Interest on a twelve-month installment loan is to be calculated using the add-on method. If the purchased to be financed is $1,000 and the add-on rate is 6%, then your monthly payment is about A) $76.67. B) $86.07. C) $88.33. D) $88.65. ANSWER C
If you wish to accumulate $200,000 in the child’s college fund after 18 years, and can invest at a 7.5% annual rate, how much must you invest at the end of each year if the first deposit is made at the end of the first year? What will be an ideal response? ANSWER […]
Market value changes in net worth arise from current period savings or dissavings. Indicate whether the statement is true or false ANSWER FALSE
A liquidity-risk premium is the additional return required by investors for securities that cannot quickly be converted into cash at a reasonably predictable price. Indicate whether the statement is true or false ANSWER TRUE
What is diversifying among different kinds of assets known as? A) multi-diversification B) portfolio funding C) capital asset classification D) asset allocation ANSWER D
Your son is born today and you want to make him a millionaire by the time he is 50 years old. You deposit $10,700 in an investment account and want to know what annual interest rate must you earn in order to have the account value equal to $1,000,000 on your son’s 50th birthday. A) […]
Which of the following lessons from the Great Recession is NOT true? A) The financial crisis really drove home the point that capital structure DOES matter in that firms with too much debt suffered greatly. B) Firms that relied too much on short-term financing were severely affected by the global liquidity crisis. C) Capital markets […]
Based on the information contained in Tables 4-5, what was Yen’s quick ratio at the end of 2010? A) 2.93 B) 2.10 C) 1.79 D) 1.43 ANSWER B
Lou Hinton’s savings account (offering 12% simple interest) showed the following activity for the month of June: Opening balance $2,000 6/10 Deposit 1,000 6/20 Withdrawal ( 800) 6/30 Ending Balance 2,200 Interest earned in June with the minimum balance method would be A) $20.00. B) $22.00. C) $30.00. D) unknown. ANSWER A
________ took place in financial markets during the Great Recession because large financial institutions took excess risks to realize abnormal positive returns in the housing market while they were simultaneously protected from abnormal losses by being “too-big-to-fail.” A) Disintermediation B) Deregulation C) Corporate tax reform D) Moral hazard ANSWER D