1) You have just purchased a home and taken out a $ 530,000 mortgage. The mortgage has a 30-year term with monthly payments and an APR of 5.20%.
a. How much will you pay in interest, and how much will you pay in principal, during the first year?
b. How much will you pay in interest, and how much will you pay in principal, during the 20th year (i.e., between 19 and 20 years from now)?
2) You need a new car and the dealer has offered you a price of $20,000, with the following payment options: (a) pay cash and receive a $2,000 rebate, or (b) pay a $5,000 down payment and finance the rest with a 0% APR loan over 30 months. But having just quit your job and started an MBA program, you are in debt and you expect to be in debt for at least the next 2 ½ years. You plan to use credit cards to pay your expenses; luckily you have one with a low (fixed) rate of 13.59% APR. Which payment option is best for you?
3) The mortgage on your house is five years old. It required monthly payments of $1,450, had an original term of 30 years, and had an interest rate of 10% (APR). In the intervening five years, interest rates have fallen and so you have decided to refinance — that is, you will roll over the outstanding balance into a new mortgage. The new mortgage has a 30-year term, requires monthly payments, and has an interest rate of 6.625% (APR).
a. What monthly repayments will be required with the new loan?
b. If you still want to pay off the mortgage in 25 years, what monthly payment should you make after you refinance?
c. Suppose you are willing to continue making monthly payments of $1,450. How long will it take you to pay off the mortgage after refinancing?
d. Suppose you are willing to continue making monthly payments of $1,450 and want to pay off the mortgage in 25 years. How much additional cash can you borrow today as part of the refinancing?
4) Your uncle Fred just purchased a new boat. He brags to you about the low 6.9% interest rate (APR, monthly compounding) he obtained from the dealer. The rate is even lower than the rate he could have obtained on his home equity loan 7.9% APR, monthly compounding). But if his tax rate is 25% and the interest on the home equity loan is tax deductible, which loan is truly cheaper?
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(a) Investment A for $100,000 is invested at a nominal rate of interest, j, convertible semiannually. After 4 years, it accumulates to 214,358.88.
(b) Investment B for $100,000 is invested at a nominal rate of discount, k, convertible quarterly. After two years, it accumulates to 232,305.73. 2
(c) Investment C for $100,000 is invested at an annual effective rate of interest equal to j in year one and an annual effective rate of discount equal to k in year two. Calculate the value of investment C at the end of two years.
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Greta, an elderly investor, has a degree of risk aversion of A = 3 when applied to return on wealth over a one-year horizon. She is pondering two portfolios, the S&P 500 and a hedge fund, as well as a number of one-year strategies. (All rates are annual and continuously compounded.) The S&P 500 risk premium is estimated at 8.4% per year, with a SD of 23.4%. The hedge fund risk premium is estimated at 13.4% with a SD of 38.4%. The returns on both of these portfolios in any particular year are uncorrelated with its own returns in other years. They are also uncorrelated with the returns of the other portfolio in other years. The hedge fund claims the correlation coefficient between the annual returns on the S&P 500 and the hedge fund in the same year is zero, but Greta is not fully convinced by this claim. What should be Greta’s capital allocation?
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Weighted average cost of capital is a long way as to how much earnings a company can achieve through the costs of its projects and ultimately any products that are sold. If you were the financial manager do you have a preference for how the company would be capitalized? Do you believe that awaiting skewed more toward debt would be advantageous or more equity?
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We are evaluating a project that costs $670,000, has a life of 5 years, and has no salvage value. Assume that depreciation is straight-line to zero over the life of the project. Sales are projected at 59,000 units per year. Price per unit is $44, variable cost per unit is $25, and fixed costs are $760,000 per year. The tax rate is 23 percent, and we require a 16 percent return on this project. Suppose the projections given for the price, quantity, variable costs, and fixed costs are all accurate to within ±10 percent. Calculate the best case and worst case NPV figures.
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A pension fund manager is considering three mutual funds. The first is a stock fund, the second is a long-term government and corporate bond fund, and the third is a T-bill money market fund that yields a rate of 6%. The probability distribution of the risky funds is as follows: Expected Return Standard Deviation Stock fund (S) 21 % 28 % Bond fund (B) 12 18 The correlation between the fund returns is 0.09. You require that your portfolio yield an expected return of 13%, and that it be efficient, on the best feasible CAL. a. What is the standard deviation of your portfolio? (Round your answer to 2 decimal places.) b. What is the proportion invested in the T-bill fund and each of the two risky funds? (Round your answers to 2 decimal places.)
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Why do some managers have difficulties in delegating authority? Why do you think this problem might be more pronounced in small businesses?
