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PAW Industries has 5 million shares of common stock outstanding with a market price of $8.00 per share. The company also has outstanding preferred stock with a market value of $10 million, and 100,000 bonds outstanding, each with face value $1,000 and selling at 96 percent of par value. The cost of equity is 19 percent, the cost of preferred stock is 15 percent, and the cost of debt is 9 percent. If PAW’s tax rate is 34 percent, what is the WACC?

Which of these is the requirement of the firm to keep a certain percentage of the borrowed money deposited in the firm’s bank accounts, whereby the bank agrees to lend money to the firm?

Which of these is defined as the excess amounts of a current asset kept on hand to meet unexpected shocks in demand?

Reese’s Resources faces a smooth annual demand for cash of $15 million, incurs transaction costs of $125 every time they sell marketable securities, and can earn 4.5 percent on their marketable securities. What will be their optimal cash replenishment level?

Rose N More Resources faces a smooth annual demand for cash of $50 million, incurs transaction costs of $350 every time they sell marketable securities, and can earn 5.2 percent on their marketable securities. What will be their optimal cash replenishment level?

Suppose that LilyMac Photography has annual sales of $290,000; cost of goods sold of $155,000; average inventories of $3,500; average accounts receivable of $21,000; and an average accounts payable balance of $10,000. Assuming that all of LilyMac’s sales are on credit, what will be the firm’s cash cycle?

Which of the following resemble checks, but differ in that they are payable by the firm issuing them rather than payable by a bank?

JackITs has 5 million shares of common stock outstanding, 1 million shares of preferred stock outstanding, and 20 thousand bonds. If the common shares are selling for $28 per share, the preferred shares are selling for $13.50 per share, and the bonds are selling for 98 percent of par, what would be the weight used for equity in the computation of JackITs’ WACC?

Rose Resources faces a smooth annual demand for cash of $10 million; incurs transaction costs of $325 every time they sell marketable securities; and can earn 3.9 percent on their marketable securities. What will be their optimal cash replenishment level?

Which of the following is a money-market security, issued by large banks and medium-to-large corporations that matures in nine months or less?