Questions from Corporate Finance


Q: Your utility company will need to buy 100,000 barrels of

Your utility company will need to buy 100,000 barrels of oil in 10 days’ time, and it is worried about fuel costs. Suppose you go long 100 oil futures contracts, each for 1000 barrel...

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Q: Suppose Starbucks consumes 100 million pounds of coffee beans per year.

Suppose Starbucks consumes 100 million pounds of coffee beans per year. As the price of coffee rises, Starbucks expects to pass along 60% of the cost to its customers through higher prices per cup of...

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Q: Your start-up company has negotiated a contract to provide a

Your start-up company has negotiated a contract to provide a database installation for a manufacturing company in Poland. That firm has agreed to pay you $100,000 in three months’ ti...

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Q: Suppose a security with a risk-free cash flow of $

Suppose a security with a risk-free cash flow of $150 in one year trades for $140 today. If there are no arbitrage opportunities, what is the current risk-free interest rate?

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Q: Tailor Johnson, the menswear company with a subsidiary in Ethiopia described

Tailor Johnson, the menswear company with a subsidiary in Ethiopia described in Problem 9, is considering the tax benefits resulting from deferring repatriation of the earnings from the subsidiary. Un...

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Q: Assume that in the original Ityesi example in Table 31.1

Assume that in the original Ityesi example in Table 31.1, all sales actually occur in the United States and are projected to be $60 million per year for four years. Keeping the cost of sales, operatin...

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Q: Maryland Light, a U.S. light fixtures manufacturer,

Maryland Light, a U.S. light fixtures manufacturer, is considering an investment in Japan. The dollar cost of equity for Maryland Light is 11%. You are in the corporate treasury department, and you ne...

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Q: The dollar cost of debt for Coval Consulting, a U.

The dollar cost of debt for Coval Consulting, a U.S. research firm, is 7.5%. The firm faces a tax rate of 30% on all income, no matter where it is earned. Managers in the firm need to know its yen cos...

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Q: The table here shows the no-arbitrage prices of securities A

The table here shows the no-arbitrage prices of securities A and B that we calculated. a. What are the payoffs of a portfolio of one share of security A and one share of security B? b. What is the m...

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Q: Suppose security C has a payoff of $600 when the economy

Suppose security C has a payoff of $600 when the economy is weak and $1800 when the economy is strong. The risk-free interest rate is 4%. a. Security C has the same payoffs as which portfolio of the s...

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