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Your firm, People’s Consulting Group, has been asked to consult on a potential preferred stock offering by Brave New World. This 15% preferred stock issue would be
sold at its par value of $35 per share. Flotation costs would total $3 per share.
Calculate the cost of this preferred stock.
Chose the best answer to each question?
23. If Total Poverty Gap is $5,000, the number of persons whose income fall below the poverty line is 200, and the size of population is 1,000, then what is the Average Poverty Gap?
(a) $5 (b) $250 (c) $1 million (d) $10
24. Which of the following is included into the computation of both Gender Development Index(GDI) and Gender Inequality Index(GII)?
(a) women’s educational attainment (b) women’s life expectancy at birth
(c) women’s participation in the workforce (d) women’s income per person
25. Which of the following can have a value bigger than 1?
(a) Gender Inequality Index (b) MPI
(c) Gini coefficient (d) Normalized Poverty Gap
(e) Gender Development Index
As the district manager for a region of retail discount clothing stores, Henry Banks is preparing for a quarterly meeting with all of the store managers in his district. As part of a presentation about company hiring practices, he plans to stress the importance of diversity. He knows the company needs a diverse workforce to meet the needs of the company’s diverse customer base; however, he is not sure how to convey this to the group of store managers. What do you think Henry should say in his presentation?
(600 words)
John is a successful business owner. His landscaping business is growing, and a few months ago he decided to bring in somebody to manage his office operations since he had little time to keep on top of that activity. However, this individual can’t seem to make a decision without agonizing about it over and over and on and on. What could Juan do to help this person become a better decision maker?
(500 words)
Given the money demand function,
In [M/P]D = a - bi + InY , if b = 1/3 and S = 0.03Y , what rate of money growth is required to obtain it?
How will your answer(s) change when: (a) b = 1/3 and S = 0.05Y
Explain the relationship between seigniorage revenues and the rate of inflation. Also Draw relevant diagram(s).
4. Linearity is one assumption of classicalist in simple regression analysis. Identify which of the following satisfies this assumption. Discuss why?
a, LnY2=( +(1X1i +(2X2i +Ui
B, Y=( +(1/(1) X1i +(2X2i +Ui
C, Y=( +(1X21i +(2X2i +Ui
D, LnY=( +(1LnX1i +(2LnX2i +Ui
e. Yi=( +(2Xi + Ui
RHA fund invested in 1,000 units of 7 percent, 15-year, RM1,000 bond issued by CMX
Bhd. The bond was issued on 1/11/2018 at par. The firm bought the bonds on 1/11/2021
when the bond was selling at 2% discount. The firm intends to sell back all the bond when
the interest rate is expected to be at 5% on 1/11/2026. Throughout the period of holding
the bond, the firm reinvest all the coupons received in an investment alternative that pays
8 percent interest for the 1st 3 years and 9 percent interest for the remaining years. You
are required to assist RHA fund to determine:
i) their total yield from this bond investment
ii) total capital gain from this investment
Calculate 1) GDP at MP
(Rs. '000)
2,000
40
560
500
100
60
200
60
2) NNP at FC
1. Consumption of fixed capital
2. Employer's contribution to social security schemes
3. Rent
4. Interest
5. Profits
6. Royalty
7. Wages and salaries
8. Net indirect taxes
9. Net factor income from abroad
(Crores)
34
30
10
20
25
5
170
38
(-) 3
Estimate National Income using Expenditure method from the
following data:
Particulars. (Crores)
1. Opening stock.
2. Closing stock.
3. Consumption of fixed capital
4. Private final consumption expenditure
5. Net exports
6. Net factor income from abroad
7. Compensation of employees paid by general government
8. Direct purchases of non - durable goods from abroad
by general government
9. Net purchases of goods and services by general government
in the domestic market
10. Net domestic capital formation
11. Net indirect taxes
50
60
10
500
(-) 25
10
100
10
100
160
150
What is the contrbution of building additional bridge on the total building cost
