Questions from General Finance


Q: What is the interest rate that makes you indifferent between $1

What is the interest rate that makes you indifferent between $1,000 in one year and $1,180 in three years?

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Q: A junior employee, who just turned 25, decides to set

A junior employee, who just turned 25, decides to set up a personal retirement fund to supplement her government-funded pension plan during her first 20 years of retirement. She wants to have an annua...

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Q: The Rolleston Company (TRC), an all-equity financed company

The Rolleston Company (TRC), an all-equity financed company, generates perpetual free cash flow of $40 million. It holds $100 million of cash, has 50 million shares outstanding, and its shareholders r...

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Q: The following table shows the annual realized returns on the following US

The following table shows the annual realized returns on the following US securities from 1997 to 2016: the stock market (S&P 500), corporate bonds, government bonds, and Treasury bills. a. Theory...

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Q: A diversified company plans to sell a division as part of a

A diversified company plans to sell a division as part of a restructuring program. The division to be sold is a regional airline that was acquired by a previous management. The finance department has...

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Q: Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Explain.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Explain. a. “The best forecast of future returns on the stock market is the average over the past ten years of historical returns.” b. “Because...

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Q: Your chief operating officer argues the following: a. “

Your chief operating officer argues the following: a. “Our stock price is currently $60, and our dividend per share is $6. It means that it costs us 10 percent to use shareholders’ cash ($6 divided by...

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Q: Cordona Corp. has bonds outstanding that will mature 12 years from

Cordona Corp. has bonds outstanding that will mature 12 years from now. These bonds are currently quoted at 110 percent above par value. The issue makes annual payments of $80 on $1,000 bond face valu...

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Q: The dividend of Onogo Inc. is currently $2 per share

The dividend of Onogo Inc. is currently $2 per share and is supposed to grow at 5 percent a year forever. Its share price is $50. Its beta is 1.08. The market risk premium is 5 percent and the risk-fr...

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Q: According to the capital asset pricing model: / where

According to the capital asset pricing model: where E (Ri) – the expected return on security i – is the sum of the return on a risk-free investment /the expected ex...

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