Answer:
d. multiple firms would likely each have to pay large fixed costs to develop their own network of pipes.
Explanation:
Option a is wrong because:
The initial investment is very high, therefore, the more firms competing will only increase the required investments and fixed costs associated with them, e.g. depreciation, maintenance. That is why the lowest average costs is generally achieved when only one firm serves this type of market.
Option b is wrong because:
A natural monopoly exists because it is extremely difficult for two or more competing firms to exist. Generally the required investment is very high, and the revenues are not large enough to allow two or more firms to compete.
Option c is wrong because:
Utilities require large initial investments, but once they are set up, the production costs are very small. I.e. the fixed costs are more relevant than the variable costs. Average production costs as decrease as the quantity produced increases.
If you were given a personality test as part of an employment application process, would you answer the questions honestly or would you attempt to answer the questions based upon your image of "correct" way to answer? what implications does your response has for the validity of personality testing?
Explanation:
Personality tests are sold on the promise that they are valid (they measure what they say they will measure) and reliable (they produce consistent results). “Many studies over the years have proven the validity of the MBTI instrument,” says the Myers & Briggs FoundationPsychologists seek to measure personality through a number of methods, the most common of which are objective tests and projective measures.Objective tests, such as self-report measures, rely on an individual's personal responses and are relatively free of rater bias.Hope it will help you.I would answer some questions honestly but if there are some questions which i can't tell the truth i will tell some lies. because if u really like this job and don't want to loose it, it's ok to give wrong answers just for once! That's my opinion. :p. But be careful u might get in trouble if they find out ur lying!
The HIJ bond has a current price of $800, a maturity value of $1,000, and matures in 5 years. If interest is paid semi-annually and the bond is priced to yield 8%, what is the bond's annual coupon rate
Answer:
Explanation:
The coupon rate is defined as the interest rate paid on a bond by its issuer for the term of the security.
Hence,
Par Value = $800
Face Value = $1,000
N = 5 x 2 = 10
Since the interest is semi annual
i = 8% / 2 = 4%
CF = $15.34
Coupon = $30.68 per year or 3.068%
Andy Pearson ran PepsiCo Inc. for nearly 15 years, driving revenues from $1 billion to $8 billion. In 1980, Fortune named him one of the 10 toughest bosses in the United States. Pearson was singled out for the relentless demands that he put on his people. As one employee put it, Pearson's talents were often "brutally abrasive." Every year, without hesitation, he fired the least productive 10% to 20% of his workforce. Pearson used a(n) _____ leadership style.
Answer:
authoritarian leadership style
Explanation:
In simple words, An authoritarian form of leadership relates to the leadership style where a leader determines strategies and practices, defines what objectives are to be accomplished, and manages and monitors all operations without substantive involvement by subordinates. An authoritative style of management can be highly successful in some cases, but also has negative consequences on community participants or staff.
Product V72 sells for $20 per unit as is, but if enhanced it can be sold for $25 per unit. The enhancement process will cost $52,000 for 12,000 units. If the 12,000 units of Product V72 are sold as is without further processing, the company:
Answer:
It will incur an Opportunity cost of $8,000.
Explanation:
It will incur the opportunity cost of $8000 because the additional unit produces by the company then the additional revenue that is generated will be equal to the amount (25 - 20) x 12,000 = 60,000. Since the additional cost, that incurs for the production of 12000 units is 52000. Therefore the profit earned is $8000.
So if the company does not produce it then it will lose the profit of $8000.
Slack Inc. borrowed $400,000 on April 1. The note requires interest at 12% and principal to be paid in one year. How much interest is recognized for the period from April 1 to December 31? a. $0. b. $48,000. c. $32,000. d. $36,000
Answer:
D.$36,000
Explanation:
Calculation for How much interest is recognized for the period from April 1 to December 31
First step is to find the 12% of the amount that was borrowed which is $400,000
$400,000×12%
=$48,000
Now let calculate for the amount of interest that is recognized from April 1 to December 31
Interest =$48,000×3/12
Interest =$12,000
Hence,
Interest =$48,000-$12,000
Interest=$36,000
Therefore the amount of interest that is recognized from April 1 to December 31 will be $36,000
Moorcroft’s assistant controller suggested that Moorcroft hire a part time collector to encourage customers to pay more promptly and to reduce the amount of uncollectible accounts. Sales are still 40% cash and 60% credit but the assistant controller predicted that this would cause credit sales to be collected 30% in the month of the sale, 50% in the month following sale, and 18% in the second month following sale; 2% are uncollectible.Prepare a schedule of expected collections from customers for June. How did these changes impact cash collections?
