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What is the internal rate of return (IRR) of a project costing $3,000 (at year 0);...

  1. What is the internal rate of return (IRR) of a project costing $3,000 (at year 0); having after-tax cash flows of $1,500 in each of the two years of its two-year life; and a salvage value of $600 at the end of the second year in addition to the $1,500 cash flow?

    13.21%

    17.23%

    16.06%

    12.32%

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Inventory by Three Methods The units of an item available for sale during the year were...

Inventory by Three Methods

The units of an item available for sale during the year were as follows:

Jan.1   Inventory 25 units at $400 per unit
Feb. 19   Purchase 56 units at $460 per unit
June 8   Purchase 60 units at $540 per unit
Oct. 7   Purchase 56 units at $550 per unit

There are 47 units of the item in the physical inventory at December 31. The periodic inventory system is used.

Determine the inventory cost under each of the following methods.

a. Determine the inventory cost by the first-in, first-out method.
$

b. Determine the inventory cost by the last-in, first-out method.
$

c. Determine the inventory cost by the average cost method. Do not round intermediate calculation and round final answer to the nearest whole value.
$

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A recent survey reported that 57% to 18 to 29 year olds in a certain country...

A recent survey reported that 57% to 18 to 29 year olds in a certain country own tablets. Using the binomial distribution , complete parts a through e below.

a. What is the probability that in the next six​ 18- to​ 29-year-olds surveyed, four will own a​ tablet?

b. What is the probability that in the next six? 18- to? 29-year-olds surveyed, all six will own a? tablet?

c. What is the probability that in the next six? 18- to? 29-year-olds surveyed, at least four will own a? tablet?

d. What are the mean and standard deviation of the number of? 18- to? 29-year-olds who will own a tablet in a survey of? six?

e. What assumptions do you need to make in? (a) through? (c)? Select all that apply.

-The outcome of any observation is independent of the outcome of any other observation.

-The probability of an observation being classified as the event of? interest,

pi??, is constant from observation to observation.

-The outcome of any observation is dependent of the outcome of any other observation.

-Each observation is classified into one of two mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive categories.

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Vixor Co. is a U.S. firm conducting a financial plan for the next year. It has...

Vixor Co. is a U.S. firm conducting a financial plan for the next year. It has no foreign subsidiaries, but more than half of its sales are from exports. Its foreign cash inflows to be received from exporting and cash outflows to be paid for imported supplies over the next year are shown in the following table:

Currency

Total Inflow

Total Outflow

Candian Dollar (C$

C$40,000,000

C$10,000,000

New Zealand Dollar (NZ$)

NZ$5,000,000

NZ$1,000,000

Mexican Peso (MXP)

MXP11,000,000

MXP5,000,000

Singapore Dollar (S$)

S$4,000,000

S$8,000,000

The spot rates and one-year forward rates as of today are shown below:

Currency

Spot Rate

One-Year Forward Rate

C$

$.70

$.73

NZ$

$ .60

$.59

MXP

$.04

$.03

S$

$.69

$.68

  1. Given the forecast of the Canadian dollar along with the forward rate of the Canadian dollar, what is the expected increase or decrease in dollar cash flows that would result from hedging the net cash flows in Canadian dollars? Would you hedge the Canadian dollar position?

  2. Assume that the Canadian dollar net inflows may range from C$20,000,000 to C$40,000,000 over the next year. Explain the risk of hedging C$30,000,000 in net flows. How can Vixor Co. avoid such a risk? Is there any tradeoff resulting from your strategy to avoid that risk?

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An extract from the income statement of PoMA Ltd for the previous year is given below:                            &

An extract from the income statement of PoMA Ltd for the previous year is given below:                                                                                                            

                                                                                Rs.                         

Sales (50,000 units)                                         1,000,000

Direct materials                                                350,000                

Direct labor cost (50,000 hours)                 200,000                

Fixed manufacturing overhead                  190,000

Variable manufacturing overhead            50,000

Administration overheads                           180,000                

Selling and distribution overhead             120,000                

                                                                                                               

The directors are keen to improve revenue and productivity and are considering various options.             You are the management accountant and are requested to compute the following:                                

                                                               

a. If salesmen are paid commission of 10% of sales, how many units must be sold to achieve breakeven point.   

                                                               

b. By how much does profit change (increase or decrease) if the selling price is reduced by 10% resulting in an estimated increase in sales volume (in number of units) by 30%.                                                           

                                                               

c. By how much does profit change (increase or decrease) if the direct labor rate is increased from Rs.4 to Rs.5 per hour. This increase is expected to increase production and sales by 20% without affecting the hours worked. However, advertising costs will increase by Rs.50,000.   

