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Should firms focus on book value or market value capital structures? How would the calculated WACC be affected by the use of book weights rather than market weights?
Ranger Cleaning Company has borrowed $90,000 at a stated APR of 8.5 percent. The loan calls for a compensating balance of 8 percent. What is the effective interest rate on this loan?
Place the following in the proper chronological order, and describe the purpose of each: ex-dividend date, record date, payment date, and declaration date.
Morgan Contractors borrowed $1.75 million at an APR of 10.2 percent. The loan called for a compensating balance of 12 percent. What is the effective interest rate on the loan?
Mill Street Corporation sells its goods with terms of 4/10 EOM, net 60. What is the implicit cost of the trade credit?
List three practical considerations managers should take into account when setting a dividend payout.
If a bank is failing short of meeting its capital requirements by $1 million, what three things can it do to rectify the situation?
List and describe three practical considerations that concern managers when they make capital structure decisions.
What is the option buyers total profit or loss per share if a call option is purchased for a $5 premium, has a $50 exercise price, and the stock is valued at $ 53 at expiration?
List and briefly describe the three main short-term financing strategies.
List and briefly describe the three key assumptions in Modigliani and Miller's Proposition 1 that are required for total firm value to be independent of capital structure.
Joanna Handicraft s, Inc., has net sales of $4.23 million with 50 percent being credit sales. Its cost of goods sold is $2.54 million. The firm's cash conversion cycle is 47.9 days, and its operati
Is it possible for your voting interest in a firm to increase without your having to purchase additional shares in that firm?
Time value comparisons of single amounts-In exchange for a $20,000 payment today, a well known company will allow you to choose one of the alternatives shown in the following table.
If a bank finds that its ROE is too low because it has too much bank capital, what can it do to raise is ROE?
How do you think the efficient-markets hypothesis should impact upon the drafting of accounting standards? Bear in mind that many questions have been raised about the efficient-markets hypothesis i
How are accounting numbers used to monitor this agency contract between owners and managers? Evaluate management incentives to choose FIFO versus FIFO?
How might a sudden increase in people's expectations of future real estate prices affect interest rates?
The usefulness of accounting data to investors and creditors for predictive purposes is necessarily forward looking. However, under generally accepted accounting principles, financial statements are
How does an increase in the value of the pound sterling affect American businesses?
Accounting earnings are useful in predicting one-year-ahead cash flows. Is this sufficient? Why or why not?
Why are accounting ratios valuable for predicting bankruptcy? What cautions do we need in evaluating accounting ratios?
There is evidence that investors do not fully recognize the valuation effects of severe pension underfunding. (See, for example, Franzoni and Marín [2006]). Why do you suppose this is the ca
Why is it important to improve the quality of accounting standards?
Instead of employing capital markets research techniques (e.g., event studies) why don't we just ask investors how they would react to a hypothetical event? Why don't we ask managers why they make