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In 2015, Paul Gaugin’s painting “When Will You Marry?” was sold for $300,000,000.  Assume that this painting was worth $100 when it was painted in 1892.  Had the painting been purchased by your great-grandfather and passed on to you, what annual return on investment would your family have earned on the painting?

You just won the lottery and want to put some money away for your child’s college education. College will cost $80,000 in 15 years. You can earn 4% compounded annually. How much do you need to invest today, assuming you make a one-time investment?

The proposition that a firm should borrow as much as possible because the value of a leveraged firm is greater than the value of an unleveraged firm by the present value of the interest tax shield is called the:

The optimal expense allocation presented in the Personal Finance lecture states that

Abaco Industries has bonds outstanding with a 6% coupon rate (APR) and a market price of $850. If the bonds mature in 5 years and interest is paid semi-annually, what is the YTM (as an APR) of those bonds?

In 2017, Leonard da Vinci’s painting “Salvator Mundi” was sold for $450,000,000.  Assume that this painting was worth $10 when it was painted 527 years earlier in 1490.  Had the painting been purchased by your relative and passed on to you, what annual return on investment would your family have earned on the painting?

A firm’s _____ tax rate is defined as the tax amount divided by the taxable income.

Cornerstone Industries has a bond outstanding with an 8% coupon rate (APR) and a market price of $870.72. If the bond matures in 6 years and interest is paid semi-annually, what is the YTM (as an APR)?

You have discovered from looking at charts of past stock prices that if you sell just after a stock price has declined for two consecutive weeks, you make money every time in the following week! This is clearly a violation of the _____ of market efficiency.

A firm should try to be as liquid as possible.