FIN 7000 – Dr.

Y Gao
ASPER
MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS
MBA/MFin January 2025

ASSIGNMENT: Due Feb 5th, 2025 by 10:00 a.m. Assignment should be submitted electronically.

Assignments should be word-processed with the relevant required Excel items copied and pasted into this
Word document electronically (I suggest to use partial screen captures and ensure they are of high
resolution and high quality). Once finalized, you should ‘print to pdf’ the assignment so everything is in one
PDF file. Please review the PDF file prior to submitting to ensure it looks the way you want it to look. Please
do not lock the PDF file as I will be inserting comments into it to reflect the grading so I can give you
feedback.

Your assignment submission should have the highest professional standards of writing, appearance,
formatting, and analysis. Marks will be deducted if it is lacking in any of these regards.

Please use this Word file as your assignment template and insert your answers between the questions – do not
delete the questions. If your calculation involves Excel, please also submit your Excel document in your
submission, and refer to the EXACT Excel sheet & cell where your corresponding answer is located.

Note, for all numeric answers, show final dollar answers to two decimal places; e.g., round to the cent for dollar
answers. Do not round intermediate calculations – use Excel, unrounded, for all calculations.
1. Tacky Textiles buys some inventory from Calvin Klein in 2019 for $490,000 on credit terms and will pay
for the inventory in 2020. In 2020 Tacky Textiles sells $245,000 of the inventory to The Bay for
$300,000. The Bay will pay Tacky Textiles in 2021. (You do not need to show all financial statements.)
a) Indicate the cash flows caused by the above transactions. (Be specific in terms of years too – show
numbers for each of the three years and indicate whether the cash flow for the year is positive,
negative, or zero.)
b) Assume without these transactions, inventory accounts each year would be zero. Indicate the
balances in inventory accounts caused by the above transactions. (Be specific in terms of each year
too – show numbers for each of the three years.)
c) Indicate the effects on profitability (ignore taxes) caused by the above transactions. Assume that
without these transactions, profit each year would be zero. (Be specific in terms of years too – show
numbers for each of the three years – even if zero.)
d) Do the cash flow numbers give the same indication of performance for Tacky Textiles as the
profitability numbers? Consider if you had to calculate the NPV with only the data given so far.
Explain briefly.
2. To start up a business its founders must invest as follows:

Year 0 1 2 3 4
Investment $3,000,000 $1,500,000 $750,000 $375,000 $187,500

Following the times when you are investing, the business is projected to make positive cash flows. For year
5, the cash inflow is expected to be $15,000 and this is expected to triple each year ending with the cash flow
that occurs at year 10. In year 11 and into the future, the cash flows are expected to grow at a rate of 2% per
year (and continuing in perpetuity).

a) If the risk of the business implies an appropriate discount rate of 17% per year, what is the economic
profit generated by this business venture (i.e., what is the NPV of starting this business)?
b) What is the present value of the investment in the business (just the investing cash flows – the cash
flows from year 0 to year 4)? Show how this can be calculated with the PV growing annuity equation
using the year 0 cash flow as the first cash flow of the growing annuity (show the equation with the
numbers in it – use Word’s equation editor in a professional manner with the appropriate
numbers in it).
c) Suppose the owners of the business do a public offering of the business on the stock market at the end
of year 4 (just after the last investment cash flow) and the market has the same expectations of future
cash flows (as stated above for years 5 onward).
i) What will be the market price of the business when it goes public (at year 4)?
ii) What would be the present value of this amount discounted back to year 0?
iii) What does this imply about the economic profit expected to be received by the people
who buy the stock in the public offering?
iv) What does this imply about the economic profit expected to be received by the original
founders of the business? In answering this, use the result from parts c.i, [Link], and b.
Compare this result to your answer in part a.
d) What is the IRR of this business? Hint, you may want to set up the first 10 years of cash flows on a
spreadsheet and then bring in the growing perpetuity formula to handle the cash flows from year 11
onward. Make sure all discounting references one rate cell. Then you can use Solver to determine the
IRR by solving for NPV = 0 by changing the rate. (If you are not including Excel in your submission,
please use a clear high-resolution screen capture printout to show the setup of Solver and the result
following running Solver.)