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You know from experience that this particular forecaster tends to be both excessively optimistic and miscalibrated. Describe how you might debias this individual. Give a numerical example
Assuming each of the indicated lives has the same probability of occurring (probability = 1/3), what is the tractor's expected NPV? (Hint: Use the 5-year straight-line depreciation for all anaylsis
Suppose the spot exchange rate between U.S. dollar and Canadian dollar is US$1.03/C$. The U.S. dollar risk-free rate is 2% per annum, compounded annually.
If the anticipation was a yield curve steepening for an upward sloping curve, an effective strategy to take advantage of this would be:
He is satisfied with the current yield on 20-year bonds and decides to seek protection against a possible drop in rates. He could obtain such pricing protection by:
USD price of BicMac in South Africa and the US are $4.50 and $3.90 respectively. PPP implied exchange rate of South African Rand is 9.50 SAR per dollar. What is the extent of SAR undervaluation or
The spot or cash market price of a debt instrument and the price of its futures:
What is the break-even level of the output for each scale of operation? What will be the firms profit for each scale of operation if sales reach 5,000 units?
Suppose monthly revenues in Europe average 10 million Euros and monthly production and distribution costs average 8 million Euro. If the resulting profits are repatriated to the production unit in C
M & P has paid annual dividends of $1.05, $1.20, $1.25, $1.15, and $0.95 over the past five years, respectively. What is the average dividend growth rate?
The fixed costs are $216,000 and the contribution margin per unit is $28. The fixed assets required for the project will be depreciated on straight-line basis to zero over the project's 5-year life.
The variable materials cost is $1.69 per unit, and the variable labor cost is $3.04 per unit. Suppose the firm incurs fixed costs of $750,000 during a year in which total production is 450,000 units
Calculate the cost of preferred stock based on the outstanding issue, given the current market price. If Gem Systems sells a new issue of preferred stock carrying a par value of $100 but with an annu
In each case, the bonds will have a $1,000 par value and flotation costs will be $30 per bond. This implies that the firm will net $970 per bond, before the adjustment for the premium (+) or discoun
How does a stock's beta impact the stock's required rate of return from the Capital Asset Pricing Model?
Assuming you purchased a share of stock for $50 on year ago, sold it today for $60, and during the year received three dividend payments totaling $2.70, calculate the following: a) Income, b) Capita
P & P Communications has a weighted average cost of capital of 9.5 percent. The company's cost of equity is 15.5 percent, and its pretax cost of debt is 8.5 percent. The tax rate is 34 percent.
What is the estimated cost of equity using the average of the CAPM approach and the dividend discount approach?
The firm is analyzing a new project which requires an initial cash outlay of $420,000 for equipment. The flotation cost is 9.6 percent for equity and 5.4 percent for debt. What is the initial cost o
Discuss how duration and convexity contribute to an analyst's understanding of bond pricing.
Compute the effective duration for a bond with a current market value of $108. Bond price is expected to be $109.25 if yields fall by 50 basis points; bond price is expected to be $107.10 if yields
Calculate the expected portfolio return, for each of the six years. Calculate the average expected portfolio return, ovet the six year period. Calculate the standard deviation of expected portfolio re
Which one of the following is the depreciation method which allows accelerated write-offs of property under various lifetime classifications
The Shine On Computer Corporation is trying to choose between the following two mutually exclusive design project: If the required return is 10 percent and the company applies the profitability index
Calculating Payback: Old Country Inc. imposes a payback cut off of three years for its international investment projects. If the company has the following two projects available, should they accept