Answer:
The budgeted sales are missing, so I looked for them. I found the following question, hopefully it will be similar:
Month Sales
April $300,000
May $320,000
June $370,000
Schedule of expected collections
For the month of June, 202x
Cash sales during June = $370,000 x 40% = $148,000
Collection from June's credit sales = $222,000 x 30% = $66,600
Collection from May's credit sales = $192,000 x 50% = $96,000
Collection from April's credit sales = $180,000 x 18% = $32,400
Total cash collections during June = $343,000
Since the cost of the part time collector is $1,000 per month, and the total uncollectible accounts reduce from 4% to 2%, which represents $7,400 for June's sales, I would recommend hiring the collector.
Best Foods, Inc. has an unlevered cost of capital of 10 percent. The company generates EBIT of $4,250 per year and has a tax rate of 35 percent. If the firm adds $10,000 of debt to its capital structure, what is the value of the levered firm?
Answer:
The value of the levered firm $31,125
Explanation:
Value of Firm is the value of present value of expected future earning. It is calculated by dividing the earning after tax by the cost of capital while considering that the business will operate for the foreseeable future time.
EBIT $4,250.00
Less
Interest $0.00
EBT $4,250.00
Tax 35% x 4250 $1,487.50
EAT $2,762.50
Cost of Capial 10%
Value of firm = EAT / Cost of Capital = $2,762.5 / 10% = $27,625
Debt after tax = $10,000 x ( 1 - 0.35 ) = $6,500
Value of Equity = Value of firm - Debt after tax = $27,625 - $6,500 = $21,125
Value of debt = $10,000
Value of levered Firm = $21,125 + $10,000 = $31,125
If the domino effect occurs as a result of changes in the money supply, what will most likely happen as an immediate result of interest rates being increased? Borrowing will decrease. Investing will decrease. Inflation will increase. Liquidity will increase.
Answer:
The answer is: interest rates will decrease
Explanation:
Just got correct on edge
If there is an increase in the interest rate, then borrowing will decrease.
The term "domino effect" refers to the cumulative effect that is produced by one event that eventually leads to the same effect on others. In other words, the domino effect is when one disaster affects or brings destruction or disruption to others, leading to similar events.
One result will lead to a chain reaction in this event, affecting the rest of the cycle. This means that like one domino's downfall brings the next domino down, one destruction will lead to the fall of the next, taking the cycle to the end until all falls. In this scenario, if the interest rates are being increased, then it will lead to a decreased rate of borrowing. A change in the money supply will increase the interest rate. This will only leave the customers looking for a way out, which means there will be a lower rate of borrowing.In a domino effect, one event will bring the fall of the other. Therefore, if the interest rates increase, there will only be more problems for the customers. This will leave them reducing or decreasing the borrowing rate in the market. Thus, the correct answer is the first option.
Learn more about "domino theory" here:
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Joseph contributed $25,000 in cash and equipment with a tax basis of $6,400 and a fair market value of $12,600 to Berry Hill Partnership in exchange for a partnership interest.
a. What is Joseph’s tax basis in his partnership interest?
b. What is Berry Hill’s basis in the equipment?
Answer:
(A) $31,400
(B) $6,400
Explanation:
Joseph contributed $25,000 in cash and equipment
The tax basis is $6,400
The fair market value paid to Bill hill partnership is $12,600
(A) Joseph tax basis in his partnership interest can be calculated as follows
= contribution+tax basis
= $25,000+$6,400
= $31,400
(B) Since Joseph contributed a tax basis of $6,400 to Bill hill partnership in exchange for a partnership interest then, Bill hill's basis in the equipment is $6,400
Derrick Iverson is a divisional manager for Holston Company. His annual pay raises are largely determined by his division’s return on investment (ROI), which has been above 20% each of the last three years. Derrick is considering a capital budgeting project that would require a $3,080,000 investment in equipment with a useful life of five years and no salvage value. Holston Company’s discount rate is 17%. The project would provide net operating income each year for five years as follows:
Sales $3,400,000
Variable expenses 1,450,000
Contribution margin 1,950,000
Fixed expenses:
Advertising, salaries, and other fixed
out-of-pocket costs $670,000
Depreciation 828,000
Total fixed expenses 1,498,000
Net operating income $452,000
Required:
a. Compute the project's net present value.
b. Compute the project's simple rate of return.
c. Would the company want Derrick to pursue this investment opportunity?
d. Would Derrick be inclined to pursue this investment opportunity?
