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    Financing foreign operations - syndicated loan

    Citibank offers to syndicate a Eurodollar credit for the government of Poland with the following terms: Principal U.S.$1,000,000,000 Maturity 7 years Interest rate LIBOR + 1.5 percent, reset every six months Syndication fee 1.75 percent a. What are the net proceeds to Poland from this syndicated loan? b. Assuming

    Machinery Maintenance Cost Management

    4) (a) The maintenance on a machine is expected to be $155 at the end of the first year, and increasing $35 each year for the following seven years. What present sum of money would need to be set aside now to pay the maintenance for the eight-year period? Assume 6% interest. including a cash flow diagram (b) Economic an

    External funding

    A company is trying to raise $43 million of external funding. Would there be financial leverage and what kind of financial leverage would be present if a company could issue bonds in the capital market, preferring a bond issue over bank financing because of the restrictions the bank imposes with its standard loan covenants. Amo

    Long term Financing alternatives for a proposed overseas production facility

    Could you please help me with this? Here is the problem: Having previously idnetified the location of its greenfield investment, Acme, a multi-billion dollar public MNE incorporated in the US must obtain financing for its proposed overseas production faciltiy. It has been estimated that th acquisition will cost $500M and al

    Williams & Westrich Stock: What is Expected Rate of Return

    Williams & Westrich stock is currently selling for $15.25 per share, and the dividend is expected to continue at 92¢ per share. Management expects the stock to grow at 8%. What is your expected rate of return if you buy the stock for $15.25?

    Need help

    You just won the lottery and you want to put some money away for your child's college education. College will cost $65,000 in 18 years. You believe you can earn 8% compounded annually. How much do you need to invest today to make your goal? How is this problem calculated?

    How to hedge commercial paper risk

    I'm working through problems in the textbook in preparation for a test and this is the only one I can't figure out. Wondering if I could get some help. Thanks. If it is Feb. 20th and the treasurer realizes that on July 17 the company will have to issue $5 million of commercial paper with 180 day maturity. If the paper we

    Depreciation - Amortization of Equipments

    Amortization. Canadian Toy Industries Ltd. Purchased equipment at the beginning of the year for $173,000. The equipment will be used by the company for an estimated useful life of 8 years or 200,000 hours. It is estimated that the equipment will have a residual value of $13,000. The accounting department is undecided as to w

    Expanding the product line: NPV

    Senior management is considering two proposals to expand the product line. Expansion of the product line requires a new facility and production team. Senior management hired a consulting firm to research the potential product lines. The ACME Company would like to make this product line for at least 5 years (so the evaluation is

    APR and Investment Accounts

    Today, your investment account has a balance of $3,000. Exactly one year ago you made a onetime deposit into the account. a. Exactly, how much did you invest one year ago if the investment account pays a 7.5 APR compounded semi-annually? b. Instead, suppose you made one deposit exactly 6 months ago and another, equa

    APR Finance Problem Retirements

    Today you begin your retirement. 30 years ago (year 0) you deposited $50,000 into an investment account that, since then, has always paid a 6 APR compounded annually. Starting one year after the year 0 deposit, you deposited $10,000 a year for the next 29 years (in other words, you made your final deposit today). If you plan

    Fixed APR Payment Growth

    This problem has to do with costs of tuition and housing for school. How it grows over a four year period. Making fixed APR payments. You are saving for your child's college costs. You child will start her first semester at Harvard in exactly 10 years. You expect her first year's costs (tuition, housing...) to be $40,000 and

    Value of Stock is determined.

    The current price of stock corp stock is $26.50 per share. Earnings next year should be $2 per share and it should pay a $1 dividend. The P/E multiple is 15 times an average. What price would you expect for future stock _______ $13.50, $15.00, $26.50, or $30.00 please advise answer & show why - thanks much!

    Common Stock

    A common stock currently has a beta of 1.3, the risk factor is an annual 6 percent, and the market return is an annual rate of 12 percent. The stock is expected to generate per-share benefits of $5.20 during the coming period. A toxic spill results in a lawsuit and potential fines, and beta of the stock jumps 1.6. The new equ

    Price to maximize revenue and profit, while maximizing market

    Disco is developing a new hard drive for use in HAL-compatible PC's They estimate the demand schedule for the new product will be as follows: Price: 100 80 60 40 20 0 Quantity (000): 0 30 60 90 120 150 The fixed cost will be $ 1000 Unit variable cost will be $ 40.00 per un

    Financial managment

    Please answer the following problems and give detailed answers. 1-1) p.479 Ch 14 The Grass Ridge Company has the following current asset accounts. Cash $1,900,000 Accounts receivable $4,600,000 Inventory $5,500,000 Its current ratio is 2.5:1. The bank is willing to lend the company enough to finance its worki

    Preferred Stock

    Adjustable-rate preferred stocks are appealing to investors because _________ the fixed dividend is almost guaranteed, under the current tax laws, interest and dividends are taxed at the same rate, fluctuations in the market price of preferred stocks are minimal since the dividend payment is adjusted as market rates change,

    Payment-in-kind preferred stock

    Paymeny-in-kind preferred stock has been primarily used to finance _______ a) new high-risk ventures, b) expansion in foreign manufacturing, c) takeovers, d) privatization of corporations please advise answer & why!

    Financial and Nonfinancial Measures are embedded.

    Which is FALSE regarding financial and nonfinancial measures of performance____ Nonfinancial measures may help to anticipate and explain financial results, Financial results include aggregate measures, Nonfiancial results may help to identify the causes of financial results, or Financial results are lead indicators of fut

    Financial Control

    Which one of the following is NOT a reason that financial control may be an ineffective scoreboard - it is oriented toward short-term profits, it focuses on financial measures while ignoring other important attributes of performance, it often focuses on long-term performance measures, or it is an aggregate rather than a det

    The percentage of gross profit for a facility

    The percentage of gross profit for a facility with a gross income of 330,000, fixed expenses of 200,000 and variable expense of 100,000 is approximately? Can you please explain how to do this?

    Martha Stewart's Influence On Her Company's Segments

    How has Martha Stewart's conviction affected her company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc., in each of its four segments: Publishing, Television, Merchandising and Internet/Direct Commerce? Explain Please provide references

    Bonds payable?record issuance and premium amortization.

    Kaye Co. issued $1 million face amount of 11% 20-year bonds on April 1, 2004. The bonds pay interest on an annual basis on March 31 each year. Required: a. Assume that market interest rates were slightly lower than 11% when the bonds were sold. Would the proceeds from the bond issue have been more than, less than, or equal t

    ORAL PRESENTATION COMPARED

    I need your help with my presentation we are comparing two business and I am doing ADP Automatic Data processing. It is an independent computing firm and it began as a manual processing service for business in northern new Jersey. This is all I know about the business, I nedd your help in doing my presentation, i have this qu