Assume that you purchase an 8 percent semi-annual, 20-year, $1,000 par bond, priced at $1,012.50, when it has 12 years remaining until maturity. What is the bond’s approximate yield-to-maturity (YTM)? What is the bond’s actual yield-to-maturity (YTM)..
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Vedder, Inc., has 7 million shares of common stock outstanding. The current share price is $62.00, and the book value per share is $5.00. Vedder also has two bond issues outstanding.
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A sales manager has found that salespeople who spend more time per customer call are more successful. The most successful salespeople spend, on the average, 50 minutes per customer call. A random sample of 10 sales calls from the records of a new sal..
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Genetic Insights Co. purchases an asset for $17,136. This asset qualifies as a seven-year recovery asset under MACRS. The seven-year fixed depreciation percentages for years 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 are 14.29%, 24.49%, 17.49%, 12.49%, 8.93%, and 8.93%, r..
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An investment account was initiated with an investment of $1000. The fund had grown to $1200 after one year, and an additional $1000 was invested. The fund balance at the end of two years was $2200. What annual effective interest rate was earned in t..
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Alpha Corporation and Beta Corporation are identical in every way except their capital structures. Alpha Corporation, an all-equity firm, has 15,000 shares of stock outstanding, currently worth $30 per share. Beta Corporation uses leverage in its cap..
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Bargeron Corporation has a target capital structure of 61 percent common stock, 6 percent preferred stock, and 33 percent debt. Its cost of equity is 12.6 percent, the cost of preferred stock is 5.6 percent, and the pretax cost of debt is 7.3 percent..
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Research the U.S. Treasury markets and design synthetic trades that replicate different types of U.S. Treasury instruments. Based on the pricing of the U.S. Treasuries and the synthetic instruments created, comment on what this implies of the pricing..
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May Inc. just reported a net income of $8000000 and its current stock price is $34.00 per share. May Inc. is forecasting an increase of 25% of its net income next year, but it also expects it will have to issue 1,500,000 new shares of stock. If May I..
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Research and write an essay on what must be done to improve ethics in finance and corporate governance. Your paper should be 4–6 pages in length, and include three outside references.
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Miller Brothers Hardware paid an annual dividend of $0.95 per share last month. Today, the company announced that future dividends will be increasing by 2.6 percent annually. If you require a 13 percent rate of return, how much are you willing to pay..
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Six years ago you placed $ 250 in a savings account which is now worth $ 1,040.28. When you put the funds into the account, you were told it would pay 24 percent interest. You expected to find the account worth $ 908.80. What compounding did you thin..
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