Answer:
a. Project's net present value is $1,015,163.09
b. Simple rate of return is 15%
c. Yes. The reason is that the project has a positive net present value of $1,015,163.09.
d. No. The reason is that the simple rate of return of 15% obtained in part b is lower the division’s return on investment (ROI), which has been above 20% each of the last three years.
Explanation:
a. Compute the project's net present value.
To compute this, we first calculate the annual cash inflow as follows:
Annual cash inflow = Net operating income + Depreciation = $452,000 + $828,000 = $1,,280,000
Now, the project's net present value can be calculated using the formula for calculating the present of an ordinary annuity as follows:
PV = P * [{1 - [1 / (1 + r)]^n} / r] …………………………………. (1)
Where;
PV = Present value of the annual cash flow = ?
P = Annual cash inflow = $1,280,000
r = Discount rate = 17%, or 0.17
n = Equipment useful years = 5
Substitute the values into equation (1) to have:
PV = $1,280,000 * [{1 - [1 / (1 + 0.17)]^5} / 0.17]
PV = $4,095,163.09
Project's net present value = PV - Project's initial investment = $4,095,163.09 - $3,080,000 = $1,015,163.09
b. Compute the project's simple rate of return
This can be computed as follows:
Simple rate of return = Net operating income / Initial investment = $452,000 / $3,080,000 = 0.15, or 15%
c. Would the company want Derrick to pursue this investment opportunity?
Yes. The reason is that the project has a positive net present value of $1,015,163.09.
Note that had it been the net present value of the project was negative, the company would not want to Derrick to pursue this investment opportunity since the decision of the company is based on whether the project's NPV is positive or negative.
d. Would Derrick be inclined to pursue this investment opportunity?
No. The reason is that the simple rate of return of 15% obtained in part b is lower the division’s return on investment (ROI), which has been above 20% each of the last three years.
Pursuing this investment opportunity will therefore reduce the Overall ROI of the division and Derrick will not get annual pay raises if this happens.
In the _____ stage of the product life cycle, competition intensifies and profits diminish. Companies increase their promotional efforts but emphasize selective demand.
Answer: maturity
Explanation:
The product life cycle is the time used by a product from the day the product is introduced into the market till the day it's withdrawn. The four stages of the product life cycle are the introduction stage, the growth, the maturity stage and finally the decline stage.
In the maturity stage of the product life cycle, competition intensifies and profits diminish. Companies increase their promotional efforts but emphasize selective demand.
The Clifford Corporation has announced a rights offer to raise $17 million for a new journal, the Journal of Financial Excess. This journal will review potential articles after the author pays a nonrefundable reviewing fee of $6,000 per page. The stock currently sells for $42 per share, and there are 2.9 million shares outstanding. a. What is the maximum possible subscription price? What is the minimum? (Leave no cells blank - be certain to enter "0" wherever required.) b. If the subscription price is set at $34 per share, how many shares must be sold? How many rights will it take to buy one share? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round your rights needed answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) c. What is the ex-rights price? What is the value of a right? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) d. A shareholder with 2,000 shares before the offering has no desire (or money) to buy additional shares offered as rights. What is his portfolio value before and after the rights offer? (Do not round intermediate calculations and round your answers to nearest whole number, e.g., 32.)
Answer:
A.Maximum possible subscription price $42 per shares
Minimum price $0
B.Number of new shares $500,000
Numbers of right needed 5.8
C.Ex-rights price $40.82
Value of a right $1.18
D.Portfolio value before the right offer $84,000
Portfolio value after the right offer $84,000
Explanation:
A.
