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Exam 1 Flashcards

1
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Financial management

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How to run a firm to max value. How to raise funds.

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Financial institutions

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Where savers meet borrowers. Supply capital to firms

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Forms of business organization

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Propietorship, parternship, corporations

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Proprietorship

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Unincorporated, owned by individual

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Partnership

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Unincorporated, owned by two or more

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Corporation

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A legal entity, separate ownership and management

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Proprietorship and partnership advantages

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Ease of formation, subject to few regulations, no corporate income taxes

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Proprietorship and partnership disadvantages

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Difficult to raise capital, unlimited liablitiy, limited life

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LLC/LLP

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Hybrid: low income taxes and limited liability

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Corporation advantages

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Unlimited life, easy transfer of ownership, limited liability, ease of raising capital

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Corporation disadvantages

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Double taxation and cost of setup and report filling

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S corporation

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Private less than 100 owners. Avoid tax

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C corporation

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Public

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14
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The primary financial goal of management is

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Shareholder wealth max and max stock price

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Managers reocognize

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That being socuially responsible is consistent with maxing shareholder value

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16
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Intrinsic value

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True value

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17
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Market value

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The extent that investor perceptions are incorrect

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18
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Important business trends

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Increased business ethics, increased globalization, improving tech, stockholders have more control of corporate governance

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19
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Conficts between stockholders and bondholders

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Stockholders prefer riskier projects, bondholders concerned about use of addional debt, bondholders limit use of addional debt

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Stockholders

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Have owners stake and get more when company has higher profit

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Bondholders

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Recieve fixed payment of interst regardless of how well the company does

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Suppliers of capital

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Excess funds and looking for a rate of return on their investments

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Demanders of capital

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Need to raise funds and are willing to pay a rate of return on captial

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Direct transfers

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From savers to business: private placement. Underwriters

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Investment banks

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Indirect transfer. Investment to JPM to FB. Money from FB to JPM to investor

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Financial intermediaries

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Indirect. Money from You to bank of america to syco. Investment from sysco to bofa to you

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27
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Market

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Venue where goods and services are exchanges

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28
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Financial market

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Place where individuals and organizations wanting to borrow funds are brought together with those having a surplus of funds

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29
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Physical asset market

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Tangiable or real assets

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30
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Finacial assets

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Stocks bonds notes mortages

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31
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Spot markets

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Assets are bought and sold for an on the spot delivery

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Future market

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Buyer seller agree today to buy sell something in the future

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Money market

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Funds borrowed or loaned for short periods

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Capital markets

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For stocks and longer term debt

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35
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Primary market

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Firms raise capital by issuing new securities. Moving to a c corp

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36
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Secondary marker

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Exisitinf securites are traded

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37
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Public market

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Standard exchange on the stockmarket

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38
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Private market

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Directly involve buyers and sellers

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39
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Derivatives

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Securities value derived from the price of another security

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40
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Derivatives for hedging

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An importer whos profit falls when the dollar loses value could purchase currency futures that do well when the dollar weakens

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41
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Speculators using derivatives

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To bet on direction of future stock prices. Increase risk

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42
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Investment banks

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Sell securities on behalf of the company

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43
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Financial service corporations

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Large mix include many different financial markets

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44
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Pension funds

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Returement fund funded by employer

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45
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Mutal funds

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Collect money from investors and invest

46
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Exchange traded funds

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Invest in specific

47
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Private equity comapanies

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Buy companies manage for a few years then resell

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Bull market

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Stockmarket increasing

49
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Bear market

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Stockmarket decreasing

50
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Frame dependence

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How being asked will change outcome. Overconfidence and regret avoidance

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Heuristics decisions

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Too much weight on negative and recent

52
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Proponents of market effieciency

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Increase number of analysis and lower transaction cost would make markets to become increasingly efficient

53
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Opponents to markets efficient

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The existence of recent housing buble and previous IT bubble provides contrary evidence

54
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Performance measures for evaluating managers

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MVA and EVA

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MVA

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Difference between market value and bookvalue

56
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EVA

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Estimate of a business true economic profit for a given year

57
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EVA equation

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EBIT(1-T)-(invesor supplied capital x cost of capital)

58
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Net operation working capital

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Current assets-current liabilites-notes payable

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EVA positive

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AT operating income> cost of cap needed to produce that income. Managers added back

