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[单项选择]An analyst wants to calculate number of days payables and gathers the following information about XYZ Company and the industry in which it operates (in thousands):
| XYZ | Industry |
| Payables | $9257 | $3535 |
| Credit purchases | $22486 | $9890 |
Compared to the industry, this companys number of days payables most likely indicates:（）
A. a success to take advantage of credit facilities.
B. more making payments on time.
C. a higher payables turnover ratio.
[单项选择]An analyst wants to determine whether the monthly returns on two stocks over the last year were the same or not. What test should she use if she is willing to assume that the returns are normally distributed（）
A. A paired comparisons test because the samples are not independent.
B. A difference in means test with pooled variances from the two samples.
C. An F-test with the greater mean in the numerator.
[单项选择]An analyst wants to get, crate a simple random sample of 500 stocks from all 10000 stocks traded on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ. Which of the following methods is least likely to generate a random sample（）
A. Listing all the stocks traded on all three exchanges in alphabetical order and selecting every. 20th stock.
B. Writing the name of each stock on a piece of paper, putting them in a hat, and drawing out 500 names, one at a time.
C. Using the 500 stocks in the S＆P 500.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price multiples and gathers the following information about three companies in the same industry:
| Earnings Retention Ratio | Required Rate of Return |
| Company 1 | 30% | 8% |
| Company 2 | 40% | 9% |
| Company 3 | 50% | 10% |
According to dividenddiscounted model (DDM), which company most likely has the highest price-to-earnings ratio（）
A. Company 1.
B. Company 2.
C. Company 3.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price elasticity of demand and determines that when the price of a product increases from $15 to $17, the quantity demanded decreases from 51 units to 45 units. The product's price elasticity of demand is best described as:（）
A. inelastic.
B. unit elastic.
C. elastic.
[单项选择]An analyst gathers the price-earnings ratios (P/E) for the firms in the S&P 500 and then ranks the firms from highest to lowest P/E. She then assigns the number 1 to the group with the lowest P/E ratios, the number 2 to the group with the second lowest P/E ratios, and so on. The measurement scale used by the analyst is best described as:（）
A. ordinal.
B. interval.
C. nominal.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price multiples. For a given company, price to earnings ratios are generally more stable from period to period than:
A. price to sales ratios but not price to cash flow ratios.
B. price to cash flow ratios but not price to sale ratios.
C. neither price to sales ratios nor price to cash flow ratios.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price multiples. With respect to the computation of the price to book value ratio for a company's common stock, an appropriate estimate of tangible book value for the company could most likely exclude the value of:
A. patents.
B. off-balance-sheet assets.
C. preferred stock issued by that company.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price-discount rate relationship. With respect to the price-discount rate relationship, which of the following statements is least accurate（）
A. The shape of the price-discount rate relationship for an option-free bond is referred as negative convex.
B. If the discount rate rises, the price of a putable bond declines by less than the price of an option-free bond.
C. If the discount rate falls, the price of acallable bond increases by less than the price of an option-free bond.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price multiples. Which of the following statements is least accurate to explain using the price-to-sales ratio in equity valuation is better than the price-to-earnings ratio（）
A. Sales are more stable than earnings.
B. Earnings are sometimes negative.
C. Sales are the main driver of equity value.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about various price multiples. Which of the following price multiples is least subject to accounting manipulation or distortion by the management of a company（）
A. Price-to-sales ratio.
B. Price-to-book ratio.
C. Trailing price-to-earnings ratio.
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price value of a basis point (PVBP). With respect to a coupon bond, the duration is 8.61, and the current price of the bond is $101.35. The price value of a basis point (PVBP) of the bond is closest to:（）
A. $0.0861
B. $0.0873
C. $0.1014
[单项选择]An analyst does research about bond price and gathers the following information about a callable bond:
| Par value | $1000000 |
| Current market value | $923686 |
| Effective duration | 3.5 |
| Modified duration | 3.1 |
If yields are expected to increase by 125 basis points, the expected price change for the bond is closest to:（）
A. -$35793
B. -$40411
C. -$4,3750
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price-to-earnings ratio and gathers the following information about a company:
| Current stock price | $75.00 |
| One-year price target | $85.00 |
| Most recent four quarters earnings per share | $5.50 |
| Expected next four quarters earnings per share | $6.50 |
The trailing price-to-earnings ratio for this stock is close.st to:（）
A. 11.5
B. 13.6
C. 15.5
[单项选择]An analyst does research about price-to-eamings ratio. With respect to price multipliers based on fundamentals, and all else being equal, an increase in which of the following inputs most likely will cause the price-to-earnings ratio to increase（）
A. Retention ratio.
B. Required rate of return.
C. Growth rate of eamings.
[单项选择]Circle the appropriate letters A-C.Steve wants
A. anchovies on one and a half pizzas.
B. no seafood at all.
C. chilli flakes on the pizzas.
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Everyone wants the best for a baby. A mother wants her baby to have the best in the ways of food, toys, clothing and equipment. Her value judgments on prices may go wrong when it comes to buying for a baby, particularly the first one. Factory producers and advertisers recognize this, and exploit it to the full. Far more is spent in buying push-chairs, special milk, and special powders for small babies than is necessary.
The child himself watches television, a particularly strong influence on small children. Looking at them as they watch television, and then watching them react to products afterwards, suggests that young children accept the television advertisements as well as the guidance offered by children’s pro- grams, and find both equally attractive. The child comes early in life to the feeling widespread in this country that if something is said on television it must be true.
For this reason much Christmas-gift advertising, and advertising for sweets,
A. TV services
B. baby powders
C. repeated demands
D. children’s programs
