Answer:
B. Real wages for university employees will rise.
Explanation:
Increase in income is @ 5%, and that the actual inflation is only 4% that is less than the increase in income. Accordingly, the company is paying more to the employees, and accordingly their wages have increased.
The amount of money available in real terms is more than the actual money, held by the employees earlier.
This is all because the actual increase in inflation rate is less than the increase in salary of employees.
Answer:
a. Suppose GP issues $ 100$100 million of new stock to buy back the debt. What is the expected return of the stock after this transaction?
b. Suppose instead GP issues $ 50.00$50.00 million of new debt to repurchase stock. i. If the risk of the debt does not change, what is the expected return of the stock after this transaction?
ii. If the risk of the debt increases, would the expected return of the stock be higher or lower than when debt is issued to repurchase stock in part (i)?
- If the risk of the debt increases, then the cost of the debt will increase. Therefore, the company will need to spend more money paying the interests related to the new debt which would decrease the ROE compared to the 18% of (i). Since we do not know the new cost of the debt, we cannot know exactly by how much it will affect the ROE, but I assume it will still be higher than the previous ROE.
Explanation:
common stock $200 million
total debt $100 million
required rate of return 15%
cost of debt 6%
current profits = ($200 million x 15%) + ($100 x 6%) = $30 million + $6 million = $36 million
if equity increases to $300 million, ROI = 36/300 = 12
if instead new debt is issued at 6%:
equity 150 million, debt 150 million
cost of debt = 150 million x 6% = $9 million
remaining profits = $36 - $9 = $27 million
ROI = 27/150 = 18%
Answer:
Stock A will be preferable for the risk averse Investors.
Explanation:
The reason is that risk is the measure of the vulnerability of the returns on the investment made which means if the return on the investment has greater vulnerability of returns then it is highly risky. So the risk averse investor would prefer stock A with lower risk.
(Special comments:
It must be noted that the higher return shows that the investment is also highly risky because nobody is going to give you more with low risk associated investments. This means lower return on Stock B is also preferable here for the risk averse investor because it carries lower risks.)
Answer:
Option D. $10,000 is the correct answer.
Explanation:
Journal Entry for pension expenses:
Pension Expense $10,000
Cash $10,000
(To record pension expenses)
Pension expenses for the year ended is comprised of the following components of pension cost.
Service Cost $14,000
Interest cost $6,000
Expected return on plan assets $10,000
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Pension expenses $10,000
