F3 Exam Dumps : Financial Strategy

A company's Board of Directors is assessing the likely impact of financing new projects by using either debt or equity finance.

The impact of using debt or equity finance on some key variables is uncertain.

Which THREE of the following statements are true?

An all equity financed company plans an issue of new ordinary shares to the general public to raise finance for a new project

The following data applies:

• 10 million ordinary shares are currently in issue with a market value of S3 each share

• The new project will cost S2.88 million and is expected to give a positive NPV of S1 million

• The issue will be priced at a AaA discount to the current share price.

What gam or loss per share will accrue to the existing shareholders?

A project requires an initial outlay of $2 million which can be financed with either a bank loan or finance lease.

The company will be responsible for annual maintenance under either option.

The tax regime is:

   • Tax depreciation allowances can be claimed on purchased assets.

   • If leased using a finance lease, tax relief can be claimed on the interest element of the lease payments and also on the accounting depreciation charge.

The trainee management accountant has begun evaluating the lease versus buy decision and has produced the following data.  He is not confident that all this information is relevant to this decision.

Using only the relevant data, which of the following is correct?