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FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 1 Solution
FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2 Solution
FIN 534 Week 2 Chapter 3 Solution
FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 4 Solution
FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 5 Solution
FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 6 Solution
FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 7 Solution
FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 8 Solution
FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 9 Solution
FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 10 Solution
FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 1 Solution
• 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. One of the disadvantages of a sole proprietorship is that the proprietor
is exposed to unlimited liability.
• b. It is generally easier to transfer one’s ownership interest in a
partnership than in a corporation.
• c. One of the advantages of the corporate form of organization is that it
avoids double taxation.
• d. One of the advantages of a corporation from a social standpoint is that
every stockholder has equal voting rights, i.e., “one person, one vote.”
• e. Corporations of all types are subject to the corporate income tax.
• 2. Which of the following would be most likely to lead to higher interest
rates on all debt securities in the economy?
• a. Households start saving a larger percentage of their income.
FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2 Solution
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1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
a. Typically, a firm’s DPS should exceed its EPS.
b. Typically, a firm’s EBIT should exceed its EBITDA.
c. If a firm is more profitable than average (e.g., Google), we would
normally expect to see its stock price exceed its book value per share.
• d. If a firm is more profitable than most other firms, we would normally
expect to see its book value per share exceed its stock price, especially
after several years of high inflation.
• e. The more depreciation a firm has in a given year, the higher its EPS,
other things held constant.
FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 1 (Str Course)
• Imagine a startup company of your own and briefly trace its development
from a sole proprietorship to a major corporation with a focus on how that
development would be financed.
FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 2 (Str Course)
• Discuss ways that the basic concepts we have discussed in this chapter
directly impact your life. Provide specific examples to support your
response.
Fin 534 Week 1 Quiz 1 (Str Course)
• Question 1
• You recently sold 100 shares of your new company, XYZ Corporation, to
your brother at a family reunion. At the reunion your brother gave you a
check for the stock and you gave your brother the stock certificates. Which
of the following statements best describes this transaction?
• 1) This is an example of an exchange of physical assets.
• 2) This is an example of a primary market transaction.
• 3) This is an example of a direct transfer of capital.
• 4) This is an example of a money market transaction.
• 5) This is an example of a derivatives market transaction.
FIN 534 Week 2 Chapter 3 Solution
(Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. The ratio of long-term debt to total capital is more likely to experience
seasonal fluctuations than is either the DSO or the inventory turnover
ratio.
• b. If two firms have the same ROA, the firm with the most debt can be
expected to have the lower ROE.
• c. An increase in the DSO, other things held constant, could be expected to
increase the total assets turnover ratio.
• d. An increase in the DSO, other things held constant, could be expected
to increase the ROE.
FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 4 Solution
(Str Course)
• 1. A $50,000 loan is to be amortized over 7 years, with annual end-of-year
payments. Which of these statements is CORRECT?
• a. The annual payments would be larger if the interest rate were lower.
• b. If the loan were amortized over 10 years rather than 7 years, and if the
interest rate were the same in either case, the first payment would include
more dollars of interest under the 7-year amortization plan.
• c. The proportion of each payment that represents interest as opposed to
repayment of principal would be lower if the interest rate were lower.
• d. The last payment would have a higher proportion of interest than the
first payment.
FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 5 Solution
(Str Course)
• 1 . Three $1,000 face value bonds that mature in 10 years have the same
level of risk, hence their YTMs are equal. Bond A has an 8% annual
coupon, Bond B has a 10% annual coupon, and Bond C has a 12% annual
coupon. Bond B sells at par. Assuming interest rates remain constant for
the next 10 years, which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. Bond A’s current yield will increase each year.
• b. Since the bonds have the same YTM, they should all have the same
price, and since interest rates are not expected to change, their prices
should all remain at their current levels until maturity.
FIN 534 Week 3 Quiz 2 (Str Course)
• Question 1
• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. Since companies can deduct dividends paid but not interest paid, our
tax system favors the use of equity financing over debt financing, and this
causes companies’ debt ratios to be lower than they would be if interest
and dividends were both deductible.
• b. Interest paid to an individual is counted as income for tax purposes and
taxed at the individual’s regular tax rate, which in 2008 could go up to
35%, but dividends received were taxed at a maximum rate of 15%.
• financial position at a point in time.
FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 6 Solution
(Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. If you add enough randomly selected stocks to a portfolio, you can
completely eliminate all of the market risk from the portfolio.
