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    Midland Chemical Co. is considering two loan options from Manhattan Bank and Trust: 1) An 8.25% interest rate with a 20% compensating balance, or 2) A 9.75% interest rate with $5,500 in fees. Option 1 has a lower effective interest rate of 9.05%. If the first loan was paid off in monthly installments, the effective rate would be 15.73%. Taking a 1.5%/10 days cash discount would lower the effective rate to 13.37% and should be taken if cash flow allows. Hedging interest rate increases through bond futures would effectively hedge a potential 2% rate increase on the loan.

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    Midland Chemical Co. is considering two loan options from Manhattan Bank and Trust: 1) An 8.25% interest rate with a 20% compensating balance, or 2) A 9.75% interest rate with $5,500 in fees. Option 1 has a lower effective interest rate of 9.05%. If the first loan was paid off in monthly installments, the effective rate would be 15.73%. Taking a 1.5%/10 days cash discount would lower the effective rate to 13.37% and should be taken if cash flow allows. Hedging interest rate increases through bond futures would effectively hedge a potential 2% rate increase on the loan.

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    Midland Chemical Co. is considering two loan options from Manhattan Bank and Trust: 1) An 8.25% interest rate with a 20% compensating balance, or 2) A 9.75% interest rate with $5,500 in fees. Option 1 has a lower effective interest rate of 9.05%. If the first loan was paid off in monthly installments, the effective rate would be 15.73%. Taking a 1.5%/10 days cash discount would lower the effective rate to 13.37% and should be taken if cash flow allows. Hedging interest rate increases through bond futures would effectively hedge a potential 2% rate increase on the loan.

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    Midland Chemical Co. is considering two loan options from Manhattan Bank and Trust: 1) An 8.25% interest rate with a 20% compensating balance, or 2) A 9.75% interest rate with $5,500 in fees. Option 1 has a lower effective interest rate of 9.05%. If the first loan was paid off in monthly installments, the effective rate would be 15.73%. Taking a 1.5%/10 days cash discount would lower the effective rate to 13.37% and should be taken if cash flow allows. Hedging interest rate increases through bond futures would effectively hedge a potential 2% rate increase on the loan.

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    Loan Scenarios 1

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    FIN/200

    December 12, 2010

    Jana Rideout
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    Midland Chemical Co. is negotiating a loan from Manhattan Bank and Trust. The small chemical
    company needs to borrow $500,000. The bank offers a rate of 8¼ percent with a 20 percent
    compensating balance requirement, or as an alternative, 9¾ percent with additional fees of
    $5,500 to cover services the bank is providing. In either case the rate on the loan is floating
    (changes as
    the prime interest rate changes), and the loan would be for one year.

    a. Which loan carries the lower effective rate? Consider fees to be the equivalent of other
    interest.
    Option A
    .0825/ (1 - .20)
    .0825 / .80 = 10.31% effective rate

    Option B
    [48,750 + 5,500] / 500,000
    54,250 / 500,000
    9.05% effective rate

    Option B has the lower effective rate.

    b. If the loan with a 20 percent compensating balance requirement were to be paid off in 12
    monthly payments, what would the effective rate be? (Principal equals amount borrowed minus
    the compensating balance.)
    [2 * 12 * 42,600] / [13 * 500,000]
    1,022,400 / 6,500,000
    15.73% effective rate

    c. Assume the proceeds from the loan with the compensating balance requirement will be used to
    take cash discounts. Disregard part b about installment payments and use the loan cost from part
    a.
    If the terms of the cash discount are 1.5/10, net 50, should the firm borrow the funds to take the
    discount?
    There is a 15% discount on interest charges on this scenario. Over the course of the loan,
    $36,210 would be paid instead of the original $42,600 of interest without the discount. Yes, if the
    discount is available the firm should arrange financing to take advantage of the discount. This
    would lower the effect rate to 13.37%.

    d. Assume the firm actually takes 80 days to pay its bills and would continue to do so in the
    future if it did not take the cash discount. Should it take the cash discount?
    Net 80 results in an effective rate of 14.2% (2 * 5 * 42,600 / 6 * 500,000). The discounted rate
    offered is a more attractive financing option so if the firm has incoming revenue adequate to
    meet the needs of the discounted rate payment schedule they should take advantage of the
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    discounted rate.

    e. Because the interest rate on the loans is floating, it can go up as interest rates go up. Assume
    that the prime rate goes up by 2 percent and the quoted rate on the loan goes up the same
    amount. What would then be the effective rate on the loan with compensating balances? Convert
    the interest to dollars as the first step in your calculation.
    .1025 / [1 - .20] = 12.81% effective rate = $64,050 interest paid on one year loan

    f. In order to hedge against the possible rate increase described in part e, Midland decides to
    hedge its position in the futures market. Assume it sells $500,000 worth of 12-month futures
    contracts on Treasury bonds. One year later, interest rates go up 2 percent across the board and
    the Treasury bond futures have gone down to $488,000. Has the firm effectively hedged the 2
    percent increase in interest rates on the bank loan as described in part e? Determine the answer in
    dollar amounts.
    The difference between the original 8.25% interest rate and the 10.25% after the 2% raise in
    interest rates results in a payment over a year-long loan increasing by $21,450. The bond futures
    drop in price results in a loss of only $12,000. The firm has effectively hedged the interest rates.

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