• Q : Determining the value of whole firm....
    Finance Basics :

    How many shares must the venture capitalist receive to end up with 20% of the company? What is the implied price per share of this funding round? What will the value of the whole firm be after this

  • Q : Determining the bond after-tax yield....
    Finance Basics :

    An investor recently purchased a corporate bond which yields 12%. The investor is in the 38% combined federal and state tax bracket. What is the bond's after-tax yield? Round your answer to two deci

  • Q : Determining the discounted payback period....
    Finance Basics :

    Suppose a 30 year bond offers 4% coupon rate paid semiannually. The market price is $1000 equal to the par value. What is the payback period for this bond? What is the discounted payback period?

  • Q : Components of the nominal interest rate....
    Finance Basics :

    What are the components of the nominal interest rate? What does each component pay for? (Do the math) What is an investment banker? Why would a company use one? What are the Restrictive Covenants? Why

  • Q : Exercise value of the option....
    Finance Basics :

    Calculate the exercise value of the option. Why is an investor willing to pay 50 cents an option when the stock is going for $35? Calculate the exercise value if the price of the stock increases to $4

  • Q : Total real return on investment....
    Finance Basics :

    These bonds make annual payments and mature nine years from now. Suppose you decide to sell your bonds today, when the required return on the bonds is 7.5 percent. If the inflation rate was 3.2 perc

  • Q : Present value of dividends over fast growth phase....
    Finance Basics :

    The company then expects to settle down to a constant-growth rate of 8 percent annually. If the required rate of return is 12 percent, what is the present value of the dividends over the fast growth

  • Q : Possible range of no-arbitrage call option prices....
    Finance Basics :

    Suppose you see a one-year European call option with a strike price of $100. What is the possible range of no-arbitrage call option prices allowed today?  

  • Q : Annual percentage rate of interest....
    Finance Basics :

    The bank offers you a 15-year mortgage requiring annual end-of-year payments of $3,188 each. The bank also requires you to pay a 3 percent loan origination fee, which will reduce the effective amoun

  • Q : Level of capital spending across the two firms....
    Finance Basics :

    Next, compare the level of capital spending across the two firms. Point out how the spending was similar and/or different and speculate why the similarities or differences might exist.

  • Q : Creating and monitoring an operating budget....
    Finance Basics :

    Discuss which financial management practices are most effective in creating and monitoring an operating budget. Discuss which financial management practices are least effective in creating and monitor

  • Q : Component costs of debt-preferred stock....
    Finance Basics :

    Find the component costs of debt, preferred stock, retained earnings, and new common stock. How much new capital can be raised before LCI must sell new equity? (In other words, find the retained earni

  • Q : Special purpose budget for program....
    Finance Basics :

    Determine the special purpose budget for the program. Show revenues and expenses by line item, and show the expected profit or loss. If there is an expected loss, should LH necessarily abandon the p

  • Q : Mispricing of mbs....
    Finance Basics :

    What lessons for the future can we learn from this mispricing of MBS? What precautionary mechanisms would you suggest to avoid the repetition of this crisis in the future?

  • Q : Prepare flexible budget for fh....
    Finance Basics :

    Prepare a flexible budget for the FH at prices of $5.50, $6.00 and $6.50. The variable cost per patient is $4, and the fixed costs of operating the center are $32,000. They currently expect to have

  • Q : Computing the fair price for the stock....
    Finance Basics :

    For dividends beyond three years, you assume they will increase at 6% per year from the prior year. If the discount rate is 9%, calculate a fair price for the stock of United Sports, Inc.

  • Q : Entrepreneurial finance and venture capital....
    Finance Basics :

    Through your financial services firm, Vestin Capital, Inc., you have raised a pool of money from clients. You intend to invest it in new business opportunities. To prepare for this endeavor, you dec

  • Q : Risk-adjusted net present value....
    Finance Basics :

    Because project B is the riskier of the two projects, the management of Hokie Corporation has decided to apply a required rate of return of 15 percent to its evaluation but only a 12 percent require

  • Q : Hedging transaction exposure....
    Finance Basics :

    Discuss and compare hedging transaction exposure using the forward contract vs money market instrument. When do alternative hedging approaches produce the same result?

  • Q : Optimal risky portfolio for investor....
    Finance Basics :

    Describe the optimal risky portfolio for this investor, i.e., show the weights of stocks, the expected return, the standard deviation of return, and the maximum utility on this optimal risky portfol

  • Q : Futures and options foreign currency markets....
    Finance Basics :

    Describe forward, futures and options foreign currency markets, and discuss how they demonstrate arbitrage problems in international finance. Use a minimum of three resources to support your discuss

  • Q : Discuss the concept of risk....
    Finance Basics :

    Discuss the concept of risk and how it might be measured. How can this concept be incorporated into the capital budgeting process?

  • Q : Role of financial system in market economy....
    Finance Basics :

    The role of the financial system in a market economy is to effectively and efficiently move funds from surplus budget units to deficit budget units." " However, in the absence of well functioning fi

  • Q : Dividend yield plus growth rate approach....
    Finance Basics :

    Calculate the organizations' cost of equity using the dividend yield plus growth rate approach and the security market line (SML) model approach.

  • Q : Determining the dollar amount of net income....
    Finance Basics :

    Suppose you are told that a firm has a debt-equity ratio of 57 percent, a total asset turnover of 1.12, and a profit margin of 4.9 percent. The dollar level of total equity is $511,640 for this firm

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