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TEST BANK for Introduction to Finance: Markets, Investments, and Financial Management 17th Edition by Ronald Melicher & Edgar Norton. ISBN 1170. TABLE OF CONTENTS: CH 1 The Financial Enviro nment CH 2 Money and the Monetary System CH 3 Banks and Other Financial Institutions CH 4 Federal Reserve Sys...

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, Chapter 1
The Financial Environment
TRUE-FALSE QUESTIONS

1. Finance is the study of how individuals, institutions, and businesses acquire, spend and
manage money and other financial resources.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: What is Finance?
L.O. 1.1

2. Financial management is the study of financial planning, asset management and fund
raising by businesses and financial institutions.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: What is Finance?
L.O. 1.1

3. Personal finance is the study of how growth-driven performance-focused, early-stage
firms raise financial capital and manage operations and assets.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Two Themes
L.O. 1.1

4. Personal finance is the study of how individuals prepare for financial emergencies,
protect against premature death and property losses, and accumulate wealth.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Two Themes
L.O. 1.1

5. Financial markets provide the mechanism for allocating financial resources or funds from
savers to borrowers.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: What is Finance?
L.O. 1.1

,6. The financial environment is organizations or intermediaries that help the financial
system operate efficiently and transfer funds from savers and investors to individuals,
businesses, and governments that seek to spend or invest the funds in physical assets
(inventories, buildings, and equipment).

Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: What is Finance?
L.O. 1.1

7. The primary goal of the financial manager in a profit-seeking organization is to maximize
the owners’ wealth.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: What is Finance?
L.O. 1.1

8. Financial environment is the country or countries being studied.

Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: What is Finance?
L.O. 1.1

9. The terms financial system, institutions, and intermediaries are all interchangeable.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: What is Finance?
L.O. 1.1

10. Most of the impetus for growth in the U.S. economy comes from large companies.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Small Business Practice
L.O. 1.2

11. While the financial press chooses to highlight examples of unethical behavior, most
individuals exhibit sound ethical behavior in their personal and business dealings and
practices.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Reputation Matters
L.O. 1.3

, 12. The six principles of finance include (1) Money has a time value, (2) Higher returns are
expected for taking on more risk, (3) Diversification of investments can reduce risk, (4)
Financial markets are efficient in pricing securities, (5) Manager and stockholder
objectives may differ, and (6) Reputation matters.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Six Principles of Finance
L.O. 1.3

13. The principle of finance that "money has a time value" implies Money in hand today is
worth less than the promise of receiving the same amount in the future because a sum
of money today could be invested and grow over time.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Six Principles of Finance
L.O. 1.3

14. Receiving one dollar today has the same value as receiving one dollar in one year.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Six Principles of Finance
L.O. 1.3

15. The principle of finance that "lower returns are expected for taking on less risk" implies
that rational investors would choose a risky investment only if they feel the expected
return is high enough to justify the greater risk.
Answer: T
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Six Principles of Finance
L.O. 1.3

16. The riskier the investment, the lower the return.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Easy
Subject Heading: Six Principles of Finance
L.O. 1.3

17. The principle of finance that "financial markets are efficient in pricing securities" implies
that the prices of securities reflect some information available to the public and that
when new information becomes available, prices change over time to reflect that
information.
Answer: F
Difficulty Level: Medium
Subject Heading: Six Principles of Finance
L.O. 1.3

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