Your Office Supply has a $42,500 line of credit that charges an annual percentage rate of prime rate plus 3%. Their starting balance on March 1 was $10,600. On March 5, they borrowed $7,500. On March 14, the business made a payment of $3,300, and on ..
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The New Zealand dollar and U.S. dollar S($/NZD) spot exchange rate is 0.6717. The Japanese yen and U.S. dollar S(¥/$) spot exchange rate is 120.12. What is the cross-exchange rate between yen and NZD, S(¥/NZD)? If there is arbitrage opportunity, stat..
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The firm has an after- tax cost of capital of 12%, and its tax rate is 40%. Last year the firm had $12 million of sales, with operating margin of 28%, while depreciation expense was $800,000, and interest expense $200,000. The firm had capital employ..
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Suppose that papa bell inc.'s equity is currently selling for $61 per share, with 4.6 million shares outstanding. Assume the firm also has 23,000 bond outstanding, and they are selling at 94% of par. What are the firm's current capital structure weig..
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Last Year, a corporation had a book value of equity of $350 million of USDs, 1 million shares outstanding, and a market price of $40 per share. The corporation also had cash of $3 million of USDs, and total debt of $360 million USDs. What was the cor..
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Consider the mean-variance portfolio optimization with n risky assets, but no short sales. Write down the first order optimality conditions of the problem. Can you characterize the set of efficient portfolio?
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D. has $750 in cash, $2000 in savings account, $34,300 in stocks, $5,500 in bonds, and owns a car worth $15,500. She had $1,500 in credit card payments and an education loan of $24,000 of which $2,700 is due during the current year. What is a D. tota..
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To buy a new house you must borrow $160,000. To do this you take out a $160,000, 30 year, 12% mortgage. Your mortgage payments, which are made at the end of each year (one payment per year), include the principal and 12% interest on the declining bal..
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Fama’s Llamas has a WACC of 10.9 percent. The company’s cost of equity is 14.4 percent, and its cost of debt is 8.3 percent. The tax rate is 38 percent. What is Fama’s target debt-equity ratio?
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What steps can stockholders take to reduce the cost of debt? What incentives for stockholders have to do this? Are there any instances where managers’ interests and shareholders’ interests might diverge in their desire to minimize the cost of debt? E..
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The Trektronics store begins each week with 460 phasers in stock. This stock is depleted each week and reordered. The carrying cost per phaser is $41 per year and the fixed order cost is $84. What are the current total carrying costs? What is the eco..
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You own a portfolio that has $2,000 invested in Stock A and $1,200 invested in Stock B. If the expected returns on these stocks are 12 percent and 12 percent, respectively, the expected return on the portfolio is
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