CAPITAL BUDGETING CASE STUDY ANALYSIS ACME Inc. is a multinational conglomerate corporation providing a wide range of goods and services to its customers. As part of its budgeting process for the next year, it has several projects under consideration so it must decide which projects should receive capital budgeting investment funds for this year. As part of the financial analysis department, you have been given several projects to evaluate. However, before you can determine the appropriate valuations of these projects, you need to determine the weighted average cost of capital for the firm since it is used as a threshold of acceptability for projects. Remember that management has a preference in using the market values of the firms capital structure and believes it current structure (target weight/market weight) is optimal. Market Values of Capital 1. The company has 60,000 bonds with a 30-year life outstanding, with 15 years until maturity. The bonds carry a 10 percent semi-annual coupon, and are currently selling for $874.78. 2. You also have 100,000 shares of $100 par, 9% dividend perpetual preferred stock outstanding. The current market price is $90.00. 3. The company has 5 million shares of common stock outstanding with a currently price of $17.00 per share. The stock exhibits a constant growth rate of 10 percent. The last dividend (D0) was $.65. 4. The risk-free rate is currently 6 percent, and the rate of return on the stock market as a whole is 13 percent. Your stocks beta is 1.22. 5. Your firm only uses bonds for long-term financing. 6. Your firms federal + state marginal tax rate is 40%. (Ignore any carryforward implications) Depreciation Schedule Modified Accelerated Cost Recovery System (MACRS) Ownership Year 5-Year Investment Class Depreciation Schedule 1 20% 2 32% 3 19% 4 12% 5 11% 6 6% Total = 100%

APITAL BUDGETING CASE STUDY ANALYSIS Requirements Each Student will be provided two (2) projects which they will evaluate. Students are expected to report the results of their analysis in Week 6 in a PowerPoint slides presentation. Groups will also submit spreadsheet work for all sections. Calculations for all parts will be graded in the spreadsheet score in Week 6. Capital Budgeting Assignment Part 1 Section 1 Find the costs of the individual capital components: long-term debt (before tax and after tax) preferred stock average cost of retained earnings (avg. of Capital Asset Pricing Model & Gordon Growth Model/Constant Growth Model) Section 2 Determine the target percentages for the optimal capital structure, and then compute the WACC. Carry weights to a minimum of four decimal places, but rounding in calculations is not necessary. (i.e. 0.2973 or 29.73%)

BALANCE SHEET
Cash	2,000,000	Accounts Payable and Accruals	18,000,000
Accounts Receivable	28,000,000	Notes Payable
Inventories	42,000,000	Long-Term Debt
		Preferred Stock
Net Fixed Assets		Common Equity	77,000,000
Total Assets		Total Claims
Bonds	60,000	Preferred Stock	100,000	Common Stock	5,000,000.00
Periods left until Maturity		Stock Par Value		Current market price per share
Coupon Rate		Dividend Per Share		Last Dividend paid
Semiannual Payment		Current market price per share		Dividend Growth Rate
Current Price				Risk free rate
Face Value		Cost of Preferred Stock		Stock market return
				Firm's Beta
Cost of Debt (BT)		Tax Rate
After Tax Cost of Debt				Cost of Equity: CAPM Method
		Weights		Cost of Equity: DDM Method
Total Bonds				Cost of Common Equity (Avg)
Total Preferred Stock	$ -
Total Common Stock				Weighted Average Cost of Capital
Total Firm Value