Tuber's Capital Structure and Cost of Capital

The assignment provided is a finance and accounting case study that analyzes the capital structure and cost of capital of a company called Tuber. The student is required to answer four questions, including determining the weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and calculating capital expenditure for Tuber based on its internal rate of return. The answers are supported by references from academic journals.

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Answer 1....................................................................................................................................2
Answer 2....................................................................................................................................2
Answer 3....................................................................................................................................2
Answer 4....................................................................................................................................3
Reference....................................................................................................................................4

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Answer 1
Using the cost of capital as discount rate rather than assuming it on arbitrary basis is
better as the cost of capital states the actual cost for financing the business operation through
equity capital or debt. Further, the cost of capital is the blended required return rate by the
investors (Ross 2013). Therefore, it is assumed that required return rate on assets of company
is equal to that what is required by the financer. Hence, it is better than the current method.
Answer 2
Cost of each financing alternative
As per the information given in Exhibit 4 -Tuber has 2 alternatives for raising the
funds. There are through debt and through equity. Cost of debt is 9.00% whereas cost of
equity 3.795%. Further, for additional debt the cost will be 11%.
Answer 3
Tuber’s cost of capital
Total capital = Long term debt + Equity
= (90) + (20+28+90) = $ 228 million
Percentage of debt = 90/228 *100 = 39.5%
Percentage of equity = 138/228 *100 = 60.5%
Weighted average cost of capital (WACC) –
WACC = E/V * Re +D/V * Rd * (1-Tc) (Frank and Shen 2016)
Where,

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E/V = Equity percentage in capital structure = 60.5%
D/V = Debt percentage in capital structure = 39.50%
Re = Cost of equity = 3.795%
Rd = Rate of debt = 9.00%
Tc = corporate tax rate = 34%
WACC = 0.03795*0.605 + 0.09*0.395(1-0.34)
WACC = 0.02296 + 0.02346 = 0.0464 or 4.64%
Answer 4
Capital expenditure for Tuber
As per the information given in Exhibit 4, it can be seen that the internal rate of return
for Tuber is 27.5% that will allow it to accept additional $ 5.0 million debt as per Exhibit 3.
Therefore, the capital expenses will be as follows –
On $ 90 million debt at 9% = $ 8.1 million
On additional $ 5 million debt at 11% = $ 0.55 Million
On $ 138 million equity at 3.795% = $ 5.23 million
Total capital expenditure = (8.1 +0.5 + 5.23) = $ 13.88 million

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Reference
Frank, M.Z. and Shen, T., 2016. Investment and the weighted average cost of capital. Journal
of Financial Economics, 119(2), pp.300-315.
Ross, S.A., 2013. The arbitrage theory of capital asset pricing. In Handbook of the
fundamentals of financial decision making: Part I (pp. 11-30).