Finance Answers

We are all concerned with the serious health impacts of the escalating pollution problem in a country like India where regulation oversight is comparatively lax and penalties & punishments too few and far? Identify and select any one pollution reducing/mitigating initiative practiced and embedded in its business by a listed company that impresses you. Explain this initiative along with the short term & long term positive impact of the same on the environment & people. (refer to Sustainability Report and/or Business Responsibility Report of the company).

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Starting on January 1, 1987, and then on each January 1 until 1996 (10 payments), you will make payments of $1,000 into an investment which yields 10 percent. How much will your investment be worth on December 31 in the year 2006?   

2. Demand forecasting is not a speculative exercise into the unknown. It is essentially a reasonable judgement of future probabilities of the market events based on scientific background. Explain the statement by elaborating different qualitative and quantitative methods of demand forecasting. 

The total investment required for a new chemical plant is estimated at $20 million. Fifty percent will be supplied from the company’s noncapital resources. Of the remaining investment, one-half will come from a loan at an effective interest rate of 8 percent, and one-half will come from an issue of preferred stock paying dividends at a stated effective rate of 8 percent. The incometax rate for the company is 35 percent of pretax earnings. Under these conditions, how many dollars per year does the company actually lose (i.e., after taxes) by issuing preferred stock at 8 percent dividends instead of bonds at an effective interest rate of 6 percent? 

Deposits to create a perpetuity You have decided to endow your favorite university

with a scholarship. It is expected to cost $6,000 per year to attend the university

into perpetuity. You expect to give the university the endowment in 10 years and

will accumulate it by making equal annual (end-of-year) deposits into an account.

The rate of interest is expected to be 10% for all future time periods.

a. How large must the endowment be?

b. How much must you deposit at the end of each of the next 10 years to accumu-

late the required amount?

Consumption function : C = 800 + 0.75Yd

Income : 1800

Investment : 500

Net export : 756

Government expenditure : 200

Tax : 200

Calculate the following value:

(i) Expenditure multiplier; (3 marks)

(ii) Total consumption; (3 marks)

(iii) Equilibrium level of income.

In your initial post, include the following:

• How will you utilize this information in your final project?
• Is it relevant information?

When responding to your peers or instructor, include points related to the theorems needed to find the efficient frontier

.An investor is bearish on a stock whose market price is K100 per share. He instructs his broker to sell short 1000 shares who borrows the 1000 either from another customer’s account or from another broker. Suppose the broker has a 50% margin requirement on short sales, how would the investor’s account look like? 

Mr. Ramesh is contemplating to enter the men’s top end shirts category.The company already has a brand “CLINGERS” in the middle segment (₹350-700). The brand is very popular amongst the target audience. Mr. Ramesh now wants to play the value game and enter the top end (₹700+) category. He knows there are some formidable brands. that will make life extremely difficult . Mr. Ramesh has decided to keep the brand name as “Clingers Gold”. He has decided to allocate ₹10 crores for sales promotion and advertising budget. Unique Industries is simultaneously entering the readymade trousers market and shoes market. Mr. Ramesh has decided to keep the same brand name “CLINGERS” to leverage the success of the brand name to the two new categories.

a. Do you think the brand name “Clingers Gold” is right for the top end segment? Justify your

answer.

b. Which factors you think needs to be studied before making such entry in the market?