CIMA F3 Exam With Confidence Using Practice Dumps

Bond alone: pay 6% on $100m = 6m per year.

Add swap (receive 5% fixed, pay Libor + 1):

Net rate = 6% (bond) − 5% (received) + (Libor + 1%).

With Libor = 4% → 6 − 5 + (4 + 1) = 5% total.

Interest cost falls from 6% to 5% → 1% reduction.

Answer: B. Fall by 1%.

The company is repurchasing and cancelling its own shares.

When shares are cancelled:

Share capital is reduced by the nominal value of the shares bought back. ✅

Any amount paid above nominal value reduces equity reserves (such as share premium and/or retained earnings), but it does not go through the Income Statement.

Total equity does decrease by the full repurchase amount (so option C is wrong).

No element of the repurchase (including any “premium to market value”) is treated as an expense in the Income Statement under IFRS – it’s purely an equity transaction (so D is wrong).

Option A is too specific and not strictly correct, because the premium over nominal is not necessarily all charged only to retained earnings – it can also be charged to share premium / other reserves.

So the one fully correct statement is:

B. The share capital figure would reduce by the nominal value of the shares purchased.