chapter 16 homework
16.16 A cash flow right is the amount of cash you are
supposed to receive as a function of the under-lying value of the firm. It is
not an “enforcement” right. You usually need the latter to obtain the former.
16.20 APR can be a shorthand for “absolute priority rule.”
It states that more senior securities are satisfied first, before more junior
securities receive anything. It can also be an abbreviation for “annual
percentage rate,” which appeared in Section
16.22 If the firm is worth less than 8,000 x $20,000 =
$160,000,000, the bondholders will own the entire firm, and the shareholders
will receive nothing. If the bondholders convert, there will be 800,000 +
1,200,000 = 2 million shares outstanding, and the bondholders will own
800,000/2,000,000 = 40% of the firm. Therefore, they will be interested in
converting when 40% of the firm’s value exceeds $160,000,000. Because
$160,000,000/0.4 = $400 million, the bondholders will be indifferent up to and
including this point, but will convert if the firm value exceeds this amount. The
graph of flows to the bondholders will be a diagonal until the firm value reaches $160,000,000. It
will then be a horizontal line until firm value reaches $400million, after
which it will be a line with a slope of 0.40. The equity line will be
horizontal until the firm value reaches $160,000,000, a diagonal (slope = 1.0)
until firm value reaches $400 million, and a line with a slope of 0.60 beyond
that point.
16.24 The ability to vote to appoint the corporate board,
which controls management.
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