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Finance Basics

Subject : business-skills
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Total common equity / Common shares outstanding






2. For example - based on 50% probability of failure/success and current bond value of $1000 - a current stock price of $10 and projected new stock price of $2000 if successful






3. Law passed by Congress that requires CEO's & CFO's to certify their firms financial statements are accurate and deal with the consequences if the statements are not accurate






4. An unincorporated business owned by 2 or more persons. 3 advantages - Easy and inexpensive to form - subject to few government regulations - and subject to lower income taxes than corporations. 3 disadvantages - Unlimited personal liability for the






5. SE = Paid-in Capital + Retained Earnings or SE = Total Assets - Total Liabilities


6. Receive more when the company does better - often in conflict with bondholders






7. The issue of whether stock and bond markets at any given time are 'too high' or 'too low' or 'about right' - Behavioral Finance is a tool often used to aid in this analysis






8. An individual who targets a corporation for takeover because it is undervalued






9. 1) Increased globalization of business 2) Ever improving information technology 3) Corporate governance (the way top managers operate and interface with stockholders)






10. Financial Management - Capital Markets - & Investments






11. An uninicorporated business owned by one individual. 3 advantages - Easy and inexpensive to form - subject to few government regulations - and subject to lower income taxes than corporations. 3 disadvantages - Unlimited personal liability for the bu






12. Debt securities that give the bondholder an option to exchange their bonds for shares of common stock






13. Categorized as current assets because are used & then replaced






14. Cumulative total of all earnings kept by the company during its life - a claim against assets - they do not represent cash on the balance sheet






15. Acquisition of a company over the opposition of its management






16. Stock value based on 'perceived' but possibly incorrect information as seen by the marginal investor






17. 1 for the IRS - the other for reporting to investors






18. Bears = pessimists - Bulls = optimists






19. A special designation that allows small businesses that meet qualifications to be taxed as if they were a proprietorship or a partnership rather than a corporation - exempt from corporate tax - must have less than 100 stockholders to qualify






20. Sales revenues - operating costs (including depreciation & amoritizaton)






21. Current assets - Current liabilities






22. Represents the amount that stockholders paid the company when shares were purchased and the amount or earnings the company has retained since its origination


23. Profit a company would generate if it had no debt and held only operating assets - = EBIT x (1-T)






24. The best way to structure portfolios or 'baskets' of stocks and bonds






25. Shows the amount of equity the stockholders had at the start of the year - the items that increased or decreased it and the equity at the end of the year


26. What investors would expect if they had all of the information that existed about a company






27. The primary goal for managers of publicly owned companies implies that decisions should be made to maximize the long-run value of the firm's common stock. Corporate social responsibility is not inconsistent with maximizing shareholder value






28. Regulates banks and controls the supply of money






29. Net income / Common shares outstanding






30. Focuses on decisions concerning stocks and bonds and includes a number of activities - 1) Security Analysis - 2) Portfolio Theory - & 3) Market Analysis






31. A relatively new type of organization that is a hybrid between a partnership and a corporation. It has limited liability like corporations - but is taxed like partnerships. Investors have votes in proportion to their share of ownership






32. A company's attitude and conduct toward its employees - customers - community - and stockholders






33. Receive fix payments regardless of how well the company does - often in conflict with stockholders






34. Finding the proper values of individual securities






35. Accomplished through a combination of current liabilities - long-term debt - and common equity






36. Regulates the trading of stocks and bonds in public markets






37. Charge used to reflect the cost of long term assets used up in the production process over their useful life (not a cash outlay). Accelerated generally used for the IRS and straight line for investors






38. Focuses on decisions relating to how much and what types of assets to acquire - how to raise the capital needed to purchase assets - and how to run the firm so as to maximize its value






39. Sole Proprietorships - Partnerships - Corporations (incl. S Corp. and Non-profits - Limited Liability Companies (LLC) and Limited Liability Partnerships






40. Investor psychology is examined in an effort to determine if stock prices have been bid up to unreasonable heights in a speculative bubble or driven down to unreasonable lows in a fit of irrational pessimism






41. Amount of cash that could be withdrawn from a firm without harming its ability to operate and to produce future cash flows/ how much cash a firm can distribute to its investors - [ EBIT x (1-T) + Depreciation & Amoritization] - [Capital expenditures






42. Issued annually by a corporation to its stockholders - containing basic financial statements as well as management's analysis of the firm's past operations and future prospects. Provides 4 basic reports - Balance Sheet - Income Statement - Stateme






43. How did sales perform and did it make a profit? A report summarizing a firm's revenues - expenses and profits during a reporting period (generally a quarter or a year)






44. Dividends paid to common shareholders / Common shares outstanding






45. An estimate of a stock's 'true' value based on accurate risk adn return data - it can be estimated but not measured precisely - estimate by stock analysts - a long term concept - management should maximize this value not the market price






46. Current assets - (Current liabilities - Notes payables)






47. Situation in which the actual market price equals the intrinsic value so investors are indifferent between buying or selling a stock






48. Success (0.5 x $2000) + Failure (0.50 x $0) = $1 - 000 (New Stock Price)






49. Indicates a rapidly growing company (investing in new assets) which is ok as long as the company eventually utilizes the assets to become profitable and contribute to its FCF






50. The larger the expected cash flows - and the lower the perceived risk the higher the stock's price