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Suppose I want a car that cost $10,000. If I borrow the money at 7% interest per year, compounded annually, and I pay it back over 6 years, the amount I would have spent on the car is $14,200.00 total. My alternative is to save for perhaps 3 years until I have enough money to purchase the car outright. In this scenario, I must also consider inflation. If inflation is perhaps 2%, the $10,000 car I could have purchased is now $10,600.00 in 3 years. Therefore, the opportunity cost of buying the car right away is calculated as $14,200 - $10,600 = $3,600.00. However, the opportunity cost of not buying the car is having the use of it for 3 years, in addition to whatever transportation expenses I may have incurred.

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Suppose you invest $10,000 in a savings account earning 2% interest (compounded yearly) with no risk. After 7 years, how much will you have?

Principal = $10,000.00

Rate = 2.00%

Year = 7

Amount (Compound interest) = P x (1 + r/n) ^nt

Where P = Principal

r rate of interest

n = number of time interest is calculated in a year

t = time

Amount after 7 years = 10,000 x (1+0.02) ^7 = $11,486.86

Repeat Question #1, but this time there is an inflation rate of 4%. How does this change your overall return on investment? If you had a chance to invest in an account with a long-term expected rate of 5%, with a 50% chance of earning 0% nominal compound interest and a 50% chance of earning 10% nominal compound interest in each year, would you choose this account, or the savings account? Why?

Effects of inflation on PV = 10,000 x (1/(1+0.04)^7) = $7,599.18

FV Adjusted for inflation = 11,486.86 x (1/(1+0.04)^7) = $ 8,729.07

Overall return on investment will decrease by 1,270.93 = 10,000 – 8,729.07

Repeat #1 with inflation:

Amount after 7 years = 10,000 x ((1+0.02)/(1+0.04)) ^7

10,000 x (0.98) ^7 = $8,729.07.

Safe vs. Risky (not including inflation)

If I get 0%, the amount after 7 years = 10,000 x (1+0.00) ^7 = $10,000.00

If I get 10%, the amount after 7 years = 10,000 x (1+0.10) ^7 = $19,487.17

If I get 5% (expected), amount after 7 years = 10,000 x (1+0.05) ^7 = $14,071.00

I would choose the account with the 5% expected rate of return because it has higher effective annual return over the saving account. There is a higher return, but the risk is higher as compared to the savings account, which provides a certain return.

Suppose you will need $50,000 in 4 years to start up a new business you have planned. With a 5% real interest rate, how much do you have to invest now in order to achieve this goal?

This condition clearly says that we need to calculate the present value of the future earnings and it has to be the present value factor and not annuity.

Therefore, to get 50000 is the future value therefore present value of 50000

Amount to be invested today =PVF@5%,4 *Amount

= .82270 * 50000

= $ 41135.12

Repeat Problem #3, but assume you can contribute an equal amount on a yearly basis. How much would you need to put into the account each year?

Amount to invested each year = Amount /FVAF@5%,4 = 11,600.66

Assignment Scenario:

As a new marketing associate with Barclays Bank, you are tasked with writing a critical essay summarizing what transpired during the investigation conducted by the United States Department of Justice into the abuse of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) interest rate regulated by the British Banker’s Administration. This essay, if chosen by your new employer, will be the report presented to the Board of Directors.

Write a 2–3 page, (not including a title and references page), double spaced, critical essay responding to the checklist items. For assistance with your Assignment, please use your textbook and library research resources. The instructions for you to execute this task are as follows:

Directions for completing this Assignment:

1. Read the “Barclays Bank: Banking on Ethics” case study: case study is below..

2. Learn how to write a critical essay: I will make the changes if need be..

3. Use APA format and citation style, provide a title page and references, and do not forget to use in text citations with their accompanying references so as to avoid plagiarism.

4. In your critical essay that includes your thesis, arguments, support, and conclusion, respond to the following:

Checklist:

● Describe the level of ethical development the executives at Barclays demonstrated

when manipulating the LIBOR interest rates.

● Did Barclays Bank neglect social responsibility? What could they have done to be more socially responsible?

● What actions regarding Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) could Barclays have engaged in after the scandal broke to set things right and ensure that such an event would not happen again?

● Describe what level of morality would have been demonstrated if executives at Barclays asked themselves, “Even though manipulating the LIBOR will increase company profits, is it the right thing to do in the long run?”

● Explain the importance of ethics and social responsibility in marketing as a result of your case study analysis.

