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1 of 2 Chapter Review Questions (4-1) Define each of the following terms: a. PV; I; INT; ; ; ; PMT; M; b. Opportunity cost rate c. Annuity; lump-sum payment; cash flow; uneven cash flow stream d. Ordinary (or deferred) annuity; annuity due e. Perpetuity; consol f. Outflow; inflow; time line; terminal value g. Compounding; discounting h. Annual, semiannual, quarterly, monthly, and daily compounding i. Effective annual rate (EAR or EFF%); nominal (quoted) interest rate; APR; periodic rate j. Amortization schedule; principal versus interest component of a payment; amortized loan (4-2) What is an opportunity cost rate? How is this rate used in discounted cash flow analysis, and where is it shown on a time line? Is the opportunity rate a single number that is used to evaluate all potential investments? 2/20/2020, 11:03 PM Print Preview 2 of 2 https://ng.cengage.com/static/nbreader/ui/apps/nbreader/print_preview/pr... (4-3) An annuity is defined as a series of payments of a fixed amount for a specific number of periods. Thus, $100 a year for 10 years is an annuity, but $100 in Year 1, $200 in Year 2, and $400 in Years 3 through 10 does not constitute an annuity. However, the entire series does contain an annuity. Is this statement true or false? (4-4) If a firm’s earnings per share grew from $1 to $2 over a 10-year period, the total growth would be 100%, but the annual growth rate would be less than 10%. True or false? Explain. (4-5) Would you rather have a savings account that pays 5% interest compounded semiannually or one that pays 5% interest compounded daily? Explain. 2/20/2020, 11:03 PM 1 of 2 Chapter Review Questions (5-1) Define each of the following terms: a. Bond; Treasury bond; corporate bond; municipal bond; foreign bond b. Par value; maturity date; coupon payment; coupon interest rate c. Floating-rate bond; zero coupon bond; original issue discount bond (OID) d. Call provision; redeemable bond; sinking fund e. Convertible bond; warrant; income bond; indexed bond (also called a purchasing power bond) f. Premium bond; discount bond g. Current yield (on a bond); yield to maturity (YTM); yield to call (YTC) h. Indentures; mortgage bond; debenture; subordinated debenture i. Development bond; municipal bond insurance; junk bond; investmentgrade bond j. Real risk-free rate of interest, ; nominal risk-free rate of interest, k. Inflation premium (IP); default risk premium (DRP); liquidity; liquidity premium (LP) l. Interest rate risk; maturity risk premium (MRP); reinvestment rate risk m. Term structure of interest rates; yield curve n. “Normal” yield curve; inverted (“abnormal”) yield curve (5-2) “Short-term interest rates are more volatile than long-term interest rates, so shortterm bond prices are more sensitive to interest rate changes than are long-term bond prices.” Is this statement true or false? Explain. 2/20/2020, 11:05 PM Print Preview 2 of 2 https://ng.cengage.com/static/nbreader/ui/apps/nbreader/print_preview/pr... (5-3) The rate of return on a bond held to its maturity date is called the bond’s yield to maturity. If interest rates in the economy rise after a bond has been issued, what will happen to the bond’s price and to its YTM? Does the length of time to maturity affect the extent to which a given change in interest rates will affect the bond’s price? Why or why not? (5-4) If you buy a callable bond and interest rates decline, will the value of your bond rise by as much as it would have risen if the bond had not been callable? Explain. (5-5) A sinking fund can be set up in one of two ways. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each procedure from the viewpoint of both the firm and its bondholders. 2/20/2020, 11:05 PM
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(4-1)
a. PV (Present Value) is the present value estimation of a solitary or a progression of incomes to
be gotten sometime in the future. I is the yearly loan cost i.e., the interest incurred in a loan. INT
is the dollar measure of premium earned every period. FVN is the forthcoming value of a solitary
instalment after n periods. PVAN is annuity’s present value, given that n is annuity’s number of
payments. FVAN is the annuity’s future value, where n is the quantity of instalments of the annuity.
PMT is the amount of dollar of an annuity (fixed cash flow)
M is the quantity of aggravating periods every year in the EAR condition.
INOM is the ostensible/nominal rate or the rate cited by monetary organizations

b.