The maximum possible subscription price based on the information given will be $42 per Shares
The minimum price will be anything that is greater or higher that $0
B. Calculation for how many shares must be sold
Using this formula
Number of new shares =Journal of Financial Excess amount /Subscription price per share
Let plug in the formula
Number of new shares=$17,000,000/ $34 per share
Number of new shares=$500,000
Calculation for how many rights will it take to buy one share
Using this formula
Numbers of right needed=Shares Outstanding/Number of new Shares
Let plug in the formula
Numbers of right needed=$2,900,000/$500,000
Numbers of right needed=5.8
C. Calculation for the ex-rights price
Using this formula
Ex-rights price=(Numbers of right needed*Maximum possible subscription price +Subscription price per share)/(Numbers of right needed+ One shares)
Let plug in the formula
Ex-rights price=(5.8*$42+$34)/(5.8+1)
Ex-rights price=$277.6/6.8
Ex-rights price=$40.82
Calculation for the value of a right
Using this formula
Value of a right =maximum possible subscription price-Ex-rights price
Let plug in the formula
Value of a right=$42-$40.82
Value of a right=$1.18
D. Calculation for What is his portfolio value before the right offer
Using this formula
Portfolio value before the right offer= Shareholders Shares *Maximum possible subscription price
Let plug in the formula
Portfolio value before the right offer=2,000*42
Portfolio value before the right offer=$84,000
Calculation for What is his portfolio value after the right offer
Using this formula
Portfolio value after the right offer=(Shareholders Shares*Ex-rights price) +(Shareholders Shares*Value of a right)
Let plug in the formula
Portfolio value after the right offer=(2,000*40.82)+(2,000*1.18)
Portfolio value after the right offer=$81,640+$2,360
Portfolio value after the right offer=$84,000
g An increase in taxes when the economy is above full employment ______ aggregate demand and real GDP, and the price level ______.
Answer:
C. decreases; falls
Explanation:
As we know that
The rise in taxes results in low disposable income for individuals that lowered the spending of the consumer also the consumer spending is an element of the aggregate demand so ultimately it declines that result the curve to shift leftward or downward
Due to this, the real GDP also falls, and the price level too
Hence, the correct option is c.
An investment adviser representative (IAR) asks a customer for a loan of $5,000. The customer agrees, and both the customer and the IAR document the loan by signing a written agreement. Under the provisions of the Uniform Securities Act, the IAR:
Answer:
D. Has not committed an unethical act since the loan was documented in writing.
Explanation:
Section 102 of the Uniform Securities Act of 1956 specifies that it is unlawful and unethical for an investment adviser representative to enter into a contract with a client except it is provided in writing that he does not stand to gain any financial profit, that no assignment of the contract would be made without the consent of the other party, and that if there is any change in the membership of the contract, the other party would be notified.
So, if the contract was documented between the investment adviser and the client, then it would not be unethical conduct.
If a company uses straight-line depreciation, the annual average investment can be calculated as: (Check all that apply.)
Answer: beg book value +the salvage value) / 2.
(the sum of annual average book values) ÷ asset’s life
(beg book value +the end book value) ÷ 2.
Explanation:
Depreciation is simply when an asset begin to wear and tear and thereby its value is reduced.Straight line depreciation is calculated when the difference between the cost of an asset and the expected salvage value is divided by the number of years it is projected to be used.
Using this method, the annual average investment can be calculated as:
• beg book value +the salvage value) / 2.
• (the sum of annual average book values) ÷ asset’s life
• (beg book value +the end book value) ÷ 2.
If a corporation issues shares of $1 par value common stock for , the journal entry would include a credit to:
The question is incomplete. The complete question is,
If a corporation issues 10,000 shares of $1 par value common stock for $9000, the journal entry would include a credit to:
A) Common Stock for $9000.
B) Paid-in Capital in Excess of Par—Common for $9000.
C) Common Stock for $10,000.
D) Retained Earnings for $10,000
Answer:
The common stock is credited for $10000. Thus option C is the correct answer
Explanation:
The journal entry to record the issuance of shares below par value will be,
Cash 9000 Dr
Paid in Cap in excess of par-Common stock 1000 Dr
Common stock 10000 Cr
Thus, the common stock is credited for the complete amount of $10000.
The cash received is $9000 and there is a shortage of $1000 which is adjusted by debited the paid in capital in excess of par account.
