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Basic Financial Management MCQ

1. _____________ are examples of investment bankers offering traditional commercial banking services.

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Correct Answer: Cash management accounts

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2. Due to ____, market forces should realign the spot rate of a currency among banks.

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Correct Answer: Locational arbitrage

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3. A _____ budget allocates resources on the basis of a single estimate of costs.

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Correct Answer: Fixed or static

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4. _____ are also called debentures and are not backed by specific collateral.

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Correct Answer: Unsecured bonds

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5. The primary goal of a financial manager is ________.

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Correct Answer: Maximizing wealth

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6. One major expense associated with issuing new shares of common stock is ________.

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Correct Answer: Underpricing

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7. In a business formula such as return on investment, ""on"" means ________.

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Correct Answer: Divided by

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8. Identify the cash balance which allows for the business to meet day to day expenses, but reduces cash holding costs is known as _______

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Correct Answer: Cash management

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9. Decision relating to working capital and short term financing are referred to as ____________

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Correct Answer: Working capital management

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10. Accounts receivables are also known as __________

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Correct Answer: Customer receivables

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11. __________ motive refers to the need to hold cash to satisfy normal disbursement collection activities associated with firm’s ongoing operation.

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Correct Answer: Transaction motive

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12. The amount owned to a company resulting from the company providing goods and services on credit is known as __________

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Correct Answer: Accounts receivable

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13. The minimum amount of working capital which even required during the dullest season of year is known as ___________

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Correct Answer: Permanent working capital

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14. The surplus of current assets over current liabilities is known as ______

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Correct Answer: Positive working capital

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15. . The difference between current assets and current liabilities of the business concern is termed as ____________

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Correct Answer: Net working capital

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16. ________ refers to the amount of funds invested in various components of current assets. It consists of raw materials, work in progress, debtors, finished goods, etc.

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Correct Answer: Gross working capital

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17. . Difference between inflow and outflow of funds is known as ___________

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Correct Answer: Working capital b

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18. Pay-out ratio denotes that

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Correct Answer: Payment of dividend to shareholders

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19. If the firm is r>k means the earnings must be

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Correct Answer: Retain

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20. If the firms earns a higher rate of return on its investments than the required rate of return (r>k) it is called

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Correct Answer: Decline firm

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21. Walter model is based on the relationship between the firms return on investment (r) and ____

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Correct Answer: Cost of capital or required rate of return (k)

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22. In which theory dividend decision does not affect the share holders wealth and valuation of the firm

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Correct Answer: Theory of irrelevance

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23. ____ refers to that part of profits of a company which is distributed by the company among its shareholders

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Correct Answer: Dividend

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24. In _____ theory, the value of the firm can be increased initially or the cost of capital can be decreased by using more debt is a cheaper source of funds than equity

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Correct Answer: Traditional approach

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25. _____ approach is a compromise between the two extremes of net income approach and net operating income approach.

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Correct Answer: Traditional approach

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26. In which approach there is nothing as an optimal capital structure and every capital structure is the optimum capital structure

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Correct Answer: Net operating income approach

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27. In _____ approach the value of the firm and overall cost of capital remains constant irrespective of method of financing. (Debt-equity)

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Correct Answer: Net operating income approach

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28. In _____ approach, the change in the capital structure of company does not affect the market value of the firm

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Correct Answer: Net operating income approach

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29. Net operating income theory is suggested by

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Correct Answer: Durand

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30. n _____ approach a firm can minimize the weighted average cost of capital and increase the value of a firm and market price of equity share by using debt to the maximum

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Correct Answer: Net income approach

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31. _____ approach is based upon certain unrealistic assumptions such a perfect market, or the expected earnings of all the firms have identical risk etc.,

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Correct Answer: M and M approach

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32. In_____ approach the debt-equity mix is irrelevant in determination of cost of capital and the value of a firm.

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Correct Answer: Net operating income

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33. _____ approach prove that the cost of capital is not affected by changes in the capital structure

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Correct Answer: Net operating income

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34. The required rate of return for an investment project should

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Correct Answer: Leave the market price of the stock unchanged

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35. The overall cost of capital is used as the minimum acceptable return on

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Correct Answer: All investment to be made by the company with similar risk

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36. Interest on debt-capital provides a _______ to the equity holders

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Correct Answer: Tax shield

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37. The cost of capital of a long-term debt is generally

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Correct Answer: Lower than the owned funds

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38. The company’s’ average cost of capital is

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Correct Answer: The average cost of all sources of long-term funds

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39. The expansion of CAPM is

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Correct Answer: Capital Asset Pricing Model

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40. Cost of retained earnings is equal to

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Correct Answer: Cost of equity

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41. Market value of the cost of capital is decided by

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Correct Answer: The investment market

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42. The decision to issue various securities in different proportions is called

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Correct Answer: The capital structure decision

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43. v

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Correct Answer: Preference shares

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44. _____ means the entire liabilities side of the balance sheet (long term and short term) (debt and equity)

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Correct Answer: Financial structure

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45. ____ is quantitative aspect of the financial planning of an enterprise, if denotes total amount of securities issued by a company.

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Correct Answer: Capitalisation

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46. The decision to issue various securities in different proportions is called

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Correct Answer: The capital structure decision

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47. . Working capital management is managing

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Correct Answer: Short-term assets and liabilities

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48. Capital budgeting is related to

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Correct Answer: Long –term assets

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49. The primary goal of the financial management is

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Correct Answer: To maximize the wealth of owners

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50. Financial accounting is designed

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Correct Answer: To record the financial history of the firm

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51. In his traditional role the finance manager is responsible for

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Correct Answer: Arrangement and efficient utilization of funds

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52. Financial Management is mainly concerned with

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Correct Answer: All aspects of acquiring and utilizing financial resources for firm’s activities

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