(Efficiency analysis) The Brenmar Sales Company had a gross profit margin (gross profits /sales) of 25 percent and sales of $9.5 million last year. 74 percent of the firm’s sales are on credit, and the remainder is cash sales. Brenmar’s current asset..
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Suppose you are the CEO of a Japanese company that produces computers and exports them to the US. The price for a computer is always $700, and the dollar-yen forward with maturity at the end of next year is traded at ¥108/$. Quantify the overall fore..
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You’ve observed the following returns on Doyscher Corporation’s stock over the past five years: –28.2 percent, 15.8 percent, 34.6 percent, 3.4 percent, and 22.4 percent. What was the arithmetic average return on the stock over this five-year period? ..
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Explain what a leveraged buyout (LBO) is. Define the term divestiture and briefly discuss the major types of divestitures. Provide reasons a company might consider a divestiture.
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You’re prepared to make monthly payments of $250, beginning at the end of this month, into an account that pays 10 percent interest compounded monthly. How many payments will you have made when your account balance reaches $65,000?
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Vale S.A. is a publicly traded company (symbol: VALE) that engages in the research, production, and sale of iron ore, nickel, copper, and other precious metals. Calculate the WACC with taxes for VALE. Market capitalization, beta of equity, and book v..
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Microtech Corporation is expanding rapidly and currently needs to retain all of its earnings; hence, it does not pay dividends. However, investors expect Microtech to begin paying dividends, beginning with a dividend of $1.50 coming 3 years from toda..
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You are comparing two mutually exclusive projects. Both projects have an initial cost of $49,000 . Project A has cash inflows of $30,000 , $27,000 , and $24,000 over the next 3 years, respectively. Project B has cash inflows of $19,000 , $24,600 and ..
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The market value of Gannon's common stock was $24 per share at December 31, 2010, and $25 per share at December 31, 2011. The cost method is used to record treasury stock transactions. What account(s) should Gannon credit in 2011 to record thesale of..
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How did you derive your forecast? Why did you choose the base case assumptions that you did? Based on your pro forma projections, how much additional financing will The Body Shop need during this period? What are the three or four most important assu..
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If you borrow $2,500 from a bank now, at nominal interest rate of i (annual percentage rate, APR) compounded quarterly, and if you pay to the bank a year from now $2,700 what is the value of i? What is the effect interest rate (annual percentage yiel..
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Automatic Transmissions Inc., has the following estimates of its new gear assembly project price = $1, 240 per unit, variable cost = $460 per unit; fixed costs = $4 97 million; quantity = 87.000 units. =Suppose the company believes all of its estimat..
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