The three conditions that characterize difficult managerial decisions concerning resources, capabilities, and core competencies are
Answer:
uncertainty, complexity, and intra-organizational conflicts.
Explanation:
Managerial decisions define that any decision that can be taken for the benefit of the organization also these types of decision set targets for the income of the company moreover it decides what type of product should be sell and the hiring of employees who should be into the organization or who should not be in the organization etc.
According to the given situation, Management decisions on capital, expertise, and core competencies are disputes of uncertainty, complexity, and intra-organizational existence.
Vertical Analysis of Income Statement Revenue and expense data for Innovation Quarter Inc. for two recent years are as follows: Current Year Previous Year Sales $4,000,000 $3,600,000 Cost of goods sold 2,280,000 1,872,000 Selling expenses 600,000 648,000 Administrative expenses 520,000 360,000 Income tax expense 240,000 216,000 a. Prepare an income statement in comparative form, stating each item for both years as a percent of sales. Round to the nearest whole percentage. Innovation Quarter Inc. Comparative Income Statement For the Years Ended December 31 Current year Amount Current year Percent Previous year Amount Previous year Percent Sales $4,000,000 % $3,600,000 % Cost of goods sold (2,280,000) % (1,872,000) % $ % $ % Selling expenses $(600,000) % $(648,000) % Administrative expenses (520,000) % (360,000) % $ % $ % $ % $ % Income tax expense (240,000) % (216,000) % $ % $ % b. The vertical analysis indicates that the cost of goods sold as a percent of sales by 5 percentage points, while selling expenses by 3 percentage points, and administrative expenses by 3 percentage points. Thus, net income as a percent of sales by 5 percentage points.
Answer:
Innovation Quarter Inc.
a) Comparative Vertical Analysis of Income Statement
Current Year % Previous Year %
Sales $4,000,000 100% $3,600,000 100%
Cost of goods sold 2,280,000 57% 1,872,000 52%
Gross profit $1,720,000 43% $1,728,000 48%
Selling expenses 600,000 15% 648,000 18%
Administrative expenses 520,000 13% 360,000 10%
Income tax expense 240,000 6% 216,000 6%
After Tax Income $360,000 9% $504,000 14%
b. The vertical analysis indicates that the cost of goods sold as a percent of sales increased by 5 percentage points, while selling expenses decreased by 3 percentage points, and administrative expenses increased by 3 percentage points. Thus, net income as a percent of sales decreased by 5 percentage points.
Explanation:
Data and Calculations:
Vertical Analysis of Income Statement Revenue and expense data for Innovation Quarter Inc. for two recent years are as follows:
Current Year Previous Year
Sales $4,000,000 $3,600,000
Cost of goods sold 2,280,000 1,872,000
Selling expenses 600,000 648,000
Administrative expenses 520,000 360,000
Income tax expense 240,000 216,000
Innovation Quarter Inc. can use this vertical analysis to express the relationship between each line item and the sales revenue. The vertical analysis helps in ascertaining the percentage increases in each variable. With the analysis, the management of Innovation Quarter Inc. can undertake further investigations to learn the causes of the different performances and learn ways to control them.
What is the relationship between total surplus and economic efficiency?
Answer: When total surplus gets maximized, then economy meet economic efficiency.
Explanation:
Economic efficiency is described as a thinking that there is one possible way to make situation better by imposing a cost on another.
Total surplus is described as the sum of producer and consumer surplus.
It gets maximized in a perfect competition (hit free-market equilibrium).
i.e. It gets maximized when both consumer and producer surplus is maximum, and then the economy meet economic efficiency.
Jay owns Gatsby Islands and wants to convey it to his good friends, Nick and Daisy. Nick lives next door to Jay while Daisy lives across the waters. He conveys an interest in Gatsby Islands "to Nick as tenants by the entirety." Two months later, he makes a corresponding conveyance to Daisy. Jay created the following:_______
a. tenancy in common
b. severalty community property
c. joint tenancy with rights of survivorship
d. tenancy by entirety
Answer:
Correct Answer:
c. joint tenancy with rights of survivorship
Explanation:
The property Jay owes on Gatsby Island belongs to him but he wishes to share th ownership with his 2 good friends. His conveyance of the message to both which reads "tenants by the entirety" shows that he and his friends has equal ownership and rights to the Gatsby Island property.
