Test Bank for Corporate Finance, 9th Canadian Edition, 9ce by Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Gordon Roberts TEST BANK
ISBN-13: 9781265017545
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Chapter 1: Introduction to Co
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Test Bank for Corporate Finance, 9th Canadian Edition, 9ce by Stephen Ross, Randolph Westerfield, Jeffrey Jaffe, Gordon Roberts TEST BANK
ISBN-13: 9781265017545
FULL CHAPTERS INCLUDED
Chapter 1: Introduction to Corporate Finance
Chapter 1 Introduction
Introduction to Corporate Finance
1.1 What Is Corporate Finance?
The Balance-Sheet Model of the Firm
Capital Structure
The Financial Manager
Identification of Cash Flows
Timing of Cash Flows
Risk of Cash Flows
1.2 Corporate Securities as Contingent Claims on Total Firm Value
1.3 Business Organization Forms
The Sole Proprietorship
The Partnership
The Corporation
The Income Trust
1.4 Goals of the Corporate Firm
Agency Costs and the Set-of-Contracts Viewpoint
Managerial Goals
Separation of Ownership and Control
1.5 Financial Institutions, Financial Markets, and the Corporation
Financial Institutions
Money Versus Capital Markets
Primary Versus Secondary Markets
Listing
Foreign Exchange Market
1.6 Trends in Financial Markets and Management
1.7 Outline of the Text
1.8 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Appendix 1A
Questions & Problems
Appendix 1B
Chapter 2: Accounting Statements and Cash Flow
Chapter 2 Introduction
2.1 The Statement of Financial Position
Liquidity
Debt Versus Equity
Value Versus Cost
2.2 Statement of Comprehensive Income
International Financial Reporting Standards
Non-Cash Items
Time and Costs
2.3 Net Working Capital
2.4 Financial Cash Flow
2.5 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions and Problems
Minicase
Appendix 2A
Appendix 2A
Appendix 2B
Questions & Problems
Chapter 3: Financial Planning and Growth
Chapter 3 Introduction
3.1 What Is Financial Planning?
3.2 A Financial Planning Model: The Ingredients
3.3 The Percentage of Sales Method
The Statement of Comprehensive Income
The Statement of Financial Position
3.4 What Determines Growth?
Some Caveats on Financial Planning Models
3.5 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 4: Financial Markets and Net Present Value: First Principles of Finance
Chapter 4 Introduction
Financial Markets and Net Present Value: First Principles of Finance
4.1 The Financial Market Economy
The Anonymous Market
Market Clearing
4.2 Making Consumption Choices Over Time
4.3 The Competitive Market
How Many Interest Rates Are There in a Competitive Market?
4.4 The Basic Principle
4.5 Practising the Principle
A Lending Example
A Borrowing Example
4.6 Illustrating the Investment Decision
4.7 Corporate Investment Decision Making
4.8 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Chapter 5: The Time Value of Money
Chapter 5 Introduction
5.1 The One-Period Case
5.2 The Multiperiod Case
Future Value and Compounding
The Power of Compounding: A Digression
Present Value and Discounting
Finding the Number of Periods
The Algebraic Formula
5.3 Compounding Periods
Compounding Over Many Years
Continuous Compounding (Advanced)
5.4 Simplifications
Perpetuity
Growing Perpetuity
Annuity
Mortgages
Using Annuity Formulas
Growing Annuity
5.5 What Is a Firm Worth?
5.6 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 5A (online only)
Chapter 6: How to Value Bonds and Stocks
Chapter 6 Introduction
6.1 Definition and Example of a Bond
6.2 How to Value Bonds
Pure Discount Bonds
Level-Coupon Bonds
Consols
6.3 Bond Concepts
Interest Rates and Bond Prices
Yield to Maturity
Current Yield
Holding-Period Return
Recent Developments in the Global Bond Market
6.4 The Present Value of Common Stocks
Dividends Versus Capital Gains
Valuation of Different Types of Stocks
6.5 Estimates of Parameters in the Dividend Discount Model
Where Does g Come From?
