income taxes. As you can see above‚ not taking depreciation will result in Company D paying $121‚600 additional in taxes. 4 PART B2 The time value of money Before we can address a decision process for Net Present Value (NPV) and Internal Rate of Return (IRR) we must first understand the time value of money. In our case we will use the time value of $1. A very simple explanation of this concept is to say
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Chapter 8 Problem 6 The following are the historic returns for the Chelle Computer Company: Year Chelle Computer General Index Year chelle computer general index 1 37 15 2 9 13 3 -11 14 4 8 -9 5 11 12 6 4 9 Based on this information‚ compute the following: a. The correlation coefficient between Chelle Computer and the General Index. Answer : r= .1305 b. The standard deviation for the company and the index
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Section A One of the most common criticisms of DCF models is that any forecast beyond a couple of years is questionable. Investors‚ therefore‚ are alleged to be better off using more certain‚ near-term earnings forecasts. Such reasoning makes no sense‚ for at least two reasons. First‚ a key element in understanding a business’s attractiveness involves knowing the set of financial expectations the price represents. The market as a whole has historically traded at a price-to-earnings multiple in
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Introduction A Ponzi scheme is a fraudulent investment operation that pays returns to its investors from their own money or the money paid by subsequent investors‚ rather than from profit earned by the individual or organization running the operation. Objectives We learn how it started. We learn the key elements in running a Ponzi scheme. We learn how big a Ponzi schemes can get. We learn how a Ponzi scheme falls apart. We learn how to identify and avoid being involved in a Ponzi scheme
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your maximum possible loss? Explain. 2. The investment bank you work for is writing its annual investments newsletter and you are in charge of the international markets outlook for next year. To prepare your section‚ you collect data on yearly returns of World Stocks (WORLD_STOCKS) and those of the US S&P500 portfolio over the last 75 years. Then‚ you run the following regression: r WORLD_STOCKS = a + r SP500 + error The regression produces the following output: SUMMARY OUTPUT Regression
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CHAPTER TWO INTEREST RATES Chapter Objectives After studding this chapter‚ you will be able to: Define what interest rate is Realize the functions of interest rate in the economy Know the distinction between interest rate and returns Explain the different theories of the rate of interest as well as the limitations of each theories 2.1 INTRODUCTION The money and capital markets are one of the vast pools of funds‚ depleted by the borrowing activities of households‚ businesses
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securities. Mr. Brown‚ an investor‚ would like to invest $ 5 million in various securities. He wishes to maximize his yearly profit over the next year. The investment company offered him a portfolio including Bonds‚ Stocks‚ Gold and Land. The expected return is 6% for Bonds‚ 14% for Stocks‚ 10% for Gold and 5% for Land. For diversification purposes‚ the maximum amount to be invested is $ 3 million in Bonds‚ $ 3 million in Stocks‚ $ 2 million in Gold and $ 1 million in Land. In addition to that‚ the investment
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average‚ except average operating profit ratio and average net profit ratio. On the other hand IBN SINA Pharmaceuticals Ltd (IBN SINAPH)‚ it has not been able to attain the industry average gross profit‚ operating profit‚ return on investment‚ return on capital employed and return on equity. But it has succeeded to attain the standard norm for these ratios. Therefore its profitability may be considered to some extent satisfactory. It can be concluded that the profitability of pharmaceutical companies
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Examining Stock Returns for Normal Distributions July11‚ 2012 Part A. A1 (CRSP 2000-2008) | VW Daily | EW Daily | VW Monthly | EW Monthly | Mean | 0.00% | 0.05% | -0.12% | 0.50% | σ | 1.35% | 1.12% | 4.66% | 6.14% | Table A1 shows return means and standard deviations for the CRSP market portfolio from 2000-2008. In comparing daily vs monthly returns in both cases‚ equally weighted (EW) and value weighted (VW)‚ Table A1 shows the mean and standard deviation are
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years_option=all_years&periods_option=specific_periods&periods=Annual+Data http://financeandinvestments.blogspot.com/2011/05/historical-annual-returns-for-s-500.html Jain‚ Rajiv‚ and Daniel Kranson. "The Myth of GDP and Stock Market Returns."2009. Web. 4 Mar. 2012. <http://www.virtus.com/vsitemanager/Upload/Docs/6141_GDPwhitepaper.pdf>. Rao‚ Rama. "Forecasting Future Returns." Financial Physics. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 5 Mar 2012. <http://www.financialphysics.net/future.html>. Bekaert‚ Geert‚ and Campbell
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