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3. What are the earnings per share (EPS) for a company that earned Rs. 100,000 last year in
after-tax profits, has 200,000 common shares outstanding and Rs. 1.2 million in retained
earning at the year end?
a) Rs. 100,000
b) Rs. 6.00
c) Rs. 0.50
d) Rs. 6.50
a) shareholder; manager
b) manager; owner
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c) accountant; bondholder
d) shareholder; bondholder
7. ___________________ of a firm refers to the composition of its long-term funds and its
capital structure.
a) Capitalisation
b) Over-capitalisation
c) Under-capitalisation
d) Market capitalization
8. In the _______________, the future value of all cash inflow at the end of time horizon at a
particular rate of interest is calculated.
a) Risk-free rate
b) Compounding technique
c) Discounting technique
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d) Risk Premium
9. ______________ is the price at which the bond is traded in the stock exchange. a)
Redemption value
b) Face value
c) Market value
d) Maturity value
10. _____________ enhance the market value of shares and therefore equity capital is not free
of cost.
a) Face value
b) Dividends
c) Redemption value
d) Book value
11. In _______________ approach, the capital structure decision is relevant to the valuation of
the firm.
a) Net income
b) Net operating income
c) Traditional
d) Miller and Modigliani
12. When __________ is greater than zero the project should be accepted.
a) Internal rate of return
b) Profitability index
c) Net present value
d) Modified internal rate of return
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13. ____________ is defined as the length of time required to recover the initial cash out-lay.
a) Payback-period
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14. _______________ refers to the amount invested in various components of current assets.
15. ____________ is the length of time between the firm’s actual cash expenditure and its own
cash receipt.
16. _______________ refers to a firm holding some cash to meet its routine expenses that are
incurred in the ordinary course of business.
a) Speculative motive
b) Transaction motive
c) Precautionary motive
d) Compensating motive
17. _______________ refers to the length of time allowed by a firm for its customers to make
payment for their purchases.
a) Holding period
b) Pay-back period
c) Average collection period
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d) Credit period
18. Amounts due from customers when goods are sold on credit are called _____________. a)
Trade balance
b) Trade debits
c) Trade discount
d) Trade off
a) 1-True, 2-True
b) 1-False, 2-True
c) 1-False, 2-False
d) 1-True, 2-False
21. Consider the below mentioned statements: 1. The dividends are not cumulative for equity
shareholders, that is, they cannot be accumulated and distributed in the later years. 2.
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Dividends are taxable. State True or False:
a) 1-True, 2-True
b) 1-False, 2-True
c) 1-False, 2-False
d) 1-True, 2-False
22. ____________ and____________ carry a fixed rate of interest and are to be paid off
irrespective of the firm’s revenues.
a) Debentures, Dividends
b) Debentures, Bonds
c) Dividends, Bonds
d) Dividends, Treasury notes
23. Consider the below mentioned statements: 1. A debt-equity ratio of 2:1 indicates that for
every 1 unit of equity, the company can raise 2 units of debt. 2. The cost of floating a debt is
greater than the cost of floating an equity issue. State True or False: a) 1-True, 2-True
b) 1-False, 2-True
c) 1-False, 2-False
d) 1-True, 2-False
a) Liquidity, accountability
b) Liquidity, profitability
c) Liability, profitability
d) Liability, liquidity
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25. XYZ is an oil based business company, which does not have adequate working capital. It
fails to meet its current obligation, which leads to bankruptcy. Identify the type of decision
involved to prevent risk of bankruptcy.
a) Investment decision
b) Dividend decision
c) Liquidity decision
d) Finance decision
26. The rate of interest offered by the fixed deposit scheme of a bank for 365 days and above
is 12%. What will be the status of Rs. 20000, after two years if it is invested at this point
of time?
a) Rs. 28032
b) Rs. 24048
c) Rs. 22056
d) Rs. 25088
b) Use the income statement to determine earnings after taxes (net income) and divide by the
number of common shares outstanding.
c) Use the income statement to determine earnings after taxes (net income) and divide by the
number of common and preferred shares outstanding.
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d) Use the income statement to determine earnings after taxes (net income) and divide by the
forecasted period's earnings after taxes. Then subtract 1 from the previously calculated
value
28. Which of the following would NOT improve the current ratio?
a) Borrow short term to finance additional fixed assets.
b) Issue long-term debt to buy inventory.
c) Sell common stock to reduce current liabilities.
d) Sell fixed assets to reduce accounts payable.
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29. The gross profit margin is unchanged, but the net profit margin declined over the same
period. This could have happened if
30. Palo Alto Industries has a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.6 compared with the industry average
of 1.4. This means that the company
31. Kanji Company had sales last year of Rs. 265 million, including cash sales of Rs. 25
million. If its average collection period was 36 days, its ending accounts receivable balance
is closest to . (Assume a 365-day year.)
32. A company can improve (lower) its debt-to-total assets ratio by doing which of the
following?
a) Borrow more.
