readability constraints, when these intermediate steps are included in this
solutions manual, rounding may appear to have occurred. However, the final answer for each problem is
found without rounding during any step in the problem.
Basic
1. To find owner’s equity, we must construct a balance sheet as follows:
Balance Sheet
CA $4,000 CL $3,400
NFA 22,500 LTD 6,800
OE ??
TA $26,500 TL & OE $26,500
We know that total liabilities and owner’s equity (TL & OE) must equal total assets of $26,500.
We also know that TL & OE is equal to current liabilities plus long-term debt plus owner’s
equity, so owner’s equity is:
OE = $26,500 – 6,800 – 3,400 = $16,300
NWC = CA – CL = $4,000 – 3,400 = $600
,B-10 SOLUTIONS
2. The income statement for the company is:
Income Statement
Sales $634,000
Costs 305,000
Depreciation 46,000
EBIT $283,000
Interest 29,000
EBT $254,000
Taxes(35%) 88,900
Net income $165,100
3. One equation for net income is:
Net income = Dividends + Addition to retained earnings
Rearranging, we get:
Addition to retained earnings = Net income – Dividends = $165,100 – 86,000 = $79,100
4. EPS = Net income / Shares = $165,,000 = $5.50 per share
DPS = Dividends / Shares = $86,,000 = $2.87 per share
5. To find the book value of current assets, we use: NWC = CA – CL. Rearranging to solve for
current assets, we get:
CA = NWC + CL = $410,000 + 1,300,000 = $1,710,000
The market value of current assets and fixed assets is given, so:
Book value CA = $1,710,000 Market value CA = $1,800,000
Book value NFA = $2,600,000 Market value NFA = $3,700,000
Book value assets = $4,310,000 Market value assets = $5,500,000
6. Taxes = 0.15($50K) + 0.25($25K) + 0.34($25K) + 0.39($325 – 100K) = $110,000
7. The average tax rate is the total tax paid divided by net income, so:
Average tax rate = $110,000 / $325,000 = 33.85%
The marginal tax rate is the tax rate on the next $1 of earnings, so the marginal tax rate = 39%.
, CHAPTER 2 B-7
8. To calculate OCF, we first need the income statement:
Income Statement
Sales $14,200
Costs 5,600
Depreciation 1,200
EBIT $7,400
Interest 680
Taxable income $6,720
Taxes (35%) 2,352
Net income $4,368
OCF = EBIT + Depreciation – Taxes = $7,400 + 1,200 – 2,352 = $6,248
9. Net capital spending = NFAend – NFAbeg + Depreciation = $5.2M – 4.6M + 875K = $1.475M
10. Change in NWC = NWCend – NWCbeg
Change in NWC = (CAend – CLend) – (CAbeg – CLbeg)
Change in NWC = ($1,650 – 920) – ($1,400 – 870)
Change in NWC = $730 – 530 = $200
11. Cash flow to creditors = Interest paid – Net new borrowing = $340K – (LTDend – LTDbeg)
Cash flow to creditors = $280K – ($3.3M – 3.1M) = $280K – 200K = $80K
12. Cash flow to stockholders = Dividends paid – Net new equity
Cash flow to stockholders = $600K – [(Commonend + APISend) – (Commonbeg + APISbeg)]
Cash flow to stockholders = $600K – [($860K + 6.9M) – ($885K + 7.7M)]
Cash flow to stockholders = $600K – [$7.76M – 8.585M] = –$225K
Note, APIS is the additional paid-in surplus.
13. Cash flow from assets = Cash flow to creditors + Cash flow to stockholders
= $80K – 225K = –$145K
Cash flow from assets = –$145K = OCF – Change in NWC – Net capital spending
= –$145K = OCF – (–$165K) – 760K
Operating cash flow = –$145K – 165K + 760K = $450K
, B-8 SOLUTIONS
Intermediate
14. To find the OCF, we first calculate net income.
Income Statement
Sales $162,000
Costs 93,000
Depreciation 8,400
Other expenses 5,100
EBIT $55,500
Interest 16,500
Taxable income $39,000
Taxes (34%) 14,820
Net income $24,180
Dividends $9,400
Additions to RE $14,780
a. OCF = EBIT + Depreciation – Taxes = $55,500 + 8,400 – 14,820 = $49,080
b. CFC = Interest – Net new LTD = $16,500 – (–6,400) = $22,900
Note that the net new long-term debt is negative because the company repaid part of its long-
term debt.
c. CFS = Dividends – Net new equity = $9,400 – 7,350 = $2,050
d. We know that CFA = CFC + CFS, so:
CFA = $22,900 + 2,050 = $24,950
CFA is also equal to OCF – Net capital spending – Change in NWC. We already know OCF.
Net capital spending is equal to:
Net capital spending = Increase in NFA + Depreciation = $12,000 + 8,400 = $20,400
Now we can use:
CFA = OCF – Net capital spending – Change in NWC
$24,950 = $49,080 – 20,400 – Change in NWC
Solving for the change in NWC gives $3,730, meaning the company increased its NWC by
$3,730.
15. The solution to this question works the income statement backwards. Starting at the bottom:
Net income = Dividends + Addition to ret. earnings = $1,200 + 4,300 = $5,500
