Business Finance Help for College and University Students

Cash Flow

How can you sustain good longer-term relations with business partners (customers and vendors) in the face of the need to improve cash flow and hold down bank borrowing?

Cash flow

Lawerence Sports needs to improve its cash flow which may lead to delaying payment to a small vendor, Murray, who is very dependent on Lawrence Sports. How does Lawrence Sports balance the ethical issue of possibly putting Murray out of business with its need to improve its own cash flow?

Having trouble with a question in Finance

Problem entails - finance question of dividend yields and how much to pay for a stock?

Cost of Capital

Calculate the cost of capital (show calculations) for Pfizer using the following: A) Weighted Average cost of capital B) Capital -asset pricing model (beta)

Finance - multiple choice / true-false

It covers a little bit of everything. Beta, bonds, returns. Textbook is - Intermediate Financial Management, 8th edition (Brigham & Daves) Please look at the attached document.

Forecasting

Please tell me if I'm on track with solving the attached problem. I am required to predict the next year patient volume. Do I set it up by service or would it be appropriate to use the total as I have done? The first attachment is the assignment and the second attachment is my stab at the answer. Thank you for your help. I w ...continues

Bond return

A $1,000 par value, 6-year bond pays $100 of interest annually. It is priced at $1,314.53. Assume that one year from now rates have dropped by 1% (for example, from 15% to 14%). What would be an investor's one-year holding period return if she purchased the bond today and sold it one year from today?

Bond valuation

A $1,000 par value bond pays $50 in interest every six months. What will be the value of the bond if it matures in 30 months and the yield-to-maturity of similar risk bonds is 8%?

Stock Valuation

A common share paid a dividend of $1.00 per share five years ago. The dividend paid yesterday was $1.22. If dividend growth continues at its historical rate, what will be the value of the common shares six years from today? Investors require a return of 10% on investments of this level of risk.

Capital Budget Analysis

1. How would you define and quantify risk as used in capital budgeting analysis and what is the purpose of using sensitivity analysis?