25. Calculating Interest Rate. In a discount interest loan, you pay the interest payment up front. For example, if a 1-year loan is stated as $10,000 and the interest rate is 10 percent, the borrower "pays" .10 Ã ? $10,000 = $1,000 immediately, thereby receiving net funds of $9,000 and repaying $10,000 in a year. a. What is t
Cal owes $10,000 now, a lender will carry the debt for five more years at 10 percent interest. In this particular case, the amount owed will go up by 10 percent per year for 5 years. The lender then will require that Cal pay off the loan over the next 12 years at 11 percent interest. What will his annual payment be? 2) I
(See attached file for full problem description) --- Rollins Corporation has a target capital structure consisting of 20 percent debt, 20 percent preferred stock, and 60 percent common equity. Assume the firm has insufficient retained earnings to fund the equity portion of its capital budget. Its bonds have a 12 percent cou
# 22 page 233 Columbus shipping co is negotiating with 2 banks for a 100,000 loan. Bankcorp of Ohio requires a 20 percent compensating balance, discounts the loan, and wants to be paid back in four quarterly payments. Cleveland bank requires a 10 percent compensating balance does not discount the loan but wants to be paid b
Question # 10: If the interest rate in the United Kingdom is 8% the interest rate in the US is 10%, the spot exchange rate is $1.75/£ and interest rate parity holds, what must the one-year forward exchange rate? Question # 11 Suppose all of the conditions in question 10 hold except that the forward rate of exchange i
1) Bank A offers to lend me the required funds on a loan in which interest must be paid monthly, and the quoted rate is 8 percent. Bank B will charged 9 percent, with interest due at the end of the year. What is the difference in the effective annual rates charged by the two banks? 2) A corporation is growing at a constant r
Little Monsters Inc, borrowed $1,000,000 for two years from NorthernBank Inc, at an 11.5% interest rate. The current risk free rate is 2% and Little Monsters financial condition warrants a default risk premium of 3% and a liquidity risk premium of 2%. The maturity risk premium for a two year loan is 1%, and inflation is expected
David Company acquired 60 percent of Mark Company for $300,000 when Mark's book value was $400,000. On that date, Mark had equipment (with a 10-year life) that was undervalued in the financial records by $60,000. Also, buildings (with a 20-year life) were undervalued by $40,000. Two years later, the following figures are reporte
The data you will need for the prepayment scenario include the following. Loan Balance: $135000 Current Payment: $990.62 Additional Payment: $50.00 Loan Interest Rate: 8.0% Loan Interest Deductibility: YES Investment Rate Return: 6.00%* Tax Bracket: 30.00% Investment Type: After-Tax *The Investment rate ret
How much will $100 grow to if invested at a continuously compounded interest rate of 10% for 8 years? What if it is invested for 10 years at 8%. A local bank will pay you $100 a year for your lifetime if you deposit $2500 in the bank today. If you plan to live forever, what interest rate is the bank paying? A property will
George Hedderwick spent his morning developing a financial planning model for Executive Fruit (see Figure 18-2). Now he needed to run out the projections to 2007. In particular, he wanted to check what would happen if the firm continued to expand at 10 percent and relied on new issues of debt to make up any required external fin
A zero coupon bond which will pay $1,000 in ten years is selling today for $422.41. What interest rate does the bond offer? Lenny loanshark charges 1% per week on his loans. What APR must he report to consumers? Assume exactly 52 weeks in a year. What is the effective annual rate? If you take out an 8,000 ca
An short analysis (sheet) needs to be prepared using excel to decide whether the proposal should be accepted or rejected. --- You have the following data on Joe's Corporation: EBIT: $1,000,000 Tax rate: 40% Cost of equity: 10% Joe's is a zero growth firm, and is currently financed entirely with equit
A firm offers terms of 1/10, net 30. What effective annual interest rate does the firm earn when a customer does not take the discount? Without doing any calculations, explain what will happen to this effective rate if: a. The discount is changed to 2 percent. b. The credit period is increased to 45 days. c. The discoun
Use the Pier 1 Imports' financial statements to answer the following questions: To obtain Pier 1 Imports' financial statements you can go to www.Pier1.com and click on the link at the bottom of the first page titled Investor's Relations and then choose Annual Reports and Proxy Statements. 1. Does Pier 1 have a significant
How do changes in interest rates influence the values of stocks? Would the dividend discount and economic top-down analysis play a role? Discuss in your answer.