• b. If you were restricted to investing in publicly traded common stocks, yet
you wanted to minimize the riskiness of your portfolio as measured by its
beta, then according to the CAPM theory you should invest an equal
amount of money in each stock in the market. That is, if there were 10,000
traded stocks in the world, the least risky possible portfolio would include
some shares of each one.
FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 7 Solution
(Str Course)
• . Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. The constant growth model takes into consideration the capital gains
investors expect to earn on a stock.
• b. Two firms with the same expected dividend and growth rates must also
have the same stock price.
• c. It is appropriate to use the constant growth model to estimate a stock's
value even if its growth rate is never expected to become constant.
FIN 534 Week 4 Quiz 3 (Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• 1) A time line is not meaningful unless all cash flows occur annually
• 2) Time lines are useful for visualizing complex problems prior to doing
actual calculations
• 3) Time lines cannot be constructed to deal with situations where some of
the cash flows occur annually but others occur quarterly
• 4) Time lines can only be constructed for annuities where the payments
occur at the ends of the periods, i.e., for ordinary annuities
• 5) Time lines cannot be constructed where some of the payments
constitute an annuity but others are unequal and thus are not part of the
annuity
FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 8 Solution (Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. Put options give investors the right to buy a stock at a certain strike
price before a specified date.
• b. Call options give investors the right to sell a stock at a certain strike
price before a specified date.
• c. Options typically sell for less than their exercise value.
• d. LEAPS are very short-term options that were created relatively recently
and now trade in the market.
• e. An option holder is not entitled to receive dividends unless he or she
exercises their option before the stock goes ex dividend.
• 2. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 9 Solution
(Str Course)
• 1. Bankston Corporation forecasts that if all of its existing financial policies
are followed, its proposed capital budget would be so large that it would
have to issue new common stock. Since new stock has a higher cost than
retained earnings, Bankston would like to avoid issuing new stock. Which
of the following actions would REDUCE its need to issue new common
stock?
• a. Increase the dividend payout ratio for the upcoming year.
• b. Increase the percentage of debt in the target capital structure.
• c. Increase the proposed capital budget.
FIN 534 Week 5 Quiz 4 (Str Course)
• Finance 534 week 5 quiz 4
• Question 1
• Assume that in recent years both expected inflation and the market risk
premium (rM
• − rRF) have declined. Assume also that all stocks have positive betas.
Which of the following would be most likely to have occurred as a result of
these changes?
• Answer
• Question 2
FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 10 Solution (Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. The internal rate of return method (IRR) is generally regarded by
academics as being the best single method for evaluating capital
budgeting projects.
• b. The payback method is generally regarded by academics as being the
best single method for evaluating capital budgeting projects.
• c. The discounted payback method is generally regarded by academics as
being the best single method for evaluating capital budgeting projects.
FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 11
Solution (Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. An externality is a situation where a project would have an adverse
effect on some other part of the firm’s overall operations. If the project
would have a favorable effect on other operations, then this is not an
externality.
• b. An example of an externality is a situation where a bank opens a new
office, and that new office causes deposits in the bank’s other offices to
decline.
• c. The NPV method automatically deals correctly with externalities, even if
the externalities are not specifically identified, but the IRR method does
not. This is another reason to favor the NPV.
FIN 534 Week 6 Quiz 5 (Str Course)
• Finance 534 week 6 Quiz5
• Question 1
• Call options on XYZ Corporation’s common stock trade in the market.
Which of the following statements is most correct, holding other things
constant?
• Question 2
• Other things held constant, the value of an option depends on the stock's
price, the risk-free rate, and the
• Question 3
• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• Question 4
• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
FIN 534 Week 7 Chapter 12 Solution (Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. Perhaps the most important step when developing forecasted financial
statements is to determine the breakdown of common equity between
common stock and retained earnings.
• b. The first, and perhaps the most critical, step in forecasting financial
requirements is to forecast future sales.
• c. Forecasted financial statements, as discussed in the text, are used
primarily as a part of the managerial compensation program, where
management’s historical performance is evaluated.
FIN 534 Week 7 Chapter 13 Solution (Str Course)
• 1. Suppose Leonard, Nixon, & Shull Corporation’s projected free cash flow
for next year is $100,000, and FCF is expected to grow at a constant rate of
6%. If the company’s weighted average cost of capital is 11%, what is the
value of its operations?
• a. $1,714,750
• b. $1,805,000
• c. $1,900,000
• d. $2,000,000
• e. $2,100,000
• 2. Leak Inc. forecasts the free cash flows (in millions) shown below. If the
weighted average cost of capital is 11% and FCF is expected to grow at a
rate of 5% after Year 2, what is the Year 0 value of operations, in millions?
