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FINA 3000 Concepts
True/False & Concept questions
Question | Answer |
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The weights used in the WACC equation are the balance sheet values of debt and equity | False |
An established firm would more likely be in an income fund than a growth fund | True |
A firm's bonds rating is upgraded. This would result in an increase in the WACC for the firm | False |
Preferred stock has no maturity date like common equity | True |
Preferred stock holders get voting rights for the firm board of directors. | False |
Full service brokers typically charge 1% for their services | True |
For low unit sales, a production method with low fixed costs would likely be favorite over a method with high fixed costs | True |
Charles Schwab is an example of a limited service broker | True |
Managerial expense is related to how many trades a portfolio manager makes during the year | True |
Fidelity's Healthcare Mutual Fund is an example of an income fund | False |
All else equal, a firm with higher fixed costs will have a higher degree of operating leverage than a firm with lower fixed costs | True |
What type of firm would have the highest beta | Cyclical, high fixed cost, mainly debt financed |
What type of mutual fund provides the least amount of diversification | Sector fund |
Beta represents the systematic risk of a stock compared to the systematic risk of the market portfolio | True |
All else equal, the greater the Beta, the greater the required return | True |
A bond with a credit rating of BB is considered junk grade | True |
The largest weakness of CAPM is finding a truly risk free investment | False |
A debenture bond carries greater risk than a mortgage bond | True |
The largest weakness of the infinite stock pricing model is that we assume a future selling price for the stock | False |
The beta for a company like Kellogg's cereal might be expected to be greater than 1 | False |
When we build a portfolio, the key determining factor in the portfolio risk is the variances of the individual securities | False |
Municipal bonds carry risk because the projects they fund are often poor investments | False |
You cannot achieve diversification in a portfolio unless the two stocks have a correlation less than 0.50 | False |
If a bond credit rating gets upgraded, we expect to see the bond price decline | False |
There is less liquidity risk in corporate bonds than government bonds | False |
Two projects are considered contingent if: | The acceptance of one project is dependent on the acceptance of the other |
Accepting a zero NPV project has a negative impact on shareholder wealth | False |
The NPV assumes that all cash flows are reinvested at the firm's discount rate | True |
What is a free cash flow? | Free cash flow is the cash available to all investors in the firm before any payments to investors are made |
All else equal, an increase in accounts payable from one year to the next will decrease the firm's OCF | False |
If a firm expects that _________, then it expects to have claimed too _______ in depreciation expenses by the end of the project and it expects to pay taxes on the gain to the government at project termination. | MV>BV; much |
The term that applies to a new product hurting sales of existing products is called | Cannibalization |
Net working capital is a measure of a firm's | liquidity |
Common stockholders are | owners of the firm |
As the rate of interest increases, the PV of a lump sum decreases | True |
The amount of interest paid in an amortized loan is greatest in the first year | True |
A larger P/E ratio signifies greater value in your investment | True |
A lease is typically classified as an annuity due | True |
The current ratio is always equal or greater than the quick ratio | True |
Bondholders have voting rights. THey just do not get as many votes as shareholders | False |
There is no liability in owning a share of stock | False |