Week 9 – Chapters 11, 12, 13, and 14 Quiz
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Question 1
The actual disbursement of cash is recorded in which of the following financial statements?
Answers: income statement
balance sheet
statement of cash flows
treasurer’s report
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Question 2
A statement that expresses the income statement items as a percent of total sales is called:
Answers: a percentage of sales income statement
a cross-sectional income statement
a common size income statement
a ratio based income statement
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Question 3
In an efficient market:
Answers: it is fairly easy to find stocks whose prices do not fairly reflect the present value of future expected cash flows
expected news will cause a rapid change in prices
information flows are random, both in timing and in content
all the above
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Question 4
The 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act and actions by the stock exchanges:
Answers: limit the compensation that could be paid to CEOs.
increase the number of independent directors on corporate Boards.
provide uniform international accounting standards
none of the above
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Question 5
If a firm has sales of $100, total expenses (including interest and taxes) of $50, has a stock that is selling at $50 per share and has 10 shares of stock outstanding, then the firm has a P/E ratio of:
Answers: 2.00
1.00
10.0
0.20
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Question 6
Ningbo Steel had year end 2011 and 2012 retained earnings balances of $5,000,000 and $6,000,000 respectively. The firm paid $100,000 of dividends in 2012. Based on this information, Ningbo Steel’s net profit after taxes in 2012 was:
Answers: $100,000
$900,000
$1,000,000
$1,100,000
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Question 7
A firm has fixed operating costs of $10,000, the sale price per unit of its product is $25, and its variable cost per unit is $15. The firm’s operating breakeven point in units is
Answers: 250
400
667
1,000
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Question 8
As part of the measurement of financial leverage, the total debt ratio is calculated as:
Answers: total liabilities divided by total assets
total liabilities times total assets
current liabilities divided by total assets
total assets minus current liabilities divided by total liabilities divided by total liabilities
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Question 9
If a firm’s sales are $2,000,000, its cost of goods sold is $1,500,000, and its total assets are $1,000,000, what is total asset turnover?
Answers: 2.0 times
1.5 times
0.5 times
.67 times
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Question 10
A market has ________ if it can absorb large orders without disrupting prices; it has ___________ if it has many trades.
Answers: depth, breadth
breadth, depth
liquidity, quick execution
quick execution, liquidity
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Question 11
A market is liquid if
Answers: trades are executed quickly.
market prices don’t fluctuate sharply on successive trades
both a) and b) are correct.
if fees are low.
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Question 12
Which of the following is not required to compute the expected return of a three-asset portfolio?
Answers: the amount invested in each stock
the correlation between the returns on each stock
the expected return on each stock
all of the above are required
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Question 13
_____________ costs are a function of quantity sold, not time.
Answers: fixed
depreciation
operating
variable
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Question 14
(Cash + Marketable securities + Accounts receivable) ∕ Current liabilities
Answers: Current ratio
Quick ratio
Average payment period
Fast ratio
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Question 15
The maximum buying price or the minimum selling price specified by the investor is called a:
Answers: stop-loss order
market order
short sale
limit order
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Question 16
All of the following accounts are considered to be current assets on the balance sheet except:
Answers: cash
accruals
accounts receivable
inventory
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Question 17
Responsible for the controller and the treasury functions of a firm.
Answers: Chief financial officer
Treasurer
Principle
Controller
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Question 18
Which of the following would not be considered in the fixed charge coverage ratio?
Answers: sinking fund payments
dividend payments
lease payments Rent payments
rent payments
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Question 19
Using the DuPont system of analysis and holding other factors constant, decrease in total asset turnover will result in ________ in the return on equity.
Answers: an increase
a decrease
no change
an undetermined change
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Question 20
Which of the following would not be included on the balance sheet?
Answers: dividends paid
retained earnings
capital paid in excess of par
common stock