Where Does r Come From?
A Healthy Sense of Skepticism
6.6 Growth Opportunities
NPVGOs of Real Companies
Growth in Earnings and Dividends Versus Growth Opportunities
Dividends or Earnings: Which to Discount?
The No-Dividend Firm
6.7 The Dividend Growth Model and the NPVGO Model (Advanced)
The Dividend Growth Model
The NPVGO Model
Summary
6.8 Comparables
Price–Earnings Ratio
6.9 Valuing the Entire Firm
6.10 Stock Market Reporting
6.11 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 6A
Questions & Problems
Chapter 7: Net Present Value and Other Investment Rules
Chapter 7 Introduction
7.1 Why Use Net Present Value?
7.2 The Payback Period Rule
Defining the Rule
Problems With the Payback Method
Managerial Perspective
Summary of Payback
7.3 The Discounted Payback Period Rule
7.4 The Average Accounting Return
Defining the Rule
Analyzing the Average Accounting Return Method
7.5 The Internal Rate of Return
7.6 Problems With the Internal Rate of Return Approach
Definition of Independent and Mutually Exclusive Projects
Two General Problems Affecting Both Independent and Mutually Exclusive Projects
Problems Specific to Mutually Exclusive Projects
Redeeming Qualities of the Internal Rate of Return
A Test
7.7 The Profitability Index
7.8 The Practice of Capital Budgeting
7.9 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 8: Net Present Value and Capital Budgeting
Chapter 8 Introduction
8.1 Incremental Cash Flows
Cash Flows—Not Accounting Income
Sunk Costs
Opportunity Costs
Side Effects
Allocated Costs
8.2 The Majestic Mulch and Compost Company: An Example
An Analysis of the Project
Which Set of Books?
A Note on Net Working Capital
Interest Expense
8.3 Inflation and Capital Budgeting
Interest Rates and Inflation
Cash Flow and Inflation
Discounting: Nominal or Real?
8.4 Alternative Definitions of Operating Cash Flow
The Bottom-Up Approach
The Top-Down Approach
The Tax Shield Approach
Conclusion
8.5 Applying the Tax Shield Approach to the Majestic Mulch and Compost Company Project
Present Value of the Tax Shield on Capital Cost Allowance
Total Project Cash Flow Versus Tax Shield Approach
8.6 Investments of Unequal Lives: The Equivalent Annual Cost Method
The General Decision to Replace (Advanced)
8.7 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicases
Appendix 8A
Questions & Problems
Appendix 8B
Chapter 9: Risk Analysis, Real Options, and Capital Budgeting
Chapter 9 Introduction
9.1 Decision Trees
9.2 Sensitivity Analysis, Scenario Analysis, and Break-Even Analysis
Sensitivity Analysis and Scenario Analysis
Break-Even Analysis
Break-Even Analysis, Equivalent Annual Cost, and Capital Cost Allowance
9.3 Monte Carlo Simulation
Step 1: Specify the Basic Model
Step 2: Specify a Distribution for Each Variable in the Model
Step 3: The Computer Draws One Outcome
Step 4: Repeat the Procedure
Step 5: Calculate Net Present Value
9.4 Real Options
The Option to Expand
The Option to Abandon
Timing Options
Real Options in the Real World
9.5 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 10: Risk and Return: Lessons From Market History
Chapter 10 Introduction
Risk and Return: Lessons From Market History
10.1 Returns
Dollar Earnings
Percentage Returns or Rate of Return
10.2 Holding-Period Returns
10.3 Return Statistics
10.4 Average Stock Returns and Risk-Free Returns
10.5 Risk Statistics
Variance and Standard Deviation
Normal Distribution and Its Implications for Standard Deviation
Value at Risk
Further Perspective on Returns and Risk
10.6 More on Average Returns
Arithmetic Versus Geometric Averages
Calculating Geometric Average Returns
Arithmetic Average Return or Geometric Average Return?
