Principles of Corporate Finance (Mcgraw-hill/Irwin Series in Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate)
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Author: Richard A Brealey, Stewart C Myers, Franklin Allen
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Chapter 29, Problem 4PS
Sources and uses of cash State whether each of the following events is a source or use of cash, or neither.
- a. An automobile manufacturer increases production in response to a
forecasted increase in demand. Unfortunately, the demand does not increase. - b. Competition forces the firm to give customers more time to pay for their purchases.
- c. Rising commodity prices increase the value of raw material inventories by 20%.
- d. The firm sell s a parcel of land for $100,000. The land was purchased five years earlier for $200,000.
- e. The firm repurchases its own common stock.
- f. The firm doubles its quarterly dividend.
- g. The firm issues $1 million of long-term debt and uses the proceeds to repay a short-term bank loan.
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