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  1. What stock represents ownership and enjoys certain preferences than ordinary stock?

  2. A.

     Authorized stock

    B.

     Preferred stock

    C.

     Incorporator’s stock

    D.

     Presidential stock


  3. What is the factor name of the formula [i(1+i)^n]/[((1+i)^n)-1]?

  4. A.

     Uniform series sinking fund

    B.

     Capital recovery

    C.

     Single payment present worth

    D.

     Uniform gradient future worth


  5. The financial analysis:

  6. A.

     Helps a share holder to compare the expected return on his investment in the firm against the expected return from other alternative investment

    B.

     Helps a bank to know the financial position of the firm for granting a loan to the firm

    C.

     Helps to judge the success of the firm's financial plans

    D.

     All of these


  7. What refers to a document that shows proof of legal ownership of a financial security?

  8. A.

     Bond

    B.

     Bank note

    C.

     Coupon

    D.

     Check


  9. What refers to the exchange mechanism that brings together the sellers and the buyers of a product, factor of production or financial security?

  10. A.

     Mall

    B.

     Market

    C.

     Store

    D.

     Office


  11. What denotes in the fall in the exchange rate of one currency in terms of the others? This term is usually applies to the floating exchange rate.

  12. A.

     Currency appreciation

    B.

     Currency depreciation

    C.

     Currency devaluation

    D.

     Currency float


  13. In what method of computing depreciation where it assumes that the annual cost of depreciation is a fixed percentage of the book value at the beginning of the year?

  14. A.

     Straight line method

    B.

     Sinking fund method

    C.

     Sum-of-year digit method

    D.

     Declining balance method


  15. The sunk costs include:

  16. A.

     A past expenditure

    B.

     An unrecovered balance

    C.

     An invested capital that cannot be retrieved

    D.

     All of these


  17. Miss Evilla borrowed money from a bank. She receives from the bank P1,340.00 and promised to pay P1,500.00 at the end of 9 months. Determine the corresponding discount rate or often referred to as the “banker’s discount”.

  18. A.

     13.15 %

    B.

     13.32 %

    C.

     13.46 %

    D.

     13.73 %


  19. Annuities involve:

  20. A.

     A series of payments

    B.

     All payments of equal amount

    C.

     Payment at equal time intervals

    D.

     All of these