10.7 2008: A Year of Financial Crisis
10.8 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 10A (online only)
Chapter 11: Risk and Return: The Capital Asset Pricing Model
Chapter 11 Introduction
11.1 Individual Securities
11.2 Expected Return, Variance, and Covariance
Expected Return and Variance
Covariance and Correlation
11.3 The Risk and Return for Portfolios
The Example of Supertech and Slowpoke
The Expected Return on a Portfolio
Variance and Standard Deviation of a Portfolio
11.4 The Efficient Set for Two Assets
Application to International Diversification
11.5 The Efficient Set for Many Securities
Variance and Standard Deviation in a Portfolio of Many Assets
11.6 Diversification: An Example
Risk and the Sensible Investor
11.7 Risk-Free Borrowing and Lending
The Optimal Portfolio
11.8 Market Equilibrium
Definition of the Market Equilibrium Portfolio
Definition of Risk When Investors Hold the Market Portfolio
The Formula for Beta
A Test
11.9 Relationship Between Risk and Expected Return (Capital Asset Pricing Model)
Expected Return on Market
Expected Return on Individual Security
11.10 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 11A (online only)
Chapter 12: An Alternative View of Risk and Return: The Arbitrage Pricing Theory
Chapter 12 Introduction
12.1 Factor Models: Announcements, Surprises, and Expected Returns
12.2 Risk: Systematic and Unsystematic
12.3 Systematic Risk and Betas
12.4 Portfolios and Factor Models
Portfolios and Diversification
12.5 Betas and Expected Returns
The Linear Relationship
The Market Portfolio and the Single Factor
12.6 The Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory
Differences in Pedagogy
Differences in Application
12.7 Parametric Approaches to Asset Pricing
Empirical Models
Style Portfolios
12.8 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 13: Risk, Return, and Capital Budgeting
Chapter 13 Introduction
13.1 The Cost of Equity Capital
13.2 Estimation of Beta
Beta Estimation in Practice
Stability of Beta
Using an Industry Beta
13.3 Determinants of Beta
Cyclicality of Revenues
Operating Leverage
Financial Leverage and Beta
13.4 Extensions of the Basic Model
The Firm Versus the Project: Vive la différence
The Cost of Debt
The Cost of Preferred Stock
The Weighted Average Cost of Capital
The Capital Structure Weights
Taxes and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
13.5 Estimating the Cost of Capital for Suncor Energy
13.6 Flotation Costs and the Weighted Average Cost of Capital
The Basic Approach
Flotation Costs and Net Present Value
Internal Equity and Flotation Costs
13.7 Reducing the Cost of Capital
What Is Liquidity?
Liquidity, Expected Returns, and the Cost of Capital
Liquidity and Adverse Selection
What the Corporation Can Do
13.8 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 13A
Questions & Problems
Chapter 14: Corporate Financing Decisions and Efficient Capital Markets
Chapter 14 Introduction
Corporate Financing Decisions and Efficient Capital Markets
14.1 Can Financing Decisions Create Value?
14.2 A Description of Efficient Capital Markets
Foundations of Market Efficiency
14.3 The Different Types of Efficiency
The Weak Form
The Semistrong and Strong Forms
Some Common Misconceptions About the Efficient Market Hypothesis
14.4 The Evidence
The Weak Form
The Semistrong Form
The Strong Form
14.5 The Behavioural Challenge to Market Efficiency
14.6 Empirical Challenges to Market Efficiency
14.7 Reviewing the Differences
14.8 Implications for Corporate Finance
Accounting and Efficient Markets
The Timing Decision
Speculation and Efficient Markets
Information in Market Prices
14.9 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 15: Long-Term Financing: An Introduction
Chapter 15 Introduction
15.1 Common Stock
Authorized Versus Issued Common Stock
Retained Earnings
Market Value, Book Value, and Replacement Value
Shareholders’ Rights
Dividends
Classes of Shares
15.2 Corporate Long-Term Debt: The Basics
Interest Versus Dividends
Is It Debt or Equity?
