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Please answer each question succinctly yet completely. Number your answers. Be mindful of the multiple parts to each question.
1) Discuss the significance of the numerator and denominator in the corporate value proposition. Who benefits from the maximization of corporate valuation? (Note: Milton Friedman, among other notable financial economists, had definitive opinions on this.) Why theoretically do so many entities benefit? Do you agree that they all benefit?
2) Management consultants (McKinsey, Accenture, etc.) are generally hired to increase the
intrinsic value of the firm. List the critical two elements—with direction—of the value
maximization template on which a consultant may focus to accomplish this task, outlining in turn two generalized examples of potential actionable recommendations for each of the
elements.
3) In the spirit of financial intermediaries, compare and contrast the basic functions and clients of a classic investment bank (e.g., Goldman Sachs) with a classic commercial bank (e.g., Bank of Bethesda). Again, as financial intermediaries, how do commercial banks and investment banks generally, differ, if at all, from insurance companies, venture capital funds, or public pension funds?
4) Discuss “securitization” in the context of that in which a commercial (Hint: collateralized
mortgage obligation circa 2006) and an investment bank may engage. What are two reasons—of many—why securitization likely occurs with financial intermediaries?
5) Discuss the link, if any, between international country risk and exchange risk. What is monetary policy risk as it relates to a credit union, commercial bank, or savings and loan, and why is it important, especially today? True or False: A commercial bank may have exposure to exchange risk OR monetary policy risk BUT NOT BOTH.
6) Compare and contrast mutual funds and hedge funds (clients, risk, minimum investment, etc.). Give an example of a provider of each fund. Why might you not presently be a hedge fund client?
7) Historically, Stocks have returned more than bonds and cash. What is the likely reason for the return differences between cash, fixed income, and equities?
8) With respect to a balance sheet with categories Assets, Liabilities, and Equity, construct a simple mathematical equation that links the three. How is the Income Statement different from the Statement of Cash Flows? How does accrual accounting partially explain this? Which one is the most important to discerning the company’s true operating story and then forecasting its future prospects?
9) What is EBITDA? Why, if at all, is EBITDA potentially a better measure of financial strength than net income? What is total net operating capital? What are its principal components?
10) Link the definitions of NOPAT and FCF. Invoking extreme simplicity, how would you describe NOPAT to a colleague? How would you map FCF with respect to NOPAT, net fixed asset investment, and net working capital?
11) Why is FCF so important to investors performing a historical analysis and constructing a forecast? How could positive FCF be distributed to shareholders? To debtholders? In short, what stories could a five-plus year historical FCF review tell?
12) NOPAT and FCF are likely of limited use in a vacuum (i.e., one year). Accordingly, explain why ROIC, MVA, and EVA—and the historical trends thereof—are important performance metrics in a financial analysis exercises.
13) Explain the key component ratios in a three-phase DuPont formula. What potential insight could a five-year historical DuPont analysis provide? How—and why—is a historical review of the DuPont components linked to the concept of trend analysis?
14) True or False and if true, explain. A financial analyst would likely suggest that she is indifferent between two firms each generating a 15 percent ROE if she is provided the past 10 years of the DuPont components.
15) Why are effective rates of return (or equivalent annual returns) employed in finance? What is the difference between a zero-coupon bond, a junk bond, and a Treasury-Inflation Protected Security (TIPS)? Which would you likely prefer today? Why?
16) Discuss in a sentence the relevance of historic, industry, competitive, and market benchmarking with respect to financial ratios (i.e., advantages and challenges for each of the four). What, if anything, is revealed in the analysis? What makes benchmarking difficult?
17) Why is discounting used when describing PV and compounding used when depicting FV? What is the difference between simple and continuous compounding?
18) With respect to $388.38 = PV (I, N, 0, FV) in Excel, what does the $388.38 represent? (Note: The third element is a zero.) How do I explain the $338.38 to a colleague?
19) With respect to $3888.38 = FV (I, N, PMT, PV) in Excel, what does the $3888.38 represent? (Note: The third element is a payment.) How do I explain the $3338.38 to a colleague?
20) What is an annuity? Annuities due and ordinary annuities have a significant definitional difference. What is the difference? What is the difference between a perpetuity and an annuity?
21) What purpose does determining a PV or a FV or a PVA or a FVA serve? In essence, what am I trying to accomplish by discounting everything back to a PV or PVA? What am I trying to accomplish by compounding everything forward to a FV or FVA? Give an example of how you may someday use these concepts to make a decision.
