Gluon Inc. is considering the purchase of a new high pressure glueball. It can purchase the glueball for $100,000 and sell its old low-pressure glueball, which is fully depreciated, for $18,000. The new equipment has a 10-year useful life and will sa..
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Research the variables that impact the pricing of options. Focus your energy on comparing the attributes of the two widely accepted models used for option pricing: Black-Scholes and Binomial Models.
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The demand for 1,000 units of a part to be used at a uniform rate throughout the year may be met by manufacturing. The part can be produced at the rate of 3 per hour in a department that works 1,880 hours per year. The set-up cost per lot is estimate..
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You currently have 25 and want to retire at the age of 65. As a complement to other sources of retirement, you could deposit $ 3,000 at the end of each year in an IRA. This financial instrument would earn 9.75% over the next 40 years. a) How much mon..
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Yolanda invests her $5,000 bonus into a high yield account that earns 6.7% simple interest. She wants to buy a Burmese Rabbit Hound with the money. The breeder told her that a puppy would cost $5,500. How long will Yolanda have to wait before she has..
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One-year zero coupon treasury bonds are selling for £975.61 in the U.K. and for $963.86 in the U.S. Assume $1,000 face value in dollars for the U.S. bond and £1,000 face value for the U.K bond, and round interest rates to two decimal places, e.g. 2.5..
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What is the company’s cost of equity capital if CCC’s common stock has a beta of 2.0, a risk-free rate of 6.0 percent and the expected return on the market is 12 percent?
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Consider an option on a non-dividend-paying stock when the stock price is $107, the exercise price is $102, the risk-free interest rate is 5% per annum, the volatility is 25% per annum, and the time to maturity is four months.
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Strudler Real Estate, Inc., a construction firm financed by both debt and equity, is undertaking a new project. If the project is successful, the value of the firm in one year will be $380 million, but if the project is a failure, the firm will be wo..
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If Company A is considering the replacement of its old, fully depreciated knitting machine. Two new models are available: Machine 190-3, which has a cost of $219,000, a 4-year expected life, and after-tax cash flows (labor savings and depreciation) o..
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Harlan County Mining, a Kentucky-based coal mine, has expected earnings before interest and taxes of $7 million. Its unlevered cost of capital is 10.6 percent and its tax rate is 36 percent. The firm has debt with both a book and a market value of $1..
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Statement of Cash Flows W.C. Cycling had $54,000 of cash at year-end 2011 and $11,000 in cash at year-end 2012. The firm invested in property, plant, and equipment totaling $130,000. Cash flow from financing activities totaled +$160,000. Round your a..
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