The Tony Hawk Skate Park has a 5-year installment loan with monthly payments of $5,000 including interest. Currently, the first twelve monthly payments have been recorded as a current liability. The VP of Finance, tells board members that he plans to classify the current portion of the installment note as long-term. He explains that lenders will be more willing to let the company borrow and will offer lower interest rate if the company reports fewer current liabilities. a. Classifying the first twelve installment payments as a current liability is not required by GAAP.
b. Reporting the current portion of a long-term note as long-term debt is a misrepresentation of the financial position of the company.
c. The ability to borrow at lower interest rates is more important than being ethical.
d. Presenting investors with a strong current ratio is acceptable at any cost.

Which of the following is not an example of one of the four mail advantages of prices on a free market economy

Consider a firm with a contract to sell an asset for $149,000 four years from now. the asset costs $85,000 to produce today. a. given a relevant discount rate of 14 percent per year, calculate the profit the firm will make on this asset. (a loss should be indicated by a minus sign. do not round intermediate calculations and round your answer to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.) b. at what rate does the firm just break even?

Your company is starting a new r& d initiative: a development of a new drug that dramatically reduces the addiction to smoking. the expert team estimates the probability of developing the drug succesfully at 60% and a chance of losing the investment of 40%. if the project is successful, your company would earn profits (after deducting the investment) of 9,000 (thousand usd). if the development is unsuccessful, the whole investment will be lost -1,000 (thousand usd). your company's risk preference is given by the expected utility function: u(x) v1000 +x, where x is the monetary outcome of a project. calculate the expected profit of the project . calculate the expected utility of the project . find the certainty equivalent of this r& d initiative . find the risk premium of this r& d initiative e is the company risk-averse, risk-loving or risk-neutral? why do you think so?