Questions from General Finance


Q: What is the present value of the following future amounts?

What is the present value of the following future amounts? a. $800 to be received 10 years from now discounted back to the present at 10 percent b. $300 to be received 5 years from now discounted back...

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Q: About how many years would it take for your investment to grow

About how many years would it take for your investment to grow fourfold if it were invested at an APR of 16 percent compounded semiannually?

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Q: To buy a new house you take out a 25-year

To buy a new house you take out a 25-year mortgage for $300,000. What will your monthly payments be if the interest rate on your mortgage is an APR of 8 percent compounded monthly? Use a spreadsheet t...

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Q: Jesse Pinkman is thinking about trading cars. He estimates he will

Jesse Pinkman is thinking about trading cars. He estimates he will still have to borrow $25,000 to pay for his new car. How large will Jesse’s monthly car loan payment be if he can get a 5-year (60 eq...

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Q: Stanford Simmons, who recently sold his Porsche, placed $10

Stanford Simmons, who recently sold his Porsche, placed $10,000 in a savings account paying annual compound interest of 6 percent. a. Calculate the amount of money that will have accrued if he leaves...

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Q: What legal restrictions may limit the amount of dividends to be paid

What legal restrictions may limit the amount of dividends to be paid?

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Q: Sales of a new finance book were 15,000 copies this

Sales of a new finance book were 15,000 copies this year and were expected to increase by 20 percent per year. What are expected sales during each of the next 3 years? Graph this sales trend and expla...

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Q: Giancarlo Stanton hit 37 home runs in 2014. If his home

Giancarlo Stanton hit 37 home runs in 2014. If his home-run output grew at a rate of 12 percent per year, what would it have been over the following 5 years?

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Q: Universal Corporation is planning to invest in a security that has several

Universal Corporation is planning to invest in a security that has several possible rates of return. Given the following probability distribution of returns, what is the expected rate of return on the...

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Q: a. From the price data here, compute the holding-

a. From the price data here, compute the holding-period returns for Jazman and Solomon for periods 2 through 4. b. How would you interpret the meaning of a holding-period return?

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