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Financial Management

Assignment #1

Part 1
Page 511: 15-2, 15-4, 15-10
Page 513: 15-5 and 15-9

Part 2
Go to http://finance.yahoo.com/ and locate current financial information for Hewlett
Packard (HPQ) and Apple Inc (AAPL), both in terms of each company’s current balance
sheet. (You can search for the companies by simply typing the abbreviations, it takes you to
the specific company).
Note: Use Oct 31, 2018 information for HPQ and Sep 29, 2018 information for AAPL.

a. Describe the capital structure of each of the companies using debt ratio and interest-
bearing debt ratio.
b. What are the debt-to-enterprise value ratios assuming that the market value of capital is
20% higher than the book values?
c. If you were a bank officer who was analyzing whether or not to loan more money to these
companies, which of the ratios calculated in part a and b is more relevant to your analysis?
Why?

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