Yeats Corporation Is Trying to Determine Its Short-Term Cash Needs

question 52

Essay

Yeats Corporation is trying to determine its short-term cash needs. Given the following information, how much money will Yeats need to borrow next year?

•Sales in Year 9 are expected to be $500 million
•Operating margin is expected to be 8%
•Interest expense is expected to be $6 million (ignore additional interest expense generated by additional borrowings in Year 9)
•Tax rate is 40%
•Dividend payout ratio is 30%
•Increase in working capital is 5% of sales
•Increase in fixed assets is 10% of sales
•No new equity will be issued

Use Tchebysheff's Theorem for any shaped distribution to estimate the proportion of observations within a certain number of standard deviations from the mean.

Determine the shape of a distribution based on the relationship between mean, median, and mode.

Apply the concept of skewness to real-life data interpretation.

Interpret and calculate intervals within a distribution using standard deviation as a measure of spread.

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