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- April 12, 2015 at 6:02 pm #241046
I have a few questions that I do on the online mock, that I don’t understand how I have got wrong. please could you explain the following:
1.
A company has just paid a dividend of $0.23 per share.
Shareholders are expecting the dividend to remain at $0.23 per share next year, but to increase at an average rate 3% per annum thereafter.
Shareholder required return is 12%, and the rate of corp tax is 25%What will be the current market value per share (to the nearest cent)?
A $2.63
B $2.71
C $2.33
D $2.56- This is the answer, how was it worked out?Another Question:
2.
A company has credit sales of $45m per year, and cost of sales of $30m per year.
they have calculated working capital measures as follows:Trade Rec’able days 40 day
Inventory days 30 days
Trade payables days 36 daysthere are 360 days in a year.
What is the net investment in working capital?
A $3M
B $4M- This is the answer, how was it worked out?
C $5.25M
D $4.25MAnother Question:
3.
A company has agreed to lease a machine for a period of 8 years, with equal annual payments payable at the start of each year.The NPV of the agreement at a rate of 10% is $52,000
Wat is the annual lease payment (to the nearest $)
A $8862- This is the answer, how was it calculated?
B $8208
C $9747- I thought this was the answer.
D $13444Last one:
4.
A project requires an investment of $24k at time 0, and generates an inflow of $5k per year for 8 years (with the first flow occurring in one years time)What is the internal rate of return (to the nearest %)
A 12%
B 15%- What I thought it was
C 14%
D 13%- This is the correct answer.Many Thanks for your help John
Stuart
April 13, 2015 at 6:56 am #241068Question 1:
We use the dividend growth formula. However, the top bit of the formula (Do(1+g)) is the dividend in one years time. Usually it is the current dividend together with one years growth. In this question, the dividend in one years time is 23c (not 23c plus growth).
So it becomes 23/(0.12-0.03) = $2.56April 13, 2015 at 7:04 am #241070Question 2:
Receivables = 40/360 x 45M = 5M
Inventory = 30/360 x 30M = 2.5M
Payables = 36/360 x 30M = 3MInvestment = receivables + inventory – payables
The correct answer is therefore 4.5M (I am sorry – there was an error in the test which I have now corrected)
April 13, 2015 at 7:07 am #241071Question 3:
The first payment is immediate (time 0) followed by another 7 payments (times 1 to 7).
The discount factor for the payment immediately is 1.
For the other 7 payments it is the 7 year annuity factor, which is 4.868So the total discount factor is 5.868
So the lease payment per year is 52,000 / 5.868 = 8862
April 13, 2015 at 7:09 am #241072Question 4:
Since it is an annuity, the 8 year annuity factor must be 24/5 = 4.800
Working backwards in the annuity tables, the nearest interest rate giving an 8 year factor of 4.8 is 13%
April 13, 2015 at 8:12 am #241079Thank you very much Joh, All makes sense 🙂
April 14, 2015 at 6:14 am #241210You are welcome 🙂
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