Opportunity cost rate

An opportunity cost rate is the degree of reoccurrence that is anticipated if one takes a substitute
path of action. Denote by 'i', it is the best pace of return accessible when the given measure of cash
is placed into a substitute conjecture of similar hazard/risk. People commonly receive this kind of
rate with the same risks that they experienced. An opportunity cost is not a single number that's
used in all
c. An annuity is a progression of instalments of a fixed sum for a given number of periods

Income refers to earnings that one receive for a given period of time
Singular amount instalment is that singular part of dues/debt, or some dollars, divided into parts
such that the borrower pays at equal different times. It is equal instalment paid at standard interims
within the expressed time frame.
An annuity is that series of rights that individual has to receive money repeatedly within the fixed
agreed period. It is that money related instrument that pays reliable recurrent.

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d. Annuity due; Conventional annuity

Equivalent instalments paid at standard interims over an expressed timeframe

e. Perpetuity; consol
Perpetuity is a sort of annuity that gets a boundless measure of recurrent instalments. An annuity
is a money related instrument that pays reliable intermittent instalments. Similarly, as with an
annuity, the ceaselessness esteem formula totals the present estimation/value of future incomes.
f. Cash outflow is an instalment/payment or dispensing, of money for costs, speculations, etc.

A cash inflow is that money inflow that is a receipt of money from speculation/investment, a
business, or different sources.
A terminal value (TV) is the estimation of security at maturity, or of a benefit at the predefined,
future valuation date, considering elements, for example, loan costs and the present value of an
asset, and expecting a steady development rate. Notwithstanding bond and resource applications,
TV can likewise allude to the estimation of a whole organization at the predefined future valuation
date (Friedl and Schwetzler, 2011). Two basic methodologies are utilized to assess the terminal
estimation of a benefit: the "ceaselessness development model" and the "leave approach."

g. Compounding method is that aggravating strategy utilized to know the future estimation of
present cash while discounting is limiting, meaning an approach to register the present estimation
of future cash.

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h. Annually compounding occurs every year –in an investment of two years, it gets two interest
payments—one toward the finish of every year; we allude to this as n = 2. Semi-annually
compounding gets four deposits on interests (in an investment of two years)—one toward the
finish of every half-year time. On the off chance that we see the yearly loan fee of 12% as a semiannual financing cost of 6%, it implies that the two-year venture will have n = 4 semi-annual
deposits on interests, and I = 6% per half-year. Quarterly compounding gets eight interest
payments—one toward the finish of every three months. In the event that we see the yearly loan
cost of 12% as a quarterly financing cost of 3%, it implies that the two-year speculation will have
n = 8 quarterly intrigue stores, and I = 3% per quarter. Monthly compounding is month to month
that gets twenty-four interest deposits (in an investment of two years)—one toward the finish of
every month. In the event that we see the yearly loan fee of 12% as a month to month financing
cost of 1%, it implies that the two-year venture will have n = 24 month to month interest payments,
and I = 1% every month.

i.
Financial organizations need to reveal to us the financing cost they charge for advances or the loan
cost they pay when you contribute with them and likewise disclose the aggravating rate (for
example bi-annually, annually, semi-annually- quarterly, weekly, or daily)
The nominal rate is no assistance in mathematically communicating the intensity of intensifying
or compounding.
The EAR communicates a financing cost that compounds at least twice every year. This is the real
pace of return being earned or paid every year when compounding is considered in
(EFF %) EAR = (1 + rnominal / m) n – 1

where m = number of discounting/compounding

periods every year. And n = the absolute number of intensifying periods being referred to; in

