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3. What are the earnings per share (EPS) for a company that earned $100,000 last year
in after-tax profits, has 200,000 common shares outstanding and $1.2 million in retained
earning at the year end?
$100,000
$6.00
$0.50
$6.50
7. The decision function of financial management can be broken down into the
decisions.
financing and investment
investment, financing, and asset management
financing and dividend
capital budgeting, cash management, and credit management
9. In the US, the has been given the power to adopt auditing, quality control,
ethics, and disclosure standards for public companies and their auditors as well as
investigate and discipline those involved.
American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA)
Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)
Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB)
Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
12. ___________ refers to meeting the needs of the present without compromising the
ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)
Sustainability
Convergence
Green Economics
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2. A statistical measure of the degree to which two variables (e.g., securities' returns)
move together.
coefficient of variation
variance
covariance
certainty equivalent
4. A line that describes the relationship between an individual security's returns and
returns on the market portfolio.
characteristic line
security market line
capital market line
beta
7. Carrie has a "certainty equivalent" to a risky gamble's expected value that is less than
the gamble's expected value. Carrie shows
risk aversion.
risk preference.
risk indifference.
a strange outlook on life.
12. Espinosa Coffee & Trading, Inc.'s common stock measured beta is calculated to
be 0.75. The market beta is, of course, 1.00 and the beta of the industry of which the
company is a part is 1.10. If Merrill Lych were to calculate an "adjusted beta" for
Espinosa's common stock, that adjusted beta would most likely be .
less than 0.75
more than 0.75, but less than 1.10
equal to 1.10
equal to 0.95 {i.e., (1/3) x (0.75 + 1.00 + 1.10)}
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tax refund.
dividends.
goodwill.
patent amortization.
dividends.
interest payments.
taxes.
a decrease in cash.
an increase in cash.
10. The cash flow statement in the United States is most likely to appear using
a "supplementary method."
a "direct method."
an "indirect method."
a "flow of funds method."
11. For a profitable firm, total sources of funds will always total uses of funds.
be equal to
be greater than
be less than
have no consistent relationship to
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fixed assets.
current assets.
3. Which asset-liability combination would most likely result in the firm's having the
greatest risk of technical insolvency?
Increasing current assets while lowering current liabilities.
Increasing current assets while incurring more current liabilities.
Reducing current assets, increasing current liabilities, and reducing long-term
debt.
Replacing short-term debt with equity.
4. Which of the following illustrates the use of a hedging (or matching) approach to
financing?
Short-term assets financed with long-term liabilities.
Permanent working capital financed with long-term liabilities.
Short-term assets financed with equity.
All assets financed with a 50 percent equity, 50 percent long-term debt
mixture.
5. In deciding the appropriate level of current assets for the firm, management is
confronted with
a trade-off between profitability and risk.
a trade-off between liquidity and marketability.
a trade-off between equity and debt.
a trade-off between short-term versus long-term borrowing.
4. Concentration banking
increases idle balances.
moves excess funds from a concentration bank to regional banks.
is less important during periods of rising interest rates.
improves control over corporate cash.
5. Which would be an appropriate investment for temporarily idle corporate cash that
will be used to pay quarterly dividends three months from now?
A long-term Aaa-rated corporate bond with a current annual yield of 9.4
percent.
A 30-year Treasury bond with a current annual yield of 8.7 percent.
Ninety-day commercial paper with a current annual yield of 6.2 percent.
Common stock that has been appreciating in price 8 percent annually, on
average, and paying a quarterly dividend that is the equivalent of a 5 percent
annual yield.
8. That portion of a firm's total marketable securities portfolio held to take care of
probable deficiencies in the firm's cash account.
Free cash segment
Controllable cash segment
Ready cash segment
None of the above
9. The most basic requirement for a firm's marketable securities.
Safety
Yield
Marketability
New York.
11. According to the Bond Equivalent Yield (BEY) method, the yield on a $1,000, 13-
week US Treasury bill purchased for $960 would be closest to .
16.0 percent
16.7 percent
17.0 percent
17.8 percent
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2. A critical assumption of the net operating income (NOI) approach to valuation is:
that debt and equity levels remain unchanged.
that dividends increase at a constant rate.
that ko remains constant regardless of changes in leverage.
that interest expense and taxes are included in the calculation.
4. Two firms that are virtually identical except for their capital structure are selling in
the market at different values. According to M&M
one will be at greater risk of bankruptcy.
the firm with greater financial leverage will have the higher value.
this proves that markets cannot be efficient.
this will not continue because arbitrage will eventually cause the firms to sell
at the same value.
5. The cost of monitoring management is considered to be a (an):
bankruptcy cost.
transaction cost.
agency cost.
institutional cost.
6. What is the value of the tax shield if the value of the firm is $5 million, its value if
unlevered would be $4.78 million, and the present value of bankruptcy and agency costs
is $360,000?
$140,000
$220,000
$360,000
$580,000
8. The cost of capital for a firm -- when we allow for taxes, bankruptcy, and agency
costs --
remains constant with increasing levels of financial leverage.
first declines and then ultimately rises with increasing levels of financial
leverage.
increases with increasing levels of financial leverage.
decreases with increasing levels of financial leverage.
1. Letter stock is
a handwritten certificate representing a corporate IOU.
a mass mailing offering a security for sale.
securities issued by the United States Postal Service.
privately placed common stock that cannot be immediately resold to the
general public.
4. The actual market value of a right will differ from its theoretical value for all of the
following reasons EXCEPT for:
the size of the firm's marginal tax rate.
the amount of transactions costs incurred.
investor speculation.
the irregular exercise and sale of rights over the subscription period.
6. When the investment banker bears the risk of not being able to sell a new security at
the established price, this is known as:
a best efforts offering.
underwriting.
shelf registration.
making a market.
8. In calculating the value of one right when the stock is selling "rights-on," the analyst
needs to know the number of rights needed to buy one share of stock and:
the subscription price per share.
the transactions costs involved.
the price-earnings ratio of the firm's stock.
the length of the rights offering period.
11. A company can ensure the complete success of a rights offering by making use of a
standby arrangement.
oversubscription privilege.
green shoe provision.
shelf registration.
3. Which of the following bonds offer the investor the most protection?
First-mortgage bonds
Debentures
Subordinated debentures
Income bonds
4. A company refunds its bonds for any of the following reasons EXCEPT for:
to eliminate restrictive covenants.
to reduce interest costs.
to show higher reported profits.
to issue new bonds at higher rate of interest.
8. A direct lease, a sale and leaseback, and a leveraged lease are all examples of
operating leases.
financial leases.
full-service leases.
"off-balance sheet" methods of financing.
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2. Interest-rate parity refers to the concept that, where market imperfections are few,
the same goods must sell for the same price across countries.
interest rates across countries will eventually be the same.
there is an offsetting relationship between interest rate differentials and
differentials in the forward spot exchange market.
there is an offsetting relationship provided by costs and revenues in similar
market environments.
4. Suppose that the Japanese yen is selling at a forward discount in the forward-
exchange market. This implies that most likely
this currency has low exchange-rate risk.
this currency is gaining strength in relation to the dollar.
interest rates are higher in Japan than in the United States.
interest rates are declining in Japan.
5. Following FASB Statement No. 52, gains or losses from currency translation are
shown:
on the income statement as currency gains (or losses).
on the balance sheet as an adjustment to owners' equity.
on the balance sheet as an adjustment to cash.
nowhere because gains or losses from currency changes need not be shown..
7. A multinational can centralize cash management and attempt to reduce exchange rate
risk exposure through the use of
a reinvoicing center.
a bill of lading.
a time draft.
countertrade.
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