Ives Corporation has an inventory period of 23.1 days, an accounts payable period of 40.7 days, and an accounts receivable period of 33.5 days. What is the company’s cash cycle?

The company places orders each quarter that are 56 percent of next quarter’s sales and has a 30-day payables period. The projected sales for next year are: Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Sales $ 54,225 $ 60,975 $ 69,525 $ 75,050 What is the accounts payable balance at the end of the second quarter?

In an effort to capture the large jet market, Hiro Airplanes invested $11.264 billion developing its B490, which is capable of carrying 840 passengers. The plane has a list price of $276.5 million. In discussing the plane, Hiro Airplanes stated that the company would break even when 253 B490s were sold. Assume the break-even sales figure given is the cash flow break-even. Suppose the sales of the B490 last for only 12 years. How many airplanes must Hiro sell per year to provide its shareholders a rate of return of 17 percent on this investment?

Dora Distribution has projected the following quarterly sales. The accounts receivable at the beginning of the year is $1,045 and the collection period is 60 days. What are collections for the first quarter? Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Sales $ 1,735 $ 1,780 $ 2,145 $ 2,150

You purchased Butterfly Wing Corporation stock exactly one year ago at a price of $77.95 per share. Over the past year, the stock paid dividends of $2.98 per share. Today, you sold your stock and earned a total return of 15.95 percent. What was the price at which you sold the stock?

You would like to combine a risky stock with a beta of 1.48 and U.S. Treasury bills in such a way that the risk level of the portfolio will be equivalent to the risk level of the overall market. What percentage of the portfolio should you invest in the risky stock?

Last year, you purchased a stock at a price of $70.00 a share. Over the course of the year, you received $1.50 per share in dividends and inflation averaged 2 percent. Today, you sold your shares for $73.20 a share. What is your approximate real rate of return on this investment?

A project has a discount rate of 15.5 percent, an initial cost of $109,200, an inflow of $56,400 in Year 1, and an inflow of $75,900 in Year 2. Your boss requires that every project return a minimum of $1.06 for every $1 invested. Based on this information, what is your recommendation on this project?

Which one of the following stocks is correctly priced according to CAPM if the risk-free rate of return is 3.4 percent and the market risk premium is 7.4 percent? Stock Beta Expected Return A .87 .096 B 1.09 .102 C 1.62 .146 D .98 .107 E 1.16 .139

Wayco Industrial Supply has a pretax cost of debt of 8.3 percent, a cost of equity of 14.7 percent, and a cost of preferred stock of 8.9 percent. The firm has 165,000 shares of common stock outstanding at a market price of $33 per share. There are 15,000 shares of preferred stock outstanding at a market price of $43 per share. The bond issue has a face value of $750,000 and a market quote of 101. The company’s tax rate is 21 percent. What is the weighted average cost of capital?