Basic Features of Long-Term Debt
Different Types of Debt
Repayment
Seniority
Security
Indenture
15.3 Preferred Shares
Stated Value
Cumulative and Non-Cumulative Dividends
Are Preferred Shares Really Debt?
Preferred Shares and Taxes
Beyond Taxes
15.4 Patterns of Long-Term Financing
15.5 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Chapter 16: Capital Structure: Basic Concepts
Chapter 16 Introduction
16.1 The Capital Structure Question and the Pie Theory
16.2 Maximizing Firm Value Versus Maximizing Shareholder Interests
16.3 Financial Leverage and Firm Value: An Example
Leverage and Returns to Shareholders
The Choice Between Debt and Equity
A Key Assumption
16.4 Modigliani and Miller: Proposition II (No Taxes)
Risk to Equityholders Rises With Leverage
Proposition II: Required Return to Equityholders Rises With Leverage
Modigliani and Miller: An Interpretation
16.5 Taxes
The Basic Insight
Taxation of Corporate Income
Present Value of the Tax Shield
Value of the Levered Firm
Expected Return and Leverage Under Corporate Taxes
The Weighted Average Cost of Capital and Corporate Taxes
Stock Price and Leverage Under Corporate Taxes
16.6 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 17: Capital Structure: Limits to the Use of Debt
Chapter 17 Introduction
17.1 Costs of Financial Distress
Bankruptcy Risk or Bankruptcy Cost?
17.2 Description of Costs
Direct Costs of Financial Distress: Legal and Administrative Costs of Liquidation or Reorganization
Indirect Costs of Financial Distress
Agency Costs
17.3 Can Debt Costs Be Reduced?
Protective Covenants
Consolidation of Debt
17.4 Integration of Tax Effects and Financial Distress Costs
Pie Again
17.5 Signalling
17.6 Shirking, Perquisites, and Bad Investments: A Note on Agency Cost of Equity
Effect of Agency Costs of Equity on Debt-to-Equity Financing
Free Cash Flow
17.7 The Pecking-Order Theory
Rules of the Pecking Order
Implications
17.8 Growth and the Debt-to-Equity Ratio
No Growth
Growth
17.9 Personal Taxes
The Miller Model
17.10 How Firms Establish Capital Structure
17.11 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 17A (online only)
Appendix 17B (online only)
Questions & Problems
Chapter 18: Valuation and Capital Budgeting for the Levered Firm
Chapter 18 Introduction
18.1 Adjusted Present Value Approach
18.2 Flow to Equity Approach
Step 1: Calculating Levered Cash Flow4
Step 2: Calculating rS
Step 3: Valuation
18.3 Weighted Average Cost of Capital Method
18.4 A Comparison of the Adjusted Present Value, Flow to Equity, and Weighted Average Cost of Capital Approaches
Caveat: Adjusted Present Value, Flow to Equity, and Weighted Average Cost of Capital Do Not Always Yield the Same Results
A Guideline
18.5 Adjusted Present Value Example
18.6 Capital Budgeting When the Discount Rate Must Be Estimated
18.7 Beta and Leverage
The Project Is Not Scale Enhancing
18.8 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 18A (online only)
