Senior Officer (Financial Analyst) 2020 [MCQ]

1. Which of the following statements about NPV and IRR is false?

[Senior Officer (Financial Analyst) 2020 [MCQ] : 2020]

1. The discount rate that gives an NPV of zero is the project‘s IRR.

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2. The IRR is the discount rate that equates the present value of the cash inflows with the present value of outflows.

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3. For mutually exclusive projects, if the NPV method and the IRR method give conflicting rankings, you should use the IRRs to select the project

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4. The NPV method assumes that cash flows will be reinvested at the cost of capital while IRR rankings implicitly assume that cash flows are reinvested at the IRR.

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2. Which of the following would not improve the current ratio?

[Senior Officer (Financial Analyst) 2020 [MCQ] : 2020]

1. Borrow short term to finance additional fixed assets

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2. Issue long term debt to buy inventory

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3. Sell common stock to reduce current liabilities

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4. Sell fixed assets to reduce accounts payable

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3. Determine a firm‘s total asset turnover (TAT) if its net profit margin is 10 percent,assets are Taka 5 millions and ROA is 20 percent.

[Senior Officer (Financial Analyst) 2020 [MCQ] : 2020]

1. 1.60

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2. 2.0

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3. 1.50

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4. 4.00

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5. Which of the following you will not consider as a ‘conflict of interest‘?

[Senior Officer (Financial Analyst) 2020 [MCQ] : 2020]

1. Disclosure of conflicts

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2. Priority of transaction

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3. Referral fees

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4. PerformancePresentation

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