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Module 4 - Case LEVERAGE, CAPITAL STRUCTURE, AND DIVIDEND POLICY Assignment Overview Before starting on this assignment, make sure to carefully review the background readings. Part A requires you to make some computations, and Part B requires you to analyze some scenarios using your knowledge of the concepts. So make sure to go through the computational examples in the required readings and also thoroughly review the key concepts before starting on this assignment. Case Assignment Part A: Quantitative Problems 1. Suppose QuickCharge Corporation manufactures phone chargers. They sell their chargers for $20. Their fixed operating costs are $100,000 and their variable operating costs are $10 per charger. Currently they are selling 30,000 chargers per year. A. What is QuickCharge’s EBIT (earnings before interest and taxes) at current sales of 30,000? B. What is QuickCharge’s breakeven point? C. Calculate the EBIT if QuickCharge’s sales increase 50% to 45,000 chargers. What is the percent of change in EBIT under this increase in sales? Also, calculate the EBIT if the company's sales decrease 50% to 15,000 chargers. What is the percent of change in EBIT under this decrease in sales? D. What is QuickCharge’s degree of operating leverage? Based on your computation, what does its operating leverage say about QuickCharge’s business risk? 2. The StayDry Umbrella Corporation will have an EBIT of $100,000 if there is a normal amount of rain this year. But if there is a drought, they will have an EBIT of only $50,000. The interest rate on debt is 10%, and the tax rate is 35%. The company does not pay any preferred dividends. A. If StayDry has zero debt and 50,000 outstanding shares, what will its EPS (earnings per share) be if there is normal rain? What will its EPS be if there is a drought? What is its DFL (degree of financial leverage)? B. Now suppose StayDry has decided to take on $300,000 in debt and has used these funds to buy back half of the outstanding shares so now there are only 25,000 outstanding shares. What is the new EPS and DFL for both normal rain and drought? C. Based on your answers to a) and b) above, what are the trade-offs management has to make between zero debt or $300,000 in debt? What are the benefits and disadvantages of taking on this debt? Part B: Conceptual Questions 1. For each of the following scenarios, explain whether the situation describes financial risk or business risk. Explain your answers to each scenario using at least one of the references from the background readings: A. A pharmaceutical company has developed a new cancer treatment drug that has a much higher success rate than other drugs currently in the market. It has the potential to triple the company’s profits. However, the FDA has expressed concern about some side effects, and it is not clear if the FDA will approve the drug. B. An airline has an EBIT of $100 million per year. However, it also has a huge amount of debt and pays $97 million per year in interest. Its EBIT is relatively stable but tends to go up or down by $5 million or so each year depending on the economy. C. A basketball franchise earns an EBIT of $50 million a year when its team has a winning year. However, it earns only $10 million when its team has a losing year. 2. Explain what capital structure theory (or theories) best describes the following situations. Make sure to cite at least one of the required textbook chapters for each answer, and to cite at least two references for this section: A. A CEO decides to borrow $50,000 in new debt, and the share prices rise dramatically. He then decides to sell half of his own personal shares, and when this is reported in the Wall Street Journal, the share prices drop dramatically in value. B. The corporate tax rate rises from 35% to 45%, and the XYZ Corporation decides to issue more debt. A year later, bankruptcy laws are changed to become much stricter and costlier. XYZ then decides to pay back half of its debt. C. A CEO named Joe Bigwig is known for living large with very expensive cars and a huge mansion. Joe is seeking a large loan from a bank to finance some new projects for his corporation. However, the bank becomes concerned when they find out that he recently used company funds to buy a brand-new company jet and also schedules numerous business trips to Hawaii and stays in five-star hotels. The bank tells Joe he will receive the loan only if he agrees to scale back on his personal expenses and not give himself or any other executives a raise until the loan is paid back. Assignment Expectations • • Answer the assignment questions directly. Stay focused on the precise assignment questions. Do not go off on tangents or devote a lot of space to summarizing general background materials. • • For computational problems, make sure to show your work and explain your steps. For short answer/short essay questions, make sure to reference your sources of information with both a bibliography and in-text citations. See the Student Guide to Writing a HighQuality Academic Paper, including pages 11-14 on in-text citations. Another resource is the “Writing Style Guide,” which is found under “My Resources” in the TLC Portal. Module 4 - Background LEVERAGE, CAPITAL STRUCTURE, AND DIVIDEND POLICY Required Reading Capital Structure Start by viewing the following video. It will introduce you to capital structure and provide you with a basic understanding of the main topics from this module: Obi, P. (2014). Capital structure and financial leverage. Purdue University. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBdJX-rHMg Now go through the following tutorials from Investopedia which include some videos. Start out with the tutorial on degree of operating leverage, then scroll down to the sections on earnings before interest and taxes and degree of financial leverage: Degree of operating leverage. (n.d.). Investopedia. Retrieved from: http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/degreeofoperatinglever age.asp Now dive deeper into the concepts of capital structure with the following two book chapters. Pay special attention to the concepts of operating leverage, financial leverage, business vs. financial risks, and the major theories of capital structure choices. While the tutorials above will give you a broad overview of the main topics, the following readings have worked out problems and solutions that will be essential for completing the Case Assignment: Vishwanath, S. (2007). Chapter 19: Optimal capital structure. Corporate finance: Theory and practice. SAGE Publications India. Available in the Trident Online Library. Brigham, E. & Houston, J. (n.d.). Chapter 13: Capital structure and leverage. Fundamentals of Financial Management. Cengage Learning. Finally, take a look at the following book chapter on dividend policy. Take a close look at the concepts of regular dividend policy and low-regular-and-extra dividend policy, as well as stock splits and stock repurchases: Clive, M. (2012). Chapter 15: Dividend policy. Financial management for non-financial managers. Kogan Page. Available in the Trident Online Library. Optional Reading Ahmad, A. (n.d.) Firm debt part 1: Calculating how much to borrow. Coursera. Retrieved from: https://www.coursera.org/learn/financedebt/lecture/0P8l0/firm-debt-part-1-calculating-how-much-to-borrow Sexton, N. (2010). Introduction to dividend policy. LSBF Global MBA. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPVdxCJ2iCI Privacy Policy | Contact Module 4 Required Material Obi, P. (2014). Capital structure and financial leverage. Purdue University. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKBdJX-rHMg Degree of operating leverage. (n.d.). Investopedia. Retrieved from http://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/degreeofoperatinglevera ge.asp Vishwanath, S. (2007). Chapter 19: Optimal capital structure. Corporate finance: Theory and practice.SAGE Publications India. Available in the Trident Online Library. Brigham, E. & Houston, J. (n.d.). Chapter 13: Capital structure and leverage. Fundamentals of Financial Management. Cengage Learning. Clive, M. (2012). Chapter 15: Dividend policy. Financial management for non-financial managers. Kogan Page. Available in the Trident Online Library. Optional Material Ahmad, A. (n.d.) Firm debt part 1: Calculating how much to borrow. Coursera. Retrieved from: https://www.coursera.org/learn/financedebt/lecture/0P8l0/firm-debt-part-1-calculating-how-much-to-borrow Sexton, N. (2010). Introduction to dividend policy. LSBF Global MBA. Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPVdxCJ2iCI
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Module 4 – Case
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MODULE 4 – CASE

Case Assignment
Part A: Quantitative Problems
1. Suppose QuickCharge Corporation manufactures phone chargers. They
sell their chargers for $20. Their fixed operating costs are $100,000 and
their variable operating costs are $10 per charger. Currently they are
selling 30,000 chargers per year.
A. What is QuickCharge’s EBIT (earnings before interest
and taxes) at current sales of 30,000?
EBIT = Sales – (Variable Costs + Fixed Costs)
Sales = (Number of chargers sold * Selling price)
Sales = (30,000 * $20)
Sales = $600,000
Variable costs = variable cost per charger * number of
chargers sold
Variable Cost = $10 * 30,000
Variable Cost = $300,000
EBIT = $600,000 – ($300,000 + $100,000)
EBIT = $600,000 - $400,000
EBIT = $200,000
B. What is QuickCharge’s breakeven point?
Fixed Cost
Break Even Point (BEP) =
Price − Variable Cost
Fixed Cost = $100,000
Price = $10
Variable Cost = $300,000
$100,000
BEP = $10−$100 ,000
BEP = $10,000
C. Calculate the EBIT if QuickCharge’s sales increase 50%
to 45,000 chargers. What is the percent of change in
EBIT under this increase in sales? Also, calculate the
EBIT if the company's sales decrease 50% to 15,000
chargers. What is the percent of change in EBIT under
this decrease in sales?
EBIT = Sales – (Variable Costs + Fixed Costs)
Sales increase to 45,000 =
EBIT = ($20 * $45,000) – ($300,000 + $100,000)
EBIT =$900,000 – $400,000

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EBIT = $500,000
Change in EBIT
× 100%
Former EBIT
Change in EBIT = $500,000 – 200,000
Change in EBIT = $300,000
300.000
% change in EBIT = 200,000 *100%
% change in EBIT =

= 150%
D. What is QuickCharge’s degree of operating leverage?
Based on your computation, what does its operating
leverage say about QuickCharge’s business risk?
Degree of Operating Leverage (DOL)
% change in EBIT
=
%change in sales
150
DOL = 50
DOL = 3
Since the DOL is 3, the value shows that the business is stable and is at a lower risk, where there
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