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    Help with balance sheet, I really need help

    Complete the following balance sheet for the Range Company using the following information: Debt to Assets = 60 percent Quick Ratio = 1.1 Asset Turnover = 5x Fixed Asset Turnover = 12.037x Current Ratio = 2 Average Collection Period = 16.837 days Cash Current Liabilities ______ Receivables ______

    T-Bill/Equity beta-Weighted average cost of capital

    ClearDebt Inc., is a firm with all-equity financing. Its equity beta is .80. The Treasury bill rate is 4 percent, and the market risk premium is expected to be 10 percent. What is ClearDebt's asset beta? What is ClearDebt's weighted-average cost of capital? The firm is exempt from paying taxes. I have several problems like th

    Year end price of stock

    A share of stock with a beta of .75 now sells for $50. Investors expect the stock to pay a year-end dividend of $2. The T-bill rate is 4 percent, and the market risk premium is 7 percent. If the stock is perceived to be fairly priced today, what must be investors' expectation of the price of the stock at the end of the year?

    CVP and Financial Statements

    Procter & Gamble Company is a Cincinnati-based company that produces household products under brand names such as Gillette, Bounty, Crest, Folgers, and Tide. The company's 2006 income statement showed the following (in millions): Net sales $68,222 Costs of products sold 33,125 Selling, general, and administrative expense 21

    A) The after-tax weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is given by: b) If a firm borrows $50 million for one year at an interest rate of 9%, what is the present value of the interest tax shield? c) If a firm permanently borrows $100 million at an interest rate of 8%, what is the present value of the interest tax shield?

    23a.The after-tax weighted average cost of capital (WACC) is given by: (Corporate tax rate = TC) A. WACC = (rD)(D/V) + (rE)(E/V) B. WACC = (rD)(D/V) + [(rE)(E/V)/(1 - TC)] C. WACC = [(rD)(D/V) + (rE)(E/V)]/(1 - TC) D. WACC = (rD)(1 - TC)(D/V) + (rE)(E/V) 23b. If a firm borrows $50 million for one year at an inte

    Calculating Bond Prices

    Please help with the following problem. Provide step by step calculations. You own a 20-year, $10,000 par value bond paying 7% interest annually. The market price of the bond is $875, and your required rate of return is 10%. A) Compute the bond's expected rate of return B) Determine the value of the bond to you, given y

    Economics: Required Rate of Return

    The real risk-free rate is 2.00%, investors expect a 3.00% future inflation rate, the market risk premium is 4.70%, and Asterisk Enterprises has a beta of 1.10. What is the required rate of return on Asterisk' stock?

    Economics - Finance - Present value of cash flow stream

    An investment promises the following cash flow stream: $750 at Time 0; $2,450 at the end of Year 1 (or at t = 1); $3,175 at the end of Year 2; and $4,400 at the end of Year 3. At a discount rate of 8.0%, what is the present value of the cash flow stream?

    Finance : Stock split and ROE

    Question 1.Rooney Inc. recently completed a 3-for-2 stock split. Prior to the split, its stock price was $90 per share. The firm's total market value was unchanged by the split. What was the price of the company's stock following the stock split? 2.Firms A and B are identical except for their level of debt and the interest

    Present worth problems

    A start-up firm has zero revenues in year 1, but they expect to grow $15,000 per year over the next five years. The present worth of the revenues, assuming a 10% annual rate of interest, is most closely a. $75,000 b. $102,600 c. $33,300 d. $145,300

    Bond Price and Interest Rate.

    Consider a bond with a duration of 6 years having a yield to maturity of 8% with interest rates expected to increase by 50 basis points (1/2 of 1%). What is the estimated percentage change in the price of the bond if this were to occur?

