Rick bought a 30-year bond when it was issued by Macroflex Corporation 8 years ago. The bond has a $1,000 face value and a coupon rate equal to 5 percent and the coupon is paid every six months. If the yield on similar-risk investments is 6 percent, a. What is the current market value (price) of the bond? b. Suppose interest rate levels rise to the point where such bonds now yield 8 percent. What would be the price of Macroflex bond? c. At what price would Macroflex bonds sell if the yield on them was 4 percent? d. What do you observe regarding the relationship between interest rate (YTM) bond’s price? e. What do you observe regarding the relationship between coupon, YTM and the bond’s price?

Xie company identified the following activities, costs, and activity drivers for 2017. the company manufactures two types of go-karts: deluxe and basic. activity expected costs expected activity handling materials $ 625,000 100,000 parts inspecting product 900,000 1,500 batches processing purchase orders 105,000 700 orders paying suppliers 175,000 500 invoices insuring the factory 300,000 40,000 square feet designing packaging 75,000 2 models required: 1. compute a single plantwide overhead rate, assuming that the company assigns overhead based on 125,000 budgeted direct labor hours. 2. in january 2017, the deluxe model required 2,500 direct labor hours and the basic model required 6,000 direct labor hours. assign overhead costs to each model using the single plantwide overhead rate.

Security a has a higher standard deviation of returns than security b. we would expect that: (i) security a would have a risk premium equal to security b. (ii) the likely range of returns for security a in any given year would be higher than the likely range of returns for security b. (iii) the sharpe ratio of a will be higher than the sharpe ratio of b. (a) i only (b) i and ii only (c) ii and iii only (d) i, ii and iii

The following transactions occur for badger biking company during the month of june: a. provide services to customers on account for $32,000. b. receive cash of $24,000 from customers in (a) above. c. purchase bike equipment by signing a note with the bank for $17,000. d. pay utilities of $3,200 for the current month. analyze each transaction and indicate the amount of increases and decreases in the accounting equation. (decreases to account classifications should be entered as a negative.)