Chapter 19: Dividends and Other Payouts
Chapter 19 Introduction
19.1 Different Types of Dividends
19.2 Standard Method of Cash Dividend Payment
19.3 The Benchmark Case: An Illustration of the Irrelevance of Dividend Policy
Current Policy: Dividends Set Equal to Cash Flow
Alternative Policy: Initial Dividend Is Greater Than Cash Flow
The Indifference Proposition
Homemade Dividends
A Test
Dividends and Investment Policy
19.4 Repurchase of Stock
Dividend Versus Repurchase: Conceptual Example
Dividends Versus Repurchases: Real-World Considerations
19.5 Personal Taxes, Issuance Costs, and Dividends
Firms Without Sufficient Cash to Pay a Dividend
Firms With Sufficient Cash to Pay a Dividend
Summary of Personal Taxes
19.6 Real-World Factors Favouring a High-Dividend Policy
Desire for Current Income
Behavioural Finance
Agency Costs
Information Content of Dividends and Dividend Signalling
19.7 The Clientele Effect: A Resolution of Real-World Factors?
19.8 What We Know and Do Not Know About Dividend Policy
Corporate Dividends Are Substantial
Fewer Companies Pay Dividends
Corporations Smooth Dividends
Some Survey Evidence on Dividends
19.9 Putting It All Together
19.10 Stock Dividends and Stock Splits
Some Details on Stock Splits and Stock Dividends
Value of Stock Splits and Stock Dividends
Reverse Splits
19.11 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 20: Issuing Equity Securities to the Public
Chapter 20 Introduction
Issuing Equity Securities to the Public
20.1 The Public Issue
20.2 The Basic Procedure for a New Issue
The Prompt Offering Prospectus System
Alternative Issue Methods
20.3 The Cash Offer
Types of Underwriting
The Selling Period
The Overallotment Option
Investment Banks
The Offering Price and Underpricing
The Decision to Go Public
Pricing Initial Public Offerings
Underpricing: A Possible Explanation
20.4 The Announcement of New Equity and the Value of the Firm
20.5 The Cost of Issuing Securities
The Costs of Going Public: A Case Study
20.6 Rights
The Mechanics of a Rights Offering
Subscription Price
Number of Rights Needed to Purchase a Share
The Value of a Right
Ex-Rights
Value of Rights After Ex-Rights Date
The Underwriting Arrangements
Effects on Shareholders
Cost of Rights Offerings
20.7 The Private Equity Market
Private Placement
The Private Equity Firm
Venture Capital
Suppliers of Venture Capital
Stages of Financing
Some Venture Capital Realities
20.8 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 21: Long-Term Debt
Chapter 21 Introduction
21.1 Long-Term Debt: A Review
21.2 The Public Issue of Bonds
The Basic Terms
Security
Seniority
Protective Covenants
The Sinking Fund
The Call Provision
21.3 Bond Refunding
Should Firms Issue Callable Bonds?
Calling Bonds: When Does It Make Sense?
21.4 Bond Ratings
Junk Bonds
21.5 Some Different Types of Bonds
Zero-Coupon Bonds
Floating-Rate Bonds
Financial Engineering and Bonds
21.6 Direct Placement Compared to Public Issues
21.7 Long-Term Syndicated Bank Loans
21.8 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 22: Leasing
Chapter 22 Introduction
22.1 Types of Leases
The Basics
Operating Leases
Financial Leases
22.2 Accounting and Leasing
22.3 Taxes and Leases
22.4 The Cash Flows of Financial Leasing
The Incremental Cash Flows
22.5 A Detour on Discounting and Debt Capacity With Corporate Taxes
Present Value of Risk-Free Cash Flows
Optimal Debt Level and Risk-Free Cash Flows (Advanced)
22.6 Net Present Value Analysis of the Lease-Versus-Buy Decision
The Discount Rate
Asset Pool and Salvage Value
22.7 Debt Displacement and Lease Valuation
The Basic Concept of Debt Displacement (Advanced)
Optimal Debt Level in the TransCanada Taxis Example (Advanced)
22.8 Does Leasing Ever Pay? TheBase Case
22.9 Reasons for Leasing
Good Reasons for Leasing
Bad Reasons for Leasing
Leasing Decisions in Practice
22.10 Some Unanswered Questions
Are the Uses of Leases and of Debt Complementary?
Why Are Leases Offered by Both Manufacturers and Third-Party Lessors?
Why Are Some Assets Leased More Commonly Than Others?
