Prepare a cash budget for XYZ Company for the first three months of 2004 based on the following information: Month Estimated Sales Estimated Factory Overhead Estimated Selling, General and Admin Expenses (SG&A) December $ 2,800,000 $ 320,000 $ 625,000 January 4,000,000 325,000 637,500 February 5,600,000 335,000 642,50
I need help in these questions today if i could please; ? Analyze the need for the following consulting firms. (300-400 words) Financial Management firm Management Consultant firm Training /Development Specialist firm Please write a description of the services the Training/Development Specialist firm will be offering (
Discuss the conditions under which financial leverage is beneficial vs. when it is harmful. Is there a point at which it is beneficial from some stakeholders' point of view but not beneficial from other stakeholders view point?
On the one hand, creditors prefer low debt ratios because the lower the ratio, the greater the cushion against creditor's losses in the event of a liquidation. Stockholders however may want more leverage because it can magnify expected earnings. Explain this thought process by stockholders.
In August 2007, John Titus bought 200 shares of a listed stock for $25,000. In September 2007, Titus sold this stock for its fair market value of $28,000 to the partnership of Black, Blue, and Titus. Titus had a one-third interest in this partnership. In Titus' 2007 tax return, what amount should be reported as short-term capita
On July 1, 2008, Linda Anderson received a 10% interest in the capital of Doty Associates, a partnership, for services rendered. Doty's net assets at July 1 had a basis of $70,000 and a fair market value of $100,000. What income must Anderson include in her 2008 tax return for the partnership interest transferred to her by the o
Gentry Can Company's (GCC) latest annual dividend of $1.25 a share was paid yesterday and maintained its historic 7 percent annual rate of growth. You plan to purchase the stock today because you believe that the dividend growth rate will increase to 8 percent for the next three years and the selling price of the stock will be $
Compute a recent five-years average of the following ratios for three companies of your choice (attempt to select diverse firms) : A-Retention rate. B-Net profit margin C-Equity turnover D-Total asset turnover E-Total assets/equity Based on these rations, explain which firm should have the highest growth rate of earnin
1.Key differences between common stock and bonds include all of the following EXCEPT 1. bonds have a stated maturity but stock does not. 2. common stockholders have a junior claim on assets and income relative to bondholders. 3. common stockholders have a voice in management; bondholders do not. 4. dividends paid to bondho
Joan Messineo borrowed $15,000 at a 14% annual rate of interest to be repaid over 3 years. The loan is amortized into three equal, annual, end-of-year payments. a. Calculate the annual, end-of-year loan payment. b. Prepare a loan amortization schedule showing the interest and principal breakdown of each of the three loan paym
If you were the CFO of a company that had to decide on hundreds of potential projects every year, would you want to use sensitivity analysis and scenario analysis as described in the chapter, or would the amount of arithmetic required take too much time and thus not be cost effective? What involvement would nonfinancial people
Stock A has expected return of 12% and standard deviation of 40%. Stock B has an expected return of 18% and standard deviation of 60%. The correlation coeffecient between stocks A and B is 0.2. What are the expected return and standard deviation of a portofolio invested 30% in stock A and 70% in stock B?
