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A company calculated variances of a budget and actual cash flows that indicate the firm's strengths and weaknesses in cash flows and its budgeting process. Which major use of cash budgeting is this an example of? Standardization Performance evaluation Assessment of future needs Corrective act...

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D076 Finance Skills for Managers
ASSESSMENT ALREADY passed
A company calculated variances of a budget and actual cash flows that indicate the firm's strengths and
weaknesses in cash flows and its budgeting process.



Which major use of cash budgeting is this an example of?



Standardization

Performance evaluation

Assessment of future needs

Corrective action ✔✔- Performance evaluation



A company is developing a financial forecast for the next year. The company plans to implement a new
factory that will increase production and resulting sales by 20%.

Since the company's assets are increasing significantly, what else must increase?



Profit turnover

Financing

You Selected

Gross margin

Accounts receivable turnover ✔✔- Financing



A company's officers and board of directors are selling their stocks in the firm at higher prices due to
false accounting reports that made the stock seem more valuable than it truly was. Which ethical issue is
occurring in this situation?



A) Agency problem due to conflicting interests

,B) Maximizing shareholder value



C) The conflict between work and personal affairs

Pursuing individual interest over client interests ✔✔- A) Agency problem due to conflicting interests

Correct! Accounting manipulation by management in pursuit of higher stock-related compensation is an
example of an agency problem.



A financial analyst for the company Bobby's Books has been asked to evaluate a potential investment
using a method that considers the time value of money. Is there more than one way to do this?



A) Yes, the analyst could use both the NPV and the IRR.

B) No, there are no valuation methods that take into account the time value of money.

C) Yes, the analyst could use the current ratio and could compare cost of capital rates.

D) No, the analyst could only use cash budgeting to evaluate the project. ✔✔- A) Yes, the analyst could
use both the NPV and the IRR.

Correct! Both NPV and IRR take into account the time value of money.



A financial manager at a company is trying to determine whether to issue new stocks or new bonds to
cover the costs of a project the company is doing the next year.

Which main task in business finance is this situation an example of?



Managing working capital

Managing interdepartmental loans

Making investment decisions

Making financing decisions ✔✔- Making financing decisions

,A firm had sales of $100,000 this month. However, the firm received only $90,000 in cash from sales.
Why would the firm receive $10,000 less cash than its monthly sales?



A) Because the firm paid cash for inventory purchased

B) Because the firm purchased inventory on credit this month

C) Because the firm paid down $10,000 on a loan

D) Because the firm did not make all sales on cash ✔✔- D) Because the firm did not make all sales on
cash



Correct! Some sales are made on credit rather than cash, and a portion of credit sales are collected in
the following months after the sales.



A firm is currently operating at 75% capacity with current sales of $34 million.

Will the firm need to acquire additional fixed assets if its sales are predicted to increase by $6 million
next year?



No, because the increase in sales will exceed the firm's sales capacity.

Correct

No, because the increase in sales will not exceed the firm's sales capacity.

Yes, because the increase in sales will not exceed the firm's sales capacity.

You Selected

Yes, because the increase in sales will exceed the firm's sales capacity. ✔✔- No, because the increase in
sales will not exceed the firm's sales capacity.



A pharmaceutical company recently spent $2 million developing a new drug. The company then
conducts capital budgeting analysis to determine if it should produce the newly developed drug. The net
present value (NPV) of the project is $1.5 million.

Why should this company produce the drug?

, Because the losses due to cannibalization are less than the value of the project

Because the project will provide a total value of $3.5 million to the company

Because the NPV is greater than zero

Because the development costs are greater than the value of the project ✔✔- Because the NPV is
greater than zero



A sign company is planning to have an initial public offering (IPO). In which type of market will its stock
first be sold to the public?



Efficient market

Money market

Primary market

Secondary market ✔✔- Primary market



Accounts Receivable Turnover ✔✔- How often receivables turn over in a year.

Net credit sales/average net accounts receivable



Activity ratio ✔✔- Also known as efficiency ratios. It's how well a company uses it's assets to generate
sales or cash. Evaluates operational efficiency by analyzing inventories, fixed assets and accounts
receivable.



Example; a companies sales increase dramatically but the amount of assets stays the same. You might
ask how this will effect the profits and wonder is we have enough inventory so customers do not need
to wait.



Advantages of NPV ✔✔- TVM

Calculates added value to firm

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