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Which area of finance deals with sources of funding and the capital
structure of corporations and seeks to increase the value of a firm to its
owners?
Financial institutions
Business finance
Investments
Real estate - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Business finance is the area of finance that
deals with uses and sources of funding to increase the value of the firm.
What are the main services offered by financial institutions? - 🧠ANSWER
✔✔Accepting a wide variety of deposits, offering investment products,
providing loans, and brokering financial transactions
Which type of financial institution is a mutual fund?
Contractual institution
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,Federal institution
Depository institution
Investment institution - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Investment institution. Investment
institutions provide individuals and firms access to financial markets.
A mutual fund - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔A mutual fund is an investment company
that continually offers investments and buys financial securities and
instruments (usually stocks or bonds) on behalf of investors. Mutual fund
companies often have their own products or portfolios composed of
multiple stocks and bonds. The performance of the funds determines the
company's value. Even though the funds are a pool of financial securities,
investors normally do not have the same rights that individual stockholders
have.
Which financial institution specializes in managing and administering
retirement funds?
Pension funds
Private equity
Investment banks - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Pension funds specialize in retirement
funds.
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,Which type of economic indicator is the consumer price index?
Lagging indicator
Leading indicator
Coincident indicator - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔CPI usually changes after the
economy as a whole changes. (CPI) measures changes in the inflation
rate. It examines the average prices of a basket of consumer goods and
services and the changes associated with the cost of living. When the CPI
decreases, it indicates deflation; when it increases, it indicates inflation.
A company's officers and board of directors are selling their stocks in the
firm at higher prices due to false accounting reports that made the stock
seem more valuable than it truly was. Which ethical issue is occurring in
this situation?
Pursuing individual interest over client interests
Conflict between work and personal affairs
Agency problem due to conflicting interests - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Agency
problem due to conflicting interests! Accounting manipulation by
management in pursuit of higher stock-related compensation is an example
of an agency problem.
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, Which subspecialty of finance primarily involves deciding which assets will
create more wealth and earn positive returns?
Accounting
Financial institutions
Capital structure
Investments - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔Investments. Investments is the area of
finance that seeks to create wealth in the future by deciding where to
allocate money.
What is the primary goal of the financial manager of a firm?
To minimize the asset holdings of the firm
To minimize the costs of the firm
To maximize owner wealth
To maximize the manager's utility - 🧠ANSWER ✔✔To maximize owner
wealth. The financial manager should make decisions based on the primary
goal of maximizing owner wealth.
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