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of ChixChops. MEASURES OF PROFITABILITY RETURN ON ASSETS Formula: Return on Assets= Net Profit After Tax / Total Assets Computation: 0.32 Average Return on Assets This ratio indicates how profitable a company is relative to its total assets. This ratio illustrates how well management is employing a company’s total assets to make a profit. For ChixChops the 32% of its net income is provided by total assets. RETURN ON INVESTMENT (ROI) Formula: Return on Investment = Net Profit After Tax…

Fundamental principle of investment is the relationship between the risk and return tradeoff, where if there is high risk it will compensate with high return as well as the low risk with lower return. The risk can be classified into two types which are systematic (uncontrollable) risk and unsystematic (controllable) risk. The examples of systematic risk are the interest rate risk, inflation risk, foreign exchange risk, country risk, political risk and market risk. Meanwhile, the example of…

Opportunity Cost Opportunity Cost: what one gives up when choosing between options. This can be money, but it can also be an intangible asset such as happiness. The financial portions of opportunity cost can be calculated, but the intangible costs need to be taken into account as well. Opportunity cost is important because it takes into account what one gives up and what one gains in different scenarios, and helps inform decisions. I could attempt to become a musician. I would follow my high…

Asset pricing theories help us to find out risks of assets and provide us with a framework to associate risks of assets with their expected returns. A large number of theories and models have been prevailed to relate the risk and return of various assets to aid practitioners in selecting investment portfolio. These theories include Arbitrage Pricing Theory (APT) and the Capital Assets Pricing Model (CAPM). The Arbitrage Pricing Theory is a theory developed by Stephen Ross (1976) and was later…

that neither historical growth nor management forecasts are good predictors of future growth, some authors (Damodaran 2011) suggest to rely on fundamental analysis. The growth rate is a function of the percentage of the reinvested earnings and the return earnings on that investment.In order to understand how the company's value is affected by a change in the underlying assumptions, a sensitivity analysis is usually conducted. For instance, starting from the base scenario it is possible to…

Considers both the magnitude and the timing of cash flows If the IRR is high enough, estimation of the required return might not be necessary. Disadvantages of IRR: IRR is not good for comparing two mutually exclusive investments. In case of change in sign (+,-) of cash flows result in as many IRR’s as the number of changes are in the cash flow directions of…

Question 1, Base on the suggestions of the new CEO from Microsoft Ltd, below are the scenario and findings Scenario : 1/10 net 20 This information can be used to compute the credit cost of borrowing this money. X % Discount 100 - % Discount 360 Credit Period – Discount Periods = 1 X 360 99 10 = 0.363636 = 36.36%. Annualizing The Credit Cost The 10-day discount period occurs 36 times per year. Using this information, it is possible to compute the effective annual…

The indicated capitalization rate for this investment based on the information provided is 8.20% indicating the value of this property to be $7,317,073 or $7,320,000 rounded. I base this conclusion on the following calculations: • The mortgage constant is .085972 calculated using the following HP-12C keystrokes: F Clx 1 PV 6 g i 20 g n PMT 12 x • The percent paid off on the mortgage after 5 years is 15.1004% calculated using the following HP-12C keystrokes: F Clx 6 g i 20 g n 1 PV PMT 5 g n FV…

realize low returns, triggering outflows by investors who update negatively about the efficiency of the managers running these funds. As a consequence of the outflows, funds sell assets they own, and this depresses further the prices of the assets hit by the original shock. Momentum arises if the outflows are gradual, and if they trigger a gradual price decline and a drop in expected returns. Reversal arises because outflows push prices below fundamental values, and so expected returns…

Having two or more children, there is a maximum amount of qualifying expenses is $6,000. That amount should be reduced by $1,800, since Martha received $1,800 for dependent care assistance. The total expenses are $4,200. Tim and Martha’s AGI is over $43,000 they are entitled to a credit of 20% of their expenses, or $840. ($4,200 x .20 = $840) If Tim and Martha had an AGI of $36,000 earned only by Tim, the credit would be zero. That is because there would be no child care expenses. Since Martha…