A company has a variable-rate loan with a bank paying LIBOR plus 65. The company wishes to create a synthetic fixed-rate loan and enters into an interest rate swap paying a swap fixed rate of 9 percent and receives LIBOR. The company also pays an annual swap spread of 35 basis points to the swap dealer. Calculate the effective f
Can you please provide me with brief response to my questions noted below Stock Index Futures How are stock index futures used? How are stock index futures priced? What is basis convergence? How do you hedge with stock index futures? Fundamentals of Interest Rate Futures What are T-bills and Eurodollars, and wh
1.a A person is going to make deposits in an account as follows: the 1st. deposit will be for $10 and deposits will keep on increasing by $5 each year for 50 years. i.e. 1st. deposit will be $10 2nd. deposit will be $15 3rd. deposit will be $20 and s
Suppose an investment project will require debt financing. How should the analyst treat the interest expenses that will be payable and why?
Which of the following amounts is closest to the end value of investing $5,000 for one year and two months at a nominal interest rate of 6 percent compounded monthly? A) $5,352 B) $5,362 C) $5,350 D) $5,293 E) $6,183
True or False Nominal interest rates imply that inflation is included in the discount rate, whereas real cash flows do not include the impact of inflation.
Suppose you deposit $10,000 for 2 years at a rate of 10%. Calculate the return (A) if the bank compounds annually (n = 1). Answer: A = 10000(1 + 0.1/1)^2 = $10,201 We have first that P = $10,000, r = 0.1 (10% expressed as decimal), t = 2 (2 years) n = 1. I FIGURED THIS? PLEASE ADVISE A-$10,000(1 = .10)^2=10,000(1.1)^2 -
1.) What is the incorrect description of a slope? a. The slope between two points is the change in y divided by the change in x. b. The slope between two pints is the rise over run. c. A slope in a linear function is a rate. d. A slope is the change in the input divided by the change in the output. e. The slope between two
Consider two bonds A and B. The coupon rates are 10 percent and the face values are $1,000 for both bonds. Both bonds have annual coupons. Bond A has 20 years to maturity while bond B has 10 years of maturity. a. What are the prices of the two bonds if the relevant market interest rate for both bonds is 10 percent? b. I
Microhard has issued a bond with the following characteristics: Principal $1,000 Time to maturity: 20 years Coupon rate: 8 percent, compounded semiannually Semiannual payments Calculate the price of this bond if the stated annual interest rate, compounded semiannually, is a. 8 percent b. 10 percent c. 6 percent
Annuities and Interest Rates. Professor's Annuity Corp. offers a lifetime annuity to retiring professors. For a payment of $80,000 at age 65, the firm will pay the retiring professor $600 a month until death. a. If the professor's remaining life expectancy is 20 years, what is the monthly rate on this annuity? What is the eff
A company has sales of $1 million, tax rate of 40%, net profit margin of 6% and total interest charges of $10,000 per year. What is the TIE ratio? I am unable to figure this out using the formula.
Suppose I deposit $10,000 for 2 years at a rate of 10%. how do I set up the problem and calculate the return (A) if the bank compounds annually (n = 1).? Also I need to know to calculate the return (A) if the bank compounds quarterly (n = 4).? And Calculate the return (A) if the bank compounds monthly (n = 12)? Please show
Can someone please assist me with addressing these mortgage related questions? (See attached file for full problem description) --- Using the following personal assumption Monthly gross income $3,000 Money you have in savings for a down payment $25,000 Your monthly payments for all existing debts $400 Property tax