inflation, present value, and future value
Why is it important to understand the concepts of inflation, present value, and future value as Saudi Arabia moves towards Saudi Vision 2030?
capital budgeting process
What are the five steps of the capital budgeting process and explain each step?
capital allocation
Explain the relationship between capital allocation, asset classes, and security selection. Provide an example.
entrepreneurs
Why would entrepreneurs open themselves up to personal financial losses by using a proprietorship rather than a company?
CAPM Beta
After market close yesterday, Cisco announced their quarterly results. As a result of the news, the expected price of a share of Cisco stock in one year from now changed. The table below gives the last price the stock traded for before the market closed yesterday, the new expected price after the results were announced, and the CAPM beta for the stock.
Stock
Closing Price
P0
New Expected Price in 1 Year
E(P1) CAPM Beta
Cisco $45 $50 1.2 Markets have not yet opened today. The risk-free rate is 2% and the expected return of the market portfolio is 7%. Assume Cisco does not pay dividends. Assume that the CAPM holds, and that the expected return on the market and the stock’s beta do not change.
a) What should be today’s opening price for Cisco, according to the CAPM? b) Before last night’s news, what was the expected price in one year of Cisco’s stock?
latest trends in Computer hardware
Submit an article/news referencing the latest trends in Computer hardware, software, or operating systems. You can either submit a link to the article/news or as an uploaded attachment.
retirement plan
After finishing your college degree, you start a job that has a retirement plan. Suppose that $100 is deposited monthly into your retirement account which earns interest
compounded monthly at a 4% annual rate.
a) (7 pts.) How much money will be in the retirement account after 30 years? Round your answer to the nearest cent.
b) (4 pts.) If you wait until 10 years before retirement to start making the deposits, how much will you have to deposit each month to have the same amount at
retirement that you found in part A ? (Assume the same interest rate) Round your
answer to the nearest cent.
skeletal profit and loss
Set up skeletal profit and loss statements in both dollars and percentages given the information in each problem.
Net sales $240,000
Costs of goods sold $100,000
Expenses $125,000
Bank Conventional Limited
“Bank Conventional Limited” is a well-established traditional Retail Bank operating in
India and is almost a 75-year-old Bank. It relied very heavily on its strength of physical
distribution of about 1000 branches across in the country. Over the last 10 years this
Bank did not invest much on Technology. On the other hand, a new generation bank
called “Bank Modern Limited” has always been tech savvy with substantial investment
every year on new technology etc., This Bank was started in 2010 and currently has a
branch network of 100 Branches only.
a. Analyze the various challenges that ‘Bank Conventional Limited’ will be facing today
across multiple operational and business parameters (5 Marks)
b. Analyze the various benefits that ‘Bank Modern Limited’ enjoy today across multiple
operational and business parameters