22) What is the difference, if any, between a municipal bond and a US government bond? What is similar; what is different? Do municipal bonds have any risks? If so, explain. Does a US government bond have any risks? If so, explain.
23) True or False and if false, explain. US government bonds generally have a maturity date. True or False and if false, explain. Corporate call provisions are found in the bond covenant and are usually initiated by the purchaser of the bond.
24) Using the present-value formula introduced in chapter 1 and reestablished in chapter 5, label the components of the formula for the valuation of a fixed income security. What can you conclude—very simply—from the fact that the chapter 1 and chapter 5 formula are similar in construction?
25) What causes a bond to trade at a discount from its issuance price? What causes a bond to trade at a premium to its issuance price? Would a AAA bond issued in 2006 with a 9% coupon and a 30-year maturity likely be trading at a discount or premium today? Why? At what price do bonds purchased at premiums and bonds purchased at discounts each trade at maturity?
26) Explain the elements of total return with respect to a discount bond. Explain the elements of total return with respect to a premium bond. In the latter, why would one be willing to pay a premium over the par value that she will receive at maturity?
27) What is the difference between the yield to maturity and the “realized” yield to maturity assumptions? Why might the realized yield to maturity be more realistic to any investor? Are either of these measures related to the current yield? If not, why?
28) Using the formula for quoted market interest rates, build up the theoretical 20-market interest rate for a US government bond and for a 20-year BBB corporate bond. How does your theoretical rate build compares to today’s rates? Explain your thoughts and explain why they may be different.
29) What is a normal yield curve? What is an inverted yield curve? What is the yield curve? specifically designed to represent? (Hint: Think government, mortgage, AAA, and municipal bonds.) What does the inverted US Treasury Bond yield curve generally suggest about the upcoming economic environment?
30) Describe the use of scenario analysis in the expected return generation exercise. What is the goal of scenario analysis? State the one word that academics generally use to describe the concept of risk. What metric(s), sometimes referred to as a second moment, is used by econometricians to describe this risk?
31) Explain the link between covariance, correlation, and diversification in portfolio theory. Why does Buffett suggest that “diversification is the only free lunch”? Why, in sum, is correlation so important in the discussion of diversification? In the end, what is the goal of diversification?
32) Equity portfolio risk, per the academics, can be broken down into two components. What are the two? What risk(s), if any, remains if you purchase 30 semiconductor technology stocks? What risk(s), if any, remains if you purchase three different stocks from each of the S&P 500’s 10 sectors?
33) What function does the CAPM fulfill? What is the role of Beta? Explain the role that Beta plays in determining the return on a stock? If the market is up 10 percent and the Beta of the stock is 2, what is suggested regarding the expected return on that stock? What if the market is down 10 percent; what then is the expected return on that stock?
34) Define the market risk premium with respect to the CAPM. Why is this necessary to include in the CAPM model? Historically, what level of premium have analysts used in the CAPM to represent the market risk premium?
35) What does the Efficient Market Hypothesis suggest about picking individual stocks for a portfolio? What does a market bubble, similar to that of 1998–2000 and concept technology, suggest about the efficient markets hypothesis? How may your answer to #26, part 2, link to the question of efficient markets?
36) The CAPM uses one Beta (i.e., a systematic market beta). Can more than one Beta be used in a multifactor capital asset pricing model? If yes, explain why and give two examples of such a model.
1) Discuss the significance of the numerator and denominator in the corporate value proposition. Who benefits from the maximization of corporate valuation? (Note: Milton Friedman, among other notable financial economists, had definitive opinions on this.) Why theoretically do so many entities benefit? Do you agree that they all benefit?
2) Management consultants (McKinsey, Accenture, etc.) are generally hired to increase the
intrinsic value of the firm. List the critical two elements—with direction—of the value
maximization template on which a consultant may focus to accomplish this task, outlining in turn two generalized examples of potential actionable recommendations for each of the
elements.
3) In the spirit of financial intermediaries, compare and contrast the basic functions and clients of a classic investment bank (e.g., Goldman Sachs) with a classic commercial bank (e.g., Bank of Bethesda). Again, as financial intermediaries, how do commercial banks and investment banks generally, differ, if at all, from insurance companies, venture capital funds, or public pension funds?
