WACC and Capital Budgeting Flashcards
WACC means
Weighted Average Cost of Capital
What are the 4 methods of Capital Budgeting (that Noorian cares about)
- Pay Back Method
- Net Present Value
- Internal Rate of Return
- Modified Internal Rate of Return
Total Revenue =
Quantity * Price
Is fixed cost always fixed?
NO
Contribution Margin =
Price - Variable Cost/unit
Contribution = Sales - VC
At breakeven point, fixed cost =
= Contribution * Breakeven QTY = Q*(P - VC)
At breakeven point, net profit =
net loss = 0
Personal WACC: you have the following debts: Mortgage - $500k, 4% Car Loan - $45k, 5% Credit Card - $25k, 14% What is your WACC?
$20k + $2250 + $3500 = $25750
$500k + $45k + $25k = $570k
WACC = 4.52%
Company has following balance sheet: Total Assets = $5000 Current Liabilities = $900 Total Long - Term Debt = $1800 Total Stockholder's equity = $2300
ROE (demanded by shareholder) = 16%
Interest on long term debt = 6%
Marginal tax rate = 21%
What is their WACC?
Weight of Equity = $2300/$5000 = 46%
Weight of Liability = $1800/$5000 = 36%
WACC = 46%16% + 36%6%*(1-21%) = 9.07%
WACC formula =
(weight of Equity * Cost of Equity) + (Weight of Liability * Cost of Long-term Liabilities * (1-average corporate tax rate)
Weight of Equity =
Total Equity / Total Assets
WACC for large corporations tends to be
lower
Capital budgeting is used for major expense with:
- high price
- low frequency of purchase
- significant salvage value
- significant maintenance costs
- significant service after sales required
What are positive aspects of the pay back method?
- Easy and simple
- focused on getting your money back faster so you can reinvest it earlier in other profitable projects
Payback method is a useful method in environments where
- technology is evolving rapidly
- political uncertainty
What are negative aspects of the pay back method
- doesn’t take into account the time value of money
2. doesn’t take into account the entire cash flow
What is the step by step method for calculating NPV
- find PV of each cash flow, discounted back to T0 with WACC
- sum up PVs of cash flows
- NPV = Sum of PVs - Initial investment
What are positive aspects of NPV
- take TVM into account
2. takes entire cash flow into account
What are negative aspect(s) of NPV
It does not tell you a specific annual rate of return
When calculating IRR, the numbers need to be adjusted by making NPV =
ZERO
What is the method for finding IRR, assuming you already know the NPV
Assuming NPV is positive:
1. pick a rate in the TVM table that is higher than the discount rate used with the NPV calc (required rate of return)
2. calculate new PVs with new rate, sum up
3. iteratively adjust rate until sum(PVs) = initial investment
that rate is your IRR
IRR =
Internal rate of return