    Create Power Point about 401K

    Need help in preparing a 5 slide power point presentation with speaker notes at the bottom of each slide; outlining how much an individual would save in taxes by contributing to a 401K plan. Assuming that the individual's current income is $45,000 per year and is in a 15% tax bracket and is investing 7% of their income into the

    Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (CAFR)

    I need your help to review the Comprehensive Annual Financial Report. http://www.sjredevelopment.org/Finance/CAFR2008.pdf 1. Select one of the more recently established (and larger) capital projects funds (a major fund, if there is one). a. From where did the fund receive most of its resources? b. Did the city acq

    Financial statements of Southwest Airlines

    Review the financial statements of Southwest Airlines in its latest annual report. (http://www.southwest.com/investor_relations/annual_reports.html). Then answer questions as follow. ***Please provide with each answer which documents you used so I can review them to absorb the information *** 1) What important informatio

    Designing a shaft support using decision tree

    Please help with the following problem. Provide the answer in an Excel sheet. Designing a shaft support has two options: using a pair of single row ball (SRB) bearing with a purchasing cost of $25, or using a pair of cylindrical roller bearing (CRB) with a purchasing cost $70. If selecting SRB, it will fail (within a specifi

    Present Value of Waste Elimination for Oil Refinery

    See the attached file. 1. The EPA has ordered your oil refinery to process its waste liquids before discharging them into the local bay. You estimate that it will cost you $30,000 to satisfy this requirement this year. However by gradually making no cost adjustments in the refining process, you estimate you can reduce waste pro

    Economic Model: Value of the Multiplier

    In the simple economic model with no government or foreign sectors, the value of the multiplier is defined as: 1/MPC. 1/(1-MPC). 1/(MPC-1) 1/(MPC+1). None of the above.

    Read the following newswire on the US Treasury Secretary's proposed sweeping changes in the US financial institutions of the Wall Street as its first significant overhaul since the Great Depression of 1930s

    4) Read the following newswire on the US Treasury Secretary's proposed sweeping changes in the US financial institutions of the Wall Street as its first significant overhaul since the Great Depression of 1930s. http://money.cnn.com/2008/03/31/news/economy/paulson_regulation/index.htm?postversion=2008033115 As a part of the

    Financial break even quantity

    Consider a project with the following data: accounting break-even quantity = 30,000 units; cash break-even quantity = 16,500 units;life = 6 years; fixed costs = $210,000; variable costs = $29 per unit; required return = 14 percent. Ignoring the effect of taxes, the financial break-even quantity is units. (Round your answer to

    Current ratio notes

    A. A firm has $1.2 million in current assets and $1.0 million in current liabilities. If it uses $.5 million of cash to pay off some of its accounts payable, what will happen to the current ratio? What happens to net working capital? B. A firm uses cash on hand to pay for additional inventories. What will happen to the c

    Debits to Raw Materials

    On December 1, Mogro Corporation had $26,000 of raw materials on hand. During the month $60,000 of raw materials were purchased. During December, $62,000 of raw materials were requisitioned from the storeroom for use in production. Do the debits to the Raw Materials account for the month of December total 62000?

    Balance sheet treatment - cash /credit purchase

    Compare and contrast the balance sheet treatment of a car purchased by cash and a car purchased on credit. How is equilibrium of the basic accounting equation maintained in both instances? Clarify why the two different methods of purchase might be treated differently?

    Net present value (NPV) for the following 20-year projects

    Calculate the net present value (NPV) for the following 20-year projects. Comment on the acceptability of each. Assume that the firm has an Opportunity cost of 14%. 1. Initial investment is $10,000: cash inflows are $2,000 per year 2. Initial investment is $25,000: cash inflows are $3,000 per year 3. Initial investment is $

    Times-interest-earned ratio/fixed-charge-coverage ratio

    Please see the attached file. Page 77, 20. The Lancaster Corp's income statement is given on page 78. a) What is the times-interest-earned ratio? b) What would be the fixed-charge-coverage ratio? Sales 200,000 Cost of goods sold 116,000 Gross profit 84,000 Fixed charges (other than interest) 24,000 Income befo