4) Discuss “securitization” in the context of that in which a commercial (Hint: collateralized
mortgage obligation circa 2006) and an investment bank may engage. What are two reasons—of many—why securitization likely occurs with financial intermediaries?
5) Discuss the link, if any, between international country risk and exchange risk. What is monetary policy risk as it relates to a credit union, commercial bank, or savings and loan, and why is it important, especially today? True or False: A commercial bank may have exposure to exchange risk OR monetary policy risk BUT NOT BOTH.
6) Compare and contrast mutual funds and hedge funds (clients, risk, minimum investment, etc.). Give an example of a provider of each fund. Why might you not presently be a hedge fund client?
7) Historically, Stocks have returned more than bonds and cash. What is the likely reason for the return differences between cash, fixed income, and equities?
8) With respect to a balance sheet with categories Assets, Liabilities, and Equity, construct a simple mathematical equation that links the three. How is the Income Statement different from the Statement of Cash Flows? How does accrual accounting partially explain this? Which one is the most important to discerning the company’s true operating story and then forecasting its future prospects?
9) What is EBITDA? Why, if at all, is EBITDA potentially a better measure of financial strength than net income? What is total net operating capital? What are its principal components?
10) Link the definitions of NOPAT and FCF. Invoking extreme simplicity, how would you describe NOPAT to a colleague? How would you map FCF with respect to NOPAT, net fixed asset investment, and net working capital?
11) Why is FCF so important to investors performing a historical analysis and constructing a forecast? How could positive FCF be distributed to shareholders? To debtholders? In short, what stories could a five-plus year historical FCF review tell?
12) NOPAT and FCF are likely of limited use in a vacuum (i.e., one year). Accordingly, explain why ROIC, MVA, and EVA—and the historical trends thereof—are important performance metrics in a financial analysis exercises.
13) Explain the key component ratios in a three-phase DuPont formula. What potential insight could a five-year historical DuPont analysis provide? How—and why—is a historical review of the DuPont components linked to the concept of trend analysis?
14) True or False and if true, explain. A financial analyst would likely suggest that she is indifferent between two firms each generating a 15 percent ROE if she is provided the past 10 years of the DuPont components.
15) Why are effective rates of return (or equivalent annual returns) employed in finance? What is the difference between a zero-coupon bond, a junk bond, and a Treasury-Inflation Protected Security (TIPS)? Which would you likely prefer today? Why?
16) Discuss in a sentence the relevance of historic, industry, competitive, and market benchmarking with respect to financial ratios (i.e., advantages and challenges for each of the four). What, if anything, is revealed in the analysis? What makes benchmarking difficult?
17) Why is discounting used when describing PV and compounding used when depicting FV? What is the difference between simple and continuous compounding?
18) With respect to $388.38 = PV (I, N, 0, FV) in Excel, what does the $388.38 represent? (Note: The third element is a zero.) How do I explain the $338.38 to a colleague?
19) With respect to $3888.38 = FV (I, N, PMT, PV) in Excel, what does the $3888.38 represent? (Note: The third element is a payment.) How do I explain the $3338.38 to a colleague?
20) What is an annuity? Annuities due and ordinary annuities have a significant definitional difference. What is the difference? What is the difference between a perpetuity and an annuity?
21) What purpose does determining a PV or a FV or a PVA or a FVA serve? In essence, what am I trying to accomplish by discounting everything back to a PV or PVA? What am I trying to accomplish by compounding everything forward to a FV or FVA? Give an example of how you may someday use these concepts to make a decision.
22) What is the difference, if any, between a municipal bond and a US government bond? What is similar; what is different? Do municipal bonds have any risks? If so, explain. Does a US government bond have any risks? If so, explain.
23) True or False and if false, explain. US government bonds generally have a maturity date. True or False and if false, explain. Corporate call provisions are found in the bond covenant and are usually initiated by the purchaser of the bond.
24) Using the present-value formula introduced in chapter 1 and reestablished in chapter 5, label the components of the formula for the valuation of a fixed income security. What can you conclude—very simply—from the fact that the chapter 1 and chapter 5 formula are similar in construction?
25) What causes a bond to trade at a discount from its issuance price? What causes a bond to trade at a premium to its issuance price? Would a AAA bond issued in 2006 with a 9% coupon and a 30-year maturity likely be trading at a discount or premium today? Why? At what price do bonds purchased at premiums and bonds purchased at discounts each trade at maturity?