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b) Shift short-term to long-term debt.
c) Shift long-term to short-term debt.
d) Sell common stock.
33. Which of the following statements (in general) is correct?
34. Debt-to-total assets (D/TA) ratio is .4. What is its debt-to-equity (D/E) ratio? a)
.2
b) .6
c) .667
d) .333
35. A firm's operating cycle is equal to its inventory turnover in days (ITD)
a) plus its receivable turnover in days (RTD).
b) minus its RTD.
c) plus its RTD minus its payable turnover in days (PTD).
d) minus its RTD minus its PTD.
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a) Rs. 7,000 decrease in cash.
b) Rs. 5,005 decrease in accounts receivable.
c) Rs. 10,001 increase in accounts payable.
d) Rs. 12,012 decrease in notes payable.
37. Uses of funds include a (an):
a) decrease in cash.
b) increase in any liability.
c) increase in fixed assets.
d) tax refund.
39. Which of the following is NOT a cash outflow for the firm?
a) depreciation.
b) dividends.
c) interest payments.
d) taxes.
41. All of the following influence capital budgeting cash flows EXCEPT:
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a) accelerated depreciation.
b) salvage value.
c) tax rate changes.
d) method of project financing used.
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42. The estimated benefits from a project are expressed as cash flows instead of income flows
because:
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46. A project's profitability index is equal to the ratio of the of a project's future cash
flows to the project's .
47. The discount rate at which two projects have identical is referred to as Fisher's rate
of intersection.
a) present values
b) net present values
c) IRRs
d) profitability indexes
48. Two mutually exclusive investment proposals have "scale differences" (i.e., the cost of the
projects differ). Ranking these projects on the basis of IRR, NPV, and PI methods give
contradictory results.
a) will never
b) will always
c) may
d) will generally
49. Preferred shareholders' claims on assets and income of a firm come those of creditors
those of common shareholders.
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c) after; and also after
d) equal to; and equal to
50. You are considering two mutually exclusive investment proposals, project A and project
B. B's expected value of net present value is $1,000 less than that for A and A has less
dispersion. On the basis of risk and return, you would say that
51. To increase a given present value, the discount rate should be adjusted a)
upward.
b) downward.
c) No change.
d) constant
53. Which of the following would be consistent with a more aggressive approach to financing
working capital?
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d) Financing some long-term needs with short-term funds.
54. Which asset-liability combination would most likely result in the firm's having the greatest
risk of technical insolvency?
55. Which of the following illustrates the use of a hedging (or matching) approach to financing?
56. In deciding the appropriate level of current assets for the firm, management is confronted
with
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b) Risk.
c) Financing.
d) Liabilities.
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62. Marketable securities are primarily
a) short-term debt instruments.
b) short-term equity securities.
c) long-term debt instruments.
d) long-term equity securities.
63. Which would be an appropriate investment for temporarily idle corporate cash that will be
used to pay quarterly dividends three months from now?
a) A long-term AAA-rated corporate bond with a current annual yield of 9.4 percent.
b) A 30-year Treasury bond with a current annual yield of 8.7 percent.
c) Ninety-day commercial paper with a current annual yield of 6.2 percent.
d) Common stock that has been appreciating in price 8 percent annually, on average, and
paying a quarterly dividend that is the equivalent of a 5 percent annual yield.
64. Which of the following marketable securities is the obligation of a commercial bank? a)
Commercial paper
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66. A firm's inventory turnover (IT) is 5 times on a cost of goods sold (COGS) of $800,000.
If the IT is improved to 8 times while the COGS remains the same, a substantial amount
of funds is released from or additionally invested in inventory. In fact,
a) $160,000 is released.
b) $100,000 is additionally invested.
c) $60,000 is additionally invested.
d) $60,000 is released.
69. Which of the following relationships hold true for safety stock?
a) the greater the risk of running out of stock, the smaller the safety of stock.
b) the larger the opportunity cost of the funds invested in inventory, the larger the safety stock.
c) the greater the uncertainty associated with forecasted demand, the smaller the safety stock.
d) the higher the profit margin per unit, the higher the safety stock necessary.
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70. Increasing the credit period from 30 to 60 days, in response to a similar action taken by all
of our competitors, would likely result in:
73. A single, overall cost of capital is often used to evaluate projects because:
a) it avoids the problem of computing the required rate of return for each investment proposal.
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74. The cost of equity capital is all of the following EXCEPT:
a) the minimum rate that a firm should earn on the equity-financed part of an investment.
b) a return on the equity-financed portion of an investment that, at worst, leaves the market
price of the stock unchanged.
76. In calculating the costs of the individual components of a firm's financing, the corporate
tax rate is important to which of the following component cost formulas?
a) common stock.
b) debt.
c) preferred stock.
d) none of the above.
77. The common stock of a company must provide a higher expected return than the debt of
the same company because
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b) there is greater demand for stock than for bonds.
c) there is more systematic risk involved for the common stock.
d) there is a market premium required for bonds.
