• Q : Partnership business structure over a corporation....
    Finance Basics :

    Create an argument for using a partnership business structure over a corporation. Provide support for your argument. How can you determine the stock ratio indicates to an investor; that the risk rel

  • Q : Sales revenue under worst case scenario....
    Finance Basics :

    Cost estimates are considered accurate within a plus or minus 4 percent range. The depreciation expense is $129,000. The sales price is estimated at $750 per unit, plus or minus 3 percent. What is t

  • Q : Determining the operating cash flow for project....
    Finance Basics :

    The project will initially require $110,000 in fixed assets that will be depreciated straight-line to a zero book value over the 4 year life of the project. The applicable tax rate is 32 percent. Wh

  • Q : Engaging in sequential stackelberg competition....
    Finance Basics :

    Suppose firm 1 decides its quantity x1 first and firms 2 follows after observing x1. The demand function of the market is x(p) = 100 - 0.1p and the cost function for both firms are c(x) = FC + 5x2

  • Q : Evaluating addition of lower-priced handbags....
    Finance Basics :

    The firm estimates it can sell 7,000 of the of the lower-priced handbags but will sell 3,000 less of the higher priced handbags by doing so. What is the amount of the sales that should be used when

  • Q : Amount of initial cash flow for expansion project....
    Finance Basics :

    This equipment could be used for producing awnings if $12,000 is spent for equipment modifications. Other equipment costing $490,000 will also be required. What is the amount of the initial cash flo

  • Q : Estimate of intrinsic value with stock actual price....
    Finance Basics :

    Compare your estimate of intrinsic value with the stock's actual price. Would you be willing to make an investment decision on the basis of your research? Why or why not? The final one to two page p

  • Q : Importance to stockholders of publicly owned or closely held....
    Finance Basics :

    How important do you suppose control is for the average stockholder of a firm whose shares are traded on the NYSE? Is the control issue likely to be of more importance to stockholders of publicly ow

  • Q : Determining the two business process....
    Finance Basics :

    Identify at least two business process. Identify a grain from each business process. Draw the star schema for any one of the business process

  • Q : Result of volume growth price growth....
    Finance Basics :

    If you project that the gross profit will increase is the increase a result of volume growth price growth or both? Should you project that the firm's gross profit margin (gross profit divided by sal

  • Q : Detour in doing financial statement analysis....
    Finance Basics :

    Consider the statement: "Strategy analysis seems to be an unnecessary detour in doing financial statement analysis. Why can't we just get straight to the financial management and accounting issues?"

  • Q : Critical drivers of industry profitability....
    Finance Basics :

    What are the critical drivers of industry profitability (think Porter's 5 forces)? Pick a driver and discuss in some detail how the driver can affect industry profitability.

  • Q : Capital asset pricing model in financial decision making....
    Finance Basics :

    Illustrate why some managers have difficulty applying the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) in financial decision making. Identify the benefits and drawbacks of using the CAPM.

  • Q : Finance department for analysis....
    Finance Basics :

    The project manager will find the project acceptable if it results in present cash flow saving of at least $860000. The following cash flow savings data are supplied to the finance department for an

  • Q : Net cash flow for year one of project....
    Finance Basics :

    The firm has a tax rate of 35 percent, an opportunity cost of capital of 10 percent, and it expects net working capital to increase by $100,000 at the beginning of the project. What will be the net

  • Q : Calculate a table of interest rates....
    Finance Basics :

    Calculate a table of interest rates for 5 years based on the following information:

  • Q : Pro forma income statement....
    Finance Basics :

    Construct a pro forma income statement for the first year AND second year for the following assumptions:

  • Q : Sustainable growth rate....
    Finance Basics :

    Which of the following actions, all else being equal, will increase the sustainable growth rate?

  • Q : Expected rates of return for each stock....
    Finance Basics :

    Compute the expected rates of return for each stock. Compute the standard deviations for each stock. Compute the coefficient of variation for each stock. Based on the coefficient of variation, which

  • Q : Prepare an amortization table....
    Finance Basics :

    Able Medical Clinic has borrowed $20 million from a bank under the following terms: Payments are to be made end of every quarter for next 10 years. Interest rate is 1.65% per quarter. Prepare an amo

  • Q : Sources of return on stocks for shareholder....
    Finance Basics :

    What are the two sources of return on stocks for the shareholder? What is the relation between the required rate of return on a stock and the two sources of return in the constant dividend growth mo

  • Q : Three possible sources of business risk....
    Finance Basics :

    What are the three possible sources of business risk? Explain. What other forms of risk does a business face? Why is risk not the chance of taking a loss?

  • Q : Loss of future purchasing power due to bank failure....
    Finance Basics :

    Discuss the effect on stock market investor confidence should bank customers, individuals and businesses alike, lose access to savings and undergo a loss of future purchasing power due to a bank fai

  • Q : Guidelines for improving nonverbal communication....
    Finance Basics :

    Describe a time when nonverbal communication caused you to misinterpret the message in a work situation (explain the type of nonverbal cue using the information in the text). Then, using the guideli

  • Q : Plant gain from acquisition....
    Finance Basics :

    What is the value of Palmer to Plant? What would be Plant's gain from this acquisition. If Plant were to offer $17 in cash for each share of Palmer, what would the NPV of the acquisition be?

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