26) Explain the elements of total return with respect to a discount bond. Explain the elements of total return with respect to a premium bond. In the latter, why would one be willing to pay a premium over the par value that she will receive at maturity?
27) What is the difference between the yield to maturity and the “realized” yield to maturity assumptions? Why might the realized yield to maturity be more realistic to any investor? Are either of these measures related to the current yield? If not, why?
28) Using the formula for quoted market interest rates, build up the theoretical 20-market interest rate for a US government bond and for a 20-year BBB corporate bond. How does your theoretical rate build compares to today’s rates? Explain your thoughts and explain why they may be different.
29) What is a normal yield curve? What is an inverted yield curve? What is the yield curve? specifically designed to represent? (Hint: Think government, mortgage, AAA, and municipal bonds.) What does the inverted US Treasury Bond yield curve generally suggest about the upcoming economic environment?
30) Describe the use of scenario analysis in the expected return generation exercise. What is the goal of scenario analysis? State the one word that academics generally use to describe the concept of risk. What metric(s), sometimes referred to as a second moment, is used by econometricians to describe this risk?
31) Explain the link between covariance, correlation, and diversification in portfolio theory. Why does Buffett suggest that “diversification is the only free lunch”? Why, in sum, is correlation so important in the discussion of diversification? In the end, what is the goal of diversification?
32) Equity portfolio risk, per the academics, can be broken down into two components. What are the two? What risk(s), if any, remains if you purchase 30 semiconductor technology stocks? What risk(s), if any, remains if you purchase three different stocks from each of the S&P 500’s 10 sectors?
33) What function does the CAPM fulfill? What is the role of Beta? Explain the role that Beta plays in determining the return on a stock? If the market is up 10 percent and the Beta of the stock is 2, what is suggested regarding the expected return on that stock? What if the market is down 10 percent; what then is the expected return on that stock?
34) Define the market risk premium with respect to the CAPM. Why is this necessary to include in the CAPM model? Historically, what level of premium have analysts used in the CAPM to represent the market risk premium?
35) What does the Efficient Market Hypothesis suggest about picking individual stocks for a portfolio? What does a market bubble, similar to that of 1998–2000 and concept technology, suggest about the efficient markets hypothesis? How may your answer to #26, part 2, link to the question of efficient markets?
36) The CAPM uses one Beta (i.e., a systematic market beta). Can more than one Beta be used in a multifactor capital asset pricing model? If yes, explain why and give two examples of such a model.
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2. Two critical elements that can increase the firm’s intrinsic value are its growth and profitability. Year after year growth of revenue for the firm will depict the growth of the firm in its revenue terms and profitability will be reflected through the return on equity of the firm. Hence these two elements of ROE and growth will effectively reflect on the earnings and boost the stock prices of the firm. Two models which the consultants use to accomplish this task of increasing the intrinsic value of the firm is through the use of dividend discount model and residual income model.
3. Investment banks are different from commercial banks in the services they offer. Investment banks offer services like underwriting of securities, brokerage services,etc; commercial banks provide services like lending loans, accepting deposits, making payments on standing orders and many other services to the public. the service offered by the investment bank is customer specific service offered to a few individuals or corporations and government entities; in the case of commercial banks however the services are standardized and are provided to millions of customers. Investment banks are associated with the performance of financial market in any company; whereas commercial banks are associated with economic growth of a nation and the demand for credit. Soon after the Great Depression of 1930s, the Glass Steagall Act was passed which prohibited commercial banks from engaging in investment banking and this led to the separation of the two in the US. However during the 1990 Congress repealed the act which led to the Merger of the two types of banks - commercial and investment banks which created giants such as Citigroup and J.P Morgan Chase.
there are other financial intermediaries such as the Savings and loan associations that cater to the needs of individual savers and residential and commercial mortgage borrowers; Life insurance companies that takes savings in the form of premiums and invest them in stock market;
mutual funds that accept money from savers and use these funds to buy long term bonds and stocks, etc.
4.. Securitization is the process of converting the non-liquid assets (assets which cannot be easily converted into cash) as a security after going through a process of financial engineering. Commercial securitization occurs when the security is provided not through real estate assets but are covered with commercial mortgages. The two reasons why securitization occurs with the financial intermediaries is that it would bring flexibility and liquidity to the financial intermediaries and this is done at a very calculated risk and acts as a basis for their popularity.
