Finance Answers

Global Advisers Company (GAC) is a registered investment counseling firm solely
involved in managing international securities portfolios. After much research on the
settling
trades made by nonresidents. Senior finance officials in the government are working
to deregulate capital flows and foreign ownership, but GAC’s political consultant
believes that isolation sentiment may prevent much real progress in the short term run.
a) Briefly discuss four aspects of the South Korea’s environment that favour investing
actively and four aspects that favour indexing.
(8 marks)
b) Recommend whether GAC should invest in South Korea actively or by indexing
and justify your recommendation based on the factors identified in part a).
(8 marks)
2. “Because corporations do not actually raise any funds in secondary markets, they
(secondary markets) are less important to the economy than primary markets.”
Discuss
(4 marks)

What does the s or o on a U.S coin mean ?

XYZ LTD is considering replacing a machine with the following cash flows and salvage values
year cash flow(000) Salvage value (000)
1 5,000 6,000
2 3,800 3,000
3 2,500 1,000
the company project requires an initial cash investment of 7.5 million and cost of capital is 12 %
advice management when to replace asset with
a) identical asset
b) Non- identical asset

b) The following information has been extracted from the published accounts of Mana Corporation Limited, a company quoted on the Nairobi Securities Exchange.
Shs.
Net profit after tax and interest 990,000
Less: dividends for the period 740,000
Transfer to reserves 250,000
Accumulated reserves brought forward 810,000
Reserves carried forward 1,060,000
Share capital (Sh.10 par value) Sh.8,000,000
Market price per share now 12%
Required
Calculate
i) Earnings per share. (3 marks)
ii) Price earnings ratio (3 marks)
iii) Dividend yield (3 marks)
iv) Earnings yield (3 marks)

Suppose you have $425,000 in your savings account at the bank. How much of that will you have if your bank goes bankrupt based off of FDIC insurance?

A demand curve is given by: Q=aL³+bL²+cL+d. Find the marginal product function and the average product function

Hello sir,
I want to know one thing.
India following a scheme known as THE DIRECT CASH TRANSFER SCHEME. If which types of amount directly go through the Banks, what is the benefits which enjoy by the Banks?

Consider an individual who earns $100,000, pays $7,000 in child care expenses for one child, pays the maximum ($26,010) in Registered Pension Plan (RPP) contributions, makes charitable donations of $200 (15 percent credit), and pays $20,000 in medical expenses. Medical expenses in excess of 3 percent of net income are deductible at 20 percent. The statutory marginal tax rate is 17 percent. What is the federal tax payable? What is the individual’s actual (effective) marginal tax rate? [6 marks]

Consider an individual who earns $100,000, pays $7,000 in child care expenses for one child, pays the maximum ($26,010) in Registered Pension Plan (RPP) contributions, makes charitable donations of $200 (15 percent credit), and pays $20,000 in medical expenses. Medical expenses in excess of 3 percent of net income are deductible at 20 percent. The statutory marginal tax rate is 17 percent.
What is the federal tax payable? What is the individual’s actual (effective) marginal tax rate?

Consider this, what if a third world country namely Afghanistan's governement starts making businesses such as copying samsung to produce smart phone and phone albeit on a lower level than samsung, copying companies such as nestle to make food products, or maybe walmart to make a store chain, if the get the marketing right and the quality right, wouldn't it skyrocket the GDP and the economy considering they make the marketing and expansion to international markets, I was thinking if the government sets a 50 mil$ budget just for making businesses, of couse considering the man wouldn't be corrupt himself?

Does it have any probability or feasibility?