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Drums, Inc., is a well-established supplier of fine percussion instruments to orchestras all over the United States. The company's class A common stock has paid a dividend of $5.00 per share per yea
A company has a $36 million portfolio with a beta of 1.2. The S&P index is currently standing at 900. Futures contracts on $250 times the index can be traded. What trade is necessary to achieve
The maintenance margin per contract is $1,500. During the next seven days the futures price rises slowly to $412 per ounce. What is the balance of your margin account at the end of the seven days?
Suppose that a trader buys two call options and one put option. What is the breakeven stock price, above which the trader makes a profit?
Variable costs are 55 percent of sales, depreciation on the equipment to produce the new board will be $1,350,000 per year, and fixed costs are $1,250,000 per year. If the tax rate is 38 percent, wh
Find the present value of an annuity that pays $1,000 at the end of each year for 5 years if the appropriate discount rate is 15%. Calculate the future value of that same annuity.
When purchasing real estate property, what methods can be used to provide a buyer with the assurance that a title is valid, marketable, and free of legal concerns? Discuss the advantages and disadva
What is the yield to maturity? For the coming year, what is the expected current yield and the expected capital gains yield? Will the actual realized yields be equal to the expected yields if interest
Prepare a depreciation schedule showing the depreciation expense for each year.
Calculate the accounting as well as the finance break-even point for the following project: initial investment of $500,000, revenues of $700,000, $100,000 fixed costs, $75,000 depreciation, 60% vari
Determine the monthly loan payment required, assuming that the payments are made at the end of each month. Develop a monthly loan amortization schedule showing split between the interest and princip
If Beverly Enterprises has a cost of capital equal to 12 percent, at what value of annual cash flow would Beverly Enterprises be likely to sell the nursing home?
Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset 3 years from now for $90,000. The asset costs $71,000 to produce today. At what rate will the firm just break even on this contract.
Phil Young, founder of the Pedal Pushers Company, has developed several prototypes of a pedal replacement for children's bicycles
What are the implications of the efficient market hypothesis for investors who buy and sell stocks in an attempt to "beat the market"?
A stock market analyst is able to identify mispriced stocks by comparing the average price for the last 10 days to the average price for the last 60 days. If this is true, what do you know about the
Which of the following should be considered when a company estimates the cash flows used to analyze a proposed project?
How can exchange rates be used as automatic stabilizers? How would you analyze the use of monetary and fiscal policy to maintain internal and external balance under floating exchange rates?
Application Report 1: Prepare a 1-2 page report, single spaced, that compares the finances of Honda Motors (HMC) to the finances of General Motors (GM). Why has HMC been so successful, and why has G
How significant would such a depreciation likely be in terms of stemming America's appetite for foreign goods?
The covariance of the returns between Wildcat Stock and Sun Devil Stock is 0.09875. The variance of Wildcat is 0.2116, and the variance of Sun Devil is 0.1369. What is the correlation coefficient be
If you were the CEO of bayside memorial hospital, would you advocate a top-down or bottom-up approach to budgeting? explain your rationale.
How much will you have if the investment plan pays you 10 percent per year for the first 15 years and 6 percent per year for the next 30 years?
If the new project can only be financed with a new equity issue, would the shareholders vote for this? Would the creditors? What is the better arrangement from a firm-value perspective?
What is the monthly payment if a loan is for (a) $100,000 for five years, (b) $250,000 for ten years, or (c) $1,000,000 for twenty-five years? What is the effective annual rate of each of these loan