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Cost of Capital
Cost of Capital
Appraising
the financial performance of top
management
THE CONCEPT OF THE
OPPORTUNITY COST OF CAPITAL
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Tax adjustment
Now,
Cost of the Existing Debt
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n PDIVt Pn
P0
t 1 (1 k p ) t (1 k p ) n
Example
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COST OF EQUITY CAPITAL
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n
DIV0 (1g s ) t DIVn 1
Supernormal growth P0
1
(1k e ) t k e g n (1k e ) n
t 1
Cost
of External Equity: The Dividend Growth
Model
DIV1
ke g
P0
k e R f (R m R f ) j
Equation requires the following three parameters
to estimate a firm’s cost of equity:
The risk-free rate (Rf)
The market risk premium (Rm – Rf)
The beta of the firm’s share ()
Example
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The following steps are involved for calculating the firm’s WACC:
Calculate the cost of specific sources of funds
Multiply the cost of each source by its proportion in the
capital structure.
Add the weighted component costs to get the WACC.
k o k d (1 T ) w d k d w e
D E
k o k d (1 T ) ke
DE DE
A new issue of debt or shares will invariably involve flotation costs in the
form of legal fees, administrative expenses, brokerage or underwriting
commission.
One approach is to adjust the flotation costs in the calculation of the cost
of capital. This is not a correct procedure. Flotation costs are not annual
costs; they are one-time costs incurred when the investment project is
undertaken and financed. If the cost of capital is adjusted for the flotation
costs and used as the discount rate, the effect of the flotation costs will be
compounded over the life of the project.
The correct procedure is to adjust the investment project’s cash flows for
the flotation costs and use the weighted average cost of capital, unadjusted
for the flotation costs, as the discount rate.
Firm’s cost of capital
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Example
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The Cost of Capital for Projects
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