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week_5_assignments_fin571.docxWeek 5 Assignment
Problem 5.17
Your finance text book sold 46,000 copies in its first year. The publishing company expects the sales to grow at a rate of 17.0 percent for the next three years, and by 6.0 percent in the fourth year. Calculate the total number of copies that the publisher expects to sell in year 3 and 4. (If you solve this problem with algebra round intermediate calculations to 6 decimal places, in all cases round your final answers to the nearest whole number.)
Number of copies sold after 3 years Number of copies sold in the fourth year
Problem 5.21
Find the present value of $3,200 under each of the following rates and periods.
(If you solve this problem with algebra round intermediate calculations to 6 decimal places, in all cases round your final answer to the nearest penny.)
a. 8.9 percent compounded monthly for five years.
Present value $
b. 6.6 percent compounded quarterly for eight years.
Present value $
c. 4.3 percent compounded daily for four years.
Present value $
d. 5.7 percent compounded continuously for three years.
Present value $
Problem 6.19
Trigen Corp. management will invest cash flows of $776,142, $931,217, $682,429, $818,400, $1,239,644, and $1,617,848 in research and development over the next six years. If the appropriate interest rate is 5.82 percent, what is the future value of these investment cash flows six years from today? (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.)
Future value $
Problem 6.27
You wrote a piece of software that does a better job of allowing computers to network than any other program designed for this purpose. A large networking company wants to incorporate your software into their systems and is offering to pay you $527,000 today, plus $527,000 at the end of each of the following six years for permission to do this. If the appropriate interest rate is 8 percent, what is the present value of the cash flow stream that the company is offering you? (Round answer to the nearest whole dollar, e.g. 5,275.)
Present value $
Problem 7.16
Barbara is considering investing in a stock and is aware that the return on that investment is particularly sensitive to how the economy is performing. Her analysis suggests that four states of the economy can affect the return on the investment. Using the table of returns and probabilities below, find
Probability Return
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Boom 0.4 25.00% Good 0.4 15.00% Level 0.1 10.00% Slump 0.1 -5.00%
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What is the expected return on Barbara’s investment? (Round answer to 3 decimal places, e.g. 0.076.)
Expected return
Problem 8.24
Trevor Price bought 10-year bonds issued by Harvest Foods five years ago for $915.52. The bonds make semiannual coupon payments at a rate of 8.4 percent. If the current price of the bonds is $1,002.35, what is the yield that Trevor would earn by selling the bonds today? (Round intermediate calculations to 4 decimal places, e.g. 1.2514 and final answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25%.)
Effective annual yield %
Problem 9.15
The First Bank of Ellicott City has issued perpetual preferred stock with a $100 par value. The bank pays a quarterly dividend of $1.65 on this stock. What is the current price of this preferred stock given a required rate of return of 14.5 percent? (Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.)
Current price $
Week 5 Quiz
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Multiple Choice Question 55 |
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Genaro needs to capture a return of 40 percent for his one-year investment in a property. He believes that he can sell the property at the end of the year for $150,000 and that the property will provide him with rental income of $25,000. What is the maximum amount that Genaro should be willing to pay for the property?
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$150,000 |
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$112,500 |
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$125,000 |
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$137,500 |
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Multiple Choice Question 54 |
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The process of identifying the bundle of projects that creates the greatest total value and allocating the available capital to the projects is known as
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budgeting. |
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rationing. |
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capital rationing. |
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risk analysis. |
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Capital rationing. You are considering a project that has an initial cost of $1,200,000. If you take the project, it will produce net cash flows of $300,000 per year for the next six years. If the appropriate discount rate for the project is 10 percent, what is the profitability index of the project?
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Multiple Choice Question 63 |
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The cost of debt: Beckham Corporation has semiannual bonds outstanding with 13 years to maturity and are currently priced at $746.16. If the bonds have a coupon rate of 8.5 percent, then what is the after-tax cost of debt for Beckham if its marginal tax rate is 35%? Assume that your calculation is made as on Wall Street.
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12.890% |
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12.500% |
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6.250% |
Week 5 Learning Team Reflection
I only need mine to be about 150 – 170 words because everyone has to contribute to the Team Reflection with Works Cited.
Watch the "Concept Review Video: Cost of Capital" video located in the WileyPLUS Assignment: Week 5 Videos Activity.
Discuss some of the corporate finance challenges faced by this company.
Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.
Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
