Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
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ISBN: 9780134083278
Author: Jonathan Berk, Peter DeMarzo
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 15.1, Problem 1CC
With corporate income taxes, explain why a firm’s value can be higher with leverage even though its earnings are lower.
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Which of the following statements is most accurate?
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Financial leverage is directly related to operating leverage.
B.
Increasing the corporate tax rate will not affect capital structure decisions.
C.
A firm with low operating leverage has a small proportion of its total costs in fixed costs.
D.
Total costs can be calculated as net income minus total revenue.
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A company can use its retained earnings without incurring a flotation cost. As a
O result, while the cost of retained earnings is not zero, it is usually less expensive than
the after-tax cost of debt.
The capital structure that minimizes a company's weighted average cost of capital
often maximizes its stock price.
The capital structure that minimizes the firm's weighted average cost of capital often
maximizes its earnings per share.
If everything else is stable, and corporate tax rates drops, the Modigliani-Miller tax-
adjusted tradeoff principle implies that companies should expand their use of debt.
When a corporation learns that the cost of debt is less than the cost of equity, rising
the debt ratio would lower the WACC.
The higher the firm's tax rate, the lower the firm's after-tax cost of debt and WACC will be (other things held constant.)
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Chapter 15 Solutions
Corporate Finance (4th Edition) (Pearson Series in Finance) - Standalone book
Ch. 15.1 - With corporate income taxes, explain why a firms...Ch. 15.1 - Prob. 2CCCh. 15.2 - With corporate taxes as the only market...Ch. 15.2 - How does leverage affect a firms weighted average...Ch. 15.3 - How can shareholders benefit from a leveraged...Ch. 15.3 - How does the interest tax shield enter into the...Ch. 15.4 - Prob. 1CCCh. 15.4 - How does this personal tax disadvantage of debt...Ch. 15.5 - How does the growth rate of a firm affect the...Ch. 15.5 - Do firms choose capital structures that fully...
Ch. 15 - Prob. 1PCh. 15 - Grommit Engineering expects to have net income...Ch. 15 - Suppose the corporate tax rate is 40%. Consider a...Ch. 15 - Braxton Enterprises currently has debt outstanding...Ch. 15 - Your firm currently has 100 million in debt...Ch. 15 - Arnell Industries has just issued 10 million in...Ch. 15 - Prob. 7PCh. 15 - Prob. 8PCh. 15 - Safeco Inc. has no debt, and maintains a policy of...Ch. 15 - Rogot Instruments makes fine violins and cellos....Ch. 15 - Rumolt Motors has 30 million shares outstanding...Ch. 15 - Summit Builders has a market debt-equity ratio of...Ch. 15 - NatNah, a builder of acoustic accessories, has no...Ch. 15 - Restex maintains a debt-equity ratio of 0.85, and...Ch. 15 - Acme Storage has a market capitalization of 100...Ch. 15 - Milton Industries expects free cash flow of 5...Ch. 15 - Prob. 17PCh. 15 - Kurz Manufacturing is currently an all-equity firm...Ch. 15 - Rally, Inc., is an all-equity firm with assets...Ch. 15 - Prob. 20PCh. 15 - Facebook, Inc. had no debt on its balance sheet in...Ch. 15 - Markum Enterprises is considering permanently...Ch. 15 - Garnet Corporation is considering issuing...Ch. 15 - Suppose the tax rate on interest income is 35%,...Ch. 15 - With its current leverage, Impi Corporation will...Ch. 15 - Colt Systems will have EBIT this coming year of 15...Ch. 15 - PMF, Inc., is equally likely to have EBIT this...
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