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A bond issued by Ford on May 15, 1997 is scheduled to mature on May 15, 2097. If today is November 16, 2014, what is this bond's time to maturity?
A bond issued by IBM on December 1, 1996 is scheduled to mature on December 1, 2096. If today is December 2, 2015, what is this bond's time to maturity?
At your full-service brokerage firm, it costs $135 per stock trade. How much money do you receive after selling 250 shares of International Business Machines (IBM), which trades at $96.17?
You would like to buy shares of Sirius Satellite Radio (SIRI). The current ask and bid quotes are $3.96 and $3.93, respectively. You place a market buy-order for 500 shares that executes at these
You would like to buy shares of Coldwater Creek, Inc. (CWTR). The current ask and bid quotes are $20.70 and $20.66, respectively. You place a market buy-order for 200 shares that executes at these
You would like to sell 200 shares of Xenith Bankshares (XBKS). The current ask and bid quotes are $4.66 and $4.62, respectively. You place a limit sell-order at $4.65. If the trade executes, how much
You would like to sell 100 shares of Echo Global Logistics, Inc. (ECHO). The current ask and bid quotes are $15.33 and $15.28, respectively. You place a limit sell-order at $15.31. If the trade
At your discount brokerage firm, it costs $7.95 per stock trade. How much money do you need to buy 200 shares of Pfizer, Inc. (PFE), which trades at $31.40?
The Internet provides some excellent retirement income calculators. You can find one by Googling "retirement income calculator." Many of the calculators allow you to determine your predicted annual
At your discount brokerage firm, it costs $9.50 per stock trade. How much money do you need to buy 300 shares of Time Warner, Inc. (TWX), which trades at $22.62?
At your full-service brokerage firm, it costs $140 per stock trade. How much money do you receive after selling 200 shares of Nokia Corporation (NOK), which trades at $20.13?
Rank the following three stocks by their total risk level, highest to lowest. Night Ryder has an average return of 12 percent and standard deviation of 32 percent. The average return and standard
Using the ratios from question 3-30 for Lake of Egypt Marina, Through Inc. and the industry, what can you conclude about Lake of Egypt Marina's financial performance for 2018.
Determine which one of these three portfolios dominates another. Name the dominated portfolio and the portfolio that dominates it. Portfolio Blue has an expected return of 12 percent and risk of 18
Determine which one of the three portfolios dominates another. Name the dominated portfolio and the portfolio that dominates it. Portfolio Green has an expected return of 15 percent and risk of 21
Rank the following three stocks by their level of total risk, highest to lowest. Rail Haul has an average return of 12 percent and standard deviation of 25 percent. The average return and standard
Hastings Entertainment has a beta of 0.65. If the market return is expected to be 11 percent and the risk-free rate is 4 percent, what is Hastings' required return?
Nanometrics, Inc. has a beta of 3.15. If the market return is expected to be 10 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.5 percent, what is Nanometrics' required return?
Netflix, Inc. has a beta of 3.61. If the market return is expected to be 13 percent and the risk-free rate is 3 percent, what is Netflix' risk premium?
How can you add a cash flow in year 2 and a cash flow in year 4 in year 7?
Paycheck, Inc. has a beta of 0.94. If the market return is expected to be 11 percent and the risk-free rate is 3 percent, what is Paycheck's risk premium?
You have a portfolio with a beta of 1.35. What will be the new portfolio beta if you keep 85 percent of your money in the old portfolio and 5 percent in a stock with a beta of 0.78
If you were to compute beta yourself, what choices would you make regarding the market portfolio, the holding period for the returns (daily, weekly, etc.), and the number of returns? Justify your
The Nasdaq stock market bubble peaked at 4,816 in 2000. Two and a half years later it had fallen to 1,000. What was the percentage decline?
The Japanese stock market bubble peaked at 38,916 in 1989. Two and a half years later it had fallen to 15,900. What was the percentage decline?
