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In what section of the statement of cash flows would you find cash paid to retire bonds? In what section would you find cash paid for interest?
Explain the basic difference between the straight-line and the effective-interest methods of amortizing a bond discount or premium.
Why is the commercial paper market available only to the most creditworthy companies?
Why is financial flexibility important in the choice of a capital structure?
Why do companies use so many different types of instruments to raise capital? Why not just use debt and common stock?
You are offered two bonds, a one-year U.S. Treasury bond with a yield to maturity of 9% and a one-year U.S Treasury bill with a yield on a discount basis of 8.9%. Which would you rather own?
When we observe the capital structure of many firms, we find that they tend to utilize lower levels of debt than that predicted by the trade-off theory. Offer an explanation for this.
What items in a business plan does a venture capitalist look for in deciding whether to provide initial financing?
Why did new technology make it harder to enforce limitations on bank branching?
What is the operating cycle, and how is it related to the cash conversion cycle?
Why are revisions of monetary aggregates less of a problem for measuring long-run movements of the money supply than they are for measuring short-run movements?
What is financial risk? How is it related to business risk?
Which firms are most likely to use bank financing rather than to issue bonds or stocks to finance their activities? Why?
Which $1,000 bond has the higher yield to maturity, a twenty-years bond selling for $800 with a current yield of 15% or a one-year bond selling for $800 with a current yield of 5%?
What is an original issue discount bond? How are such bonds priced, and how are their before-tax and after-tax rates of return calculated?
When can a decline in the value of a country's currency exacerbate adverse selection and moral hazard problems? Why?
What is an aging schedule, and what is its purpose?
What impact would the following actions have on the operating and cash conversion cycles? Would the cycles increase, decrease, or remain unchanged?
What technological innovations led to the development of the subprime mortgage market?
What does it mean to be at the optimal capital structure? What is optimized? What is maximized and what is minimized?
What role does weak financial regulation and supervision play in causing financial crises?
What are the key events and dates in the dividend payment process?
What factors must a financial manager consider when making decisions about accounts receivable?
What is the yield to maturity on a simple loan for $1 million that requires a repayment of $2 million in five years time?