BAR Exam Deck 2 Flashcards
How to calculate the effect interest rate of a loan when there a company is required to maintain a certain balance at a bank and they can earn interest on the balance?
Loan value * interest rate = interest owed
Minimum account balance * interest rate earninged
Interest owed - interest earned = Net interest
Net interest/(Loan - minimum balance required) = effective interest rate
The risk exposure faced by an entity that encounters the possibility that the currency in which a transaction is denominated will be adversely affected by the currency in which the transaction is settled
transaction exposure risk
describes a firm’s generalized exposure to reduced buying power as a result of inflation.
purchasing power risk
How to calculate the flexible budget variance?
Actual operating income - flexible operating income
This is the opposite of the volume variance because we are looking at the differences caused by the price changes.
How to calculate the volume variance?
It is the difference between the flexible budget and the master budget.
The reason why behind this is we are looking at the difference caused not by prices but by volume changes.
How to calculate a flexible budget?
Use actual sales units
Use all the same prices per unit as the master budget
Formula to calculate APR of quick payment discount?
360/(pay period - discount period)
Multiply by
Discount/(1 - Discount)
Which of the following effects would a lockbox most likely provide for receivables management
minimized collection float
A lockbox system expedites cash inflows (minimizes collection float) by having a bank receive payments from a company’s customers directly, via mailboxes to which the bank has access. Payments that arrive in these mailboxes are deposited into the company’s account immediately.
a series of budgets based on different activity levels within the relevant range.
flexible budget
an overall budget, consisting of many smaller budgets, that is based on one specific level of production
Master budget
What cost are not affected by inflation rates?
Depreciation expense
Interest expense
List the order in which the four types of budgets must be prepared.
Sales
Production
Direct Materials purchases
cash disbursements
methodology used to determine the transaction price charged between related parties
transfer pricing
How to calculate the price earnings to growth (PEG)?
PEG = (Current price of stock/current earnings)/(Growth rate * 100)
What is the underlying assumption to the Black-Scholes option-pricing model?
There are no transaction costs for buying and selling the stock or option
What are the inputs for the Black-Scholes pricing model?
Current price of stock
option exercise price
risk free interest rate
time to expiration
volatility of stock(measure of risk)
What are the four steps of the SCOR model for supply chains?
Plan
Source
Make
Deliver
What is the formula for the economic order quantity?
EOQ = square root((2 * annual sales quantity * cost per purchase order)/Annual cost of carry one unit in stock for one year)
How to calculate the growth rate for a stock?
(ROA * Retention rate)/
1-(ROA * Retention rate))
How to calculate current dividends by a company?
It is the company’s earnings per share and you multiply that by either the retention rate of earnings or the dividend payout rate.
EPS * Dividend payout rate
How to calculate the forward eps?
Current price of stock/Projected EPS
How to calculate the forward P/E based on the Gordon Growth model?
Dividend payout ratio/(required return - growth rate)
How to calculate the price of a stock based on the PEG ratio?
PEG * Current Earnings * growth rate of stock
How to calculate the price to sales ratio?
Figure out the price of stock by dividing the market capitalization by the total number of shares outstanding
Multiply the current sales by the sales growth rate
Divide the future sales by the number of shares outstanding
Divide price the the sales/share outstanding