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You are considering two projects with the following cash flows:
Project Y | Project X | |
Year 1 | $9,500 | $6,000 |
Year 2 | $9,000 | $6,900 |
Year 3 | $6,900 | $9,000 |
Year 4 | $6,000 | $9,500 |
Which one of the following statements is true concerning the two projects given a positive discount rate?
A. |
Project Y has both a higher present value and a higher future value than project X. |
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B. |
Both projects have the same future value at the end of year 4. |
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C. |
Project X has a higher present value at time zero than project Y |
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D. |
Both projects have the same present value at time zero. |
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Tim wants to buy an apartment that costs $2,225,000 with an 85% LTV mortgage. Tim got a 30 year, 3/1 ARM with an initial teaser rate of 3.75%. The reset margin on the loan is 300 basis points above 1 year CMT. There are no caps. The index was 1% at the time of origination. Tim also had to pay 1 point for this loan. Suppose the index rate will remain 1% for the life of the loan.
Compute the annualized IRR for this loan assuming Tim will prepay in 5 years.
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IC6-3
Towers Inc. (TI) is a leader in delivering communications technology that powers global commerce and secures the world's most critical information. Its shares trade on the Canadian and U.S. national stock exchanges. The company had been experiencing unprecedented growth, but then, in 2015, industry demand for the company's services and products declined dramatically due to an industry realignment, an economic downturn, and a tightening in global capital and product markets. By the end of 2017, the industry stabilized and the company began to enter a turnaround period after significant downsizing.
In 2017, employee morale was very low because of all the downsizing. Many employees were being actively recruited away from TI. Management decided to set up bonus programs for employees who stayed to see the company through the difficult times and back to profitability. Under one plan, every employee would receive a bonus in the first quarter that the company achieved enough profit to cover the bonus costs. In order to help achieve profitability, the CFO met with the managers of his divisions and established profitability targets and what he referred to as “roadmaps” that showed how these targets could be achieved. The roadmaps included statements that the profits could only be achieved through the release from the statement of financial position of excess provisions (that is, provisions for obsolete inventory and bad debts). The provisions had been overprovided for in earlier years in an effort to “manage” profits.
In 2018, the company came under scrutiny from the securities regulators. The government notified it of a criminal investigation into alleged accounting irregularities. In addition, there were several class-action lawsuits outstanding against the company by shareholders alleging that TI had provided misleading information to them in the financial statements for 2016 and 2017. Once news of this was released, credit-rating agencies significantly downgraded their ratings of TI's securities. As a result of this negative activity, the company had not released its financial statements for 2018 and was now in breach of stock exchange requirements to file financial statements. Although the stock exchanges had not done so, they now had the power to delist TI's shares.
The controller of TI must now finalize the financial statements and has come across the following information.
Instructions
Adopt the role of controller and analyze the financial reporting issues.
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The Metchosin Corporation has two different bonds currently outstanding. Bond M has a face value of $50,000 and matures in 20 years. The bond makes no payments for the first six years, then pays $1,600 every six months over the subsequent eight years, and finally pays $1,900 every six months over the last six years. Bond N also has a face value of $50,000 and a maturity of 20 years; it makes no coupon payments over the life of the bond. The required return on both these bonds is 10% compounded semiannually, what is the current price of bond M and bond N? (Do not round intermediate calculations. Round the final answers to 2 decimal places.)
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We learned that share value maximization is the ultimate goal of a firm in the
market economy? How does this seemingly selfish goal benefit the entire society?
Please answer this question in a essay format!
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Morris Corporation has the following information on its balance sheets: Cash = $40, accounts receivable = $30, inventories = $100, net fixed assets = $500, accounts payable = $20, accruals = $10, short-term debt (matures in less than a year) = $25, long-term debt = $200, and total common equity = $415. Its income statement reports: Sales = $820, costs of goods sold (excluding depreciation) = $450, depreciation = $50, interest expense = $20, and tax rate = 40%. Calculate the following ratios: Net profit margin , operating profit margin , basic earning power ratio and return on total assets and return on common equity
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assume the Canadian dollar spot rate is 1.18c$/us$, the swiss spot rate is 1.29CHF/us$ and the market cross rate is 1.11 chf/c$ a. calculate the implied cross-rate of CHF/c$ b calculate the triangular arbitrage profit, assume you have us$1000 to work with
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Junk bonds: JC Penney has a CCC- rated corporate bond outstanding. There are 4 years remaining to maturity. The bond has a 5.75% coupon and closed at 85.372. Find the bond’s yield to maturity.
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