{"id":216631,"date":"2018-09-15T21:26:53","date_gmt":"2018-09-15T21:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/index.php\/2018\/09\/15\/fin-405-quiz-week-5-ch-8-9\/"},"modified":"2018-10-24T08:57:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T08:57:04","slug":"fin-405-quiz-week-5-ch-8-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-405-quiz-week-5-ch-8-9\/","title":{"rendered":"FIN 405 Quiz Week 5 ch 8-9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Question 1\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tWhen a U.S. firm uses accelerated depreciation for tax purposes and straight-line depreciation for financial reporting:\t\u00a0\tQuestion 2\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tWhen evaluating a firm with excess capacity, which of the following statements is false?\t\u00a0\tQuestion 3\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tIf you discounted a set of positive real cash flows with a nominal discount rate and inflation were positive, you would __________ the present value of those cash flows.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 4\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tAll of the following are incremental costs of commuting to college in your hometown except:\t\u00a0\tQuestion 5\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tWhich of the\u00a0following should not be included as a cash flow in evaluating a new piece of equipment for manufacturing?\t\u00a0\tQuestion\u00a06\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tThe acronym MACRS stands for:\t\u00a0\tQuestion 7\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tIf inflation is positive, discounting positive nominal cash flows with a real discount rate will lead to\t\u00a0\tQuestion 8\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tA(n) __________ in working capital represents a(n) __________.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 9\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tWhen analyzing capital budgeting projects, it is important to consider __________ and make sure that the project, in addition to having a positive NPV, makes sense.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 10\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tAnalysts should measure all cash flows of a project on a\/an __________ basis.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 11\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tLooking\u00a0at all three different approaches for estimating the expected market risk premium, the consensus is that\t\u00a0\tQuestion 12\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tTwo firms have the same asset beta but different equity betas. The direct cause is likely:\t\u00a0\tQuestion 13\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tSensitivity analysis:\t\u00a0\tQuestion 14\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tRequiring that all projects with risk comparable to that\u00a0of the firm as a whole earn at least the __________ means that firms will only invest in projects that have positive NPVs.\t\u00a0\tQuestion 15\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tWhich of the following is not a competitive advantage for a firm?\t\u00a0\tQuestion 16\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tIf the firm applies its WACC to all projects, it will tend to accept some negative-NPV projects that are\t\u00a0\tQuestion 17\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tA real estate developer considers buying land that currently has substantial pine trees (pine trees are a desired timber).\u00a0 The development will not occur for several years and is somewhat flexible, but when it does, the pine trees will be harvested.\u00a0 The developer determines that the price uncertainty of the timber will increase over the next\u00a0few years (future prices are expected to be very volatile).\u00a0 Does this increase or decrease the value of the land to the developer?\t\u00a0\tQuestion 18\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tGenerally, you would expect the beta of debt for a firm to be\t\u00a0\tQuestion 19\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tWhich of the following is true for a large diversified conglomerate?\t\u00a0\tQuestion 20\t\u00a0\t\u00a0\tWhich of the following would explain a positive NPV calculation?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question 1 \u00a0 \u00a0 When a U.S. firm uses accelerated depreciation for tax purposes and straight-line depreciation for financial reporting: \u00a0 Question 2 \u00a0 \u00a0 When evaluating a firm with excess capacity, which of the following statements is false? \u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/fin-405-quiz-week-5-ch-8-9\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}