Using Google Finance, find the monthly rates of return for General Electric (calculate the ending month returns on the the last day of each month from October 31, 2007 to September 30, 2008 for both GE and the S&P500 - i.e. 10/31/07 GE at 28.92 and 09/30/08 at 22.14 to get return for 10/31/07). Compute the beta coeffi
You are given the following long-run annual rates of return for alternative investments: U.S. Gov't T-bills 3.75% Large-cap common stock 12.45% Long-term corporate bonds 6.15% Long-term Gov't bonds 5.15% Small-capitalization common stock 14.20% The annual rate of inflation is 3.5%. What is the real rate of
Please help me answer the attached multipal choice questions. 7. The Murphy Corp. had the following information available for the year ended 1999: Beginning Ending Work in Process Inventory $10,000 $15,000 Finished Goods Inventory 21,000 17,000 Direct Material Inventory 5,000 8,000 Direct Material purchased 40,
Problem: Overtime Corporation expects an EBIT of $35,000 every year forever. Overtime Corporation currently has no debt, and its cost of equity is 14 percent. The company can borrow at 8 percent. If the corporate tax rate is 38 percent, what is the value of firm? What will the value be if the company converts to 50 percent debt
You are considering an investment in the common stock of Crisp's Cookware. The stock is expected to pay a dividend of $2 a share at the end of the year D1=$2. The stock has a beta equal to.0.9. The risk free rate is 5.6%, and market risk premium is 6%. The stock's dividend is expected to grow at some constant rate g. The stock
A company currently pays dividend of $2 per share, Do=$2. It is estimated that the company's dividend will grow at rate of 20% per year for the next 2 years; then the dividend will grow at a constant rate of 7% thereafter. The company's stock has a beta equal 1.2, the risk-free is 7.5%, and the market premium is 4%. What is
A company currently pays dividend of $2 per share, Do=$2. It is estimated that the company's dividend will grow at a rate of 20% per year for the next 2 years; then the dividend will grow at a constant rate of 7% thereafter. The company's stock has a beta equal 1.2, the risk-free is 7.5%, and the market premium is 4%. Questi
Bohen Inc is expexted to pay $1.50 per share dividend of the year (i.e, D1=$1.50). The dividend is expected to grow at constant rate of 7%. The required rate of return on the stock r is 15%. What is the value per share of company's stock.
Let's say you are interested in saving money for a possible investment. Your plan is to make regular deposits into an account which will earn 14 percent. Your first deposit of $5,000 will be at the beginning of next year. You also plan to make four additional deposits at the beginning of each of the next four years. Your plan is
The basket of goodies costs $300, and is expected to cost $515 next year. The real rate of interest is 2%. Our company, Basic, Inc. has a bond risk premium of 2.5% and a preferred stock risk premium of 3%. The Market Risk Premium is 4% and Basic has a Beta of 1.25. Basic's target capital structure is 40% debt, 50% common s
The following numbers appeared in the annual report of General Mills, Inc., the consumer foods manufacturer, for the fiscal year ending May 2008 (in millions of dollars): Fiscal 2008 Fiscal 2007 Total assets 19,042 18,184 Total stockholders' equity 6,216 5,319 Total revenues 13,652 12,442 Common share issues 1,133 504 Co
A. General Mills, Inc., the large manufacturer of packaged foods, reported the following in its annual report for the year ending May 25, 2008 (in millions): Short-term borrowing $ 442.0 Long-term debt 4,348.7 Stockholders' equity 6,215.8 The short-term borrowing and long-term debt are carried on the balance sheet at app
A patent was acquired by Grotius Corporation on January 1, 2000, at a cost of $72,000. The useful life of the patent was estimated to be 10 years. At the beginning of 2004, Grotius spent $9,000 in successfully prosecuting an attempted infringement of the patent. At the beginning of 2005, Grotius purchased a patent for $25,000 th
"What is economics? What role does economics play in your personal financial decisions and the decisions that your organization makes? What are the resources that are available to you in your efforts to understand current economic conditions?"
I need assistance with the following: The net income of Simon and Hobbs, a department store, decreased sharply during 2000. Carol Simon, owner of the store, anticipates the need for a bank loan in 2001. Late in 2000, Simon instructs the store's accountant to record a $10,000 sale of furniture to the Simon family, even though
The proprietors of two businesses, L.L. Sams Company and Melinda Garcia Career Services, have sought business loans from you. To decide whether to make the loans, you have requested their balance sheets. Click Unit 1 Balance sheets to view. Solely on the basis of these balance sheets, to which entity would you be more comfort
1) Stock A has the following probability distribution of expected returns. What is Stock A's expected rate of return and standard deviation? . Probability________Rate of Return 0.1.............................-15% 0.2.................................0 0.4................................5 0.2............................10
Suppose Toyota has nonmaturing (perpetual) preferred stock outstanding that pays a $1.00 quarterly dividend and has a required return of 12% APR (3% per quarter). What is the stock worth?