Finance Exercise Questions

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------------------------------------------------- CORPORATE FINANCE EXERCICES SESSION 1 : 1. Why should we discount ? We discount to know the present value of an item. 2. Why does the graph on capitalization show curves and not lines ? Because the power of capitalization is directly linked with the duration and because you earn interest on interest earned before. 3. Are initial flows on an investment more often positive or negative ? What about for final cash flows ? Initial flows are more often negative and final cash flows are more often positive. 4. What mechanism pushes market value toward present value ? The mechanism is : Arbitrage 5. A market is in equilibrium when present values are nil and the net present values…show more content…
Should an investment subsidy be included in investment flows or by reducing the discount rate ? In investment flows, because it is deducted from the flows to be invested and not from the risk, which remains the same. Exercise 1 : Home Builder Supply, a retailer in the home improvement industry, currently operates seven retail outlets in Georgia and South Carolina. Management is contemplating building an eighth retail store across town from its most successful retail outlet. The company already owns the land for this store, which currently has an abandoned warehouse located on it. Last month, the marketing department spent $10,000 on market research to determine the extent of customer demand for the new store. Now Home Builder Supply must decide whether to build and open the new store. Which of the following should be included as part of the incremental earnings for the proposed new retail store? 1. The cost of the land where the store will be located. No 2. The cost of demolishing the abandoned warehouse and clearing the lot. Yes 3. The loss of sales in the existing retail outlet, if customers who previously drove across town to shop at the existing outlet become customers of the new store

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