A three year project's NPV is negative. The cash flows of the project include a negative cash flow at the very start and positive cash flows over its short life. The required return of the project is 10% pa. Select the most correct statement.
Question 321 foreign exchange rate, monetary policy, American and European terms
The market expects the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to increase the policy rate by 25 basis points at their next meeting.
Then unexpectedly, the RBA announce that they will increase the policy rate by 50 basis points due to high future GDP and inflation forecasts.
What do you expect to happen to Australia's exchange rate in the short term? The Australian dollar will:
Estimate Microsoft's (MSFT) share price using a price earnings (PE) multiples approach with the following assumptions and figures only:
- Apple, Google and Microsoft are comparable companies,
- Apple's (AAPL) share price is $526.24 and historical EPS is $40.32.
- Google's (GOOG) share price is $1,215.65 and historical EPS is $36.23.
- Micrsoft's (MSFT) historical earnings per share (EPS) is $2.71.
Source: Google Finance 28 Feb 2014.
Find Sidebar Corporation's Cash Flow From Assets (CFFA), also known as Free Cash Flow to the Firm (FCFF), over the year ending 30th June 2013.
Sidebar Corp | ||
Income Statement for | ||
year ending 30th June 2013 | ||
$m | ||
Sales | 405 | |
COGS | 100 | |
Depreciation | 34 | |
Rent expense | 22 | |
Interest expense | 39 | |
Taxable Income | 210 | |
Taxes at 30% | 63 | |
Net income | 147 | |
Sidebar Corp | ||
Balance Sheet | ||
as at 30th June | 2013 | 2012 |
$m | $m | |
Cash | 0 | 0 |
Inventory | 70 | 50 |
Trade debtors | 11 | 16 |
Rent paid in advance | 4 | 3 |
PPE | 700 | 680 |
Total assets | 785 | 749 |
Trade creditors | 11 | 19 |
Bond liabilities | 400 | 390 |
Contributed equity | 220 | 220 |
Retained profits | 154 | 120 |
Total L and OE | 785 | 749 |
Note: All figures are given in millions of dollars ($m).
The cash flow from assets was:
Which of the following equations is NOT equal to the total return of an asset?
Let ##p_0## be the current price, ##p_1## the expected price in one year and ##c_1## the expected income in one year.
An American wishes to convert USD 1 million to Australian dollars (AUD). The exchange rate is 0.8 USD per AUD. How much is the USD 1 million worth in AUD?
Which of the following interest rate quotes is NOT equivalent to a 10% effective annual rate of return? Assume that each year has 12 months, each month has 30 days, each day has 24 hours, each hour has 60 minutes and each minute has 60 seconds. APR stands for Annualised Percentage Rate.
Which of the following statements about the Basel 3 minimum capital requirements is NOT correct? Common equity tier 1 (CET1) comprises the highest quality components of capital that fully satisfy all of the following characteristics:
Question 915 price gains and returns over time, IRR, NPV, income and capital returns, effective return
For a share price to double over 7 years, what must its capital return be as an effective annual rate?
Which of the following statements about Macaulay duration is NOT correct? The Macaulay duration: