Benchmark - Mini Case 6

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The purpose of this assignment is to explain core concepts related to business risk and recommend sound financial decisions based on analysis of a firm's capital structure and capital budgeting techniques.

Read the Chapter 15 Mini Case on page 626 in Financial Management: Theory and Practice. Using complete sentences and academic vocabulary, please answer questions a and b.

Using the mini case information, write a 250-500 word recommendation of the financial decisions you propose for this company based on an analysis of its capital structure and capital budgeting techniques.

APA format is not required, but solid academic writing is expected.

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MINI CASE Assume you have just been hired as a business manager of PizzaPalace, a regional pizza restaurant chain. The company's EBIT was $50 million last year and is not expected to grow. The firm is currently financed with all equity, and it has 10 million shares outstanding. When you took your corporate finance course, your instructor stated that most firms' owners would be financially better off if the firms used some debt. When you suggested this to your new boss, he encouraged you to pursue the idea. As a first step, assume that you obtained from the firm's investment banker the following estimated costs of debt for the firm at different capital structures: rd Percent Financed with Debt, wa 0% 20 30 8.0% 8.5 10.0 12.0 40 50 If the company were to recapitalize, then debt would be issued and the funds received would be used to repurchase stock. PizzaPalace is in the 40% state-plus-federal corporate tax bracket, its beta is 1.0, the risk-free rate is 6%, and the market risk premium is 6%. a. Using the free cash flow valuation model, show the only avenues by which capital structure can affect value. b. (1) What is business risk? What factors influence a firm's business risk? (2) What is operating leverage, and how does it affect a firm's business risk? Show the operating break-even point if a company has fixed costs of $200, a sales price $15, and variable costs of $10.
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Question a

Using the free cash flow valuation model, the value of a firm is calculated using the
formula below.


V =∑
T=1

FCFT
(1 + WACC)T

Where; V stands for the value of the firm; T for the period; FCF for free cash flow and WACC
for the weighted average cost of capital (Brigham & Ehrhardt, 2017). Therefore, the value of the
firm is affected by the firm's capital structure through the effect of debt on free cash flow and...


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