                                                               

d. How many units must be sold in order to achieve a target profit margin of 10% on sales (profit/salesx100) assuming that advertising costs will increase by Rs.300,000 and selling price will increase by 20%   

                                                               

e. What is the Margin of Safety at the sales volume derived in part d above (express as percentage of sales)

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Stock A has an earnings of $5 per share at year 1. The interest rate is...

Stock A has an earnings of $5 per share at year 1. The interest rate is 20%, and the return on equity is 25%. If there is no plow-back and you like to buy stock A now and hold it for two years, what is the expected return for your investment ?

Stock A has an earnings of $5 per share at year 1. The interest rate is 20%, and the return on equity is 25%. If there is a plow-back of 40%, what is the earnings per share at year two (EPS2) ?

Stock A pays a dividend of $3 per share every year. The discount rate is 10% and the return on equity is 25%. If you want to buy stock A at year 1 and hold it for 5 years, what is the price you have to pay at year 1 (P1)?

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Blink of an Eye Company is evaluating a 5-year project that will provide cash flows of...

Blink of an Eye Company is evaluating a 5-year project that will provide cash flows of $34,100, $53,910, $62,130, $59,820, and $42,780, respectively. The project has an initial cost of $147,200 and the required return is 7.9 percent. What is the project's NPV?

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Minden Company introduced a new product last year for which it is trying to find an...

Minden Company introduced a new product last year for which it is trying to find an optimal selling price. Marketing studies suggest that the company can increase sales by 5,000 units for each $2 reduction in the selling price. The company’s present selling price is $98 per unit, and variable expenses are $68 per unit. Fixed expenses are $835,500 per year. The present annual sales volume (at the $98 selling price) is 25,400 units.

Required:
1.

What is the present yearly net operating income or loss?

  

2.

What is the present break-even point in unit sales and in dollar sales?

  

3.

Assuming that the marketing studies are correct, what is the maximum annual profit that the company can earn? At how many units and at what selling price per unit would the company generate this profit?

  

4.

What would be the break-even point in unit sales and in dollar sales using the selling price you determined in (3) above (e.g., the selling price at the level of maximum profits)?

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With the given information below, how to find the interest cost in year 1,2 and 3?...

With the given information below, how to find the interest cost in year 1,2 and 3?

An investment company is planning to invest by buying over an existing hotel.

Some information concerning their project:

• Land will be purchased for a value of 7.5 millions ;

• A building will be constructed for a total value of 42 millions, estimated value after 10 years : 12 millions ;

• Equipment will be purchased for a value of 12 millions and will be completely depreciated over a period of 8 years ,

• Other investments are estimated to be 4,5 millions and will be completely depreciated after 5 years. This investment includes the purchase of the basic inventories, opening costs, etc…

• Revenues of the first year (365 days in a year) of operations are estimated as follow :

o Rooms division : 198 rooms per day at 500 francs per night

o Restaurant : 260 covers per day at averagely 100 francs per cover

o Breakfast : 150 covers per day at 20 francs each

o Banquet and convention centre : 4 millions

• An annual increase of 2% is expected ;

• The F&B costs are forecasted at 35% of F&B revenue ;

• Salaries and wages, including social charges, are forecasted at 40% of the total revenues ;

• Other operating costs, excepted depreciation costs and interest costs, are forecasted to be 16,000,000, increasing by 2% per year ;

• The income tax rate is of 35%

• The investment expenses are as follow :

o Year -1 : 85%

o Opening : 15%

• This project is financed as follow : 65% by contracting a mortgage, 35% with owner’s capital stock

• The mortgage contracted determines a interest rate of 5% and a fixed reimbursement of 3,5 millions, 1st payment at the end of year 1

• A dividend of 5% will be distributed to the shareholders starting from year 1

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The mean number of sick days an employee takes per year is believed to be about...

The mean number of sick days an employee takes per year is believed to be about 10. Members of a personnel department do not believe this figure. They randomly survey 8 employees. The number of sick days they took for the past year are as follows: 11; 5; 15; 3; 10; 10; 8; 9. Let X = the number of sick days they took for the past year. Should the personnel team believe that the mean number is about 10? Conduct a hypothesis test at the 5% level.

A. Note: If you are using a Student's t-distribution for the problem, you may assume that the underlying population is normally distributed. (In general, you must first prove that assumption, though.)
What is the test statistic? (If using the z distribution round your answers to two decimal places, and if using the t distribution round your answers to three decimal places.)

B. What is the p-value? (Round your answer to four decimal places.)

C. Construct a 95% confidence interval for the true mean. Label the point estimate and the lower and upper bounds of the confidence interval. (Round your answers to three decimal places.)

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