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Assignment 1: LASA # 2—Capital Budgeting Techniques

As a financial consultant, you have contracted with Wheel Industries  to evaluate their procedures involving the evaluation of long term  investment opportunities.  You have agreed to provide a detailed report  illustrating the use of several techniques for evaluating capital  projects including the weighted average cost of capital to the firm, the  anticipated cash flows for the projects, and the methods used for  project selection.  In addition, you have been asked to evaluate two  projects, incorporating risk into the calculations.

You have also agreed to provide an 8-10 page report, in good form,  with detailed explanation of your methodology, findings, and  recommendations.

Company Information

Wheel Industries is considering a three-year expansion project,  Project A.  The project requires an initial investment of $1.5 million.  The project will use the straight-line depreciation method. The project  has no salvage value. It is estimated that the project will generate  additional revenues of $1.2 million per year before tax and has  additional annual costs of $600,000.  The Marginal Tax rate is 35%.

Required:

1. Wheel has just paid a dividend of $2.50 per share. The dividends are  expected to grow at a constant rate of six percent per year forever. If  the stock is currently selling for $50 per share with a 10% flotation  cost, what is the cost of new equity for the firm? What are the  advantages and disadvantages of using this type of financing for the  firm?
2. The firm is considering using debt in its capital structure. If the  market rate of 5% is appropriate for debt of this kind, what is the  after tax cost of debt for the company? What are the advantages and  disadvantages of using this type of financing for the firm?
3. The firm has decided on a capital structure consisting of 30% debt  and 70% new common stock. Calculate the WACC and explain how it is used  in the capital budgeting process.
4. Calculate the after tax cash flows for the project for each year. Explain the methods used in your calculations.
5. If the discount rate were 6 percent calculate the NPV of the  project. Is this an economically acceptable project to undertake? Why or  why not?
6. Now calculate the IRR for the project. Is this an acceptable  project? Why or why not? Is there a conflict between your answer to part  C? Explain why or why not?

Wheel has two other possible investment opportunities, which are  mutually exclusive, and independent of Investment A above.  Both  investments will cost $120,000 and have a life of 6 years. The after tax  cash flows are expected to be the same over the six year life for both  projects, and the probabilities for each year's after tax cash flow is  given in the table below.

   Investment B     Investment C     

Probability

After Tax
Cash Flow

Probability

After Tax
Cash Flow

0.25

$20,000

0.30

$22,000

0.50

  32,000

0.50

  40,000

0.25

  40,000

0.20

  50,000

1. What is the expected value of each project’s annual after tax cash  flow? Justify your answers and identify any conflicts between the IRR  and the NPV and explain why these conflicts may occur.
2. Assuming that the appropriate discount rate for projects of this  risk level is 8%, what is the risk-adjusted NPV for each project? Which  project, if either, should be selected? Justify your conclusions.

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