78. A quick approximation of the typical firm's cost of equity may be calculated by
a) adding a 5 percent risk premium to the firm's before-tax cost of debt.
b) adding a 5 percent risk premium to the firm's after-tax cost of debt.
c) subtracting a 5 percent risk discount from the firm's before-tax cost of debt.
d) subtracting a 5 percent risk discount from the firm's after-tax cost of debt.
79. Market values are often used in computing the weighted average cost of capital because
80. Rank in ascending order (i.e., 1 = lowest, while 3 = highest) the likely after-tax component
costs of a Company's long-term financing.
81. Lei-Feng, Inc.'s $100 par value preferred stock just paid its $10 per share annual
dividend. The preferred stock has a current market price of $96 a share. The firm's
marginal tax rate (combined federal and state) is 40 percent, and the firm plans to
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maintain its current capital structure relationship into the future. The component cost of
preferred stock to Lei-Feng, Inc. would be closest to .
a) 6 percent
b) 6.25 percent
c) 10 percent
d) 10.4 percent
83. A critical assumption of the net operating income (NOI) approach to valuation is:
a) that debt and equity levels remain unchanged.
b) that dividends increase at a constant rate.
c) that ko remains constant regardless of changes in leverage.
d) that interest expense and taxes are included in the calculation.
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85. Two firms that are virtually identical except for their capital structure are selling in the
market at different values. According to M&M
86. What is the value of the tax shield if the value of the firm is $5 million, its value if
unlevered would be $4.78 million, and the present value of bankruptcy and agency costs
is $360,000?
a) $140,000
b) $220,000
c) $360,000
d) $580,000
88. What are the different options other than cash used for distributing profits to shareholders?
a) Bonus shares
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b) Stock split
c) Stock purchase
d) All of these
92. When total current assets exceeds total current liabilities it refers to.
a. Gross Working Capital
b. Temporary Working Capital
c. Both a and b
d. Net Working Capital
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93. If the weighting of equity in total capital is 1/3, that of debt is 2/3, the return on equity is
15% that of debt is 10% and the corporate tax rate is 32%, what is the Weighted Average
Cost of Capital (WACC)?
a) 10.533%
b) 7.533%
c) 9.533%
d) 11.350%
94. Which of the following would not be financed from working capital? a)
Cash float.
b) Accounts receivable.
c) Credit sales.
d) A new personal computer for the office.
95. What is the difference between the current ratio and the quick ratio?
a) The current ratio includes inventories and the quick ratio does not.
b) The current ratio does not include inventories and the quick ratio does.
c) The current ratio includes physical capital and the quick ratio does not.
d) The current ratio does not include physical capital and the quick ratio does.
96. Which of the following working capital strategies is the most aggressive?
a) Making greater use of short term finance and maximizing net short term asset.
b) Making greater use of long term finance and minimizing net short term asset.
c) Making greater use of short term finance and minimizing net short term asset.
d) Making greater use of long term finance and maximizing net short term asset.
97. Which of the following is not a metric to use for measuring the length of the cash cycle?
a) Acid test days.
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c) Accounts payable days.
d) Inventory days.
99. Which of the following are not among the daily activities of financial management? a)
sale of shares and bonds
b) credit management
c) inventory control
d) the receipt and disbursement of funds
100. Debt Equity Ratio is 3:1,the amount of total assets Rs.20 lac,current ratio is 1.5:1
and owned funds Rs.3 lac.What is the amount of current asset?
a) Rs.5 lac
b) Rs.3 lac
c) Rs.12 lac
d) d) none of the above.
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102. An asset is a-
a. Source of fund
b. Use of fund
c. Inflow of funds
d. none of the above.
103. If a company issues bonus shares the debt equity ratio will
a) Remain unaffected
b) Will be affected
c) Will improve
104. In the balance sheet amount of total assets is Rs.10 lac, current liabilities Rs.5 lac
& capital & reserves are Rs.2 lac .What is the debt equity ratio? a) a)1;1
b) 1.5:1
c) c)2:1
d) none of the above.
105. In last year the current ratio was 3:1 and quick ratio was 2:1.Presently current ratio
is 3:1 but quick ratio is 1:1.This indicates comparably
a. high liquidity
b. higher stock
c. lower stock
d. low liquidity
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106. Authorised capital of a company is Rs.5 lac, 40% of it is paid up. Loss incurred
during the year is Rs.50,000. Accumulated loss carried from last year is Rs.2 lac.
The company has a Tangible Net Worth of
a. Nil
b. Rs.2.50 lac
c. (-)Rs.50,000
d. Rs.1 lac.
108. Current ratio of a concern is 1,its net working capital will be a) Positive
b) Negative
c) Nil
a) Rs.10,000
b) Rs.40,000
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c) Rs.24,000
d) Rs.6,000
b) Rs.45,000
c) Rs.(-) 45,000
d) Rs.(-)18000
b) Book debts
d) Inventories.
b) 1:1
c) 5:1
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