Once we define working capital as current assets, it can be further classified according to
A. Financing method and time
B. Rate of return and financing method
C. Time and rate of return
D. Components and time
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Indicate the incorrect statement
(i) Credit risk is a loss on account of a default of repayment of a loan.
(ii) Liquidity risk is the risk on account of the mismatches of cash inflow and outflow in a firm.
(iii) Basic risk is the risk in a firm owing to the differences in the index to which financial assets and liabilities are tied up.
(iv) Hedging risk for a long position is accomplished by taking a short position and vice versa.
A. (i) and (ii)
B. (ii) and (iii)
C. (iii) and (iv)
D. All of the above
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Which technique is common used to estimate the cash flow in multinational capital budgeting?
A. Net present value method
B. Internal rate of return method
C. Exchange rate value method
D. Discounted future value method
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Which of the following is not a type of financial lease arrangement?
A. Sale and leaseback
B. Indirect leasing
C. Leveraged leasing
D. All of the above
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Interim cash inflows are reinvested at a rate of return equal to the internal rate of return is the built-in-mechanism for
A. Net Present Value Method
B. Internal Rate of Return Method
C. Profitability Index Method
D. None of the above
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Hedging in the futures market
A. Eliminates the opportunity for gains
B. Eliminates the opportunity for losses
C. Increases the earnings potential of the portfolio
D. Does both A and B
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When interest rates fall, a bank perfectly hedging its portfolio of treasury secure futures market
A. Suffers a loss
B. Experiences a gain
C. Has no change in its income
D. None of the above
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A profitability index (PI) of .95 for a project means
A. The project's costs (cash outlay) are less than the present value of the project's benefits
B. The project's NPV is greater than zero
C. The project's NPV is greater than one
D. The project returns are 95 paise in present value for each current rupee invested
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Which of the following is false? Companies repurchase their own shares:
A. To reduce the cost of capital when equity costs more than debt
B. To return surplus cash to shareholders
C. The shares are undervalued
D. To manipulate the share market price
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Arrange the following in chronological order about the events of operating cycle.
1. Conversion of accounts receivable into cash.
2. Conversion of finished goods into accounts receivable.
3. Conversion of raw materials into work-in-process.
4. Conversion of work-in-process into finished goods.
A. 3, 4, 2, 1
B. 3, 1, 4, 2
C. 4, 3, 2, 1
D. 1, 3, 2, 4
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Debt financing is a cheaper source of finance because of
A. Time value of money
B. Rate of interest
C. Tax deductibility of interest
D. Dividends are not payable to lenders
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Which of the following is not included in the assumptions on which Myron Gordon proposed a model on stock valuation?
A. Retained earnings the only source of financing
B. Finite life of the firm
C. Taxes do not exist
D. Constant rate of return on the firm's investment
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Under the terms of finance lease
A. the lessor is responsible for service and maintenance of the asset
B. it is cancellable
C. legal title to the assets with the lessee
D. the asset is capitalised in the balance sheet of the lessee
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The potential effect of exchange rate fluctuations on FDI is expressed as
A. translation
B. transaction
C. conversion
D. economic
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We should keep our savings with banks because
A. it is safe
B. earns interest
C. can be withdrawn anytime
D. All of the above
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Government grants are generally offered to businesses in
A. prosperous areas
B. cold areas
C. economically deprived areas
D. areas with high employment
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The capital budgeting technique that explicitly incorporates an estimated interest rate into its basic computations is the
A. payback period method
B. accounting rate of return method
C. internal rate of return method
D. NPV method
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Which of the following can be defined as the prominent sources of variable working capital?
(i) Trade creditors
(ii) Bank loan
(iii) Commercial Papers
(iv) Depreciation
(v) Tax liabilities
A. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv)
B. (i), (iii), (iv), (v)
C. (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
D. (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v)
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Which of the following can be defined as the variability of return on stocks or portfolios, not explained by general market movement. It is avoidable through diversification.
A. Systematic risk
B. Standard deviation
C. Unsystematic risk
D. Coefficient of variation
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Capital market line is
A. Capital allocation line of a market portfolio
B. Capital allocation line of a risk free asset
C. Both A and B
D. Neither A nor B
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