Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
11th Edition
ISBN: 9780077861704
Author: Stephen A. Ross Franco Modigliani Professor of Financial Economics Professor, Randolph W Westerfield Robert R. Dockson Deans Chair in Bus. Admin., Bradford D Jordan Professor
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education
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Chapter 4, Problem 3CRCT
External Financing Needed [LO2] Testaburger, Inc., uses no external financing and maintains a positive retention ratio. When sales grow by 15 percent, the firm has a negative projected EFN. What does this tell you about the firm’s internal growth rate? How about the sustainable growth rate? At this same level of sales growth, what will happen to the projected EFN if the retention ratio is increased? What if the retention ratio is decreased? What happens to the projected EFN if the firm pays out all of its earnings in the form of dividends?
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For most firms, there is some sales growth rate atwhich they could grow without needing any external financing, that is, where AFN = $0. How couldyou determine that growth rate? What variablesunder management’s control would affect thissustainable growth rate?
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1. Which of the following statements is correct?
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- Higher sales usually require higher asset levels, and this leads to what we call AFN. However, the AFN will be zero if the firm chooses to retain all of its profits, i.e., to have a zero dividend payout ratio.
- If a firm’s assets are growing at a positive rate, but its retained earnings are not increasing, then it would be impossible for the firm’s AFN to be negative.
- Dividend policy does not affect the requirement for external funds based on the AFN equation.
- AFN is not always positive.
- If a firm increases its dividend payout ratio in anticipation of higher earnings, but sales and earnings actually decrease, then the firm’s actual AFN must, mathematically, exceed the previously calculated AFN.2.
When we use the AFN equation to forecast the additional funds needed (AFN), we are implicitly assuming that all financial ratios are constant.
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
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