In the event that either him or one of the friends dies, the full title of the property automatically passes to the surviving person.
Sunny Day Manufacturing Company is considering investing in a one-year project that requires an initial investment of $450,000. To do so, it will have to issue new common stock and will incur a flotation cost of 2.00%. At the end of the year, the project is expected to produce a cash inflow of $550,000. The rate of return that Sunny Day expects to earn on its project (net of its flotation costs) is:____________
White Lion Homebuilders has a current stock price of $22.35 per share, and is expected to pay a per-share dividend of $2.03 at the end of next year. The company's earnings' and dividends' growth rate are expected to grow at the
constant rate of 8.70% into the foreseeable future. If White Lion expects to incur flotation costs of 5.00% of the value of its newly-raised equity funds, then the flotation-adjusted (net) cost of its new common stock (rounded to two decimal places) should be:_________
Sunny Day Manufacturing Company Co.'s addition to earnings for this year is expected to be $420,000. Its target capital structure consists of 50% debt, 5% preferred, and 45% equity. Determine Sunny Day Manufacturing Company's retained earnings breakpoint: ___________
a. $840,000
b. $980,000
c. $933,333
d. $886,666
Answer:
A lot to read and check but I will get back to you soon
To arrive at an accurate balance on a bank reconciliation statement, a credit memorandum from the bank for the collection of a note and interest should be
Answer:
Must be added to the book balance.
Explanation:
The correct treatment would be to add this value to book balance because the bank has increased our bank balance by the note and interest amount. This must be accounted for as increase in the book balance because we have borrowed money and also that yearly interest income was also added to our bank checking account.
Hence it must be added to cash book balance in order to reconcile with the bank balance.
Predatory pricing is considered an anti-competitive practice, and is considered illegal under competition laws. Which of the following best describes predatory pricing?
A. Predatory pricing requires one company to aquire the assets of another.
B. One business chooses to put another out of business by pricing its product below the level another competing business must be at to make a profit.
C. Predatory pricing occurs when a firm colludes with one or more firms to fix prices or output.
D. Predatory pricing is when a business sends someone out to change the price of another company's product so it is higher than its own.
Answer:
B
Explanation:
Predatory pricing is when a company sets the price of its goods or services too low with the aim of eliminating the competition. Predatory pricing is illegal and it violates antitrust law.
Predatory pricing occurs when a firm colludes with one or more firms to fix prices or output. This is an example of collusion and they usually occur in an oligopoly
5. Suppose that a firm is in an industry which has a very rapid rate of growth (in sales and output), and is characterized by technological change and innovation. Firms attempt to maximize profits causing new firms to enter the industry attracted by profit potential. The result is that profits are competed away, leading to even greater innovation and change. Is there a limit to this continuous change
Answer:
If we use high tech industry as our subject here, I would say that there is no limit to continuous change. We can look at he last 45 years and ever since Steve Jobs developed the Apple I, PCs have continuously evolved into different products and their rate of technological evolution has currently increased. Any modern smartphone is hundreds of times more powerful than the first PCs, they are even more powerful than huge computers that existed back then. Currently high tech companies are trying to develop AI, and who knows what after. The only problem is that project lives tend to be very short, but that is part of the game. The profit margins of the firms that are successful are huge, just look at how Apple became the first company to be worth more than 2 trillions.
Akers Company sold bonds on July 1, 2017, with a face value of $100,000. These bonds are due in 10 years. The stated annual interest rate is 6% per year, payable semiannually on June 30 and December 31. These bonds were sold to yield 8%. By July 1, 2018, the market yield on these bonds had risen to 10%.
Required:
What was the bonds' market price on July 1, 2018?
Answer:
Price of bond= $75,075.58
Explanation:
The value of the bond is the present value(PV) of the future cash receipts expected from the bond. The value is equal to present values of interest payment plus the redemption value (RV).
