Call Premium - Expensed?
Hi everyone,
I am currently working through an LBO model from the WSO PE prep pack (basic model 2) and have a question on the treatment of call premiums. In the model solution provided, it does not look like the model flows through the call premium as an expense to the income statement. I’m wondering if on a real model, we should be treating the call premium as an expense, therefore impacting the net income figure that flows through to the cash flow statement, or if the call premium would be treated as a non-IS item that comes directly out of the financing section of the cash flow statement.
Thank you for your help!
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Are you talking about the call premium paid for in-the-money options in an LBO? If so and you're using the standard treasury stock method (which assumes that cash collected for ITM options is used to repurchase shares), this is just an exercise to get to the correct number of fully diluted shares outstanding to calculate the correct equity value.
This is a sort of equity waterfall/TEV assumption and doesn't run through the financial statements anywhere. Goodwill may be impacted based on the total purchase price, but that's a standard LBO balance sheet adjustment that is in every model
Yeah their model is wrong. You need to expense it on the I/S as a Loss on the Extenguishment of Debt
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