The primary source of secured short-term loans to businesses are ________. A) commercial banks and commercial finance companies B) lines of credit and revolving lines of credit C) commercial paper dealers and investment bankers D) life insurance companies and government securities brokers ANSWER A
Date: September 19th, 2020
Transaction costs and personal taxes may affect investors’ ability to undertake arbitrage. Also, a firm’s earnings are taxed, and interest payments are deductible while dividends are not. These are examples of the violation of which of the assumptions of an ideal capital market? a. Capital Markets are frictionless b. Homogeneous expectations c. Atomistic competition d. […]
Date: September 19th, 2020
Which of the following in NOT a potential problem suffered by the IRR method of capital budgeting? A) Multiple IRRs B) Disagreement with the NPV as to whether a project with ordinary cash flows is profitable or not C) Incorporates the IRR as the reinvestment rate for the future cash flows D) Comparing mutually exclusive […]
Date: September 19th, 2020
Spotify, Inc. is considering a five-year project that has an initial outlay or cost of $22,000. The future cash inflows from its project for years 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 are $15,000, $15,000, $15,000, $15,000 and -$41,000, respectively. Compute both IRRs. Given these IRRs, compute the two NPVs. If Spotify’s true cost of borrowing […]
Date: September 19th, 2020
All items on the right-hand side of a firm’s balance sheet, excluding current liabilities are sources of capital. Indicate whether the statement is true or false ANSWER TRUE
Date: September 19th, 2020
One of the underlying assumptions of the IRR model is that all cash inflow can be reinvested at the individual project’s internal rate of return (IRR) over the remaining life of the project. Indicate whether the statement is true or false. ANSWER Answer: TRUE
Date: September 19th, 2020
The stated cost of a pledge of accounts receivable is normally ________ above the prime rate. A) 6 to 8 percent B) 2 to 5 percent C) 4 to 9 percent D) 6 to 10 percent ANSWER B
Date: September 19th, 2020
Using the Binomial Model, find the values of a firm’s levered equity (EL), and the expected return on the equity, rLE, given the following values: V=100, u=1.3, d=1/u, p=0.7, rf=5%, X=100, and T=3. EL rLE a. 32.34 6.92% b. 32.34 10.74% c. 18.96 6.92% d. 18.96 10.74% FORMULAS: ; EL = ; ; […]
Date: September 19th, 2020
Suppose you have an investment that costs $80,000 at the beginning of the project, and it generates $30,000 a year for four years in positive cash flows. The cost of capital is 12%. The IRR of the project is 18.45% and the NPV is about $11,120. The IRR model assumes that at the end of […]
Date: September 19th, 2020
The market value of Delaware East’s assets is $100 mn. The firm has one issue of pure-discount debt outstanding which promises to pay $60 mn. in 5 years. If the standard deviation of the firm’s assets is 22% and the risk-free rate is 5%, what are the values of the firm’s equity and debt, based […]
Date: September 19th, 2020
