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The weighted average cost of capital (WACC) – ACCA Financial Management (FM)

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  1. afrazali10 says

    February 28, 2024 at 10:28 pm

    what if it was 5M $2 shares for equity , what would be the total market value then ?

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  2. Shaurya@123 says

    April 15, 2022 at 1:35 pm

    Hello sir
    In Eg 10 I calculated Kd of investors and there I was getting IRR of 10.15%
    And my WACC was coming 13.49%
    So, it will be correct?

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    • John Moffat says

      April 15, 2022 at 4:16 pm

      No it will not be correct. For the WACC we need to use the cost of debt, which is the IRR of the after-tax flows.

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      • Shaurya@123 says

        April 16, 2022 at 4:54 am

        Thank you sir for your reply.
        But sir while calculating WACC I multiplied the (1- tax rate) with Kd then I got my WACC as 13.49%
        Then, also it will be wrong?
        But, once again thank you for these useful lectures.

      • John Moffat says

        April 16, 2022 at 8:04 am

        When debt is irredeemable then you can multiply Kd by (1-t). However when it is redeemable debt we need to instead calculate the IRR of the after-tax returns.

  3. radekzamulacz says

    March 5, 2021 at 9:49 am

    In pdf materials, there is copy/paste mistake in answers for example 10 (WACC section).

    BR
    Adam

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    • Jacqueline.S says

      August 11, 2021 at 3:37 pm

      Agree. It should have been the answer for example 9.

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      • John Moffat says

        August 12, 2021 at 9:27 am

        I will have it corrected (however the lectures work through it correctly, and it is obviously pointless to use the notes without watching the lecture because they are only lecture notes 馃檪 )

  4. afuakay says

    December 11, 2020 at 7:35 am

    Hi Im a bit confused about the incorporation of the tax elements
    In example 9 you mentioned that there was no indication of the debt being redeemable, so it is assumed its an irredeemable debt. Hence the formula I(1-T)/MV

    In example 10, the debt was a redeemable debt yet you still incorporated the tax element.

    Is there any reason for this? or kindly clarify

    Thanks

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    • John Moffat says

      December 11, 2020 at 1:11 pm

      We always incorporate the tax saving in the calculation of the cost of debt.

      With redeemable debt we take the IRR of the after tax flows. With irredeemable debt we take the after tax interest dividend by the market value.

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  5. rajeshops says

    December 9, 2020 at 7:50 pm

    Sir, please advise, in CBE exam can we use Excel formula to calculate the IRR and use it for answers?

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  6. prateek101 says

    September 6, 2020 at 9:20 am

    There is a formula to calculate cost of redeemable debt
    =(I*(1-T)+[{RV-MV}/N]) / [(RV+MV)/2)]
    I = Interest
    T = tax rate
    RV = redemption value
    MV = market value
    N = Number of years till redemption

    Can we use this in exam rather than calculating IRR?

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    • John Moffat says

      September 6, 2020 at 10:17 am

      No, you cannot use that formula in the exam. That formula only gives an approximation.

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  7. tusharfarmah says

    June 2, 2020 at 6:34 pm

    In question 9 Part a question is asking to calculate Return to INVESTORS on Debt. so why are we taking tax into account for the same ?

    We generally take tax into account when we calculate cost of capital for company. Right ?

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    • John Moffat says

      July 30, 2020 at 7:51 am

      For part (a) I do not take tax into account. Only for part (b).

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      • Pratibhapahwa4313 says

        July 31, 2020 at 8:12 am

        I too am confused in example 9. Per my understanding from the previous videos, we should have taken tax factor in consideration when we were to take company’s cost in consideration. Why have we factored tax in return to investors as well ? (example9- part a)

      • John Moffat says

        July 31, 2020 at 9:14 am

        I do not show part (a) in the lecture. I calculate the cost of debt in order to calculate the WACC and cost of debt always means the cost to the company, which does take into account the tax.

        The answer to part (a) is printed in the free lecture notes (as are the answers to all the examples).

