1.Suppose a U.S. treasury bond
will pay $2,500 five years from now. If the going interest rate on 5-year
treasury bonds is 4.25%, how much is the bond worth today? (Points : 4)
$1,928.78
$2,030.30
$2,131.81
$2,238.40
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2. 2.Jose now has $500. How much would he have after 6 years if he
leaves it invested at 5.5% with annual compounding? (Points : 4)
$591.09
$622.20
$654.95
$689.42
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3. 3.Which of the following statements regarding a 15-year
(180-month) $125,000, fixed-rate mortgage is CORRECT? (Ignore taxes and
transactions costs.) (Points : 4)
The remaining balance after three years will be $125,000 less one third of
the interest paid during the first three years.
Because it is a fixed-rate mortgage, the monthly loan payments (which include
both interest and principal payments) are constant.
Interest payments on the mortgage will increase steadily over time, but the
total amount of each payment will remain constant.
The proportion of the monthly payment that goes towards repayment of
principal will be lower 10 years from now than it will be the first year.
The outstanding balance declines at a slower rate in the later years of the
loanâs life.
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4. 4.The primary operating goal of a publicly-owned firm interested
in serving its stockholders should be to (Points : 4)
Maximize the stock price per share over the long run, which is the stockâs
intrinsic value.
Maximize the firm’s expected EPS.
Minimize the chances of losses.
Maximize the firm’s expected total income.
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5. 5.If a firm’s goal is to maximize its earnings per share, this
is the best way to maximize the price of the common stock and thus
shareholders’ wealth. (Points : 4)
True
False
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6. 6.Rappaport Corp.’s sales last year were $320,000, and its net
income after taxes was $23,000. What was its profit margin on sales?
(Points : 4)
6.49%
6.83%
7.19%
7.55%
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7. 7.Companies generate income from their “regular”
operations and from other sources like interest earned on the securities
they hold, which is called non-operating income. Lindley Textiles recently
reported $12,500 of sales, $7,250 of operating costs other than
depreciation, and $1,000 of depreciation. The company had no amortization
charges and no non-operating income. It had $8,000 of bonds outstanding
that carry a 7.5% interest rate, and its federal-plus-state income tax rate
was 40%. How much was Lindley’s operating income, or EBIT? (Points : 4)
$3,462
$3,644
$3,836
$4,250
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8. 8.Ratio analysis involves analyzing financial statements in
order to appraise a firm’s financial position and strength. (Points : 4)
True
False
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9. 9.Determining whether a firm’s financial position is improving
or deteriorating requires analyzing more than the ratios for a given year.
Trend analysis is one method of measuring changes in a firm’s performance
over time. (Points : 4)
True
False
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10. 10.Other things held constant, which of the following actions
would increase the amount of cash on a companyâs balance sheet? (Points :
4)
The company repurchases common stock.
The company pays a dividend.
The company issues new common stock.
The company gives customers more time to pay their bills.
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11. 11.Quigley Inc.’s bonds currently sell for
$1,080 and have a par value of $1,000. They pay a $100 annual coupon and
have a 15-year maturity, but they can be called in 5 years at $1,125. What
is their yield to maturity (YTM)?
(Points : 4)
8.56%
9.01%
9.46%
9.93%
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12. 12.Bill Dukes has $100,000 invested in a
2-stock portfolio. $35,000 is invested in Stock X and the remainder is
invested in Stock Y. X’s beta is 1.50 and Yâs beta is 0.70. What is the
portfolio’s beta?
(Points : 4)
0.65
0.72
0.80
0.98
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13. 13.Risk-averse investors require higher rates of return on
investments whose returns are highly uncertain, and most investors are risk
averse. (Points : 4)
True
False
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14. 14.Sinking funds are devices used to force companies to retire
bonds on a scheduled basis prior to their maturity. Many bond indentures
allow the company to acquire bonds for a sinking fund by either purchasing
bonds in the market or selecting the bonds to be acquired by a lottery
administered by the trustee through a call at face value. (Points : 4)
True
False
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15. 15.Which of the following statements is CORRECT? (Points : 4)
An investor can eliminate virtually all market risk if he or she holds a very
large and well diversified portfolio of stocks.
The higher the correlation between the stocks in a portfolio, the lower the
risk inherent in the portfolio.
It is impossible to have a situation where the market risk of a single stock
is less than that of a portfolio that includes the stock.
An investor can eliminate virtually all diversifiable risk if he or she holds
a very large, well-diversified, portfolio of stocks.