22.11 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 22A (online only)
Questions & Problems
Chapter 23: Options and Corporate Finance: Basic Concepts
Chapter 23 Introduction
Options and Corporate Finance: Basic Concepts
23.1 Options
23.2 Call Options
The Value of a Call Option at Expiration
23.3 Put Options
The Value of a Put Option at Expiration
23.4 Selling Options
23.5 Stock Option Quotations
Long-Term Equity Anticipation Securities
23.6 Combinations of Options
23.7 Valuing Options
Bounding the Value of an American Call
The Factors Determining Call Option Values
A Quick Discussion of Factors Determining Put Option Values
23.8 An Option Pricing Formula
A Two-State Option Model
The Black–Scholes Model
23.9 Stocks and Bonds as Options
The Firm Expressed in Terms of Call Options
The Firm Expressed in Terms of Put Options
A Resolution of the Two Views
A Note on Loan Guarantees
23.10 Investment in Real Projects and Options
23.11 Contingent Value Rights, Mergers, and Corporate Decisions
23.12 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 24: Options and Corporate Finance: Extensions and Applications
Chapter 24 Introduction
24.1 Executive Stock Options
Why Options?
Executive Compensation: Where Are We Now?
Valuing Executive Compensation
24.2 Valuing a Start-Up
24.3 More About the Binomial Model
Heating Oil
24.4 Shutdown and Reopening Decisions
Valuing a Gold Mine
The Abandonment and Opening Decisions
Valuing the Simple Gold Mine
24.5 Summary and Conclusions
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 25: Warrants and Convertibles
Chapter 25 Introduction
25.1 Warrants
25.2 The Difference Between Warrants and Call Options
How the Firm Can Hurt Warrant Holders
25.3 Warrant Pricing and the Black–Scholes Model (Advanced)
25.4 Convertible Bonds
25.5 The Value of Convertible Bonds
Straight Bond Value
Conversion Value
Option Value
25.6 Reasons for Issuing Warrants and Convertibles
Convertible Debt Versus Straight Debt
Convertible Debt Versus Common Stock
The “Free Lunch” Story
The “Expensive Lunch” Story
A Reconciliation
25.7 Why Are Warrants and Convertibles Issued?
Matching Cash Flows
Risk Synergy
Agency Costs
Backdoor Equity
25.8 Conversion Policy
25.9 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 26: Derivatives and Hedging Risk
Chapter 26 Introduction
26.1 Derivatives, Hedging, and Risk
The Impact of Financial Risk: The Credit Crisis of 2007–09
26.2 Forward Contracts
26.3 Futures Contracts
26.4 Hedging
Hedging With Futures Versus Hedging With Options
26.5 Interest Rate Futures Contracts
Pricing of Government of Canada Bonds
Pricing of Forward Contracts
Futures Contracts
Hedging in Interest Rate Futures
26.6 Duration Hedging
The Case of Zero-Coupon Bonds
The Case of Two Bonds With the Same Maturity but With Different Coupons
Duration
Matching Liabilities With Assets
Duration in Practice
26.7 Swap Contracts
Interest Rate Swaps
Currency Swaps
Credit Default Swaps
Exotics
Movement Toward Exchange Trading for Swaps
26.8 Actual Use of Derivatives
26.9 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 27: Short-Term Finance and Planning
Chapter 27 Introduction
Short-Term Finance and Planning
27.1 Tracing Cash and Net Working Capital
27.2 Defining Cash in Terms of Other Elements
The Sources and Uses of Cash Statement
27.3 The Operating Cycle and the Cash Cycle
Interpreting the Cash Cycle
27.4 Some Aspects of Short-Term Financial Policy
The Size of the Firm’s Investment in Current Assets
Alternative Financing Policies for Current Assets
Current Assets and Liabilities in Practice
27.5 Cash Budgeting
Cash Outflow
The Cash Balance
27.6 The Short-Term Financial Plan
Short-Term Planning and Risk
Short-Term Borrowing
In the Absence of Short-Term Borrowing
27.7 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 28: Cash Management
Chapter 28 Introduction
28.1 Reasons for Holding Cash
The Speculative and Precautionary Motives
The Transaction Motive
Costs of Holding Cash
Cash Management Versus Liquidity Management
28.2 Managing the Collection and Disbursement of Cash
Electronic Data Interchange: The End of Float?
