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Exam 4 (Chapters 8 and 10) Flashcards

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1
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the process of planning and managing firms long term financial investments

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Capital Budgeting

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2
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What are the 4 different types of Projects?

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  1. Expansion
  2. Improvements of efficiency
  3. Recalls or Replacements
  4. Government Mandated
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3
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What are the 3 Capital Budgeting Methods?

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Payback, NPV, and IRR

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4
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Time required for an investment to generate cash flows, to recover initial costs

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Payback

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5
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what is another terms for Payback?

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“Get your bait back” method

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6
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What are the advantages of payback?

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Easiest
Adjust cash flows
Biased towards liquidity

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7
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What are the disadvantages of payback?

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Ignores TVM
Requires an arbitrary cutoff point
Ignores cash flows beyond cutoff date
Biased against long term projects

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8
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what is the rule regarding payback?

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accept on the project if the payback is less than the project cutoff

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9
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the difference between a projects market value and its cost

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NPV

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10
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What is the rule of NPV?

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accept projects with a positive NPV

reject projects with a negative NPV

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11
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what are the advantages of NPV?

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Most reliable capital budgeting method
Provides a direct measure of investor contributions
DOES consider TVM

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12
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What are the disadvantages of NPV?

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the growth rate is arbitrary

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13
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the discount rate (interest rate) that makes NPV of an investment zero

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Internal Rate of Return (IRR)

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14
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the point at which you make nothing

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Break even point

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What is the rule of IRR?

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accept project if the IRR that we calculate is the same or greater than the return investors require

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16
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What are the advantages of IRR?

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investors prefer to speak %

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17
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what are the disadvantages of IRR?

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often lead to inaccurate investment decisions

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18
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if you take on one investment, you cannot take on any other

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mutually exclusive projects

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19
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as the level of risk increases, so does the potential for higher returns and greater losses. invested money renders higher profits only if subject to the possibility of being lost

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Risk and Return

20
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an investor’s preference toward risk

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risk tolerance

21
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what happened in 2008 for the stock market?

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record lows since the great depression

22
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who were the biggest winners during the Great Recession

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Emergent Bio Solutions, and Mexico Energy

23
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who were the biggest losers during the Great Recession?

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AIG and Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac

24
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Who were the biggest winners in 2014?

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RadNet and Achillon Pharmaceutical

25
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Who were the biggest losers of 2014?

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TransOcean and Avon Products

26
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the smallest 20% of companies listed on the NYSE, also measured by total market value of outstanding stock

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Small-company stocks

27
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standard & poors 500 index, composed of the 500 largest companies, in terms of total market value of outstanding stock

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Large-company stock

28
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high-quality corporate bonds with 20 year to maturity

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Long-term Corporate Bonds

29
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US government bonds with 20 years to maturity

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Long-term US Government Bonds

30
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one month maturity

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US Treasury Bills

31
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sum of actual returns divided by number of terms

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Average Returns

32
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the average squared difference between the actual return and the average return

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Variance

33
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the positive square root of the variance

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standard deviation

34
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a symmetric, bell-shaped frequency curve that is completely defined by its average and standard deviations (most commonly 2 positive and 3 negative deviations)

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Normal Distribution

35
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history suggests that the market value of securities fluctuations widely from year to year due to info available to investors

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Capital market efficiency

36
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what is the percent chance of stock falling within 1 deviation?

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68%

37
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what is the percent chance of stock falling within 2 deviation?

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95%

38
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what is the percent chance of stock falling within 3 deviation?

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99%

39
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the hypothesis that well-organised markets, such as New York Stock Exchange are efficient

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Efficient Market Hypothesis (EMH)

40
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the price of stock instantaneously adjusts to reflect new info

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efficient market reaction

41
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the price partially adjusts to the new information slowly, usually over a period of 8 days

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delayed reation

42
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the price over-adjusts and subsequently corrects itself

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Over-reaction and correction

43
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all info of every kind is reflected in stock prices

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strong form efficient

44
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all public info is reflected in stock prices

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semi-strong form efficient

45
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stock prices reflect a company’s own past prices

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weak form efficient

46
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what does history tell us about the stock market?

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prices generally do respond very well to new info
future prices are difficult to predict based on publicly available info
if mis-priced stocks do exist, there is not an obvious way to identify them in advance

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