Financial Management Midterm True/False
T/F A bond that had a 20-year original maturity with 1 year left to maturity has more price risk than a 10-year original maturity bond with 1 year left to maturity. (Assume that the bonds have equal default risk and equal coupon rates, and they cannot be called.)
False
T/F All other things held constant, the present value of a given annual annuity increases as the number of periods per year increases.
False
T/F Although a full liquidity analysis requires the use of a cash budget, the current and quick ratios provide fast and easy-to-use estimates of a firm's liquidity position.
True
T/F Determining whether a firm's financial position is improving or deteriorating requires analyzing more than the ratios for a given year. Trend analysis is one method of examining changes in a firm's performance over time.
True
T/F If the discount (or interest) rate is positive, the future value of an expected series of payments will always exceed the present value of the same series.
True
T/F Junk bonds are high-risk, high-yield debt instruments. They are often used to finance leveraged buyouts and mergers, and to provide financing to companies of questionable financial strength.
True
T/F Net operating working capital is equal to current assets less excess cash minus the difference between current liabilities and notes payable.
True
T/F One of the four most fundamental factors that affect the cost of money as discussed in the text is the availability of production opportunities and their expected rates of return. If production opportunities are relatively good, then interest rates will tend to be relatively high, other things held constant.
True
T/F The balance sheet represents a snapshot in time, whereas the income statement reports on operations over a period of time.
True
T/F The days sales outstanding ratio tells us how long it takes, on average, to collect after a sale is made. The DSO can be compared with the firm's credit terms to get an idea of whether customers are paying on time.
True
T/F The inventory turnover ratio and days sales outstanding (DSO) are two ratios that are used to assess how effectively a firm is managing its current assets.
True
T/F The primary reason the annual report is important in finance is that it is used by investors when they form expectations about the firm's future earnings and dividends and the riskiness of those cash flows.
True
T/F The value of any asset is the present value of the cash flows the asset is expected to provide. The cash flows a business is able to provide to its investors is its free cash flow. This is the reason that FCF is so important in finance.
True
T/F The market/book (M/B) ratio tells us how much investors are willing to pay for a dollar of accounting book value. In general, investors regard companies with higher M/B ratios as less risky and/or more likely to enjoy higher growth in the future.
True
T/F The price/earnings (P/E) ratio tells us how much investors are willing to pay for a dollar of current earnings. In general, investors regard companies with higher P/E ratios as less risky and/or more likely to enjoy higher growth in the future.
True
T/F If a firm sold some inventory for cash and left the funds in its bank account, its current ratio would probably not change much, but its quick ratio would decline.
False
T/F In general, if investors believe that a company is relatively risky and/or has relatively poor growth prospects, then the company will have relatively high P/E, M/B, and EV/EBITDA ratios.
False
T/F It is appropriate to use the fixed assets turnover ratio to appraise firms' effectiveness in managing their fixed assets if and only if all of the firms being compared have the same proportion of fixed assets to total assets.
False
T/F Other things held constant, the more debt a firm uses, the lower the firm's operating margin will be.
False
T/F Since yield curves are based on a real risk-free rate plus the expected rate of inflation, at any given time there can be only one yield curve, and it applies to both corporate and Treasury securities.
False
T/F Suppose all firms follow similar financing policies, face similar risks, have equal access to capital, and operate in competitive product and capital markets. However, firms face different operating conditions because, for example, the grocery store industry is different from the airline industry. Under these conditions, firms with high profit margins will tend to have high asset turnover ratios, and firms with low profit margins will tend to have low turnover ratios.
False
T/F The first major section of a typical statement of cash flows is "Operating Activities," and the first entry in this section is "Net Income." Then, also in the first section, we show some items that represent increases or decreases to cash, and the last entry is called "Net Cash Provided by Operating Activities." This number can be either positive or negative, but if it is negative, the firm is almost certain to soon go bankrupt.
False
T/F The four most fundamental factors that affect the cost of money are (1) production opportunities, (2) time preferences for consumption, (3) risk, and (4) weather conditions.
False
T/F Time lines cannot be constructed for annuities unless all the payments occur at the end of the periods.
False
T/F When a loan is amortized, a relatively high percentage of the payment goes to reduce the outstanding principal in the early years, and the principal repayment's percentage declines in the loan's later years.
False
