Total Marks 5
Starting Date Thursday, June 02, 2022
Closing Date Wednesday, June 08, 2022
Status Open
Question Title GDB
Question Description
Discussion Question:
Mr. Anwar is recently appointed as CEO of ABC Corporation Limited. As a new head of the organization, he wants a briefing regarding the current situation of different departments in the organization. During the briefing from Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of the organization, he comes to know that the liquidity position of the company is not sound as the current and quick ratios are 0.90 times and 0.30 times respectively. Mr. Anwar is a mechanical engineer and lacks the financial knowledge to comprehend the financial information.
Required:
Being a student of Business Finance, how would you interpret the results of current ratio and quick ratio to Mr. Anwar with reference to the liquidity position? If both ratios measure the liquidity, why is there a difference in their figures?
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SEMESTER FALL 2019
BUSINESS FINANCE (ACC501)
ASSIGNMENT NO. 01
DUE DATE: JANUARY 27, 2020 MARKS: 20
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
After attempting this assignment, the students will be able to:
Evaluate any proposed project by using different capital budgeting techniques.
Understand the difference between NPV and IRR.
Derive inferences regarding the acceptance/rejections of the project.
ASSIGNMENT:
Alfa Corporation has identified the following two mutually exclusive projects. The CFO of the company wants to evaluate the identified projects. For this purpose he asked Mr. Naveed to evaluate those projects and establish their feasibility with the help of different capital budgeting techniques. Following are the details of the two mutually exclusive projects.
Period
Project A (Rs.)
Project B (Rs.)
0
-42,000
-42,000
1
25,000
15,000
2
21,000
17,000
3
15,000
23,000
4
11,000
27,000
As per the company policy, Mr. Naveed decided to evaluate both projects with the help of IRR and NPV techniques of capital budgeting.
Requirements:
I. What is the IRR for each of these projects? Which project company should accept according to IRR rule? (13 Marks)
II. What is the NPV for each of these projects? If the required rate of return is 12 percent. Which project company should accept according to NPV rule? (5 Marks)
III. If the decision on the basis of NPV is different than that of IRR, which particular criteria company should prefer and why? (2 Marks)
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ACC501 Quiz 3 Solution and Discussion
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Which of the following forecasts the cash inflows and outflows over the next short-term planning period ?
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Which of the following is the difference between the current assets and the current liabilities ?
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Which of the following is the time between receipt of inventory and payment for it ?
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Operating Cycle
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Cash Cycle
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Current Cycle
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None of the given options
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Which of the following is the time period between the acquisition of inventory and the collection of cash from receivables ?
Operating Cycle Cash Cycle Current Cycle None of the given options -
Business risk depends on which of the following risk of the firm’s assets ?
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A firm’s capital structure may include which of the following ?
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What will happen to cash cycle if payable period is lengthened ?
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If you have Rs. 30 in asset A and Rs. 120 in another asset B, the weights for assets A and B will be ____ and ____ respectively.
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