Case study

Chapter 3

On February 28, 2012, the United States Department of Justice announced a criminal investigation into abuse of the LIBOR, an important interest rate regulated by the British Bankers’ Administration. Four months later, London-based Barclays Bank was fined more than $440 million by United States and English financial regulatory agencies for knowingly manipulating the LIBOR to its own advantage. The political and economic uproar that followed the exposure of Barclays’ actions led to several resignations (including that of Barclays’ CEO Bob Diamond) and further criminal investigations. Former governor of New York Eliot Spitzer called the incident “the mega-scandal of mega-scandals,” while journalist Robert Scheer christened it “the crime of the century.” The LIBOR, short for “London Interbank Offered Rate,” is the interest rate banks pay when they borrow money from each other. To calculate this rate, up to 20 influential British banks report their own proposed bank-to-bank lending rates. The highest and lowest rates are trimmed off, and the remaining rates are averaged, creating the LIBOR. A low LIBOR often points to financial stability, while a high LIBOR indicates that banks lack confidence in each other’s economic health. What Barclays was fined for was proposing artificially low bank-to-bank rates to make itself appear more stable than it actually was. However, further investigations indicated that Barclays colluded with other banks—and perhaps even the British government—to impact the LIBOR itself. An unnaturally low LIBOR would suggest greater economic stability than actually existed, misleading investors and loan-seekers in a potentially volatile market, and thus creating profit for the banks involved in the collusion. The rate manipulation carried out by Barclays affects not only London banks and business executives, but also small businesses and individuals—perhaps even you yourself. Because it has historically been considered trustworthy and economically accurate, the LIBOR is used all around the world as an interest rate and financial instrument benchmark. Everything from currency values (including the United States dollar) to multimillion-dollar corporate debts to home mortgages to individual student loans depend on the LIBOR. While it may not seem like it, each of these is a product that is marketed and sold. As loans and exchanges of varying types are banks’ primary sources of profit, banks compete to exchange these products within a market. At the consumer level, consider how many car and credit card commercials you have seen advertising a low interest rate. Hundreds of trillions of dollars’ worth of these financial products have been sold based on the LIBOR—a rate that may not in fact accurately reflect the world’s shaky economic standing. Journalists and economic analysts have been quick to reject the ethicality of Barclays’ actions. As information about the LIBOR scandal broke, TIME contributor Christopher Matthews wrote, “[Barclays’ alleged collusion] speaks to the moral compass, or total lack thereof, of the world’s financial professionals...the public and the government no longer trust the industry to set its own standards for acceptable behavior.” In a piece for

The Nation, Robert Scheer said, “The modern-day robber barons pillage with a destructive abandon totally unfettered by law or conscience and on a scale that is almost impossible to comprehend.” Dennis Kelleher, president of nonprofit financial watchdog organization Better Markets, Inc. was perhaps most condemnatory of all: “What we probably need is to wipe out this entire generation of so-called banking leaders who apparently have no ethics or integrity.” While the total sum of the LIBOR scandal’s consequences are yet to be seen, Barclays’ actions may go down in history as a monumental failure in business ethics and corporate social responsibility.

ATC Corporation is a manufacturer of new and replacement parts for the aircraft industry. The company’s major customers are airlines, other aircraft operators (such as charter services), and contract maintenance service providers. Despite the economic slowdown, the company expects its sales to be strong for the several years, since many aircraft operators will be more interested in maintaining and repairing existing planes rather than buying new ones. At the present time, ATC is considering an upgrade to its manufacturing facility. This will involve replacing several older machines by the purchase and installation of a new, state of the art, computer-controlled metal cutting and shaping machine center made by a German supplier. Estimates of the machine center’s costs and benefits are shown in the table below, where net cash flows are after-tax. Although the machinery should last for at least ten years, the company uses a five-year planning period for equipment of this type (based on depreciation rules and company policy). Since the machine will not be sold at the end of year 5, there is no salvage value to consider. Year 0 Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4 Year 5 Initial Costs: Purchase -3,600,000 Shipping -150,000 Installation -250,000 Cash Inflows: Sale of Old Machines 200,000 Investment Tax Credit 350,000 After-Tax Cost Savings 400,000 420,000 440,000 460,000 480,000 After-Tax New Sales 0 50,000 100,000 120,000 150,000 Depreciation Tax Savings 350,000 600,000 430,000 300,000 200,000 Increased Product Quality 10,000 20,000 25,000 30,000 35,000 Net Cash Flows: -3,450,000 760,000 1,090,000 995,000 910,000 865,000 Three important things to note are that the above cash flows have been adjusted to include an assumed inflation rate of 3% per year, the company’s average tax rate is 30%, and that the investment project is considered to be 20% riskier than the company’s average investment. Examination of ATC’s balance sheet reveals that the company uses the following types of financing (all percentages are based on market value). Financing Type Percentage of Total Financing Market Rate of Return Short-Term Debt 15% 3.5% Long-Term Debt 30% 5.25% Preferred Equity 10% 8% Common Equity 45% 12% If ATC does not make this equipment investment, it has no other real asset investment projects which it is considering. Therefore, an alternative use of the money in the capital budget would be a purely financial investment, such as stock, bonds, short-term CD’s, and so forth. 1. Based on your knowledge of current and projected economic conditions, does the company’s assumption about future sales sound reasonable to you? Why or why not? 2. What cost of capital should the company use to analyze this investment project? 3. Without considering any other alternatives, is the machine a good investment for the company? Why or why not? 4. Without doing any calculations, discuss some possible alternatives which the company might have in terms of financial investments. Give some specific examples and make sure that you include a consideration of risk as part of your discussion. 5. Which choice would you recommend for the company? Why do you consider this option the best choice? 6. Suppose you are convinced that inflation over the next several years will be higher than the 3% which is forecast in the numbers the company is using in their projections. Without doing any further calculations, explain how you could adjust your analysis to account for this.

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