One of the top rated Super Bow ads this year was this one for the Amazon Alexa. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/super-bowl-2019-top-commercials-ad-meter-usa-today/ (Links to an external site.)

What appears to be the advertising objective (e.g. type of advertising – informative, persuasive, Etc.) for this ad? While the ad was amusing, do you think it was effective in accomplishing its objective?

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Suppose there are 3 bonds with the following characteristics. There is a 1-year Treasury bond with a face value of $1000, a 8% coupon rate, and the yield to maturity is 8%. There is a 2-year treasury bond with a face value of $1000, a 15% coupon rate, and the yield to maturity is 8%. There is also a 3-year treasury bond with $1000 face value, a 5% coupon rate, and the yield to maturity is 8%.

a) Based on expectations theory, what is the expected 1-year interest rate next year and what is the expected 1-year interest rate 2-years from now?

b) What is the shape of the yield curve right based on these bonds?

c) What does expectations theory predict should happen to short-term and long-term interest rates based on the information from these bonds?

d) Briefly explain, does your answers from part a) fit with the answer to part c)?

Assume a bank with the following balance sheet at the end of the financial year.

Assets Amount Avg Duration (in years) Liabilities Amount Avg Duration (in years)

Reserves $100 0 Deposits $2000 1.5

T-notes $350 3 L T Debt $1000 15

Loans $1725 6 Equity $500 0

Mortgages $1325 12

Calculate the duration of assets and liabilities and the duration gap.

1. Summarize the nutrient needs of an infant up to the first year of life. When are solid foods introduced?

You are the director of an admission office. Your job every year is to decide the number of offer letters to issue to undergraduate degree applicants. For the academic year 2016/2017, the university has a capacity to enroll 7,200 undergraduate students, but you received more than 20,000 applications. However, you know from past year records many students also got offers from other good schools in Canada and the US. The yield rate for this university is far less than 100%.

Assume the university has spent large amount of sunk cost in its undergraduate program for a designed capacity to enroll 7,200 students, such as upgrading classrooms, expanding residential houses, hiring additional teaching instructors and administration staff. As the admission office director, you need to consider following questions:

(a) Will you issue more than 7,200 offer letters for 2016/2017 academic year?

(b) What is the trade-off between issuing more than 7,200 offer letters and issuing exactly 7,200 offer letters?

(c) How to determine the optimal number of offer letters to issue? What information do you need, and how to get such information?

What is the present value of the following annuity?
$3,899 every year at the end of the year for the next 14 years, discounted back to the present at 12.57 percent per year, compounded annually?

You are evaluating a project with a 4 year life. Sales revenue is projected to be $320,000 in year 1, $400,000 in year 2, $424,000 in year 3, and $475,000 in year 4. Operating expenses (excluding depreciation) are $200,000 per year. The project requires an initial investment in equipment of $240,000 which will be depreciated straight-line to zero over its four-year life. However, the actual market value of the equipment at the end of year 4 is expected to be $23,000. The level of net working capital required in each year is projected to be 10% of sales in the following year. The tax rate is 40% and the required return on the project is 15%.

(a) What is operating cash flow in the second year (t=2) of the project? Show all your work and clearly identify your final answer. (25 points)

(b) What is the investment in net working capital in the third year (t=3) of the project? Indicate clearly whether this would be a positive or negative number in your cash flow worksheet. Show all your work and clearly identify your final answer. (25 points)

(c) What is the after-tax cash flow from the sale of the equipment in year 4? Show all your work and clearly identify your final answer. (25 points)

Assume a bank with the following balance sheet at the end of the financial year.

Assets Amount Avg Duration (in years) Liabilities Amount Avg Duration (in years)

Reserves $100 0 Deposits $2000 1.5

T-notes $350 3 L T Debt $1000 15

Loans $1725 6 Equity $500 0

Mortgages $1325 12

Calculate the duration of assets and liabilities and the duration gap.

A real estate investment has the following expected cash flows:

                        Year           Cash Flows
                          1              $9,000
                          2               13,000
                          3               18,000
                          4               25,000

The discount rate is 12 percent. What is the investment’s present value? Round your answer to 2 decimal places; for example 2345.25.

What is the accumulated sum of the following stream of payments? $1,938 every year at the end of the year for 8 years at 5.51 percent, compounded annually.