Financial Management Questions- Short answers and Multiple Choice Short Answer 1. What is the difference between stock price maximization and profit maximization? Under what conditions might profit maximization not lead to stock price maximization? 2. Assume that you are serving on the board of directors of a medium-sized corporation and that you are responsible for establishing the compensation policies of senior management. You believe that the company’s CEO is very talented‚ but your
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Chapter 7 Fundamentals of Capital Budgeting 7-1. Pisa Pizza‚ a seller of frozen pizza‚ is considering introducing a healthier version of its pizza that will be low in cholesterol and contain no trans fats. The firm expects that sales of the new pizza will be $20 million per year. While many of these sales will be to new customers‚ Pisa Pizza estimates that 40% will come from customers who switch to the new‚ healthier pizza instead of buying the original version. a. b. Assume customers will spend
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Gladys B. Solomon‚ MBA “ The mystery behind thus business isn’t building an airplane that flies and is safe. It’s building an airplane that is salable and profitable.” - Wolfgang Demisch The Boeing 777: A Financial Analysis of New Product Launch I. Case Summary: The Boeing Company is an Industrial Aircraft Design and Manufacturing Firm‚ diversified in its offering of products for both the Defense Industry and the Commercial Airline Industry. In October
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features of ordinary share & bonds? (B) Explain the steps involved in preparing a financial plan. What are the merits of financial planning? Q2. (A) What are the incremental cash flows? Briefly explain effects of the follow on calculation of incremental cash flows : A – sun costs. B- Allocated over heads. C- Opportunity cost. (B) “There are 2 dangerous situations that management should usually avoid in Controlling inventories”. Explain? Q3. (A) “The
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Rustomjee Business School Rustomjee Business School Class M 14‚ Sem3 Date: 15th November‚ 2013 Subject: Advance Financial Mgmt. Maximum marks: 60 ‚ Time: 3 Hours Sec A Answer any FIVE questions. All questions carry equal marks. Q1 Explain the important functions of either Credit Rating Information Services of India Ltd. (CRISIL) or Information and Credit Rating Services Ltd. (ICRA). Q2 The Balance Sheet of International Trade Ltd. as on 31st March‚ 2008 is as under Liabilities Rs.(Lacs)
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FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT SECTION A PART ONE: ANSWERS ONLY. 1.a)ignored non-corporate enterprise 2.c)redeemable preference shares 3.a)political risk 4.a)future cost 5.c)designing optimal corporate capital structure 6.b)firms point 7.d)agency cost 8.a)legal requirement 9.b)default risk 10.a)beta PART TWO: 1. . Annuity is fixed sum of money paid every year in at any other fixed interval shorter than a year. This annuity may be by way of return of some principal plus interest payment
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Course: Executive Master Program in Business Administration. Duration: 1 Year Semester I – Financial Management Section A Part One Multiple choices: Q1. a. Ignored non-corporate enterprise Q2. c. Redeemable preference shares Q3. b. Domestic risk Q4. a. Future cost Q5. c. Designing optimal corporate structure Q6. d. Cost of capital Q7. d. Agency cost Q8. a. Legal requirement Q9. b. Default risk Q10. a. Beta Part Two Q1. Annuity is fixed sum of
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Assignment Chapter 10 True/False Indicate whether the statement is true or false. True 1. "Capital" is sometimes defined as the funds supplied by investors. True 2. The cost of capital should reflect the average cost of the various sources of long-term funds a firm uses to acquire assets. True 3. The component costs of capital are market-determined variables in the sense that they are based on investors’ required returns. False 4. The before-tax cost of debt‚ which is lower than the
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tool for comparing relative values across a sample of individual stocks. V is the value of the stock. Dt is the expected dividend payment at the year t. K is the discount rate. Dividend policy has always been a baffling problem of financial management. In theoretical circles there are two schools about dividend policy: relevant dividend view and irrelevant dividend view. Relevant dividend view: Farrar‚ Salwyn and Gordon are representatives of this theory. Their theory is that company
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Efficiency: It means that theprices of securities reflect all information regardless of whetheror not it is publicly available‚ including historical price andtrading patterns. Question 2) 1) Discuss the implications of the seperation of ownership and management Professional Managerial Skills * The growth of a company comes with the demand for different skills to manage the operations of the company‚ meaning that the owners of a company may not entirely have the necessary skills and
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