A company has in a 5% corporate bond in issue on which there are two loan covenants.
* Interest cover must not fall below 3 times
* Retained earnings for the year must not fall below $3.5 million
The Company has 200 million shares in issue.
The most recent dividend per share was $0.04.
The Company intends increasing dividends by 10% next year.
Financial projections for next year are as follows:

Advise the Board of Directors which of the following will be the status of compliance with the loan covenants next year?

Company ABC's management has noticed that Company BCD has quickly built up a 20% stake by buying shares in Company ABC and are concerned that this is the start of a hostile bid.
This build-up of shares triggers the poison pill provision which automatically converts the rights to buy future preference shares previously issued to existing shareholders in Company ABC to full ordinary shares What is the most likely impact of the triggering of a poison pill strategy at this stage in the bidding process?

A company needs to raise $20 million to finance a project.
It has decided on a rights issue at a discount of 20% to its current market share price.
There are currently 20 million shares in issue with a nominal value of $1 and a market price of $5 per share.

Calculate the terms of the rights issue.

Company A plans to diversify by a cash acquisition of Company B an unlisted company in another country (Country B) which operates in a different industrial sector Company A already manufactures its product in Country B and has a loan denominated in Country B's currency Company A regularly suffers foreign exchange losses due to volatility in the exchange rate between the two countries' currencies in recent years.
Which THREE of the following appear to be be valid justifications of this diversification decision?

An all equity financed company plans an issue of new ordinary shares to the general public to raise finance for a new project The following data applies:
* 10 million ordinary shares are currently in issue with a market value of S3 each share
* The new project will cost S2.88 million and is expected to give a positive NPV of S1 million
* The issue will be priced at a AaA discount to the current share price.
What gam or loss per share will accrue to the existing shareholders?