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Which of the following is an area of assessment of older adults with dementia that has not been well attended to?

(0.5 points) If my instructor does not respond to my email within 3 hours, I will send another email.

Brutus Co. expects an EPS of $10 per share next period. Currently, their plowback ratio is 0.5. However, the company has the opportunity to finance a new project that will earn an ROE of 9% by cutting its dividend to $2.50 per share. If the Brutus Co’s expected stock return is 9%, should they cut dividends to make the new investment?

The firm will pay the dividend to all shareholders of record on a specific date, set by the board, called the ________ date.

The synergies of a merger add so much value to the combined firm that, upon announcement of a merger, the stock prices of both the target and the acquirer increase the same relative amount.

Which of the following was originally developed to differentiate organic from functional disorders and tomeasure change in cognitive impairment, and was not intended to be used as a diagnostic tool?

The date on which a firm pays out dividends is called the ________ date.

Brutus Company has announced plans to acquire Buckeye Enterprises. Brutus is trading for $25 per share and Buckeye is trading for $30 per share, with a pre-merger value for Buckeye of $3 billion dollars. If the projected synergies from the merger are $650 million, what is the maximum exchange ratio that Brutus could offer in a stock swap and still generate a positive NPV?

An investor estimates the value of a firm which manufactures cookware by examining the cash flows of similar firms. Which of the following is assumed to be the same for these firms?

Assume Brutus Co. has $10 million in excess cash and no debt. The firm expects to generate additional free cash flows of $40 million per year in subsequent years which they can pay out as a dividend. If Brutus’s unlevered cost of capital is 8%, then the enterprise value of its ongoing operations is PV(FCFs) = $40 million/8% = $500 million.Brutus’s board is meeting to decide how to pay out its $10 million in excess cash to shareholders. The board is considering two options: 1) Use the $10 million to pay a $1 cash dividend for each of Brutus’s 10 million outstanding shares2) Repurchase shares instead of paying a dividend In perfect capital markets, which would investors prefer?