Suppose you bought a $1,000 face value bond with a coupon rate of 5.6 percent one year ago. The purchase price was $987.50. You sold the bond today for $994.20. If the inflation rate last year was 2.6 percent, what was your exact real rate of return on this investment?

A stock has a beta of .85 and an expected return of 9.12 percent. If the stock’s reward-to-risk ratio is 6.05 percent, what is the risk-free rate?

Lopez Framing sells its inventory 43.2 days after acquiring it. By prior agreement, it pays its suppliers 48.5 days after taking possession of the inventory. It requires customers to pay by credit card; accordingly, it collects its receivables in 4.2 days. Given this information, what is the length of its operating cycle?

Which one of the following is the most likely reason why a stock price might not react at all on the day that new information related to the stock’s issuer is released? Assume the market is semistrong form efficient.

Alcid Manufacturing is analyzing a project with anticipated sales of 8,400 units, ±2 percent. The variable cost per unit is $72, ±2 percent, and the expected fixed costs are $243,000, ±1 percent. The sales price is estimated at $119 per unit, ±3 percent. The depreciation expense is $34,200 and the tax rate is 21 percent. What is the earnings before interest and taxes under the base-case scenario?

The primary purpose of Blume’s formula is to:

When using the subjective approach to project analysis, a firm:

Each year, Modi Luggage sells 472 units of a product at a price of $729 each. The variable cost per unit is $476, the carrying cost per unit is $24.15, and the fixed order cost is $50. What is the economic order quantity?

A project has an accounting break-even quantity of 28,700 units, a cash break-even quantity of 17,120 units, a life of 10 years, fixed costs of $178,000, variable costs of $18.40 per unit, and a required return of 14 percent. Depreciation is straight-line to zero over the project life. Ignoring taxes, what is the financial break-even quantity?

Ingraham Stoneworks has analyzed a proposed expansion project and determined that the internal rate of return is lower than the firm desires. Which one of the following changes to the project would be most expected to increase the project’s internal rate of return?