Sherlock Homes, a manufacturer of low cost mobile housing, has
$5,000,000 in assets.
Temporary current assets $2,000,000
Permanent current assets 1,550,000
Capital assets 1,450,000
Total assets $5,000,000
Short-term rates are 10 percent. Long-term rates are 15
percent. (Note that long‐term rates imply a return to any equity).
Earnings before interest and taxes are $1,060,000. The tax rate is
20 percent.
If long-term financing is perfectly matched (hedged) with
long-term asset needs, and the same is true of short-term
financing, what will earnings after taxes be? For an example of
perfectly hedged plans, see Figure 6-8.