Accelerating Collections
Controlling Disbursements
Ethical and Legal Questions
28.3 Investing Idle Cash
Seasonal or Cyclical Activities
Planned Expenditures
Characteristics of Short-Term Securities
Some Different Types of Money Market Securities
28.4 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 29: Credit Management
Chapter 29 Introduction
29.1 Terms of the Sale
Why Trade Credit Exists
The Basic Form
Credit Period
Cash Discounts
Credit Instruments
29.2 The Decision to Grant Credit: Risk and Information
The Value of New Information About Credit Risk
Future Sales
29.3 Optimal Credit Policy
Credit Insurance
29.4 Credit Analysis
Credit Information
Credit Evaluation and Scoring
29.5 Collection Policy
Average Collection Period
Aging Schedule
Collection Effort
29.6 Other Aspects of Credit Policy
Factoring
How to Finance Trade Credit
29.7 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 29A (online only)
29A.1 Inventory Management Techniques
The ABC Approach
The Economic Order Quantity Model
Extensions to the Economic Order Quantity Model
Managing Derived-Demand Inventories
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Chapter 30: Mergers and Acquisitions
Chapter 30 Introduction
Mergers and Acquisitions
30.1 The Basic Forms of Acquisitions
Merger or Consolidation
Acquisition of Stock
Acquisition of Assets
A Classification Scheme
A Note on Takeovers
30.2 The Tax Forms of Acquisitions
Determinants of Tax Status
Taxable Versus Tax-Free Acquisitions
30.3 Accounting for Acquisitions
The Acquisition Method
30.4 Determining the Synergy From an Acquisition
30.5 Sources of Synergy From Acquisitions
Revenue Enhancement
Cost Reduction
Tax Gains
Lower Cost of Capital
30.6 Calculating the Value of the Firm After an Acquisition
Avoiding Mistakes
30.7 A Cost to Shareholders From Reduction in Risk
The Base Case
The Case Where One Firm Has Debt
How Can Shareholders Reduce Their Losses From the Coinsurance Effect?
30.8 Two “Bad” Reasons for Mergers
Earnings Growth
Diversification
30.9 The Net Present Value of a Merger
Cash
Common Stock
Cash Versus Common Stock
Defensive Tactics
Divestitures
The Control Block and the Corporate Charter
Standstill Agreements
Exclusionary Offers and Non-Voting Stock
Going Private and Leveraged Buyouts
Other Defensive Devices
30.10 Some Evidence on Acquisitions
Do Acquisitions Benefit Shareholders?
The Managers Versus the Shareholders
Real Productivity
30.11 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Chapter 31: Financial Distress
Chapter 31 Introduction
31.1 What Is Financial Distress?
31.2 What Happens in Financial Distress?
31.3 Bankruptcy Liquidation and Reorganization
Bankruptcy Liquidation
Bankruptcy Reorganization
Agreements to Avoid Bankruptcy
31.4 Current Issues in Financial Distress
Private Workout or Bankruptcy: Which Is Better?
Holdouts
Complexity
Lack of Information
Prepackaged Bankruptcy
31.5 The Decision to Seek Court Protection: The Case of Canwest Global Communications Corporation
31.6 Summary and Conclusions
Key Terms
Questions & Problems
Minicase
Appendix 31A (online only)
Chapter 32: International Corporate Finance
Chapter 32 Introduction
32.1 Terminology
32.2 Foreign Exchange Markets and Exchange Rates
Exchange Rates
Types of Transactions
32.3 The Law of One Price and Purchasing Power Parity
32.4 Interest Rates and Exchange Rates
The Dollar Investment
The Euro Investment
The Forward Discount and Expected Spot Rates
Exchange Rate Risk
More Advanced Short-Term Hedges
The Hedging Decision in Practice
32.5 International Capital Budgeting
Foreign Exchange Conversion
Unremitted Cash Flows
The Cost of Capital for International Firms
32.6 International Financing Decisions
Short-Term and Medium-Term Financing
International Bond Markets
32.7 Reporting Foreign Operations
32.8 Political Risk
32.9 Summary and Conclusions
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