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    Financial Models

    Need to show calculations in excel #1: During the year, the Senbet Discount Tire Company had gross sales of $1.2 million. The firm's cost of goods sold and selling expenses were $450,000 and $225,000, respectively. Senbet also had notes payable of $900,000. These notes carried an interest rate of 9%. Depreciation was $110,0

    Comparing Performance Evaluation Methods

    Top management of the Gates Corporation is trying to construct a performance evaluation system to use to evaluate each of its three divisions. This past years financial data are as follows: Division A Division B Division C Total assets

    ELN Waste Management: ROI and EVA

    ELN Waste Management has a subsidiary that disposes of hazardous waste and a subsidiary that collects and disposes of residential garbage. Information related to the two subsidiaries follows. Hazardous Waste Residential Waste Total assets

    Incentives to Over-Invest and Under-Invest

    Consider two companies: Quantum Products and Aquafin Products. Senior managers at Quantum Products are evaluated in terms of increases in profit. In fiscal 2011, Quantum Products had a net operating profit after taxes of $2,500,000 and invested capital of $25,000,000. In fiscal 2012, the company had net operating profit after ta

    Cash flows for proposed project

    Which of the following should be considered when a company estimates the cash flows used to analyze a proposed project? a. The new project is expected to reduce sales of one of the company's existing products by 5%. b. Since the firm's director of capital budgeting spent some of her time last year to evaluate the new project

    Loaning versus investing available funds

    In recent years banks have shown a greater tendency to loan out available funds rather than invest them. What impact, if any, does this have on the effectiveness of monetary policy actions taken by the Federal Reserve? Why do you suppose that the banks are under-going this change?

    Finance: Project's NPV

    Sub-Prime Loan Company is thinking of opening a new office, and the key data are shown below. The company owns the building that would be used, and it could sell it for $100,000 after taxes if it decides not to open the new office. The equipment for the project would be depreciated by the straight-line method over the project's

    NVP for TextMex Food Company

    TexMex Food Company is considering a new salsa whose data are shown below. The equipment to be used would be depreciated by the straight-line method over its 3-year life and would have a zero salvage value, and no new working capital would be required. Revenues and other operating costs are expected to be constant over the proje

    Finance: Calculating the Year 1 Cash Flow

    As a member of UA Corporation's financial staff, you must estimate the Year 1 cash flow for a proposed project with the following data. What is the Year 1 cash flow? Sales revenues, each year $42,500 Depreciation $10,000 Other operating costs $17,000 Interest expense $4,000 Tax rate 35.0%.

    Finance: What is Clemson Software project's Year 1 cash flow?

    Clemson Software is considering a new project whose data are shown below. The required equipment has a 3-year tax life, after which it will be worthless, and it will be depreciated by the straight-line method over 3 years. Revenues and other operating costs are expected to be constant over the project's 3-year life. What is t

    Simple Cash Flow Calculation

    As assistant to the CFO of Boulder Inc., you must estimate the Year 1 cash flow for a project with the following data. What is the Year 1 cash flow? Sales revenues $13,000 Depreciation $4,000 Other operating costs $6,000 Tax rate 35.0%

    Debt Crisis of Greece

    Debt crisis of Greece: what is it about? What are the positive and negative impacts of the subject to finance development?

    A Discussion on Mobilizing Finances

    Task: To avoid unnecessary intervention and outsider control in your venture firm, is it best to mobilize finances from your own assets, family, and friends. How far do you agree with this statement?

    Calculate losses to Callaghan Company

    1. Losses to Callaghan Company are assumed to be distributed normally, with a mean of $75,000 and a standard deviation of $4,000. Calculate the probable range of losses if the risk manager desires 95 percent confidence in the estimate. 2. QAZ Company owns a fleet of 100 automobiles, for which the probability of loss is appro

    Finance: AR level, debt ratio, market to book ratio, P/E, ROE

    3-1 Green Sisters has a DSO of 20 days. The company's average daily sales are $20,000. What is the level of its accounts receivable? Assume there are 365 days in a year. 3-2 Vigo Vacations has an equity multiplier of 2.5. The company's assets are financed with some combination of long- term debt and common equity. What

    Finance: Garber Company: Compute cost driver rates, and ABC costing

    Please see the attached file. Garber Company uses a traditional activity-based costing system to assign $600,000 of committed resource costs for customer service on the basis of the following information gathered from interviews with customer service personnel: Activity Time Percentage Estimated Cost Driver Qua

    Price for Booking Airlines and Hotels

    You've decided to take a trip to San Juan, Puerto Rico. You will leave one month from today and stay for 7 nights. You need to purchase a plane ticket and a hotel room. Search for these two items individually at airline and hotel web sites. What airline and hotel did you find, and what were the prices of each? Next, search f

    Financial Ratios: Accounts Receivable, Debt Ratio, P/E Ration, ROE

    (3-1) Days Sales Outstanding Greene Sisters has a DSO of 20 days. The companys average daily sales are $20,000. What is the level of its accounts receivable? Assume there are 365 days in a year. (3-2) Debt Ratio Vigo Vacations has an equity multiplier of 2.5. The companys assets are financed with some combination of long-term

    EXERCISE 11-13. Investigating Variances

    At the start of the year, Frigicor estimated that the company would produce 480 refrigeration units during the year (40 per month). Annual fixed overhead costs were estimated to be $600,000 ($50,000 per month), and estimated variable overhead costs were estimated to be $500 per unit. Standard cost per unit was set at $3,450: St

    Government Unreserved General Fund Balance

    True or false? A government's unreserved general fund balance at the year-end is ordinarily indicative of the amount that the government has available for appropriation in future years. Explain and provide an example to support your answer.

    Expiration value of warrants

    The Clayton Corporation has warrants outstanding that permits the holder to purchase one share of common stock per warrant at $30. What is the expiration value of Clayton's warrants if the common stock is currently selling at $20 per share? Please show the method of arriving at the answer. The name of the book this question

    Management, CFO and Finance Functions

    What is the primary goal of management. What are the primary tasks of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and others in the finance function of an organization.

    Risk return characteristics

    Given investments A and B with the following risk return characteristics, which of the following is a correct statement that is the best reason to prefer that investment, and why? Investment A Expected Return: 12.2% Std Deviation of Expected Return: 7% Investment B Expected Return: 9.8% Std Deviation of Expected Return

    Arithmetic mean / geometric mean

    USE THE INFORMATION BELOW FOR THE FOLLOWING PROBLEMS The Common stock of X-tech Inc had the following historic pattern: The Common stock of X-tech Inc had the following historic pattern: Time Price 3/1/96 50.00 3/1/97 57.00 3/1/98 66.12 3/1/99 74.05 3/1/00 70.35 3/1/01 77.39 1. What was your arithmetic mean annual