Capital Budgeting

Capital Budgeting Techniques

FIN 401

Financial Management

Jessica Coats

Brent Carothers

January 17, 2014

My name is Jessica Coats, I have been contacted by Wheel Industries to evaluate their procedures involving the evaluation of long term investment opportunities. You will find a brief description about Wheel Industries current projects they are considering: 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%. Within this report I will go over different situations that Wheel Industries will be considering.

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?

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?

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.

Calculate the after tax cash flows for the project for each year. Explain the methods used in your calculations.

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?

Now calculate the IRR for the project. Is this an acceptable...