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An increase in the personal income tax will tend to cause:
Choice 'a' is correct. An increase in the personal income tax will cause a decrease in aggregate demand (i.e., causes the aggregate demand curve to shift left). As a result, an increase in taxes causes real GDP to fall and unemployment to rise.
Choice 'b' is incorrect. Real GDP will fall, not rise.
Choice 'c' is incorrect. Real GDP will fall, not rise.
Choice 'd' is incorrect. Unemployment will rise, not fall.
As a company becomes more conservative in its working capital policy, it would tend to have a (n):
Choice 'b' is correct. As a company becomes more conservative in its working capital policy, it would tend to have an increase in the ratio of current assets to units of output.
Choice 'a' is incorrect. Acid-test ratio would tend to increase with conservatism.
Choice 'c' is incorrect. Marketable securities investments would tend to increase while common stock investments would tend to decrease.
Choice 'd' is incorrect. Permanent working capital would tend to increase.
Osgood Products has announced that it plans to finance future investments so that the firm will achieve an optimum capital structure. Which one of the following corporate objectives is consistent with the announcement?
Choice 'c' is correct. The optimal capital structure is the financial structure that would theoretically maximize shareholder wealth by maximizing the net worth of the company.
Choices 'a', 'b', and 'd' are incorrect. Strategies (not objectives) for creating an optimal capital structure to maximize net worth include:
1. Maximizing earnings per share (choice 'a').
2. Minimizing the cost of debt (choice 'b').
3. Minimizing the cost of equity (choice 'd').
4. Maximizing cash flow (choice not given).
The segment margin of an investment center after deducting the imputed interest on the assets used by the investment center is known as:
Choice 'b' is correct. Residual income is the segment margin of an investment center after deducting the imputed interest (hurdle rate) on the assets used by the investment center.
Choice 'a' is incorrect. Return on investment is the ratio of income earned to the investment.
Choice 'c' is incorrect. Operating income is not well defined, but is generally the income from operations for the entire organization, not a segment.
Choice 'd' is incorrect. Return on assets is the ratio of income produced to assets employed (not the amount invested).
A company obtained a short-term bank loan of $500,000 at an annual interest rate of eight percent. As a condition of the loan, the company is required to maintain a compensating balance of $100,000 in its checking account. The checking account earns interest at an annual rate of three percent. Ordinarily, the company maintains a balance of $50,000 in its account for transaction purposes. What is the effective interest rate of the loan?
Choice 'd' is correct. 8.56%. To calculate the effective annualized percentage cost of financing:
Choices 'a', 'b', and 'c' are incorrect, per the above calculation.
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