Look at this PDF of the problems we were sent! These are some exam questions (according to Jondall). Note: this exam is going to be insane… no other professor does this crap. LOOK AT THESE and add more formulas to your cheat sheet. WOW
Here are the 3 warmup problems we skipped at review. Check it out, just in case. Not difficult at all.
Calculate the percentage total return for a stock with given initial and ending share prices and dividend per share. Then, determine the dividend yield and capital gains yield for the stock.
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Determine the dollar return on a stock investment, given the number of shares purchased, initial stock price, dividend per share, and stock price at the end of the year.
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Determine the total dollar return, total nominal rate of return, and total real rate of return on a bond investment, given the annual coupon rate, purchase price, current selling price, face value, and inflation rate.
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Determine the arithmetic average annual return on large-company stocks in both nominal and real terms, given the relevant historical data. What was the arithmetic average return in nominal terms and in real terms?
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Determine the historical real returns on long-term government bonds and long-term corporate bonds, given the average annual returns and inflation rate.
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Calculate the average returns, variances, and standard deviations for X and Y based on the provided returns.
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Calculate the arithmetic average returns, standard deviations of returns, average risk premium, and standard deviation of the risk premium for large-company stocks and T-bills over a specified period, using year-to-year total returns data.
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Calculate the average return, variance, and standard deviation of Pine Computer’s stock returns over a five-year period.
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