Chapter 1 An Overview of Financial Management Learning Objectives After reading this chapter‚ students should be able to: ◆ Identify the three main forms of business organization and describe the advantages and disadvantages of each one. ◆ Identify the primary goal of the management of a publicly held corporation‚ and understand the relationship between stock prices and shareholder value. ◆ Differentiate between what is meant by a stock’s intrinsic value and its market
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CHAPTER 8 Currency Futures and Options Markets EASY (definitional) 8.1 Which one of the following currency futures contracts is currently NOT available? a) French franc b) Hungarian forint c) Czech koruna d) Norwegian krone Ans: a Section: Futures contracts Level: Easy 8.2 Which of the following has provided a major inducement for speculators to participate in the futures market? a) low margin requirements b) low bid‑ask spreads c) high volume compared to the forward market d)
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foreign sales to currency movements c) financial statements to currency movements d) cash flows to currency movements Ans: c Section: Alternative currency translation methods Level: Easy 10.5 The current standard for measuring translation exposure is a) the current/noncurrent method b) the monetary/nonmonetary method c) FASB 8 d) FASB 52 Ans: d Section: Statement of financial accounting standards No. 52 Level: Easy 10.6 Under FASB 52‚ most financial statements must be translated using
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CHAPTER 5 The Balance of Payments and International Economic Linkages EASY (definitional) 5.1 A balance of trade deficit results in a current account a) deficit b) surplus c) IMF intervention d) World Bank loan Ans: c Section: Current account Level: Easy 5.2 The change in private domestic borrowing or lending required to keep payments in balance without adjusting official reserves is called a) the net liquidity balance b) the balance of payments c) the balance on current account
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Multinational Financial Management – Corporate Finance CEMS Elvira Sojli RSM Erasmus University Department of Finance esojli@rsm.nl Almost tautologically‚ international finance selects from the broad field of finance those issues that have to do with the existence of many distinct countries. The fact that firms operate in countries which operate as separate entities severely complicates a CFO’s life. Some‚ but by no means all‚ of the issues that arise due to multinational operations are:
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MULTINATIONAL MANAGEMENT: MGMT 625 West Chester Off Site MBA SUMMER 2010 Instructor: Paul Bergé Office Hours: by appointment. E-mail address: bergep@xavier.edu; or pberge@gmail.com Phone: 871 6657‚ Fax: 672 9679 Required Text: Fred Luthans‚ Jonathan P. Doh. 2009. International Management: Culture‚ Strategy‚ and Behavior. Seventh Edition. Irwin McGraw-Hill Publishers. Cases and articles from the popular business press
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Chapter 14 Questions 1. A principal-agent relationship is a relationship where an agent makes decisions that affect the principal. Examples of explicit principal-agent relationships are the relationships between a client and a lawyer and between an investor and a money manager. Examples of implicit principal-agent relationships are an employee acting on behalf of its employer and a consumer making decisions‚ such as copying and selling a product‚ that can affect a manufacturer. 2. The
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Shapiro: Chapter 2: Capital-Budgeting Principles and Techniques QUESTIONS 1. a. What is the relationship between accounting income and economic profit? Answer: Accounting income is calculated by taking revenues and subtracting all cash and non-cash expenses (such as depreciation). Accounting income also often recognizes losses for tax purposes as well‚ even though the economic loss may have taken place at another time. Economic profit is the sum of the present values of all the cash flows
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GNBCY Practice Exam Solutions – Chapter 14 1. Part (a) Solution (Learning Objective 1): The common fixed costs of $10‚000 (or $130‚000 - $120‚000) are irrelevant to this decision. Part (a) Solution (Learning Objective 2): CM that would be lost if department is discontinued $(150‚000) Less fixed costs that can be avoided if department is discontinued 120‚000 Increase (decrease) in net operating income $ (30‚000) Based on this information alone‚ because the company’s net operating
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Case Solutions Corporate Finance Ross‚ Westerfield‚ and Jaffe 9th edition CHAPTER 2 CASH FLOWS AT WARF COMPUTERS The operating cash flow for the company is: (NOTE: All numbers are in thousands of dollars) OCF = EBIT + Depreciation – Current taxes OCF = $1‚332 + 159 – 386 OCF = $1‚105 To calculate the cash flow from assets‚ we need to find the capital spending and change in net working capital. The capital spending for the year was: | |Capital spending
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