You have a portfolio with a beta of 1.1. What will be the new portfolio beta if you keep 85 percent of your money in the old portfolio and 15 percent in a stock with a beta of 0.5?
If the risk-free rate is 3 percent and the risk premium is 5 percent, what is the required return?
If the risk-free rate is 4 percent and the risk premium is 6 percent, what is the required return?
The average annual return on the S&P 500 Index from 1986 to 1995 was 15.8 percent. The average annual T-bill yield during the same period was 5.6 percent. What was the market risk premium during
The average annual return on the S&P 500 Index from 1996 to 2005 was 10.8 percent. The average annual T-bill yield during the same period was 3.6 percent. What was the market risk premium during
A particular security's default problems risk premium is 2 percent. For all securities, the inflation risk premium is 1.75 percent and the real risk-free rate is 3.5 percent. The security's liquidity
Expressing WACC in terms of iE, iP, and iD, what is the theoretical minimum for the WACC?
Suppose a new project was going to be financed partially with retained earnings. What flotation costs should you use for retained earnings?
How would you handle calculating the cost of capital if a firm were planning to issue two different classes of common stock?
Why don't we multiply the cost of preferred stock by one minus the tax rate, as we do for debt?
Suppose you paid your old college finance professor to evaluate a project for you. If you would pay him regardless of your decision concerning whether to proceed with the project, should his fee for
Everything else held constant, would you rather depreciate a project with straight-line depreciation or with DDB?
In a replacement problem, would we ever see changes in NWC?
In a replacement problem, will incremental net depreciation always be less than the gross depreciation on the new piece of equipment?
Will an increase in flotation costs increase or decrease the initial cash flow for a project?
How is the pro forma statement we used in this chapter for computing OCF different from an accountant's income statement?
A 5.5 percent corporate coupon bond is callable in ten years for a call premium of one year of coupon payments. Assuming a par value of $1,000, what is the price paid to the bondholder if the issuer
Under what circumstances could payback and discounted payback be equal?
Could a project's MIRR ever exceed its IRR?
If you had two mutually exclusive, normal-cash-flow projects whose NPV profiles crossed at all points, for which range of interest rates would IRR give the right accept/reject answer?
Suppose a company wanted to double their firm's value with the next round of capital budgeting project decisions. To what would they set the PI benchmark to make this goal?
Suppose a company faced different borrowing and lending rates. How would this range change the way that you would compute the MIRR statistic?
For what range of possible interest rates would you want to use IRR to choose between these two projects? For what range of rates would you NOT want to use IRR?
Is it possible for a company to initiate two products that target the same market that are not mutually exclusive?
Suppose that your company used "APV," or "All-the-Present Value-Except-CF0", to analyze capital budgeting projects. What would this rule's benchmark value be?
What will be the carrying cost associated with a compensating balance requirement?
What will be the shortage cost associated with a compensating balance requirement?
One-year Treasury bills currently earn 1.45 percent. You expect that one year from now, 1-year Treasury bill rates will increase to 1.65 percent. If the unbiased expectations theory is correct, what
What would be the shortage costs associated with a restaurant not having enough cash on hand to make change?
If a firm needs to keep a minimum cash balance on hand and faces both cash inflows and outflows, which of the cash management models discussed in this chapter would be more appropriate for them to
What effect will increasing the trading costs associated with selling marketable securities have on the optimal replenishment level in the Baumol model? Why?
What effect will an increase in the standard deviation of daily cash flows have on the return point in the Miller-Orr model? Why?
Could a firm ever have negative collection float? Why or why not?
Could a firm ever have negative disbursement float? Why or why not?
Would a draft have availability float? Why or why not?
From our discussion of capital markets elsewhere in this book, why would you expect a firm to have a time delay between raising funds to finance a project and the expenditure of those funds on that
What purpose does a discount on credit terms serve? What is the cost of such a discount to the offering firm?
