Which one of the following commences on the day inventory is purchased and ends on the day the payment for that inventory is collected? Assume all sales and purchases are on credit.
Inventory period
Accounts receivable period
Accounts payable period
Operating cycle
Cash cycle
Question 2
Which one of the following describes systemic risk?
Risk that affects a large number of assets
An individual security’s total risk
Diversifiable risk
Asset specific risk
Risk unique to a firm’s management
Question 3
Which one of the following terms best refers to the practice of investing in a variety of diverse assets as a means of reducing risk?
Systematic
Unsystematic
Diversification
Security market line
Capital asset pricing model
Question 4
Which one of the following is the slope of the security market line?
Risk-free rate
Market risk premium
Beta coefficient
Risk premium on an individual asset
Market rate of return4.
Question 5
Standard deviation measures _____ risk while beta measures _____ risk.
systematic; unsystematic
unsystematic; systematic
total; unsystematic
total; systematic
asset-specific; market
Question 6
Northern Wear stock has an expected return of 14.6 percent. Given the information below, what is the expected return on this stock if the economy is normal?
13 percent
16 percent
18 percent
21 percent
23 percent
Question 7
Which one of the following terms refers to a bond’s rate of return that is required by the market place?
Coupon rate
Yield to maturity
