Prob Set Chapters 1&2

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Question 1 1. B- Ms. Harper has unlimited liability, which means creditors can claim against her personal assets. 2. D- Ms. Harper has unlimited liability, which means creditors can claim against her personal asset 3. D-Ms. Harper has limited liability, which guarantees that she cannot lose more than the $25,000 she invested Question 2 1. Jane Cash Flow $4950 Jane Outflow $4357 2. Jane's net cash flow for the month of August is 593 3. Jane can borrow money from her bank or withdraw money from an existing savings/investing account. Another alternative is to cut down on any unnecessary expenses 4. Jane can use her monthly surplus to open a savings/investing account or increase the balance on an existing account. Alternatively, she could reduce debt by paying more for some obligations like her auto loan, credit cards or mortgage. In order to maintain her monthly surplus she should maintain her current level of expenses. Question 3 1. The marginal (added) benefits of the proposed new robotics is $ 160,000 2. The marginal (added) cost of the proposed new robotics is 150,000 3. The net benefit of the proposed new robotics is $10,000 4. Ken should recommend that the company invest in this new robotic as it will increase the company’s net 5. A- Whether there will be additional training necessary with the new robotics. B- What will be the energy consumption of the new robotics. C- Whether even better robotics may be available in a short while Question 4 1. A-The front desk receptionist is being compensated for unproductive time. B- The company could install a time clock that would result in either (1) her returning on time or (2) reducing the cost to the firm C- The management could bring the situation to the attention of the receptionist. The extra emphasis on meeting her duties may be all that is required. 2. A-One agency cost is that money budgeted to cover the project proposal is not available to fund other projects that may help to increase shareholder wealth. C- One way to reduce the agency cost is to base the reward system on how close the employee's estimates come to the actual cost rather than having them come in below cost D- A reward system based on increasing shareholder wealth might motivate the division managers to make more accurate estimates in order to be able to take on additional profitable projects. 3. A-One agency cost is that the CEO may negotiate a deal with the merging competitor that is extremely beneficial to herself at the expense of selling the firm for less than its fair market value. B- A good way to reduce the loss of shareholder wealth would be to open the firm up for purchase bids from other firms once the manager makes it known that the firm is willing to merge. C- An open bidding process may encourage other firms to offer a price closer to the fair market value of the firm. 4. All choices Question 5
1. A-the resulting trust and confidence in the financial institutions and markets derived by society. Question 6 1. 920 2. 7 3. 467 4. 263,310 Question 7 1. The bid/ask spread for Twitter, at the time your trade was executed, is $0.0500 2. 2. True 3. The bid/ask spread for Twitter, at the time your trade was executed, is 0.0300 4. Your total round-trip transaction costs for both selling and buying the shares is 107.90 5. B-Costs could have been reduced by placing both trades online with a request for routing to the NYSE where the chance of crossing with other public orders is greatest. Had no market maker been necessary, total costs would have been only the $4.95 Schwab commission per trade Question 8 1. The total proceeds for Netshoes' IPO is 148,500,000.00 2. The dollar amount of the underwriting fee for Netshoes' IPO is 9,652,500.00 3. The net proceeds for Netshoes' IPO is 138,847,500.00 4. Netshoes' market capitalization is $ 499,517,569.60 5. Netshoes' IPO underpricing is -10.56 6. Explain the IPO underpricing for Netshoes.- C Negative underpricing indicates secondary market investors are not willing to pay as much for existing shares as primary market investors were for new shares.
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