      • Pratibhapahwa4313 says

        August 1, 2020 at 8:21 am

        Thank you for such prompt response Sir!
        I misunderstood. thank you for the clarification 馃檪

      • John Moffat says

        August 1, 2020 at 9:57 am

        You are welcome 馃檪

  8. fadhili101 says

    December 5, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    In example 10, I used 15% and 10% to calculate the IRR and it gave me 6.631 which seems like a big margin from the 7.51 you got using 5 and 10%. Please advice

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    • John Moffat says

      December 5, 2019 at 4:07 pm

      Using those two guesses does indeed give an IRR of 6.63%, but as I state in the lectures different guesses will give different answers because the relationship is not linear.

      However, they were rather extreme guesses to have used (which is why your answer is so much different). As a very rough guide, always divide the after-tax interest by the market value. For this question it gives 7/105 = 6.67%. The actual IRR will be little bit higher because the redemption is at a premium, but there is no way it is going to be as high as 15% 馃檪

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      • thuyly134 says

        July 30, 2020 at 7:36 am

        Hi teacher, I used 5% and 10% then I have the same result like yours (7.51%) but when I used 10% and 15% as the friend above, but my result is [10% + (12.47 / 18.52)* 5% ] = 13.36%
        Please advise! Thank you!!!

      • John Moffat says

        July 30, 2020 at 8:03 am

        The NPV’s at 10% and 15% are both negative, so the IRR cannot possibly be more than 10% !!!

        The IRR = 10% – (12.47/18,52 x 5%) = 6.63%

  9. freddie1980 says

    August 28, 2019 at 4:01 pm

    On page 150 of the Sep-Dec 2019 lecture notes for example 10 the Ke is given as 14.68 instead of 14.75, it looks like someone copied down the answer from example 9.

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    • freddie1980 says

      August 28, 2019 at 4:04 pm

      Actually it looks like the whole answer in example 10 was copied down from example 9

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      • John Moffat says

        August 28, 2019 at 4:52 pm

        Thanks – I will check and have it corrected.
        However the answer in the lecture I think is correct.

  10. gkane says

    February 18, 2019 at 1:03 pm

    Hi there John,

    In example 10 I tried this by myself and instead of using 5 and 10% to calculate the cost of debt, I used 5 and 8%. This gave me the answer, 8.02%. Have I done something wrong or should I stick to multiples of 5 or something?

    Kind regards

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    • gkane says

      February 18, 2019 at 1:06 pm

      Sorry I made an error and tried it again but got 7.30% as opposed to 7.51%. do the estimates of cost of equity differ depending on the numbers you use for discounting? By that much?

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      • John Moffat says

        February 18, 2019 at 2:53 pm

        I think you mean differences in the cost of debt (not the cost of equity).

        The answer (and I do say this in my lectures) is that the estimate of the cost of debt can certainly differ by that much, because the relationship between the rate of interest and the NPV is not linear. If it is were than 1% different, then it almost certainly means that you would have made a mistake.

  11. dennyvik says

    February 9, 2019 at 8:30 pm

    I’m a bit confused. During calculations of WACC, you can use both book value and market value. It is obvious that the book value will differ from the market one. In the video, the market values of equity and debt are used in WACC calculation. Which approach should be used during the exam?

    Thank you in advance!

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  12. daudsikaona says

    December 20, 2018 at 5:40 am

    How do answer a question that indicates a company has outstanding loan notes?

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    • John Moffat says

      December 20, 2018 at 7:25 am

      Loan notes are the same as debentures and loan stock – they are debt borrowing.

      Have you not watched the lectures on the previous chapter where I explain this?

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  13. manishatai says

    November 25, 2018 at 2:31 pm

    Hi john I have a question on example 9, we are asked to work out the return to investors on debt this would be 8/92 : 8.69% , we worked out the cost of debt to the company didn’t we as 6.09% (after tax)

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    • John Moffat says

      November 25, 2018 at 4:23 pm

      Correct for both 馃檪

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  14. suzcooney says

    November 24, 2018 at 12:41 pm

    Thank you ! Amazing Videos

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    • John Moffat says

      November 25, 2018 at 4:20 pm

      Thank you for your comment 馃檪

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