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Test Bank for Foundations of Financial Management 17th Edition by Stanley Block, Geoffrey Hirt, Bartley Danielsen. PART 1 INTRODUCTION 1 The Goals and Activities of Financial Management PART 2 FINANCIAL ANALYSIS AND PLANNING 2 Review of Accounting 3 Financial Analysis 4 Financial Forecasting 5 Oper...

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Foundations of Financial Management, 17e (Block)
Chapter 1 The Goals and Activities of Financial Management


1) As finance emerged as a new field, much emphasis was placed on mergers and acquisitions.
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Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
ED
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
C
2) Inflation is assumed to be a temporary problem that does not affect financial decisions.
O
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Financial management decisions
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
N
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
N
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
O
3) Financial capital is composed of long-term plant and equipment, as well as other tangible
investments.

Answer: FALSE
IS
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
SE
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

4) Real capital is composed of long-term plant and equipment.
U
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
R
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember

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No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

, AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

5) During the 1930s, financial practice revolved around such topics as the preservation of capital,
maintenance of liquidity, the reorganization of financially troubled corporations, and bankruptcy.
M
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
ED
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
C
6) In the mid 1950s, finance began to change to a more analytical, decision-oriented approach.

Answer: TRUE
O
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
N
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
N
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

7) Recently, the emphasis of financial management has been on the relationship between risk and
O
return.

Answer: TRUE
IS
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.; 01-03 The relationship of risk to return is a central focus of finance.
SE
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

8) The first Nobel Prizes given to finance professors were for their contributions to capital
U
structure theory and portfolio theories of risk and return.

Answer: TRUE
R
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
2
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No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

, AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

9) How investors handle risk is an important topic that usually only economists observe.

Answer: FALSE
M
Explanation: Behavioral finance is something that the finance industry puts heavy emphasis on.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
ED
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
C
10) Mortgage-backed securities were devalued by accounting standards because of the high credit
ratings (AAA).
O
Answer: FALSE
Explanation: These securities were devalued because borrowers defaulted on their loans and
didn't have the financial means to back up their loans in other ways.
N
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
N
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
O
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

11) "Credit default swaps" are one of several tools that Congress and the President of the United
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States have jointly developed to ease the financial crisis that began in 2008.

Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
SE
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
U
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
R

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No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

, 12) The Dodd-Frank Act was created by Congress along with its goals and regulatory
responsibility, but it is facilitated by various agencies.

Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
M
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Remember
ED
AACSB: Reflective Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

13) The Dodd-Frank Act contains the Volcker Rule, which encourages financial institutions to
allow for more speculative investments for average investors.
C
Answer: FALSE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Ethics, governance, and regulation
O
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Understand
N
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
N
14) The Dodd-Frank Act's oversight allowing regulation of banking fees and available products
has been considered as not being in the best interests of a free market.
O
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 2 Medium
Topic: Ethics, governance, and regulation
IS
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
SE
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation

15) The Internet impacts e-commerce by creating a mechanism for improved communications
between a business, its customers, and its suppliers.
U
Answer: TRUE
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Introduction to corporate finance
R
Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting,
and a number of other areas.
Bloom's: Understand
AACSB: Analytical Thinking
Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation
4
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No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.

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