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You have some property for sale and have received two offers. The first offer is for $89,500 today in cash. The second offer is the payment of $35,000 today and an additional guaranteed $70,000 two years from today. If the applicable discount rate is 11.5 percent, which offer should you accept and why?

Charles owns a reverse convertible bond. At maturity, the principal amount will be repaid in:

Island News purchased a piece of property for $2 million. The firm paid a down payment of 20 percent in cash and financed the balance. The loan terms require monthly payments for 25 years at an APR of 5.5 percent compounded monthly. What is the amount of each mortgage payment?

You want to have $24,000 saved 3 years from today in order to make a down payment on a house. To fund this, you will make deposits each week from your paycheck into an account that will earn 4.78 percent compounded weekly. How much must you deposit each week?

McKerley Corporation has preferred stock outstanding that will pay an annual dividend of $5.80 per share with the first dividend exactly 10 years from today. If the required return is 4.02 percent, what is the current price of the stock?

You are considering a project with cash flows of $44,500, $18,000, and $33,000 at the end of each year for the next three years, respectively. What is the present value of these cash flows, given a discount rate of 8.1 percent?

Your firm has net income of $324 on total sales of $1,200. Costs are $670 and depreciation is $120. The tax rate is 21 percent. The firm does not have interest expenses. What is the operating cash flow?

Moxie, Incorporated, has annual sales of $564,000, current assets of $276,000, and net working capital of $192,000. Assume the firm is operating at full capacity and that all costs, net working capital, and fixed assets vary directly with sales. The debt-equity ratio and the dividend payout ratio will be held constant. If sales are projected to increase by 6 percent next year, what is next year’s pro forma value for current liabilities?

Your anticipated wedding is three years from today. You don’t know who your spouse will be but you do know that you are saving $10,000 today and $17,000 one year from today for this purpose. You also plan to pay the final $12,000 of anticipated costs on your wedding day. At a discount rate of 5.5 percent, what is the current cost of your upcoming wedding?

You want a seat on the board of directors of Zeph, Incorporated. The company has 205,000 shares of stock outstanding and the stock sells for $78 per share. There are currently 5 seats up for election. If the company uses cumulative voting, how much will it cost you to guarantee that you will be elected to the board?