Campbell Soup Company is an international provider of soup products. Management is very interested in continuing to

Question:

Campbell Soup Company is an international provider of soup products. Management is very interested in continuing to grow the company in its core business, while “spinning off” those businesses that are not part of its core operation.

Address: www.campbellsoups.com, or go to www.wiley.com/college/weygandt Steps

1. Go to the home page of Campbell Soup Company at the address shown above.

2. Choose the current annual report.

Instructions

Review the financial statements and management’s discussion and analysis, and answer the following questions.

(a) What was the total amount of capital expenditures in the current year, and how does this amount compare with the previous year?

(b) What interest rate did the company pay on new borrowings in the current year?

What is the expected internal rate of return (IRR) for these capital expenditures? (Assume a 10-year period for the cash flows.)

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