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    Mr. Katz is in the widget business. He currently sells 2 million widgets a year at $4 each. His variable cost to produce the widgets is $3 per unit, and he has $1,500,000 in fixed costs. His sales-to-assets ratio is four times, and 40 percent of his assets are financed with 9 percent debt, with the balance financed by common sto

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    Computation of earnings per share

    Rockwell paper company had earnings after taxes of $580,000 in the year 2003 with 400,000 shares of stock outstanding. On January 1, 2004, the firm issued 35,000 new shares. Because of the proceeds from these new shares and other operating improvements. earnings after taxes increased by 25 percent. a) Compute earnings per sha

    Time Value of Money and Car Loans

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    Find the present value

    Dr Wolf received this offer for his latest discovery. Thirty percent of the buyer's gross profit on the product for the next four years. The buyer's gross profit margin was 60 percent. Sales in year one were projected to be $2 million and the expected to grow by 40 percent per year. Fine the present value of this offer. A 10 per

    Negative Growth: Value of a share

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    Discounting Methods: The concept of discounting should be used in order to keep track of real costs for the purpose of planning. Calculate the present value of the estimated benefit stream at all three discount rates. Explain the effect of higher and lower discount rates.

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    Business/Accounting

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    FCFE per share / Current Value

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    Time Value of Money Questions

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    Present Value Analysis College Investment Account

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    Present Value Analysis Lottery Payout

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    Financing New Building: Present Value of Future Payments

    Morgan & Morgan are trying to finance their new office building. ABC Bank wants to present them a creative financing option. The loan is payable each year for 7 years. The payments are as follows: Year 1: $10,000 Year 2: $20,000 Year 3: $35,000 Year 4: $50,000 Year 5: $65,000 Year 6: $70,000 Year 7: $100,000 W

    Savings and Retirement Calculation

    You have just turned 25, and you intend to start saving for your retirement. You plan to retire in 43 years when you turn 68. During your retirement you would like to have an annual income of $120,000 per year for the next 27 years (until age 95). Calculate how much you would have to save between now and age 68 in order to f

    Future Value Interest Compounded

    P4-4 Future values For each of the cases shown in the following table, calculate the future value of the single cash flow deposited today that will be available at the end of the deposit period if the interest is compounded annually at the rate specified over the given period. Case Single cash flow Interest rate Deposit peri

    The answer to Present Value

    E6-5 (Computation of Present Value) Using the appropriate interest table, compute the present values of the following periodic amounts due at the end of the designated periods. (a) $30,000 receivable at the end of each period for 8 periods compounded at 12%. (b) $30,000 payments to be made at the end of each period for 16 per

    Future value of a sum

    What's the future value of $2,000 after 3 years if the appropriate interest rate is 8% compounded semiannually?

    Money supply

    Show graphically and explain the demand for money and supply of money and equlibrium condition for the economy.

    Relationship between PV of future cashflows & multiples based acctg info.

    Can any of you OTAs help me answer this question with a short answer please?- a- In your finance course work you learned that value is the present value of expected net future cash flows. What is the relation between this approach and the use of multiples based on accounting information? b- How are valuations based on fi