Tom and Tricia are 22, newly married, and ready to embark on the journey of life. They both plan to retire 45 years from today. Because their budget seems tight right now, they had been thinking that they would wait at least 10 years and then start..
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Your firm needs a computerized machine tool lathe which costs $59,000 and requires $12,900 in maintenance for each year of its 3-year life. After three years, this machine will be replaced. The machine falls into the MACRS 3-year class life category...
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A friend owes you money. He offers to pay you $1,000 today, $1,000 a year from now and $1,000 exactly two years from now. If 10% is the prevailing rate you expect on your investments, what is the present value of this arrangement? A friend owes you m..
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A company has current assets of $600,000, fixed assets of $500,000, current liabilities of $350,000, inventory of $300,000, and long-term debt of $500,000. If inventory decreases by $100,000 and current liabilities remain the same, what will be the i..
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REH Corporation's most recent dividend was $2.42 per share, its expected annual rate of divident growth is 5%, and the required return is now 15%. A variety of proposals are being considered by management to redirect the firm's activities. Determine ..
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How much to allocate between stocks and bonds is an asset allocation question. Relative value trade is: Indexing is:
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Calculate a table of interest rates for 5 years based on the following information: 1. The pure interest rate is 2% 2. Inflation expectations for year 1 = 3%, year 2 =4%, years 3-5 =5% 3. The default risk is .1% for year one and increases by .1% over..
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An investor is considering a two-asset portfolio. Stock A has an exected return of $4.50 per share with a standard deviation of $1.00, while stock B has an expected return of $3.75 with a standard deviation of $.75. The covariance between the two sto..
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Billy’s Exterminators, Inc., has sales of $607,000, costs of $314,000, depreciation expense of $66,000, interest expense of $43,000, a tax rate of 35 percent, and paid out $78,000 in cash dividends. What is the addition to retained earnings?
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You buy a $10,000 par Treasury bill at $9,575 and sell it 60 days later for $9,675.- What was your EAR?
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A project is expected to generate an annual cash flow of $300,000 before debt service, during each of the first five years of operation. This expectation represents the mean of a probability distribution of possible cash flows, and has a standard dev..
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Central Systems, Inc. desires a weighted average cost of capital of 8 percent. The firm has an after-tax cost of debt of 6 percent and a cost of equity of 12 percent. What debt-equity ratio is needed for the firm to achieve its targeted weighted aver..
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