CPA Finance - FIN Exam Practice Test

Consider the following statements concerning the efficient market hypothesis:
1.When markets demonstrate semi-strong form efficiency, share prices will react to publicly-available information about the future prospects of a business.
2.When markets demonstrate weak form efficiency, there is no connection between past share price movements and future share price movements.
Which of the following combinations (true/false) is correct?

Consider the following types of financial instruments:
1.Equity shares
2.Forward interest rate agreements
3.Convertible bonds
4.Cash deposits
Which of the above are regarded as primary financial instruments?

A put option based on Sigma Co's share has a premium of 86c and its strike (exercise) price is 460c.
Sigma's underlying share is currently quoted at 422c.
What does the premium consist of?

A company has $500,000 available for investment and is considering the following four divisible, but not repeatable, projects to invest in:
Initial outlayNet present valueProfitability Index Project One$300,000$60,0001.20 Project Two$100,000$40,0001.40 Project Three$200,000$50,0001.25
Project Four$150,000$45,0001.30
What is the maximum net present value the company can generate from its investment?

Ulmus Co, a company listed on a major stock exchange, received a confidential letter from a rival company on 30 April 2009 offering to buy all the shares in Ulmus Co at a premium of 25% on their current market value. At a private meeting, convened on the same day, the directors of Ulmus Co agreed to accept the offer and made a public announcement of this decision on 2 May 2009.
Which ONE of the following combinations of possible share price reactions (increase/no effect) would you expect on 2 May 2009 under the semi-strong and strong forms of market efficiency?

A UK based company is due to receive US$6,000,000 in three months from its American customer. It wants to hedge this receipt and has found an appropriate futures market based in the USA, where the value of one futures contract is EUR62,500. The current futures price is US$1.7778 per UK sterling.
How many contracts would the company buy or sell in order to hedge the exposure?

PNH plc issued 10% loan stock some years ago, which is redeemable at par in exactly one year's time. The interest rate offered by the company is 3 percentage points higher than the interest rate offered on one-year government bonds. A credit-rating agency now estimates that there is a 5% probability that the company would default on its payments and that lenders would receive nothing in one year's time. The market price of the loan stock reflects this default risk. An investor purchases some loan stock.
Ignoring tax, what is the actual achieved yield on the loan stock over the year to redemption if there is no default on payments?

Companies often invest temporary surplus cash to earn income. Consider the following statements:
1) The main advantage of short-term deposits with finance houses is that they are easily transferable to another investor should the company require cash sooner than previously thought.
2) Treasury bills are short-term instruments issued by government when they need money. They pay a small amount of cash interest on the sum invested.
Which ONE of the following combinations (true/false) is correct?