AICPA CPA Business Environment and Concepts - BEC Exam Practice Test

James Webb is the general manager of the Industrial Product Division, and his performance is measured
using the residual income method. Webb is reviewing the following forecasted information for his division
for next year.

If the imputed interest charge is 15 percent and Webb wants to achieve a residual income target of
$ 2 million, what will costs have to be in order to achieve the target?

Net working capital is the difference between:

Which of the following formulas should be used to calculate the economic rate of return on common
stock?

Williams, Inc. is interested in measuring its overall cost of capital and has gathered the following data.
Under the terms described below, the company can sell unlimited amounts of all instruments.
. Williams can raise cash by selling $1,000, 8 percent, 20-year bonds with annual interest payments. In
selling the issue, an average premium of $30 per bond would be received, and the firm must pay
floatation costs of $30 per bond. The after-tax cost of funds is estimated to be 4.8 percent.
. Williams can sell 8 percent preferred stock at par value, $105 per share. The cost of issuing and selling
the preferred stock is expected to be $5 per share.
. Williams' common stock is currently selling for $100 per share. The firm expects to pay cash dividends of
$ 7 per share next year, and the dividends are expected to remain constant. The stock will have to be
underpriced by $3 per share, and floatation costs are expected to amount to $5 per share.
. Williams expects to have available $100,000 of retained earnings in the coming year; once these
retained earnings are exhausted, the firm will use new common stock as the form of common stock equity
financing.
. Williams' preferred capital structure is:
Long-term debt 30%
Preferred stock 20
Common stock 50
If Williams, Inc. needs a total of $1,000,000, the firm's weighted-average cost of capital would be:

An advantage of the net present value method over the internal rate of return model in discounted cash
flow analysis is that the net present value method:

Which of the following statements is correct regarding both debt and common shares of a corporation?

The method that divides a project's annual after-tax net income by the average investment cost to
measure the estimated performance of a capital investment is the:

Why would a firm generally choose to finance temporary assets with short-term debt?

Return on assets:

Williams, Inc. is interested in measuring its overall cost of capital and has gathered the following data.
Under the terms described below, the company can sell unlimited amounts of all instruments.
. Williams can raise cash by selling $1,000, 8 percent, 20-year bonds with annual interest payments.
In selling the issue, an average premium of $30 per bond would be received, and the firm must pay
floatation costs of $30 per bond. The after-tax cost of funds is estimated to be 4.8 percent.
. Williams can sell 8 percent preferred stock at par value, $105 per share. The cost of issuing and selling
the preferred stock is expected to be $5 per share.
. Williams' common stock is currently selling for $100 per share. The firm expects to pay cash dividends of
$ 7 per share next year, and the dividends are expected to remain constant. The stock will have to be
underpriced by $3 per share, and floatation costs are expected to amount to $5 per share.
. Williams expects to have available $100,000 of retained earnings in the coming year; once these
retained earnings are exhausted, the firm will use new common stock as the form of common stock equity
financing.
. Williams' preferred capital structure is:
Long-term debt 30%
Preferred stock 20
Common stock 50
The cost of funds from retained earnings for Williams, Inc. is: