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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?

Powell’s has net income for the most recent year of $24,650 and a combined federal and state tax rate of 24 percent. The firm paid $1,800 in total interest expense and deducted $2,900 in depreciation expense. What was the cash coverage ratio for the year?

One of your customers has just made a purchase in the amount of $20,800. You have agreed to payments of $375 per month and will charge a monthly interest rate of 1.17 percent. How many months will it take for the account to be paid off?

An insurance annuity offers to pay you $1,000 per quarter for 20 years. If you want to earn a rate of return of 6.5 percent compounded quarterly, what is the most you are willing to pay as a lump sum today to obtain this annuity?