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    Compounded annually

    2)You deposit $1000 today in a savings account that pays 4.0% interest, compounded annually. How much will your account be worth at the end of 25 years? Future value= Amount * (1+rate of interest )^duration =1500*(1+4%)^25 =$3998.75 =Answer

    Compounding Interest

    I want to see in the precess where the 32071.35 came from The amount A of an investment of P dollars with annual interest rate r compounded annually for n years is given by the formula A + P(1 + r)n. Using the amount formula A teacher invested $10,000 in a bond fund that should have an average annual return of 6% per yea

    Business interest rates

    James Supply needs to borrow $150,000 for 6 months. Canada Bank has offered to lend the funds at a 9% annual rate subject to a 10% compensating balance. (Note: James currently maintains $0 on deposit in Canada Bank). Bills Finance Co. has offered to lend the funds at a 9% annual rate with discount-loan terms. The principal o

    Three Multiple Choice Problems on debt

    1. In a troubled debt restructuring in which the debt is continued with modified terms and the carrying amount of the debt is less than the total future cash flows, a) a loss should be recognized by the debtor. b)a gain should be recognized by the debtor. c)a new effective-interest rate must be com

    International Monetary Factors

    Can you discuss at least five (international) monetary factors that influence the direction of interest rates (twin deficit, inflation, interest changes abroad, political, fiscal, foreign investors, etc.).

    Interest rate fundamentals: The real rate of return

    Carl Foster, a trainee at an investment banking firm, is trying to get an idea of what real rate of return investors are expecting in today's marketplace. He has looked up the rate paid on 3-month U.S. Treasury bills and found it to be 5.5%. He has decided to use the rate of change in the Consumer Price Index as a proxy for the

    Liquidation

    Please review and help with the the following problem: The Verbrugge Publishing Company's 2007 balance sheet and income statement are as follows (in millions of dollars): 1. See attached word doc Verbrugge and its creditors have agreed upon a voluntary reorganization plan. In this plan, each share of the $6 preferred w

    Discuss credit card debt: high interest rates, delinquencies

    I always find it amazing at how much money the credit card companies are able to make on the interest and fees. I look at the settlements that the credit card companies are able to do receiving only 40% of the balance. It shows how much they are able to make that they can afford to settle for a small percentage that is probabl

    Forecasted Interest Rates with Premiums

    Please help with the following problem and show all the work so that I may fully understand the concept of the problem. You have been asked to forecast interest rates for the next 5 years. You have been given the following estimates: The risk free rate is expected to have a 30% of being 2%, a 20% chance of being 1.5%, a 20

    Solution to Sinking Fund and Amortization Problems

    A company wishes to set up a sinking fund in an account that pays 4.3% interest compounded quarterly to repay a debt of $325,000 within 4 years explain to the company how much its payment should be pay off its debt along with how much interest will be accrued during 4 years ? An organization has a $50,000 loan that is to be a

    Statements on Interest, Investment, and Contracts

    1. Which of the following statements about interest rate and reinvestment rate risk is correct? a. Variable rate securities have a high degree of interest rate risk. b. Price risk occurs because fixed-rate debt securities lose value when interest rates rise, while reinvestment rate risk is the risk of earning less than e

    Present Value Factors & Simple vs Compound Interest

    1) Suppose you are trying to find the present value of two different cash flows using the same interest rate for each. One cash flow is $1,000 ten years from now, the other $800 seven years from now. Which of the following is true about the discount factors used in these valuations? a. The discount factor for the cash flow

    Firm's Balance sheet

    A firm's current balance sheet is as follows: Assets $100 Debt $10 Equity $90 a. What is the firm weighted average cost of capital and various combinations of debt and equity given the following information: Debt/Assets After Tax Cost of Debt Cost of Equity Cost of capital 0% 8%

    Effective Annual Interest Rate Using Compound Interest

    Your bank offers you a $100,000 line of credit with an interest rate of 2.5% per quarter. The loan agreement also requires that 4% of the unused portion of the credit line be deposited in a non-interest bearing account as a compensating balance. Your short-term investments are paying 1.25% per quarter. What is your effective

    If the prime rate at the end of 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th year turns out 6%, 6.5%, 7%, 7%, and 6.8%, respectively, what should be the effective interest payment (i.e. interest payment on $200 million loan plus net payment from interest rate swap contract) at the end of 2nd year?

    As an assistant treasurer of a large corporation, your job is to look for ways your company can lock in its cost of borrowing in the financial market. The date is July 31. Your firm is taking out a loan of $200 million, with an annual interest rate of prime plus 5 percent and a maturity of 5 years. The current prime rate is 5

    Continuous Compounding of an Initial Investment

    4a) How much money must be invested today at 5% compounded continuously so that in 10 years it is worth $10000? 4b) How long will it take $X to triple at an interest rate of 8% compounded continuously?

    Interest Rate and Bond Prices

    As interest rates increase, bond prices generally: a. increase b. do not change, because they are fixed by contract c. do not change, because the prices are offsetting the rate increases d. decrease.

    Interest received

    You are offered the opportunity to buy a note for $10,000. The note is certain to pay $2000 at the end of each of the next 10 years. If you buy the note, what rate of interest will you receive on this investment (to nearest %) a. 15% b. 100% c. 20% d. 16% e. insufficient information to compute

    Interest portion of mortgage payment

    You have just taken out a 30 year, $120,000 mortgage on your new home. This mortgage is to be repaid in 360 equal monthly installments. If the stated (nominal) annual interest rate is 14.75 percent, what is the amount of the INTEREST portion of the FIRST monthly installment? a. $1,475 b. $1,472 c. $1,493 d. $17,700 e. insuf

    Profit, Breakeven, and Margin

    Please help in the attached type of questions. Kindly provide calculations to clarify. #1: Consider the following information about one of Sony's channels (and keep in mind that sales minus cost of goods sold results in $ gross margin): Sony's selling price (to its wholesalers) on a 42" television = $600. Sony's wholes

    Interest Rate Parity: US & UK. In which would you borrow or lend?

    Suppose the interest rate on 1-year loans in the United States is 3 percent while in the United Kingdom the interest rate is 5 percent. The spot exchange rate is $1.87/£ and the 1-year forward rate is $1.84/£. In what country would you choose to borrow? To lend? Can you profit from this situation?

    Interest Rate Parity between the US and the UK

    Suppose the interest rate on 1-year loans in the United States is 3 percent while in the United Kingdom the interest rate is 5 percent. The spot exchange rate is $1.87/£ and the 1-year forward rate is $1.84/£. In what country would you choose to borrow? To lend? Can you profit from this situation?

    Calculating Interest Rates

    Investors expect the inflation rate to be 7% next year, to fall to 5% during the following year, and then to remain at a rate of 3% thereafter. Assume that the real risk free rate, r*, will remain at 2% and that maturity risk premiums on Treasury securities rise from zero on very short term securities to a level of .2% for 1-ye