Chapter 3: Q11DQ (page 219)
If a firm uses a just-in-time inventory system, what effect is that likely to have on the number and location of suppliers?
The just-in-time system requires that there are few suppliers who are closely located.
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Commercial paper may show up on corporate balance sheets as either a current asset or a current liability. Explain this statement.
Guardian Inc. is trying to develop an asset financing plan. The firm has \(400,000 in temporary current assets and \)300,000 in permanent current assets. Guardian also has \(500,000 in fixed assets. Assume a tax rate of 40 percent.
b. Given that Guardian’s earnings before interest and taxes are \)200,000, calculate earnings after taxes for each of your alternatives.
What are the 5 Cs of credit that are sometimes used by bankers and others to determine whether a potential loan will be repaid?
Assume that Atlas Sporting Goods Inc. has \(840,000 in assets. If it goes with a low-liquidity plan for the assets, it can earn a return of 15 percent, but with a high-liquidity plan the return will be 12 percent. If the firm goes with a short-term financing plan, the financing costs on the \)840,000 will be 9 percent, and with a long-term financing plan, the financing costs on the $840,000 will be 11 percent. (Review Table 6-11 for parts a, b, and c of this problem.)
a. Compute the anticipated return after financing costs with the most aggressive asset financing mix.
b. Compute the anticipated return after financing costs with the most conservative asset financing mix.
c. Compute the anticipated return after financing costs with the two moderate approaches to the asset financing mix.
d. If the firm used the most aggressive asset financing mix described in part a and had the anticipated return you computed for part a, what would earnings per share be if the tax rate on the anticipated return was 30 percent and there were 20,000 shares outstanding?
e. Now assume the most conservative asset financing mix described in part b will be utilized. The tax rate will be 30 percent. Also assume there will only be 5,000 shares outstanding. What will earnings per share be? Would it be higher or lower than the earnings per share computed for the most aggressive plan computed in part d?
What is an asset-backed public offering?
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