Nicole Morrissey CQ 4‚ 7 BUS2215 Problems 1-8‚ 12‚ 17‚ 18 February 8‚ 2012 4. Financial Ratios Fully explain the kind of information the following financial ratios provide about a firm: Quick Ratio | This ratio measures a company’s ability to meet its short-term obligations with its most liquid assets‚ which is why inventory is omitted. | Cash Ratio | This assesses a company’s financial durability by examining whether it is at least profitable enough to
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Homework Week 4 1. Section 3.1‚ Exercise #14‚ p. 125 Finding Probabilities consider a company that selects employees for random drug tests. The company uses a computer to select randomly employee numbers that range from 1 to 6296. Find the probability of selecting a number greater than 1000. P(E) = Number of outcomes in E / Total number of Outcomes in sample space Number of outcomes in E = 6296 – 100 = 5296 The probability = P(E) = 5296 / 6296 =
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the corporation several advantages over other types of firms. One of them is the unlimited liability.Answer | | | | | Selected Answer: | False | Correct Answer: | False | | | | | * Question 4 1 out of 1 points | | | Two important financing decisions for a corporate financial manager are debt policy decision and dividend policy decision. Debt policy asks what level of debt is best for the firm. The dividend policy asks what dividend payout ratio is best for the firm.Answer
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S Equip is creating a cash budget for the following year and has forecasted expected cash collections over the next five quarters (one year plus first quarter of next year) Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Sales 1650 1950 2000 1800 2050 Cash collections 1650 1700 1750 1750 At end of Q1 right now. Purchases are 74% of expected sales next qt Taxes are 15% of next period’s sales in Q3‚ Mooney expects to expand one plant which requires additional 1‚074 million investment Every quarter‚ Mooney
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Applications of option pricing in corporate finance Option pricing is used in four major areas of corporate finance: • Real Options Suppose a company has a 1-year proprietary license to develop a software application for use in a new generation of wireless cellular telephones. Hiring programmers and marketing consultants to complete the project will cost $30 million. The good news is that if consumers love the new cell phones‚ there will be a tremendous demand for the software. The bad news
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Solutions to Chapter 10 Introduction to Risk‚ Return‚ and the Opportunity Cost of Capital capital gain + dividend ($44 − $40) + $2 = = 0.15 = 15.0% initial share price $40 1. Rate of return = Dividend yield = dividend/initial share price = $2/$40 = 0.05 = 5% Capital gains yield = capital gain/initial share price = $4/$40 = 0.10 = 10% 2. Dividend yield = $2/$40 = 0.05 = 5% The dividend yield is unaffected; it is based on the initial price‚ not the final price. Capital gain = $36 – $40
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CHAPTER 8 STOCKS AND THEIR VALUATION (Difficulty: E = Easy‚ M = Medium‚ and T = Tough) Multiple Choice: Conceptual Easy: Required return Answer: e Diff: E [i]. An increase in a firm’s expected growth rate would normally cause the firm’s required rate of return to a. Increase. b. Decrease. c. Fluctuate. d. Remain constant. e. Possibly increase‚ possibly decrease‚ or possibly remain unchanged. Required return Answer: d Diff: E [ii]
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Problem #4-13 a) In order to answer the question‚ we first need to consider what do revenue growth and net income represents. Revenue growth suggests the company’s future profitability‚ which means that revenue growth has the potential to be a predictor of future earning power. The income statement contains both revenue and expense information. Furthermore‚ in an efficient market‚ R&D and startup costs can be adjusted‚ and as long as these information are available to the public‚ the company will
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Chapter 5 Notes Three general reasons for holding onto cash: 1. managing transaction needs 2. preparing for cash emergencies 3. making a temporary investment -very conservative advice suggest you should have enough liquid assets to cover 5 to 8 months of regular expenses -others suggest 2 months is more than enough Four rules to help better cash management outcomes: 1. keep track of your cash by balancing your checkbook every month 2. develop a system to ensure that
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Ethnomedicine A health system encompasses many areas: perceptions and classifications of health problems‚ prevention measures‚ diagnosis‚ healing‚ and healers Contemporary Western biomedicine (WDM)‚ a healing approach based on modern Western science that emphasizes technology in diagnosing and treating health problems related to the human body‚ is an ethnomedical system Defining and Classifying Health Problems One set of concepts that medical anthropologists use to sort out the many cross-cultural
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