60
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Decrease depreciation years

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Fixed assets, net income, and tax payments would all decline. Cash position would increase

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Corp taxes

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Rates begin at 15% and rise to 35% for corps with income over 10m. Between 15-18.33m pay 38%. State tax of 5%

62
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Individual taxes

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Rates at 10% raise to 35% over $372950. May have state tax

63
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Interest paid

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Tax deductable for corps not individual expect interst on home loans

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Interest earned

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Fully taxable except muni taxes

65
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Dividends paid

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Paid out of after tax income

66
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Captial gains

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Profits from the sale of assets not normally transacted. Individual taxed as ordinary income

67
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Why are ratios useful

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Standardize numbers and facilitate comparisons, highlight weaknesses and strengths

68
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Different ratio analysis

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Trend, industry, benchmark (compare with simalar sized companies)

69
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Liquidity

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Can we make required payments

70
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Asset management

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Right amount of assets vs sales

71
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Debt management

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Right mix of debt and equity

72
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Profitability

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Do sales prices exceed unit cost and are sales high enough as reflected in PM ROE and ROA

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Market value

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Do investors like what they see as reflected in P/E and M/B ratios

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Liquidity ratios

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Current ratio and quick ratio

75
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Current ratio

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How fast company can pay off liability. Higher is better

76
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If liqudity ratios are lower than industry

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Cant make payments as easily as others in the industry

77
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Asset management ratios

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Inventory turnover, days sales outstanding, fixed assets turnover, total asset turnover

78
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Inventory turnover ratio

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How many times restocked and sold

79
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Inventory turnover below industry

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Have old inventory or control might be poor: carrying too much inventory

80
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Days sales outstanding ratio

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Has to do with the firms credit policy

81
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Cash in advance

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Buyer pays first because they have no or bad credit or demand is higher than supply

82
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Open account

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Seller sends supply first

83
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TA turnover below industry

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Caused by excessice current assets

84
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Debt management ratios

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Debt ratio, time interest earned

85
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Debt ratio and TIE

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Lower is better

86
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Debt ratio and TIE better than industry

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Firm is using a manageable amount of debt and a low interest payment is a result

87
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Better leveraged or unleveraged

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Tradeoff between higher expected return and increased risk

88
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Profitability ratios

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Operating margin, profit margin, basic earning power, return on assets, return on equity

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Basic earning power

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Removes the effects of taxes and financial leverage and is useful for comparison

90
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Return on equity is important

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Because it shows how much stockholders earn as a return on their money

91
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Holding assets constant, if debt increases

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Equity declines, interest expense increases(reduce NI), ROA declines, ROE either

92
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ROE problems

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Doesnt consider risk, doesnt consider amount of capital invested

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Market value ratios

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Price earnings and market book

94
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Price earnings ratio

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How much investors are willing to pay for $1 of earnings. High for firms with strong growth and low risk. Low for slow growth and high risk

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Market book ratio

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How much investors are willing to pay for $1 of book value equity

96
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DuPont equation

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ROE= profit marginTATOEquity multiplier

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DuPont equatio reasoning

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Focuses on expense control, asset utilization, and debt utilization

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Limitations if ratios

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Comparisons hard with multiple divisions, different accounting can distort, hard to tell if good or bad strong or weak, average not good, seasonal factors, window dressing, inflation

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Nominal rate

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Stated rate that is the annual rate

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Periodic rate

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Amount of interest charged each period

101
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Effective rate

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Annual rate of interest actually being earned. (1+I/M)^N*M-1

102
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Nominal used

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For contracts, quotes, and brokers

103
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Perpetual used

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Calculations and shown on time lines

104
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Effective rats

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Compare returns on investments

105
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Can effective ever equal nominal

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Yes if compounded annually

106
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Amoritized loan

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Deals with a loan that is repaid in equal payments over time (includes the principal and the interest)

107
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Step one amortized loan

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Find the required annual payment

108
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Step two amorization

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Find the interest paid in year one

Begining balance*interest rate

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Step three amortization

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Find the principal repaid in year one

PMT-INT

110
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Step four amoritzation

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Find the ending balance after year one

Beginning balance-principal

111
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You sold 100 shares of stock and got the money then and gave the certificate up then what is this transaction?

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Direct transfer of captial

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