Value of Bond = PV of interest + PV of RV
The value of the bond for Akers Company can be worked out as follows:
Step 1
PV of interest payments
Semi annul interest payment
= 6% × 100,000 × 1/2 = 3000
Semi-annual yield = 10%/2 = 5% per six months
Total period to maturity (in months)
= (2 × 10) = 20 periods
PV of interest =
3000 × (1- (1+0.05)^( -20)/) 0.05 = 37,386.63
Step 2
PV of Redemption Value
= 100,000 × (1.05)^(-20) = 37,688.95
Price of bond
Price of bond = 37,386.63 + 37,688.95 = 75,075.58
Price of bond= $75,075.58
Barry Cuda is considering the purchase of the following Builtrite bond: $1000 par, 3 1/4% coupon rate, 10 year maturity that is currently selling for $940. If Barry purchases this bond, what would his approximate yield to maturity be?
Answer:
Yield to Maturity = 3.97%
Explanation:
The yield to maturity is the discount rate that equates the price of the bond to the present value of its future cash flow receivable from it.
The yield on the bond can be determined as follows using the formula below:
YM = C + F-P/n) ÷ 1/2 (F+P)
YM-Yield to maturity-
C- annual coupon
F- Face Value
P- Current Price
DATA
Coupon = coupon rate × Nominal value = 1,000 × 3 1/4%= 32.5
Face Value = 1000
YM-?, C- 32.5, Face Value - 1,000, P-940
YM = (32.5+ (1000-940)/10) ÷ ( 1/2× (1000 + 940) )
YM = 0.0397 × 100 = 3.97%
Yield to Maturity = 3.97%
In Year 1 Jorge buys a home for $200,000, making a down payment of $40,000 and taking out a loan from the bank for $160,000 to finance the balance. In Year 5 the remaining loan balance is $130,000 while the home has increased in value to $270,000. Jorge refinances with a loan company that agrees to lend 125% of the value of the home, or $337,500, using $130,000 to repay the bank loan and providing $207,500 in cash. Jorge immediately spends $10,000 of the cash on a lavish vacation to the Bahamas, and $20,000 to pay down credit cards.
How much of the $337,500 home equity loan balance is allowable for calculating the home mortgage interest deduction on Jorge’s Year 5 tax return?
a. $270,000
b. $240,000
c. $230,000
d. $220,000
Answer:
Under current tax law, no option is correct. Before 2018, option C would have been right.
Explanation:
Currently under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (from Jan. 2018 until Dec. 2025) you can only deduct interests on mortgages used to purchase, build or improve your home. In this case, Jorge will only be able to deduct the interests paid on the $130,000 he owed for the first mortgage.
Interests on home equity loans will again be deductible (up to $100,000) starting Jan. 2026.
Henry Crouch's law office has traditionally ordered ink refills 50 units at a time. The firm estimates that carrying cost is 35% of the $12 unit cost and that annual demand is about 235 units per year. The assumptions of the basic EOQ model are thought to apply. For what value of ordering cost would its action be optimal?
Answer:
ordering costs = $22.34
Explanation:
economic order quantity (EOQ) = √(2SD / H)
D = annual demand = 235H = holding cost = 35% x $12 = $4.20S = cost per order = ?EOQ = 5050 = √[(2 x S x 235) / $4.20]
2,500 = (2 x S x 235) / $4.20
$10,500 = 2 x S x 235
S = $10,500 / (2 x 235) = $10,500 / 470 = $22.34
Which of the following is concerned with the effect of exchange rate changes on individual transactions, most of which are short-term affairs that will be executed within a few weeks or months?
a. Purchasing power parity
b. Transaction exposure
c. Economic exposure
d. Translation exposure
e. Currency speculation
Answer: Transaction exposure
Explanation:
Transaction exposure, is a form of foreign exchange risk that is faced by the organizations that take part in international trade. It occurs when the fluctuation in exchange rate change a contracts value before it is settled.
It is concerned with the effect of exchange rate changes on individual transactions, most of which are short-term affairs that will be executed within a few weeks or months.
"Rihanna Company is considering purchasing new equipment for $379,200. It is expected that the equipment will produce net annual cash flows of $48,000 over its 10-year useful life. Annual depreciation will be $37,920. Compute the cash payback period. (Round answer to 1 decimal place, e.g. 10.5.)"
Answer:
Cash payback period is 7.9 years
Explanation:
Payback period = Initial investment / Cash inflow per period
=$379,200 / $48,000
=7.9 years
Thus, the cash payback period is 7.9 years.
Note: It is assumed that the net annual cash flows are after considering the annual depreciation.