CM Enterprises estimates that it takes, on average, three days for their customers' payments to reach them, one day for the payments to be processed and deposited by their bookkeeping department, and
One-year Treasury bills currently earn 2.15 percent. You expect that one year from now, 1-year Treasury bill rates will increase to 2.65 percent and that two years from now, 1-year Treasury bill
Smelpank, Inc., estimates that it takes, on average, four days for their customers' payments to reach them, three days for the payments to be processed and deposited by their bookkeeping department,
The Snow Adventures Company makes its snowboards the month before they are sold. If sales of $7.8 million are expected in November and the firm pays 65 percent of sales in material costs, then what
The net cash flow for a firm in January, February, and March are $-2.5 million, $-3.0 million, and $2.4 million. What is the cumulative net cash flow for March?
The Hug'a'Bear company makes its teddy bears the month before they are sold. If sales of $2.5 million are expected in November and the firm pays 50 percent of sales in material costs, then what is
Is it possible for a firm to have negative net working capital? How?
The Net Cash Flow for a firm in January, February, and March are $3.5 million, $-1.0 million, and $1.4 million. What is the Cumulative Net Cash Flow for March?
Which of the following will result in an increase in net working capital? a. An increase in cash. b. A decrease in accounts payable. c. An increase in notes payable. d. A decrease in accounts
Would it be possible for a firm to have a negative cash cycle? How?
If a firm's inventory turnover ratio increases, what will happen to the firm's operating cycle?
If a firm's inventory turnover ratio increases, what will happen to the firm's cash cycle
One-year Treasury bills currently earn 3.45 percent. You expect that one year from now, 1-year Treasury bill rates will increase to 3.65 percent. The liquidity premium on 2-year securities is 0.05
Everything else held constant, will an increase in the amount of inventory on hand increase or decrease the firm's profitability?
Would a firm ever use short-term debt to finance permanent current assets? Why or why not?
Suppose that short-term borrowing actually becomes more expensive than long-term borrowing. How would this affect the firm's choice between a flexible financing policy and a restrictive policy?
If asset-backed loans are cheaper than unsecured loans, what is the disadvantage to the firm in using an asset-backed loan?
Is an increase in the cash account a source of funds or a use of funds?
What is the theoretical minimum value for MAPE?
If a firm needs to keep a minimum cash balance on hand and faces both cash inflows and outflows, which of the cash management models discussed in this chapter would be more appropriate for it to use?
Everything else held constant, which will be greater: AFN for a firm with excess fixed-asset capacity, or AFN for a firm with no excess fixed-asset capacity? Why?
What does a negative value for AFN mean?
What are examples of long-term goals?
Using time value of money tables, calculate the following:a. The future value of $450 six years from now at 7 percent.b. The future value of $800 saved each year for 10 years at 8 percent.c. The
What amount would it cost an insurance company to replace a family's personal property that originally cost $18,000? The replacement costs for the items have increased 15 percent.
If Carissa Dalton has a $130,000 home insured for $100,000, based on the 80 percent co-insurance provision, how much would the insurance company pay on a $5,000 claim?
For each of the following situations, what amount would the insurance company pay? a. Wind damage of $785; the insured has $500 deductible. b. Theft of a stereo system worth $1,300; the insured has a
What main coverages are included in home insurance policies?
How are the most common risks classified?
How could a person's life situation influence the need for certain types of property and liability insurance?
What is the purpose of personal liability coverage?
What actions can a person take to reduce the cost of home insurance?
What do mortality tables indicate?
What are the three sources of disability income?
Elaine Romberg prepares her own income tax return each year. A tax preparer would charge her $60 for this service. Over a period of 10 years, how much does Elaine gain from preparing her own tax
What are the major provisions of a health insurance policy?
How do you decide which coverage to choose?
Use Exhibit 9-2 as a worksheet to calculate your own life insurance needs?
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