Berea Resources is planning a $75 million capital expenditure program for the coming year. Next year, Berea expects to report to the IRS earnings of $39 million after interest and taxes. The company presently has 21 million shares of common stock issued and outstanding. Dividend payments are expected to increase from the present level of $10 million to $11 million. The company expects its current asset needs to increase from a current level of $30 million to $33 million. Current liabilities, excluding short-term bank borrowings, are expected to increase from $13 million to $18 million. Interest payments are $5 million next year, and long-term debt retirement obligations are $7 million next year. Depreciation next year is expected to be $16 million on the company's financial statements, but the company will report depreciation of $19 million for tax purposes. How much external financing is required by Berea for the coming year? Enter your answer in millions. For example, an answer of $1 million should be entered as 1, not 1,000,000. Round your answer to the nearest whole number. million

Derry Corporation is expected to have an EBIT of $2,950,000 next year. Depreciation, the increase in net working capital, and capital spending are expected to be $230,000, $135,000, and $235,000, respectively. All are expected to grow at 18 percent per year for four years. The company currently has $18,000,000 in debt and 845,000 shares outstanding. After Year 5, the adjusted cash flow from assets is expected to grow at 3.1 percent, indefinitely. The company’s WACC is 9.4 percent and the tax rate is 25 percent. What is the price per share of the company's stock?

A company enters into a project that will be unwound at the end of year 5, and it is expected that roughly 15% of the sales related to this project will be “on account” where the payments are made a year later, and where at the end of the project, all payments are received at EOY 5 (i.e. not received one year later). Show what the “Working Capital” investments are related to each period, based on these sales and how it was calculated:

Rentz Corporation is investigating the optimallevel of current assets for the coming year. Management expects sales to increase toapproximately $2 million as a result of an asset expansion presently being undertaken.Fixed assets total $1 million, and the firm plans to maintain a 60% debt-to-assets ratio.Rentz’s interest rate is currently 8% on both short- and long-term debt (which the firmuses in its permanent structure). Three alternatives regarding the projected currentassets level are under consideration: (1) a restricted policy where current assets wouldbe only 45% of projected sales, (2) a moderate policy where current assets would be 50%of sales, and (3) a relaxed policy where current assets would be 60% of sales. Earningsbefore interest and taxes should be 12% of total sales, and the federal-plus-state taxrate is 40%.a. What is the expected return on equity under each current assets level?b. In this problem, we assume that expected sales are independent of the current…

Antonio Melton, the chief executive officer of Benson Corporation, has assembled his top advisers to evaluate an investment opportunity. The advisers expect the company to pay $404,000 cash at the beginning of the investment and the cash inflow for each of the following four years to be the following. Note that the annual cash inflows below are net of tax Year 1 $92,000 Year 2 $102,000 Year 3 $130,000 Year 4 $192,000 Mr. Melton agrees with his advisers that the company should use a desired rate of return of 12 percent to compute net present value to evaluate the viability of the proposed project. (PV of $1 and PVA of $1) Note: Use appropriate factor(s) from the tables provided. Required a. Compute the net present value of the proposed project. Should Mr. Melton approve the project? A b.&c. Shawn Love, one of the advisers, is wary of the cash flow forecast and she points out that the advisers failed to consider that the depreciation on equipment used in this project will be tax…

Derry Corporation is expected to have an EBIT of $3,150,000 next year. Depreciation, the increase in net working capital, and capital spending are expected to be $250,000, $155,000, and $255,000, respectively. All are expected to grow at 16 percent per year for four years. The company currently has $20,000,000 in debt and 865,000 shares outstanding. After Year 5, the adjusted cash flow from assets is expected to grow at 3.5 percent, indefinitely. The company's WACC is 8.6 percent and the tax rate is 24 percent. What is the price per share of the company's stock? Note: Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16. Share price

Derry Corporation is expected to have an EBIT of $1,900,000 next year. Increases in depreciation, the increase in net working capital, and capital spending are expected to be $160,000, $80,000, and $120,000, respectively. All are expected to grow at 15 percent per year for four years. The company currently has $10,000,000 in debt and 800,000 shares outstanding. At Year 5, you believe that the company's sales will be $13,620,000 and the appropriate price-sales ratio is 2.1. The company's WACC is 8.4. percent and the tax rate is 21 percent. What is the price per share of the company's stock? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) Share price

GoodFish Corporation is considering a new project with a four-year useful life. The initial investment on this project is $1,200,000 immediately. The future cash flows associated with this project are $650,000, $650,000, $650,000, and $856,000 in years 1, 2, 3 and 4, respectively. GoodFish has a target debt–equity ratio of 3, a cost of equity of 10 percent, and a pretax cost of debt of 8 percent. The tax rate is 25%.  What is the NPV of this project?   A. $1,158,843.73   B. $1,077,782.13   C. $905,193.80   D. $1,051,753.51

For the next fiscal year, you forecast net income of $48,700 and ending assets of $506,100. Your firm's payout ratio is 10.1%. Your beginning stockholders' equity is $295,600 and your beginning total liabilities are $119,300. Your non-debt liabilities such as accounts payable are forecasted to increase by $10,500. What is your net new financing needed for next year? The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 temporarily allowed 100% bonus depreciation (effectively expensing capital expenditures). However, we will still include depreciation forecasting in this chapter and in these problems. The net financing required will be $ (Round to the nearest dollar.)

Carlsbad Corporation's sales are expected to increase from $5 million in 2021 to $6 million in 2022, or by 20%. Its assets totaled $3 million at the end of 2021. Carlsbad is at full capacity, so its assets must grow in proportion to projected sales. At the end of 2021, current liabilities are $1 million, consisting of $250,000 of accounts payable, $500,000 of notes payable, and $ 250,000 of accrued liabilities. Its profit margin is forecasted to be 7%, and the forecasted retention ratio is 45%. Use the AFN equation to forecast the additional funds Carlsbad will need for the coming year. Write out your answer completely. For example, 5 million should be entered as 5,000,000. Round your answer to the nearest dollar. $ What additional funds would be needed if the company's year - end 2021 assets had been $4 million? Assume that all other numbers are the same. Write out your answer completely. For example, 5 million should be entered as 5,000,000. Round your answer to the nearest dollar. $…