Solutions Manual (All Chapters)Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (Australia) 8th edition Ross, Westerfield and Jordan Brad Jordan Joe Smolira McGraw-Hill Australia Ross, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 8e McGraw-Hill Australia Ross, Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, 8e CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION TO CORPORATE FINANCE Answers to Concepts review and critical thinking questions 1. Capital budgeting (deciding whether to expand a manufacturing plant), capital structure (deciding whether to issue new equity and use the proceeds to retire outstanding debt) and working capital management (modifying the firms credit collection policy with its customers). 2. Disadvantages: unlimited liability, limited life, difficulty in transferring ownership, difficulty in raising capital funds. Some advantages: simpler, less regulation, the owners are also the managers, sometimes personal tax rates are better than corporate tax rates. 3. The primary disadvantage of the corporate form is the double taxation to shareholders of distributed earnings and dividends for some shareholders. Some advantages include: limited liability, ease of transferability, ability to raise capital and unlimited life. 4. In response to stricter corporate governance legislations, some small firms have elected to go dark because of the costs of compliance. The costs to comply with some of the corporate governance legislations can be up to several million dollars,