Assume that the ROIC is expected to remain constant in Year 2 and beyond
(and do not make any half-year adjustments).
• Year: 1 2
FIN 534 Week 7 Quiz 6 (Str Course)
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Finance 534 week 7 quiz 6
Question 1
Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
Answer
Question 2
Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
Question 3
Assume that the economy is in a mild recession, and as a result interest
rates and money costs generally are relatively low. The WACC for two
mutually exclusive projects that are being considered is 8%. Project S has
an IRR of 20% while Project L's IRR is 15%. The projects have the same NPV
at the 8% current WACC.
FIN 534 Week 8 Chapter 14 Solution (Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements about dividend policies is CORRECT?
• a. Modigliani and Miller argue that investors prefer dividends to capital
gains because dividends are more certain than capital gains. They call this
the ―bird-in-the hand‖ effect.
• b. One reason that companies tend to avoid stock repurchases is that
dividend payments are taxed at a lower rate than gains on stock
repurchases.
• c. One advantage of dividend reinvestment plans is that they allow
shareholders to avoid paying taxes on the dividends that they choose to
reinvest.
FIN 534 Week 8 Chapter 15 Solution (Str Course)
• 1. Which of the following statements best describes the optimal capital
structure?
• a. The optimal capital structure is the mix of debt, equity, and preferred
stock that maximizes the company’s earnings per share (EPS).
• b. The optimal capital structure is the mix of debt, equity, and preferred
stock that maximizes the company’s stock price.
• c. The optimal capital structure is the mix of debt, equity, and preferred
stock that minimizes the company’s cost of equity.
• d. The optimal capital structure is the mix of debt, equity, and preferred
stock that minimizes the company’s cost of debt.
• e. The optimal capital structure is the mix of debt, equity, and preferred
stock that minimizes the company’s cost of preferred stock.
FIN 534 Week 8 Quiz 7 (Str Course)
• Finance 534 week 8 quiz 7
• This quiz consist of 30 multiple choice questions. The first 15 questions
cover the material in Chapter 12. The second 15 questions cover the
material in Chapter 13. Be sure you are in the correct Chapter when you
take the quiz.
• Question 1
• Last year Godinho Corp. had $250 million of sales, and it had $75 million
of fixed assets that were being operated at 80% of capacity. In millions,
how large could sales have been if the company had operated at full
capacity?
• Question 2
• Which of the following is NOT a key element in strategic planning as it is
described in the text?
• Question 3
• Spontaneous funds are generally defined as follows:
FIN 534 Week 9 Chapter 16 Solution (Str Course)
• 1. Swim Suits Unlimited is in a highly seasonal business, and the following
summary balance sheet data show its assets and liabilities at peak and offpeak seasons (in thousands of dollars):
• Peak Off-Peak
• Cash $ 50 $ 30
• Marketable securities 0 20
• Accounts receivable 40 20
• Inventories 100 50
• Net fixed assets 500 500
• Total assets $690 $620
FIN 534 Week 9 Quiz 8 (Str Course)
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Question 1
Which of the following statements about dividend policies is correct?
Question 2
If a firm adheres strictly to the residual dividend policy, the issuance of
new common stock would suggest that
Question 3
Which of the following statements is correct?
Answer
Correct Answer:
If a firm repurchases some of its stock in the open market, then
shareholders who sell their stock for more than they paid for it will be
subject to capital gains taxes.
FIN 534 Week 10 Chapter 17 Solution (Str Course)
• 1. In Japan, 90-day securities have a 4% annualized return and 180-day
securities have a 5% annualized return. In the United States, 90-day
securities have a 4% annualized return and 180-day securities have an
annualized return of 4.5%. All securities are of equal risk, and Japanese
securities are denominated in terms of the Japanese yen. Assuming that
interest rate parity holds in all markets, which of the following statements
is most CORRECT?
• a. The yen-dollar spot exchange rate equals the yen-dollar exchange rate
in the 90-day forward market.
FIN 534 Week 11 Quiz 10 (Str Course)
• Finance 534 week 11 quiz 10
• Question 1
• Suppose DeGraw Corporation, a U.S. exporter, sold a solar heating station
to a Japanese customer at a price of 143.5 million yen, when the exchange
rate was 140 yen per dollar. In order to close the sale, DeGraw agreed to
make the bill payable in yen, thus agreeing to take some exchange rate risk
for the transaction. The terms were net 6 months. If the yen fell against
the dollar such that one dollar would buy 154.4 yen when the invoice was
paid, what dollar amount would DeGraw actually receive after it
exchanged yen for U.S. dollars?
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