PROBLEM 4-4 Given Liabilities and Owner’s Capital December 31, 2006 Balance Sheet Invested Capital (Book Values) (Market Values) Solution Legend…

Compano Inc. was founded in 1986 in Baytown, Texas. The firm provides oilfield services to the Texas Gulf Coast region, including the leasing of drilling barges. Its balance sheet for year- end 2006 describes a firm with $ 830,541,000 in assets ( book values) and invested capital of more than $ 1.334 billion ( based on market values): SEE ATTACHED EXCEL SPREADSHEET.Companos executive management team is concerned that its new investments be required to meet an appropriate cost of capital hurdle before capital is committed. Consequently, the firms CFO has initiated a cost of capital study by one of his senior financial analysts, Jim Tipolli. Jims first action was to contact the firms investment banker to get input on current capital costs. Jim learned that although the firms current debt capital required an 8.5% coupon rate of interest ( with annual interest payments and no principal repayments until 2015), the current yield on similar debt had declined to 8% if the firm were to raise debt funds today. When he asked about the beta for Companos debt, Jim was told that it was standard practice to assume a beta of .30 for the corporate debt of firms such as Compano. a. What are Companos total invested capital and capital structure weights for debt and equity?Uses the excel Spreadsheet