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C214- PA Final 2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is a potential negative consequence if the firm focuses solely on profit maximization? | Unethical behavior and potential scandals |
| How might a privately held company define shareholder value differently from a publicly held company? | Privately held companies may value keeping the business within the family. |
| The goal of a public corporation is to | Maximize stock price |
| What does Beta measure? | The relative riskiness of an individual stock |
| How does global financing integration benefit corporations? | It provides access to a wider range of funding sources and investment opportunities |
| Global financing integration enables companies to tap into international markets for debt and equity, offering them | more favorable conditions and diversification benefits than might be available domestically |
| What is an auction market in secondary financial markets? | A market that operates where prices are determined by the highest bidder |
| Why are efficient, well-developed financial markets important for stock pricing? | They produce more reliable stock prices. |
| Efficient and well-developed financial markets enable frequent trading of stocks, leading to more | reliable and up-to-date pricing that better reflects available information about the stock. |
| Change in retained earnings is calculated as net income less dividends. This relationship indicates that | net income is either distributed as dividends or contributes to a change in the retained earnings of the company. |
| When reviewing the financials, she notices that although the company produced $200,000 in net income during the last year, the retained earnings increased by only $50,000. | The remaining earnings were paid out as dividends to shareholders. |
| What does Retained Earnings represent in the equity section of the balance sheet? | The cumulative total of earnings not paid out as dividends to stockholders |
| In the statement of cash flows, why is depreciation expense added back to net income when calculating cash flows from operations (CFO)? | Because it is a non-cash expense |
| What determines the prices of financial securities? | PV of expected cash flow to investors |
| Which does not affect the required yield on a bond? | coupon rate |
| What factors affect the dealer bid/ask spread? | 1. Volatility of security prices 2. Frequency of security trading |
| The primary market is characterized by | Corporations are raising cash |
| Junk bonds are those whose rating is below | BBB |
| Diversification protects against | Individual firm risk |
| The DFN framework states that firm growth is limited by | Investment opportunities |
| Income statement differs from cash flow because of | Accrual items |
| Which measures a firms ability to produce and sell at a profit? | Cash Flow Operations |
| If IRR is greater than the required return, an adopted project, | Increases shareholder value |
| Why would financial leverage affect required return? | Increased profit volatility |
| Which factor affects a firm's capital structure? | a. Volatiity of sales b. Degree of operating leverage c. Firm size |
| What is the cash cycle? | Period from paying supplier to receiving customer cash |
| Which is not a part of managing A/R? | inventory levels |
| Inventory costs include | a. Storage cost b. Holding Cost c. Financing cost |
| In the Gordon model, what would cause increased stock price? | Higher expected growth rate |
| The percent of sales method is used for | 1. Spontaneouse accounts 2. Current Assets |
| Which stock value model is used by equity analysts? | Gordon Growth |
| The stock risk premium is compensation for | systematic risk |
| Which model uses real market price statistics? | Capital Asset Pricing Model |
| What causes a stock to have a higher required return? | High beta |
| If a firm's ROE is higher than industry average, | The firm is more profitable than the industry |
| Which is true about the current ratio? | Creditors want a high ratio & the firm wants a low ratio |
| Which causes a decrease in CFO? |