Assume You Are the Director of Capital Budgeting for an All-Equity

question 4

Multiple Choice

Assume you are the director of capital budgeting for an all-equity firm.The firm's current cost of equity is 16%; the risk-free rate is 10%; and the market risk premium is 5%.You are considering a new project that has 50% more beta risk than your firm's assets currently have,that is,its beta is 50% larger than the firm's existing beta.The expected return on the new project is 18%.Should the project be accepted if beta risk is the appropriate risk measure? Choose the correct statement.

• A)Yes; its expected return is greater than the firm's WACC.
• B)Yes; the project's risk-adjusted required return is less than its expected return.
• C)No; a 50% increase in beta risk gives a risk-adjusted required return of 24%.
• D)No; the project's risk-adjusted required return is 2% above its expected return.
• E)No; the project's risk-adjusted required return is 1% above its expected return.

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Definitions:

Support Department

An organizational unit that provides the necessary services for the operations departments but does not directly engage in the core activities of the business.

Single Plantwide Rate

A costing method where a single overhead rate is used to allocate all manufacturing overhead costs uniformly across all products, regardless of the department where costs are incurred.

Multiple Production Rates

Refers to the capability of a manufacturing process or facility to operate at various output rates to meet different levels of demand.

Activity-Based Costing

A costing method that identifies activities in an organization and assigns the cost of each activity to all products and services according to the actual consumption by each.