You want to buy a car which will cost you $10,000. You do not have sufficient funds to purchase the car. You do not expect the price of the car to change in the foreseeable future. You can either save money or borrow money to buy the car.
- Option 1: The first repayment will not start until you graduate from university. Therefore, no month-end-instalments will be made for the first 36 months. Then, commencing at the end of the 37th month, a total of 30 month-end-instalments of $X will be made over the life of the loan. The nominal interest rate is 6% per annum compounded monthly.
d) Calculate X. (2 mark)
e) Your parents agree to help you repay the loan by contributing a lump sum of $1,800 when you successfully graduate from university. Calculate the new value of X. (1 mark)
- Option 2: For the first 36 months (while you are still studying), you will be making month-end-instalments of $Y. Then, commencing at the end of the 37th month (when you graduate from university), you will double the amount of monthly repayment for the remaining 30 month-end-instalments. The nominal interest rate is 6% per annum compounded monthly.
f) Calculate the value of Y.
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Liabilities
Using the Annual Report of your selected company, answer the following questions in the Discussion:
What is the breakdown of the company's current liabilities at year end?
Calculate the company's times-interest-earned ratio for the year-end. What does this tell you about the company?
How much was the company's long-term debt at year end?
Compute the company's debt to equity ratio at year-end. How does it compare to the industry? What does this tell you about the company?
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Please tell us about your experience with budgeting. This can be either experience from a work environment or with your personal life. If you've learned anything cool this week that will inform your budgeting practices in the future, please tell us about it.
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7. Consider Donald and Joe who are both 30- years of age and recently graduated with a degree in Finance. Both Donald and Joe plan to retire at age 67, and the retirement plan pays a 12 percent per annum return and is also compounded monthly. Donald plans to invest $1,000 per month beginning next month into his retirement account, while Joe shall invest $2,000 per month. Joe however does not plan to begin investing until 10 years after Donald begins to invest. How much will each of the newly grads have at retirement?
8. On December 31, 2019, Speedo’s Limited bought a yacht for $55,000 but made a down payment of $10,000. Speedo’s agreed to pay the balance in 10 equal end-of-year installments and 10% interest on the declining balance. Calculate the annual payments.
9. Match each sentence to the correct concept.
a) The amount an investment is worth after one or more time periods is referred to as _______________
b) The process of finding the present value of some future amount is called _________________.
c) Calculating the present value of a future cash flow to determine its value today is known as _________________.
d) Interest earned on the principal and may be for a number of years may be called ______________
e) ___________ is the process of accumulating interest in an investment over time to earn more interest.
f) The interest earned on both the initial principal and the interest reinvested from prior periods is referred to as ______ _______.
In: Finance
P Company paid $8,000,000 (cash) for an 80% interest in S Company on 7/1/07. The book values and fair values of S’s assets and liabilities on the date of acquisition were as follows:
Beginning of year
|
BV |
FV |
|
|
Cash |
$400 |
$400 |
|
Accounts Receivable |
$800 |
$800 |
|
Inventories |
$1,400 |
$1,900 |
|
Other Current Assets |
$900 |
$400 |
|
Land |
$2,400 |
$3,800 |
|
Building (10 year life) |
$1,400 |
$1,000 |
|
Patent (10 year life) |
$1,300 |
$1,000 |
|
Total Assets |
$8,600 |
$9,300 |
|
Accounts Payable |
$400 |
$2,400 |
|
Accrued Liabilities |
$1,200 |
$100 |
|
B/P (10 year maturity) |
$1,000 |
$1,100 |
|
Common Stock |
$5,000 |
|
|
Retained Earnings |
$1,000 |
|
|
Total |
$8,600 |
The company earned income of $24,000 ($2,000 per month) in 2007 and paid total dividends of $12,000 on October 1, 2007.
Required
4) Analyze the Investment Account at 12/31/07
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From a finance perspective, which of the following is the most appropriate goal for corporate management?
Maximizing the market value of the company’s shares.
Maximizing the company’s market share.
Maximizing the current profits of the company.
Minimizing the company’s liabilities.
Maximizing the value of the company’s operating assets.
A project's opportunity cost of capital is:
designed to be less than the project's IRR.
designed to be greater than the project's IRR
the return earned by investing in the project.
equal to the average return on all company projects.
the foregone return from investing in the project.
A stock’s estimated β provides an estimate of the stock’s:
unsystematic risk
systematic risk
total risk
As the hurdle rate (i.e., the opportunity cost of capital) is increased, the NPV of a specific project will:
stay the same
increase
decrease
decrease to zero, then remain constant
increase to zero, then remain constant
Which one of the following firms' common stocks is likely to have the lowest beta (i.e., systematic risk)?
Southwest Airlines (airline company)
Anaconda Steel (steel manufacturer)
Fiat Group (automobile manufacturer)
Dominion Power (electric utility)
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______ (Write “T” for true or “F” for false)
______ (Write “T” for true or “F” for false)
______ (Write “T” for true or “F” for false)
__________________________________ BOND
__________________________________ STOCK
D1______________________ D2 ____________________
in 2020? _____________
In 2050? ______________
__________________________________
__________________________________
_____________________
In: Accounting
Compare and contrast the two (2) LARC form of family planning. For the following scenarios, determine the best family planning option for the patient. Your response should be justified. You may need to elaborate on the efficacy, effects, procedure & follow-up.
A 20-year-old university student who requests contraception, says she has dysmenorrhea and heavy menstrual loss on the first day of her menses. She has a regular monthly cycle and enjoys good general health.
A 23-year-old unmarried, unemployed woman from a squatter settlement has just given birth after an unplanned pregnancy. She plans to breast feed.
A 30-year-old school teacher who has two (2) children, has just stopped breast feeding and was on a low dose progestogen only preparation. She is in good health and is undecided on a tubal ligation. She thinks she has completed her family.
A 38-year-old G5P5, had a normal delivery 24 hours ago. She is stable but having some trouble breastfeeding. She would like to breastfeed for as long as she can. She is undecided about which family planning method to use.
A 28-year-old woman has a 5-year-old child. She is not keen to have a pregnancy yet. She stopped the implant due to hormonal effects. A couple come to see you, they would like to consider vasectomy for the male partner. His wife is a known cardiac case who was admitted in ICU for pulmonary oedema.
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Louise is a 20-year-old woman who has been admitted to an acute mental health inpatient ward following an episode of self harming behavior.this is her first contact with mental health services. Louise presents with lacerations to both arms; some are superficial scratches, others, while of varying severity and depth, are not life-threatening. There are also visible scars on her arms from apparently previous incidents of self-harming behaviors.
Louise has been admitted via the local accident and emergency department following an initial CRISIS assessment by the hospital Mental Health Liaison Team. Louise had consumed half a bottle of vodka and also admitted to smoking cannabis prior to the incident. She denies having taken an overdose of any type and this is corroborated by normal blood test results. she was originally accompanied there by her mother who did not remain with her.
Louise does not appear remorseful for what she has done. She says she is depressed and angry with her parents who 'think she is worthless and do not care about me because i haven't gone to university like my brothers'. She maintains that she doesn't need any help with her problems, claiming that they are down to 'my immaturity, as my parents keep telling me' and that I'll grow out of it with time.
Pathology
Define the patient's disease process
Describe the patient's disease process
Clearly explain etiology of the disease process
Clearly explain the cause of the disease process
Thoroughly explain signs and symptoms of pathology
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SCENARIO: A mid-sized employment agency needs your advice on e-mail policies. They want to prepare a one-page document to distribute to employees. Since you're only being asked for advice and to not create the actual document, perform the following tasks:
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