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Explain the treasury-stock method as it applies to options and warrants in computing dilutive earnings per share data.
Distinguish between the accounting treatment for available- for-sale equity securities and trading equity securities.
Describe the procedures a company follows when it make a distribution through dividend payments.
Counts Accounting has a beta of 1.15. The tax rate is 40%, and Counts is financed with 20% debt. What is Counts's unlevered beta?
Discuss why options and warrants may be considered potentially dilutive common shares for the computation of diluted earnings per share.
Convertible debt that is dilutive requires an adjustment to income. What is the nature of the adjustment?
Companies U and L are identical in every respect except that U is unlevered while L has $10 million of 5% bonds outstanding. Assume that (1) all of the MM assumptions are met,
It also knows that the company has days' sales in inventory of 64 days and days' sales outstanding of 32 days. How does Wolfgang's cash conversion cycle compare with the industry average of 75 days?
At what amount should trading, available-for-sale, and held-to-maturity securities be reported on the balance sheet.
Winegartner Cosmetics is setting up a line of credit at its bank for $5 million for up to two years. The interest rate is 5.875 percent and the loan agreement calls for an annual fee of 40 basis po
The debt-to-equity and times interest earned ratios. Which is a better indicator of a company's ability to meet its required interest payment? Explain.
In what section of the statement of cash flows would you find cash paid to retire bonds? In what section would you find cash paid for interest?
Explain the basic difference between the straight-line and the effective-interest methods of amortizing a bond discount or premium.
Why is the commercial paper market available only to the most creditworthy companies?
Why is financial flexibility important in the choice of a capital structure?
Why do companies use so many different types of instruments to raise capital? Why not just use debt and common stock?
You are offered two bonds, a one-year U.S. Treasury bond with a yield to maturity of 9% and a one-year U.S Treasury bill with a yield on a discount basis of 8.9%. Which would you rather own?
When we observe the capital structure of many firms, we find that they tend to utilize lower levels of debt than that predicted by the trade-off theory. Offer an explanation for this.
What items in a business plan does a venture capitalist look for in deciding whether to provide initial financing?
Why did new technology make it harder to enforce limitations on bank branching?
What is the operating cycle, and how is it related to the cash conversion cycle?
Why are revisions of monetary aggregates less of a problem for measuring long-run movements of the money supply than they are for measuring short-run movements?
What is financial risk? How is it related to business risk?
Which firms are most likely to use bank financing rather than to issue bonds or stocks to finance their activities? Why?
Which $1,000 bond has the higher yield to maturity, a twenty-years bond selling for $800 with a current yield of 15% or a one-year bond selling for $800 with a current yield of 5%?