You just inherited $1,000,000. Instead of taking a lump sum, a financial planner has suggested two additional options. First, you invest in an annuity that will pay you $125,000 per year for 10 years. The discount rate is 8% for both options. The sec..
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Quad Enterprises is considering a new three-year expansion project that requires an initial fixed asset investment of $2.49 million. The fixed asset falls into the three-year MACRS class. The project is estimated to generate $2,010,000 in annual sale..
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Daniel’s Market has sales of $36,000 costs of $28,000, depreciation expense of $3,000 and interest expense of $1,500. If the tax rate is 30 percent, what is the operating cash flow, OCF? Andersen’s Nursery has sales of $318,400, costs of $199,400, de..
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A portfolio manager in charge of a portfolio worth $8 million is concerned that the market might decline rapidly during the next six months and would like to use options on the S&P 100 to provide protection against the portfolio falling below $7 mill..
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Suppose you plan to send your daughter to college in three years. You expect her to earn two-thirds of her tuition payment in scholarship money, so you estimate that your payments will be $10,000 a year for four years. To estimate whether you have se..
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You find a zero coupon bond with a par value of $10,000 and 24 years to maturity. The yield to maturity on this bond is 4.6 percent. Assume semiannual compounding periods. What is the price of the bond?
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Jones Surgicenter uses 90,000 bags of IV solution annually. The optimal safety stock (which is on hand initially) is 1,000 bags. Each bag costs the center $1.50, inventory carrying costs are 20 percent, and the cost of placing an order with its suppl..
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A firm's common stock is currently selling for $18 per share. The dividend expected to be paid at the end of the coming year is $1.74. Its dividend payments have been growing at a constant rate for the last four years. Four years ago, the dividend wa..
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An investment project has annual cash inflows of $9,000, $8,500, $8,000, and $7,300, and a discount rate of 10 percent. If the initial cost is $23,700, the discounted payback period for these cash flows is _______ years.
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The company currently has total assets of $12,000,000. They want to expand with an additional plant in West Palm Beach at a cost of $5,000,000. The new operation will be financed in its entirety with preferred equity from Miramar Trust. How many shar..
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Suppose that a firm’s recent earnings per share and dividend per share are $2.90 and $1.90, respectively. Both are expected to grow at 9 percent. However, the firm’s current P/E ratio of 28 seems high for this growth rate. The P/E ratio is expected t..
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You are the executive officers of Big Buns, Inc. (BBI). BBI manufactures different types of chairs and accessories. You have had several good years and have decided to expand. BBI is looking at acquiring another company as a subsidiary. A 5 year proj..
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