Landry’s has a beginning cash balance of $318 on March 1. Projected sales are $720 for February, $850 for March, and $980 for April. The cost of goods sold is equal to 57 percent of sales with goods being purchased one month prior to the month of sale. The accounts payable period is 45 days and the accounts receivable period is 20 days. The firm has monthly cash expenses of $274. What is the projected ending cash balance at the end of March? Assume every month has 30 days.

A cost-cutting project will decrease costs by $66,300 a year. The annual depreciation will be $15,900 and the tax rate is 21 percent. What is the operating cash flow for this project?

What is the standard deviation of the returns on a portfolio that is invested 37 percent in Stock Q and 63 percent in Stock R? State of Economy Probability of State of Economy Rate of Return if State Occurs Stock Q Stock R Boom .15 .16 .15 Normal .85 .09 .13

Decker’s is an all-equity financed chain of retail furniture stores. Furniture Fashions produces furniture and is the primary supplier to Decker’s. Decker’s has a beta of 1.62 as compared to Furniture Fashions’ beta of 1.43. The risk-free rate of return is 3.1 percent and the market risk premium is 7.6 percent. What discount rate should Decker’s use if it considers a project that involves the manufacturing of furniture?

Which one of the following statements related to credit periods is correct?

You have a portfolio consisting solely of Stock A and Stock B. The portfolio has an expected return of 10.2 percent. Stock A has an expected return of 11.7 percent while Stock B is expected to return 8.3 percent. What is the portfolio weight of Stock A?

Juno Industrial Supply has a line of credit of $200,000 with an interest rate of 7.1 percent. The loan agreement requires a compensating balance of 3.3 percent of the total amount borrowed, which will be held in an interest-free account. What is the effective interest rate if the company requires $132,000 for operations for one year?

A stock has an expected rate of return of 9.8 percent and a standard deviation of 15.4 percent. Which one of the following best describes the probability that this stock will lose at least half of its value in any one given year?

Consider a project to supply 70 million postage stamps annually for the next five years. You have an idle parcel of land available that cost $279,000 five years ago; if the land were sold today, it would net you $310,000, aftertax. You estimate the land can be sold for $400,000 after taxes in five years. You will need to install $1,867,000 in new manufacturing plant and equipment to actually produce the stamps; this plant and equipment will be depreciated straight-line to zero over the project’s five-year life. Ignore bonus depreciation. The equipment can be sold for $950,000 at the end of the project. You will also need $32,000 in initial net working capital for the project, and an additional investment of $5,000 every year starting with Year 1. All net working capital will be recovered when the project ends. Your production costs are .21 cents per stamp, and you have fixed costs of $440,000 per year. Assume the tax rates are suddenly increased such that a tax rate of 35 percent is once again applicable, and your required return on this project is 14 percent. What bid price per stamp should you submit?

The amount that O’Leary’s purchases from its suppliers each quarter equals 61 percent of the next quarter’s forecasted sales. The payables period is 60 days. Wages, taxes, and other expenses are 18 percent of sales, and interest and dividends are $72 per quarter. No capital expenditures are planned. The projected sales for Year 1 are $730, $770, $710, and $850 for Quarters 1 to 4, respectively. Sales for the first quarter of Year 2 are projected at $760. What is the amount of the total disbursements for Quarter 3 of Year 1?