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16. 16.Assume that you hold a well-diversified
portfolio that has an expected return of 12.0% and a beta of 1.20. You are
in the process of buying 100 shares of Alpha Corp at $10 a share and adding
it to your portfolio. Alpha has an expected return of 15.0% and a beta of
2.00. The total value of your current portfolio is $9,000. What will the
expected return, and beta on the portfolio, be after the purchase of the
Alpha stock? 27
rp bp(Points : 4)
11.69%; 1.22
12.30%; 1.28
12.92%; 1.34
13.56%; 1.41
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17. 17.Calculate the required rate of return for
Mercury, Inc., assuming that (1) investors expect a 4.0% rate of inflation
in the future, (2) the real risk-free rate is 3.0%, (3) the market risk
premium is 5.0%, (4) Mercury has a beta of 1.00, and (5) its realized rate
of return has averaged 15.0% over the last 5 years.
(Points : 4)
10.29%
10.83%
11.40%
12.00%
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18. 18.In a portfolio of three different stocks, which of the
following could NOT be true? (Points : 4)
The riskiness of the portfolio is less than the riskiness of each of the
stocks if they were held in isolation.
The riskiness of the portfolio is greater than the riskiness of one or two of
the stocks.
The beta of the portfolio is less than the betas of each of the individual
stocks.
The beta of the portfolio is greater than the beta of one or two of the
individual stocksâ betas.
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19. 19.Stock Aâs beta is 1.5 and Stock Bâs beta is 0.5. Which of
the following statements must be true about these securities? (Assume
market equilibrium.) (Points : 4)
When held in isolation, Stock A has greater risk than Stock B.
Stock B must be a more desirable addition to a portfolio than Stock A.
Stock A must be a more desirable addition to a portfolio than Stock B.
The expected return on Stock A should be greater than that on Stock B.
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20. 20.Which of the following is NOT a potential problem with beta
and its estimation? (Points : 4)
Sometimes a security or project does not have a past history which can be
used as a basis for calculating beta.
Sometimes, during a period when the company is undergoing a change such as
toward more leverage, or riskier assets, the calculated beta will be
drastically different than the âtrueâ or âexpected futureâ beta.
The beta of âthe market,â can change over time, sometimes drastically.
Sometimes the past data used to calculate beta do not reflect the likely risk
of the firm for the future because conditions have changed.
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21. 21.Anderson Systems is considering a project that has the
following cash flow and WACC data. What is the project’s NPV? Note that if
a project’s expected NPV is negative, it should be rejected.
WACC: 9.00%
Year
0
1
2 3
Cash flows
-$1,000
$500 $500 $500 (Points : 4)
$265.65
$278.93
$292.88
$307.52
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22. 22.Taggart Inc. is considering a project that has the following
cash flow data. What is the project’s payback?
Year
0
1
2
3
Cash flows
-$1,150
$500 $500 $500 (Points : 4)
1.86 years
2.07 years
2.30 years
2.53 years
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23. 23.Which of the following statements is CORRECT? (Points : 4)
One defect of the IRR method versus the NPV is that the IRR does not take
account of cash flows over a projectâs full life.
One defect of the IRR method versus the NPV is that the IRR does not take
account of the time value of money.
One defect of the IRR method versus the NPV is that the IRR does not take
account of the cost of capital.
One defect of the IRR method versus the NPV is that the IRR does not take
proper account of differences in the sizes of projects.
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24. 24.Which of the following statements is CORRECT? Assume that
the project being considered has normal cash flows, with one outflow
followed by a series of inflows. (Points : 4)
The longer a projectâs payback period, the more desirable the project is normally
considered to be by this criterion.
One drawback of the regular payback for evaluating projects is that this
method does not properly account for the time value of money.
If a projectâs payback is positive, then the project should be rejected
because it must have a negative NPV.
The regular payback ignores cash flows beyond the payback period, but the
discounted payback method overcomes this problem.
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25. 25.Which of the following statements is CORRECT? (Points : 4)
The regular payback method recognizes all cash flows over a projectâs life.
The discounted payback method recognizes all cash flows over a projectâs
life, and it also adjusts these cash flows to account for the time value of
money.
The regular payback method was, years ago, widely used, but virtually no
companies even calculate the payback today.
The regular payback is useful as an indicator of a projectâs liquidity
because it gives managers an idea of how long it will take to recover the
funds invested in a project.