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utmost cases, this will be equivalent to "m" since one is dealing with a yearly return. EAR is
likewise the yearly Rate of Return; the benefit is perceived once every year toward the year's end
This implies the successful pace of return or EAR is more prominent than the nominal rate when
there is more than one intrigue instalment (intensifying period)

j. The amortization schedule for a private home loan is a table that gives a breakdown of the
schedule of instalments from the credit's initially expected payments to the loan’s last instalment.
Principal versus interest component of a payment. Mortgage loans accompany their own
arrangement of phrasing and abbreviations, e.g., balloons, amortization, ARMs and PITI. When
you select a home loan, be that as it may, there are two things to stress over - the number of your
instalments your moneylender applies to the head and what amount goes toward the premium. The
amortized loans may have equivalent or expanding sums applied to the head from each advance
instalment (Downes and Goodman, 2014).
(4-2). an opportunity cost rate is the degree of reoccurrence that is anticipated if one takes a
substitute path of action. Denote by 'i', it is the best pace of return accessible when the given
measure of cash is placed into a substitute conjecture of similar hazard/risk. People commonly
receive this kind of rate with the same risks that they experienced. An opportunity cost is not a
single number that's used in all
This is not the only singular value that a stakeholder utilizes in assessments of potential
investments
(4-3) True, an annuity is a sequence of an equivalent amounts of money on payments and receipts.

4-4)
True,

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Explanation, let have simple calculation here, 2 = 1 x e^r x 10, take logarithm to base ten in both
sides
r = log (2/1) / 10=6.93 or 7 correct to nearest whole number; 7% is under 10% so it is true and
right.

4-5) I would prefer to have an account on savings pays 5% interest compounded every day than
semi-annually on the grounds that semi-annual financing cost is 5.063% while the viable pace of
compounding is 5.13%.
Estimation of semi-annually = (1+ Inom ) M - 1.0
M = (1 + 0.05/2)2 - 1

= (1.025)2 - 1

= 1.050625 - 1

= 5.063%
Estimation on daily compounding
= (1+ Inom )M - 1.0
M = (1 + 0.05/365)365 - 1 = (1.0001369)365 - 1 = 1.05126 - 1
= 5.13%

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Chapter 5
a. Bond-it is an obligation instrument that is given for over one year with the aim of raising
capital by acquiring. Treasury bond- is long lasting fixed financing cost debt (interest) security
delivered by a government. Corporate bond- is a security given by a company for it to raise
financing for an assortment of reason. Municipal bond-is a metropolitan bond or security given
for sake or by nearby power. Foreign bond- is an outside bond given by an outside organization
in the money currency of the local nation in which it is vended (Chakravarty and Sarkar, 2003).
b. Par value is the Standard worth that alludes to the ostensible estimation of an offer or
security, as expressed in the corporate contract. The maturity date is development date and this
alludes to the date and time on which the original amount and interest linked with obligation
security are expected or due. The coupon payment is that coupon installment which is the
measure of interest, which a bond guarantor pays to a bond owner at every installment date.
Coupon interest rate is that coupon loan cost and this is the Interest to be in every year that
issuer of a bond pays as a percent of standard worth/per value (Hall and Sargent, 2011).
c. Floating-rate bond is the coasting rate security, and it alludes to security whose premium
sum varies in step with the market economy loan fees or some other measures from outside.
Zero-coupon bond- it alludes to a bond that doesn't pay coupons, or payments of interests, to
the one holding the bond. Original issue discount bond is that unique issue markdown bond and
this is a kind of interest that issuers do not pay as it accrues. It is the rebate i.e. discount from per
value or the standard incentive at the time a bond or other obligation instrument is given
d. Call provision is the call arrangement and it is the clause in an obligation/debt instrument,
which permits its guarantor to reclaim it beforehand its development date. Redeemable bond-A
bond which the guarantor has the option to reclaim preceding its development date. Sinking

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fund is the sinking store which is a reserve framed by occasionally saving cash for the
continuous reimbursement of an obligation or debt.
e. Convertible bond- is a kind of bond that the owner can change over into a predetermined
number of portions of regular stock in the giving organization or money of equivalent worth.
Warrant-is security that qualifies the owner to purchase the basic stock of the giving
organization at a fixed cost called exercise cost until the date of expiry. Income bond is that
salary bond; a bond that pays premium just if the giving issuer has earned money. Ordered
bond (buying power bond) -a bond where income payments on the principal/original amou...


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