Sample (Easy/Medium level of difficulty) Midterm Exam‚ FINE441- Fall 2012 – Answer KEYs are attached in the end! THIS IS THE EXAMPLE OF MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS. THE NUMERICAL PROBLEMS WILL BE SIMILAR (NOT IDENTICAL) TO THE END OF CHAPTER PROBLEMS POSTED ON My Courses and Assignments 1. You purchased a share of stock for $20. One year later you received $1 as dividend and sold the share for $29. What was your holding period return? A) 45% B) 50% C) 5% D) 40% E) none of the above Use the following
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Define the problem Problem that both ACC and ATC faced Problem for American Cable Communication (ACC) 1. The most severe problem for ACC is the increasing in competitors with the trend toward bundle of services. Recently‚ Incumbent local exchange carriers (ILEC’s) which is the firm that normally provide wireless service are expanding its products. ILEC’s is growing their video offerings which is the major product of ACC. We believe that this problem require very quick response from Robert Zimmerman
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1.A finance student states‚ “I don’t understand why anyone pays any attention to accounting earnings numbers‚ given that a ‘clean’ number like cash from operations is readily available.” Do you agree? Why or why not? There are several reasons why we should pay attention to accounting earnings numbers. First‚ net income predicts a company’s future cash flow better than current cash flow does. Second‚ net income is potentially informative when there is information asymmetry between corporate
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Part 1 ’’ A Measurement of Risk 1.1 Risk 1.2 Capital Asset Pricing Model The estimation of systematic risk (or ‘beta’) is central to the implementation of the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) for researchers and practitioners. Markowitz (1952) argued that investors should be concerned with holding efficient portfolios‚ that is‚ a portfolio offering the highest expected return for each level of risk. Sharpe (1964) and Lintner (1965) took Markowitz’s work one step further to develop the CAPM
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What long-term investments should the firm undertake (capital budgeting) and how will investment and finance decisions affect the firm ’s value (valuation)? How can cash be raised for the required investments? This is known as the financing decision ’ (cost of capital‚ capital structure and leasing). How will the firm manage its day-to-day cash and financial affairs (short-term financing and net working capital)? The Capital Budgeting Mini Case presents a financial decision of acquiring
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cost of capital. . If the business earns more than its cost of capital‚ the market value of the business will increase. Likewise‚ if returns on long-term investments are below the cost of capital‚ market values will decline. Therefore‚ how we manage capital is extremely important to fulfilling the basic objective of increased shareholder value. This report is basically concentrated on the topic of “Firm & Industry cost of capital”. And then there is an empirical analysis of cost of capital on pharmaceutical
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PROF. V. RAMACHANDRAN FACULTY- SIESCOMS ‚ NERUL 1 PORTFOLIOS & RISK What is an Investment Portfolio A group of Assets that is owned by an Investor Single Security is riskier than Investing in a Portfolio. Portfolio may contain- Equity Capital‚ Bonds ‚ Real Estate‚ Savings Accounts‚ Bullion‚ Collectibles etc. In other words the Investor does not put all his eggs in to one Basket. 2 Diversification –Risk Reduction Let us assume you put your money equally into the stocks of two companies
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technical research department‚ had recently circulated a copy of a study which described a simple price momentum model and referred to its “startling results” based on back testing the strategy over a 15 year period. The Trend and Cycle group had long promoted the importance of price momentum and relative strength to potential clients. Bain needs to determine whether the proposed model was “too good to be true” or‚ if it did not look promising‚ how he would go about implementing such a strategy for
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advertisement budget. In order to evaluate the company’s cost of capital‚ we used the Cost Asset Pricing Model. Since the company went public recently‚ it would not be an accurate assessment of the risk of the investment to find the beta of this short time period. Therefore‚ we chose a similar company called Charles Schwab‚ which has very similar sources of revenue‚ discount brokerage services. However‚ this company has a very different capital structure‚ so we unleveraged the beta in order to get the best
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APT: An Empirical Analysis Introduction The Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)‚ was first developed by William Sharpe (1964)‚ and later extended and clarified by John Lintner (1965) and Fischer Black (1972). Four decades after the birth of this model‚ CAPM is still accepted as an appropriate technique for evaluating financial assets and retains an important place in both academic scholars and finance practitioners. It is used to estimate cost of capital for firms‚ evaluating the performance of managed
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