Reference no: EM132540026
Assignment Instructions.
Question 1. What's The Home Depot's current ratio? How's it compare to the industry average? How can The Home Depot reduce its weighted average cost of capital? If a company doesn't closely monitor its receivables, is it possible for a company's bonds to eventually be downgraded? It's important for companies to closely monitor their receivables. One way that companies can monitor their receivables is to create an aging schedule. An aging schedule groups a company's receivables by the account's age. For example, it can show how much of the receivables are for various time periods such as 0 to 10 days, 11 to 30 days, 31 to 45 days, and over 45 days. Aging schedules are created from a company's accounts receivable ledger; there's not enough detail in a company's financial statements to create an aging schedule.
Question 2. What is the major problem that arises when benchmarking against competitors? How can this problem be overcome? What does it mean to benchmark by industry? Why is this needed when conducting a financial ratio analysis?
Question 3. Discuss the operating and cash cycles, and why they it is important for a financial manager to have a good understanding of how cash and operating cycles impact business operations.
Question 4. If you won the lottery and had the choice of a lump-sum payoff or an annuity payoff, what factors would you consider besides the implied interest rate (indifference interest rate) in selecting the payoff style? Provide a quantitative example to illustrate your choice.
Question 5. Explain the payback period model and its two significant weaknesses. How does the discounted payback period model addresses one of the problems?
Question 6. What are some of the features that could be included with a bond prospectus that may have an impact on the yield of a new bond issue?
Question 7.What is an incremental cash flow for a project? What concepts do we need to examine to help understand how to estimate the incremental cash flow of a project? What else is needed for deciding whether or not to choose a project?
|
Present management techniques and tools
: Present management techniques and tools for encouraging creative thinking and for converting creative thinking into innovation in Nike's company
|
|
Explain impact current covid pandemic over companies
: Explain, in detail, the impact current covid-19 pandemic can have over manufacturing companies. State the difficulties that the manufacturing companies
|
|
Compute the target cost of one calculator
: Prepare Schedule of Cost of Goods Manufactured in good form. Compute the target cost of one calculator. Compute the Cost of Goods Sold.
|
|
What the budgeted direct labor cost per unit of product wz
: What The budgeted direct labor cost per unit of Product WZ would be? Management would like you to prepare Direct Labor Budget for June.
|
|
Problem that arises when benchmarking against competitors
: What is the major problem that arises when benchmarking against competitors? How can this problem be overcome? What does it mean to benchmark
|
|
Compute how much cost in total would allocate in first-stage
: Poskey Corporation uses an activity-based costing, How much cost, in total, would be allocated in the first-stage allocation to the Assembly activity cost pool?
|
|
What would be the total taxable benefit
: An employer paid for certain amounts for the employee - preparation of personal tax return, What would be the total taxable benefit to be included in income
|
|
What the degree of operating leverage last year was
: Pricher Corporation's income statement, What The degree of operating leverage last year was? What The break-even point last year was?
|
|
What is ratchets rotators rate of return
: During the year it generated Php 4,000 in cash flow. If Ruzty sells it, he could receive Php 6,100 for it. What is ratchets rotator's rate of return
|