• Q : Determining the break even output level....
    Finance Basics :

    The company pays annual rent of $350,000 per year and pays administrative salaries totaling $120,000 per year. Each play set requires $300 of wood, ten hours of labor at $50 per hour, and variable

  • Q : Rate of return for a portfolio....
    Finance Basics :

    What are the betas of stocks X and Y? What are the required rates of return for Stocks X and Y? What is the required rate of return for a portfolio consisting of 80% of Stock X and 20% of Stock Y?

  • Q : Functions of types of financial institutions....
    Finance Basics :

    Compare the functions of types of financial institutions to evaluate their role in the financial system.

  • Q : Bank floating-rate loans....
    Finance Basics :

    A commercial bank recognizes that its net income suffers whenever inerest rates increase. Which of the following strategies would protest the bank against rising interest rate?

  • Q : Determining the portfolio expected return....
    Finance Basics :

     You have $10,000 to invest in a stock portfolio with an expected return of 10 percent. If your goal is to create a portfolio with an expected return of 12.25 percent, how much money will you

  • Q : Constant growth rate of ttt dividends....
    Finance Basics :

    Transportation stocks currently provide an expected rate of return of 15%. TTT, a large transportation company, will pay a year-end dividend of $3 per share. If the stock is selling at $60 per shar

  • Q : Calculate the net present value of project....
    Finance Basics :

    A project will produce cash inflows of $3200 a year for 4 years with a final cash inflow of $5700 in year 5. The projects initial cost is $9500. What is the net present value of this project if the

  • Q : Expected real retirement annuity....
    Finance Basics :

    Assuming a 3% per year real earnings rate for the fixed-income fund and 6% per year for common stocks, what will be George's expected accumulation in each account at age 65? What will be the expecte

  • Q : Expected return-variance and standard deviations....
    Finance Basics :

    Calculate the expected return, variance, and standard deviations for investments in either stock A or stock B, an equally weighted portfolio of both, and a portfolio of 75% A and 25% B. Explain whic

  • Q : Successful performance of work organisations....
    Finance Basics :

    Critically discuss what you believe are the most important factors that are likely to determine the successful performance of work organisations. What do you see as the main obstacles to effective

  • Q : Estimating equivalent annual annuity for machine....
    Finance Basics :

    Assume that Filkins' cost of capital is 14%. Should the firm replace its old knitting machine and if so, which new machine should it use. By how much would the value of the company increase if it ac

  • Q : Determining the impact on shareholders....
    Finance Basics :

    Three states of the economy are possible: a slump under which the firm would have operating income of $150,000, a normal state under which the firm will earn $420,000, and a boom under which the fir

  • Q : Determining the difference between two wacc....
    Finance Basics :

    The current stock price is $21.00 per share; stockholders' required return, rs, is 14.00%; and the firm's tax rate is 40%. The CFO thinks the WACC should be based on market value weights, but the pr

  • Q : Calculating the internal growth rate....
    Finance Basics :

    Simply Red inc has a return on equity of 14%, a dividend payout ratio of 40% an equity multiplier of 2.5 and a profit margin of 1.4%. What is the internal growth rate?

  • Q : Calculating firm market to book ratio....
    Finance Basics :

    A firm has current assets which could be sold for their book value of $10 million. The book value of its fixed assets is $60 million but they could be sold for $95 million today. The firm has total

  • Q : Expected return and volatility for a portfolio....
    Finance Basics :

    Discuss how to calculate the expected return and volatility for a portfolio of stocks,and how an investor can create an efficient portfolio?

  • Q : Cash flows from operations....
    Finance Basics :

    ElectricEye Technologies is considering introducing a new line of optic devices. The expected annual sales number of the devices is 10,000 per year; the price is $5,000 per device, and the ariable c

  • Q : Calculating the cost of retained earnings for the firm....
    Finance Basics :

    Allegheny Valley Power Company common stock has a beta of 0.80. If the current risk-free rate is 6.5% and the expected return on the stock market as a whole is 16%, determine the cost of retained ea

  • Q : Current price of the stock-state street corp....
    Finance Basics :

    State Street Corp. will pay a dividend on common stock of $ 4.80 per share at the end of the year. The required return on common stock (Ke) is 13.2%. The firm has a constant growth rate of 7.2%. Co

  • Q : Accounting rate of return of stain corp....
    Finance Basics :

    Stain Corp. has forecasted that over the next four years the average annual after-tax income will be $500,731. The average book value of the manufacturing equipment that is used is $737,095. What is

  • Q : Debt or additional trade credit....
    Finance Basics :

    If it could get the funds from abank at a rate of 10 percent, interest paid monthly, based on a365-days year, what would be the effective cost of the bank loan,and should Lamar use bank debt or addi

  • Q : Current share price of great pumpkin farms....
    Finance Basics :

    Great Pumpkin Farms just paid a dividend of $3.50 on its stock. The growth rate in dividends is expected to be a constant 5 percent per year indefinitely. Investors require a 16 percent return on th

  • Q : Calculate firm cost of preferred stock....
    Finance Basics :

    The 9 percent preferred stock of New Beverages is selling for $39 a share. What is the firm's cost of preferred stock if the tax rate is 35 percent and the par value per share is $100?

  • Q : Evaluating the expected growth rate in dividends....
    Finance Basics :

    Austin Grocers recently reported the following 2008 income statement (in millions of dollars): Sales $700 Operate ring cost including depreciation 500 EBIT 200 Interest 40 EBT $160 Taxes

  • Q : Promotion to earn more awareness....
    Finance Basics :

    Digby's Elite product Dim has an awareness of 72%. Digby's Dim product manager for the Elite segment is determined to have more awareness for Dim than Andrews' Elite product Alan.

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