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Q1: Gateway, Corp. has an inventory turnover of 5.6. What is the firm’s days’s sales in inventory?

64.3

65.2

57.9

61.7

Q2: Which of the following is an advantage of corporations relative to partnerships and sole proprietorships?

reduced legal liability for investors

most common form of organization

lower taxes

harder to transfer ownership

Q3: Ajax Corp. is expecting the following cash flows – $79,000, $112,000, $164,000, $84,000, and $242,000 – over the next five years. If the company’s opportunity cost is 15 percent, what is the present value of these cash flows? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

$414,322

$477,235

$480,906

$429,560

Q4: Serox stock was selling for $20 two years ago. The stock sold for $25 one year ago, and it is currently selling for $28. Serox pays a $1.10 dividend per year. What was the rate of return for owning Serox in the most recent year? (Round to the nearest percent.)

12%

32%

16%

40%

Q5: An unrealistic budget is more likely to result when it:

has been developed in a bottom up fashion.

has been developed in a top down fashion.

is developed with performance appraisal usages in mind.

has been developed by all levels of management.

Q6: Horizontal analysis is a technique for evaluating a series of financial statement data over a period of time:

to determine the amount and/or percentage increase or decrease that has taken place.

to determine which items are in error.

that has been arranged from the highest number to the lowest number.

that has been arranged from the lowest number to the highest number.

Q7: Jack Robbins is saving for a new car. He needs to have $21,000 for the car in three years. How much will he have to invest today in an account paying 8 percent annually to achieve his target? (Round to nearest dollar)

$22,680

$16,670

$26,454

$19,444

Q8: Internal reports that review the actual impact of decisions are prepared by:

department heads

management accountants

the controller

factory workers

Q9: Turnbull Corp. had an EBIT of $247 million in the last fiscal year. Its depreciation and amortization expenses amounted to $84 million. The firm has 135 million shares outstanding and a share price of $12.80. A competing firm that is very similar to Turnbull has an enterprise value/EBITDA multiple of 5.40.

What is the enterprise value of Turnbull Corp.? Round to the nearest million dollars.

$1,315 million

$1,344 million

$1,787 million

$453.6 million

Q10: Teakap, Inc. has current assets of $1,456,312 and total assets of $4,812,369 for the year ending September 30, 2006. It also has current liabilities of $1,041,012, common equity of $1,500,000 and retained earnings of $1,468,347. How much long-term debt does the firm have?

$2,123,612

$803,010

$1,844,022

$2,303,010

Q11: The group of users of accounting information charged with achieving the goals of the business is its:

auditors

managers

creditors

investors

Q12: The major element in budgetary control is:

the valuation of inventories

the approval of the budget by the stockholders

the preparation of long-term plans

the comparison of actual results with planned objectives.

Q13: Process costing is used when:

costs are to be assigned to specific jobs.

dissimilar products are involved

the production process is continuous.

production is aimed at fulfilling a specific customer order.

Q14: The convention of consistency refers to consistent use of accounting principles:

throughout the accounting period

among accounting periods

within industries

among firms

Q15: Next year Jenkins Traders will pay a dividend of $3.00. It expects to increase its dividend by $0.25 in each of the following three years. If their required rate of return if 14 percent, what is the present value of their dividends over the next four years?

$12.50

$13.50

$11.63

$9.72

Q16: The most important information needed to determine if companies can pay their current obligations is the:

relationship between current assets and current liabilities

relationship between short-term and long-term liabilities

projected net income for next year

net income for this year

Q17: What decision criteria should managers use in selecting projects when there is not enough capital to invest in all available positive NPV projects?

the profitability index

the internal rate of return

the modified internal rate of return

the discounted payback

Q18: How firms estimate their cost of capital: The WACC for a firm is 13.00 percent. You know that the firm’s cost of debt capital is 10 percent and the cost of equity capital is 20% What proportion of the firm is financed with debt?

70%

33%

30%

50%

Q19: Which of the following financial statements is concerned with the company at a point in time?

income statement

retained earnings statement

statement of cash flows

balance sheet

Q20: Firms that achieve higher growth rates without seeking external financing:

have less equity and/or are able to generate high net income leading to a high ROE.

are highly leveraged

Have a low plowback ratio

None of these

Q21: M&M Proposition 1: Dynamo Corp. produces annual cash flows of $150 and is expected to exist forever. The company is currently financed with 75 percent equity and 25 percent debt. Your analysis tells you that the appropriate discount rates are 10 percent for the cash flows, and 7 percent for the debt. You currently own 10 percent of the stock.

If Dynamo wishes to change its capital structure from 75 percent equity to 60 percent equity and use the debt proceeds to pay a special dividend to shareholders, how much debt should they use?

$225

$321

$375

$600

Q22: Your firm has an equity multiplier of 2.47. What is the debt-to-equity ratio?

1.47

0

0.60

1.74

Q23: The process of evaluating financial data that change under alternative courses of action is called:

contribution margin analysis

double entry analysis

cost-benefit analysis

incremental analysis

Q24: Horizontal analysis is also known as:

trend analysis

linear analysis

vertical analysis

common size analysis

Q25: The break-even point is where:

total sales equal total variable costs.

contribution margin equals total fixed costs.

total sales equal total fixed costs.

total variable costs equal total fixed costs.

Q26: When a company assigns the costs of direct materials, direct labor, and both variable and fixed manufacturing overhead to products, that company is using:

operations costing

absorption costing

product costing

variable costing

Q27: External financing needed: Jockey Company has total assets worth $4,417,665. At year-end it will have net income of $2,771,342 and pay out 60 percent as dividends. If the firm wants no external financing, what is the growth rate it can support?

27.3%

32.9%

25.1%

30.3%

Q28: The accumulation of accounting data on the basis of the individual manager who has the authority to make day-to-day decisions about activities in an area is called:

flexible accounting

master budgeting

responsibility accounting

static reporting

Q29: The cash conversion cycle?

estimates how long it takes on average for the firm to colprincipals of management ,Management,$5.00,

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