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    Amortization Schedules: Straight Line, Spencer Company

    Use Excel if possible. 1) (Amortization Schedules - Straight Line) Spencer Company sells 10% bonds having a maturity value of $300,000,000 for $2,783,724. The bonds are dated January 1, 2012, and mature January 1, 2017. Interest is payable annually on January 1. 2) (Amortization Schedules - Effective-Interest) Assume the s

    Net Community Benefit Expense

    A hospital incurs $10 million of cost to treat Medicaid patients and receives $7 million in payment. Actual charges for these Medicaid patients were $20 million. The net community benefit expense that would be reported in Schedule H of IRS Form 990 would be? A. $10 million B. $7 million C. $3 million D. None of

    Assessment of Hospital Financial Performance

    Write a 4 page case review that assesses hospital financial performance from attached table. Review should also interpret the hospital's statements of cash flow; present an overview of the hospital's financial position using the Du Pont equation as a guide; Use ratio analysis to identify the hospital's specific financial streng

    Financial Analysis of Subway and Its Competitors

    I need help creating overview analysis of Subway restaurant and its competitors? -Overview of the Corporation (Subway) -Subway's financial status and financial statements -Recommendations regarding of the future Company

    Subway Finance Charts and Graphs

    I need help creating 5-6 tables/graphs/charts of Subway finance including: Financial Statements, Income Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow Statement, Key Statistics, Ratio Calculation and Analysis The information is in these links below! http://www.moneycontrol.com/stocks/company_info/cash_flow.php?sc_did=SFA01 http://money.

    Finance: Discount Period

    1) Determine the amount to be paid within the discount period for purchase with an invoice price of $7,745, subject to credit terms of 2/10, n/30.

    Portfolio Management: Short Selling Method

    John has just started investing, and one of his friends was mentioning how he could use short selling as an effective method to drive up his returns when the market started to go down. John decides that this idea is worth a try and decides to sell 100 shares of Stock A for $125 per share. -What is John's maximum loss risk he

    Analytical Procedures Casuccio Aurora Manufacturing Inc.

    (Analytical procedures) The following data was taken from the production and account­ing records for Casuccio Manufacturing, Inc. From the book, Modern Auditing 8th Edition, Part 4: Auditing the Transaction Cycles. Chapter 15: The Expenditure Cycle (Pages 729-730) Q15-23 and Chapter 14: The Revenue Cycle (Page 675) Q14-26.

    Functional area of finance

    How and why is the functional area of finance important in the four phases of strategic management discussed?

    Community Hospital: Investments and Annual Savings

    Community Hospital has annual net patient revenues of $150 million. At the present time, payments received by the hospital are not deposited for six days on average. The hospital is exploring a lock-box arrangement that promises to cut the six days to one day. If these funds released by the lock-box arrangement can be invested a

    Use LP to determine the optimal investment

    A client asks his stockbroker to invest $100,000 for maximum annual income, subject to the three conditions: 1. Spread the investment over no more than three different stocks. 2. Put no more than 40 percent of the money into any one stock 3. Put a minimum of $10,000 into an oil stock. The broker has identified three stock

    Financial Analysis Word Problems

    1. Company is purchasing new equipment for $120,000. You estimate the life of this equipment is 6 years and you will depreciate it in a straight line over 5 years to be conservative and assume no terminal value. The administration, maintenance and insurance cost for the equipment to be estimated to be $8,000 per year. If your co

    Treasury Bills

    As the cash manager of your company, you wish to buy $1,000,000 in 30-day Treasury bills. You obtain the following bid/ask quotes from three dealers: -Dealer A 3.01 3.00 -Dealer B 3.02 3.01 -Dealer C 2.99 2.98 Which dealer should be selected? State the appropriate quote and calculate the price

    Saving for College: Inflation and Investment

    Your daughter is a beginning freshman in high school. By the time she enters her freshman year in college, you would like to have savings accumulated to pay her tuition for her next four years of college. Assuming the annual tuition is paid at the beginning of the college year and you expect her freshman annual tuition to be $20

    Financial Analysis - Fast Track Sports Company

    The Fast Track Sports Company was started by John Ross early in 2012. Initial capital was acquired by issuing shares of common stock to various investors and by obtaining a bank loan. The company operates a retail store that sells sporting goods and related apparel. Business was so good during the first year of operation that Jo

    Rate of Return-Investment Theory

    Scenario: Roger has just been hired as chief portfolio officer of Bear United Capital. As part of this new position, he has been asked to assemble a model portfolio from a set of assets. The assets in the model portfolio include the following: Please see attached word document for data set. Using the above assets from th

    Integrity in Financial Reporting

    "Some crooked top management companies are tempted to falsify their financial information in order to look better than they are. Therefore it is essential for financial reporting to have integrity. This makes the integrity of financial reporting a fiduciary duty and an ethical issue". The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was signed

    Excel/Simulation Model/Replacing Old Data Used

    See the attached file. Build a water treatment plan to serve a growing community. New data has to replace the old one, I marked the new one it in RED( Project-Q.docx). Take liberties with whatever you think need to be changed: Such as: a) Current rate for water is $1.83/100 the old one used $1.56/1000 gallons. c) Peak

    Important to improve the financial performance of the company

    ABC Construction LLC is a construction company owned by Mr. Mohammad (a civil engineer by profession). Mr. Mohammad established the company seven years ago in Dubai. Now it has branches in other Emirates. The company is doing well in terms of business but Mr. Mohammad is not satisfied with the financial matters of the company as

    Best Method of Finance

    Identify in each of the FOUR situations given below, the best method of finance. Situation one: Alpha Waffles need to expand and increase their market share by 40% in the next 2 years. They would need to improve their packaging and spend money on advertising. We know that the current interest rate is 15% and banks are reluct

    10 Ways to Create Shareholder Value

    Article critique: - I need to summarize authors arguments - Evaluate facts or data pertaining to finance and value - Summarize the validity of the arguments - Determine whether the arguments are supported using elements of financial persuasion - Determine whether the author omits important financial data - Evaluate the fin

    Cash Flow Scenario and Annuity Due

    Is there an easy or short cut to answering the question below? I need to verify my answer. I used the formula 1/(1.021). Thanks Cash Flow Scenario: Lease. Annual payments of $50,000 paid at the beginning of each of the next five years (total of $250,000). What is the NPV of all lease payments? year 1 NPV $50,000 year 2 NP

    P&L Statement, Breakeven Point, Profits, Discount Proposals

    5.4) General Hospital, a not-for-profit acute care facility, has the following cost structure for its inpatient services: Fixed costs $10,000,000 Variable cost per inpatient day $200 Charge (revenue) per inpatient day $1,000 The hospital expects to have a patient load of 15,000 inpatient days

    Personal Finance: Insurance Policies

    Christina Haley of San Marcos, Texas, age 61, recently suffered a severe stroke. She was in intensive care for 12 days and was hospitalized for 18 more days. After being discharged from the hospital, she spent 45 days in a nursing home for medically necessary nursing and rehabilitative care. Christina had a comprehensive health

    Valuation of a company

    Several factors, both internal and external, impact a company's stock price, and the subsequent perceived valuation of a company. Sometimes that perceived value matches that of the financial statements, and other times it is vastly different. Discuss the factors that lead to a valuation of a company's worth compared to that o

    The Importance of Beta

    I am trying to find out the importance of Beta. I also need to know what kind of investor would invest in high beta and low beta stocks.

    Risk and Return Concepts

    I need help understanding the concepts of risk and return. I also need to know the importance of portfolio diversification and the relationship to risk and return. Please provide a source where I can find more information on these concepts.