5. International country risk comprises 22 variables in 3 sub categories of risk that includes
political, financial and economic risk. Exchange rate risk on the other hand is a sub category under financial risk where financial transaction that is denominated in a currency other than that of the base currency of the company. International country risk is a broader concept then the exchange rate risk; investors and business exporting/ importing goods and services face exchange rate risk that has severe financial consequences; what businesses can take various steps to manage the exchange rate risk. monetary policy Risk can affect the interest rate and also the exchange rate and in today's world of businesses which are globalised and the companies operate as multinational and transnational companies, monetary policy risk And its impact on the financial intermediaries it's very important. Commercial bank might be exposed to both monetary policy risk and exchange risk where the monetary policy impacts the interest rates and the rate of lending where are the exchange rate impacts the foreign direct Investments from other countries
6. Similarity between hedge funds and mutual funds is that they both are managed portfolios where a financial manager or a group of managers picks securities that they feel that will perform well and group them into a single portfolio. the portions of the Fund are then sold to investors and the profits and losses of the Holdings are transferred to these investors.The main advantage of managed portfolios is that investors get professional management services and diversification of their money. However the difference between Hedge funds and mutual funds is that hedge funds involve high speculative securities that increase both the leverage and the risk of the fund. whereas in the case of mutual funds, high leverage positions are not permitted and they are much safer than hedge funds. Hedge funds are available only to a specific group of sophisticated investors known as accredited investors in the US; whereas in the case of mutual funds even the common man can participate
3. Investment banks are different from commercial banks in the services they offer. Investment banks offer services like underwriting of securities, brokerage services,etc; commercial banks provide services like lending loans, accepting deposits, making payments on standing orders and many other services to the public. the service offered by the investment bank is customer specific service offered to a few individuals or corporations and government entities; in the case of commercial banks however the services are standardized and are provided to millions of customers. Investment banks are associated with the performance of financial market in any company; whereas commercial banks are associated with economic growth of a nation and the demand for credit. Soon after the Great Depression of 1930s, the Glass Steagall Act was passed which prohibited commercial banks from engaging in investment banking and this led to the separation of the two in the US. However during the 1990 Congress repealed the act which led to the Merger of the two types of banks - commercial and investment banks which created giants such as Citigroup and J.P Morgan Chase.
there are other financial intermediaries such as the Savings and loan associations that cater to the needs of individual savers and residential and commercial mortgage borrowers; Life insurance companies that takes savings in the form of premiums and invest them in stock market;
mutual funds that accept money from savers and use these funds to buy long term bonds and stocks, etc.
4.. Securitization is the process of converting the non-liquid assets (assets which cannot be easily converted into cash) as a security after going through a process of financial engineering. Commercial securitization occurs when the security is provided not through real estate assets but are covered with commercial mortgages. The two reasons why securitization occurs with the financial intermediaries is that it would bring flexibility and liquidity to the financial intermediaries and this is done at a very calculated risk and acts as a basis for their popularity.
5. International country risk comprises 22 variables in 3 sub categories of risk that includes
political, financial and economic risk. Exchange rate risk on the other hand is a sub category under financial risk where financial transaction that is denominated in a currency other than that of the base currency of the company. International country risk is a broader concept then the exchange rate risk; investors and business exporting/ importing goods and services face exchange rate risk that has severe financial consequences; what businesses can take various steps to manage the exchange rate risk. monetary policy Risk can affect the interest rate and also the exchange rate and in today's world of businesses which are globalised and the companies operate as multinational and transnational companies, monetary policy risk And its impact on the financial intermediaries it's very important. Commercial bank might be exposed to both monetary policy risk and exchange risk where the monetary policy impacts the interest rates and the rate of lending where are the exchange rate impacts the foreign direct Investments from other countries
6. Similarity between hedge funds and mutual funds is that they both are managed portfolios where a financial manager or a group of managers picks securities that they feel that will perform well and group them into a single portfolio. the portions of the Fund are then sold to investors and the profits and losses of the Holdings are transferred to these investors.The main advantage of managed portfolios is that investors get professional management services and diversification of their money. However the difference between Hedge funds and mutual funds is that hedge funds involve high speculative securities that increase both the leverage and the risk of the fund. whereas in the case of mutual funds, high leverage positions are not permitted and they are much safer than hedge funds. Hedge funds are available only to a specific group of sophisticated investors known as accredited investors in the US; whereas in the case of mutual funds even the common man can participate
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