The tax rate is 40 percent. What discount rate should API apply to the cash flows from "new" projects in the Financial Services Division?
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Suppose that Ken-Z Art Gallery has annual sales of $872,000, cost of goods sold of $562,000, average inventories of $148,000, average accounts receivable of $117,000, and an average accounts payable balance of $80,000. Assuming that all of Ken-Z’s sa..
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Interpret your results. In particular, focus on the differences between the variance analysis here and the Carroll Clinic illustration presented in the chapter.
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Consider the following project which costs $1,000,000 with a salvage value of $50,000 in 5 years. The project will produce a new type of running shoes which will be sold for $235 and have variable costs of $95 per pair. The company has fixed costs of..
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Julie Horton, CEO of Horton Mfg., wants the company to reduce the percent of generators that customers return. In June, the company shipped 9,000 generators, and 2,610 were eventually returned. What percent of the June shipment was eventually returne..
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Your company has been approached to bid on a contract to sell 3,600 voice recognition (VR) computer keyboards a year for four years. Due to technological improvements, beyond that time they will be outdated and no sales will be possible. The tax rate..
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An investment project has annual cash inflows of $3,800, $4,700, $5,900, and $5,100, for the next four years, respectively. The discount rate is 14 percent. What is the discounted payback period for these cash flows if the initial cost is $8,600?
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Saul Cervantes has just purchased some equipment for his landscaping business. For this equipment he must pay the following amounts at the end of each of the next five years: $9,722, $10,682, $14,734, $8,892, and $12,034. If the appropriate discount ..
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You buy a share of stock, write a one-year call option with X = $18, and buy a one-year put option with X = $18. Your net outlay to establish the entire portfolio is $17.50. What must be the risk-free interest rate? The stock pays no dividends.
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A newly issued 20-year maturity, zero-coupon bond is issued with a yield to maturity of 4.5% and face value $1,000. Find the imputed interest income in the first, second, and last year of the bond's life. Assume annual compounding.
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Suppose you sell a fixed asset for $93,000 when it's book value is $116,000. If your company's marginal tax rate is 28%, what will be the effect on cash flows of this sale (i.e., what will be the after-tax cash flow of this sale)?
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The portfolio Alpha has an expected return of 18.50% and risk of 60%. The portfolio Gamma has an expected return of 11.75% and risk of 30%. The risk of market portfolio is 40%. Ms. Investor would like to create the portfolio Delta by utilizing the ri..
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