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Your bank offers you a line of credit of $35,000 with an interest rate of 1.95 percent per quarter. The loan agreement also requires that 2 percent of the unused portion of the credit line be deposited in a non-interest-bearing account as a compensating balance. Your short-term investments are paying .17 percent per month. What is your effective annual interest rate on this arrangement if you do not borrow any money during the year? Assume any funds borrowed or invested use compound interest.

A project has cash flows of –$108,000, $52,800, $53,200, and $83,100 for Years 0 to 3, respectively. The required payback period is two years. Based on the payback period of _____ years for this project, you should _____ the project.

A project has projected sales of $76,400, cash expenses of $42,900, depreciation of $3,730, taxes of $7,200, and an initial cash requirement of $2,200 for working capital. What is the amount of the operating cash flow using the top-down approach?

Mountain Gear can manufacture mountain climbing shoes for $37.11 per pair in variable raw material costs and $15.09 per pair in variable labor costs. The shoes sell for $99 per pair. Last year, production was 248,000 pairs and fixed costs were $1.67 million. The maximum production level for the firm given its current assets is 275,000 pairs. What is the minimum acceptable total revenue the company should accept for a one-time order for an extra 12,000 pairs?

Rising Star Grocers has a beginning receivables balance on February 1 of $1,648. Sales for February through May are $2,670, $2,940, $3,820, and $4,450, respectively. The accounts receivable period is 15 days. What is the amount of the April collections? Assume a year has 360 days.

Norris Fasteners is considering a new project with estimated depreciation of $38,200, fixed costs of $84,600, and total sales of $211,000 at the accounting break-even level. The variable costs per unit are estimated at $9.64. What is the accounting break-even level of production?

Over the past five years, a stock produced returns of 11 percent, 14 percent, 4 percent, −9 percent, and 5 percent. What is the probability that an investor in this stock will not lose more than 10 percent in any one given year?

A company is evaluating a new 4-year project. The equipment necessary for the project will cost $3,800,000 and can be sold for $745,000 at the end of the project. The asset is in the 5-year MACRS class. The depreciation percentage each year is 20.00 percent, 32.00 percent, 19.20 percent, 11.52 percent, and 11.52 percent, respectively. The company’s tax rate is 21 percent. What is the aftertax salvage value of the equipment?

Which one of the following methods of analysis provides the best information on the benefits to be received from a project per dollar invested?

VeloWays currently has a cash cycle of 43.4 days. Assume the operations are changed such that the receivables period decreases by 2.6 days, the inventory period by increases by 1.3 days, and the payables period increases by 3.4 days. What will be the length of the cash cycle after these changes?