[单选题]Which one of the following relationships is stated correctly?
A. The coupon rate exceeds the current yield when a bond sells at a discount.
B. The call price must equal the par value.
C. An increase in market rates increases the market price of a bond.
D. Decreasing the time to maturity increases the price of a discount bond, all else constant.
E. Increasing the coupon rate decreases the current yield, all else constant.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Time to maturity
Learning Objective: 07-02 Explain bond values and yields and why they fluctuate.

[单选题]Which one of the following relationships applies to a par value bond?
A. Yield to maturity > Current yield > Coupon rate
B. Coupon rate > Yield to maturity > Current yield
C. Coupon rate = Current yield = Yield to maturity
D. Coupon rate < Yield to maturity < Current yield
E. Coupon rate > Current yield > Yield to maturity
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Bond yields and returns
Learning Objective: 07-02 Explain bond values and yields and why they fluctuate.

[单选题]Which one of the following is the financial statement that summarizes a firm's revenue and expenses over a period of time?
A. Income statement
B. Balance sheet
C. Statement of cash flows
D. Tax reconciliation statement
E. Market value report
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Income statement
Learning Objective: 02-02 Describe the difference between accounting income and cash flow.

[单选题]Which one of the following is an example of systematic risk?
A. Investors panic causing security prices around the globe to fall precipitously
B. A flood washes away a firm's warehouse
C. A city imposes an additional one percent sales tax on all products
D. A toymaker has to recall its top-selling toy
E. Corn prices increase due to increased demand for alternative fuels
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Systematic and unsystematic risk
Learning Objective: 13-03 Summarize the systematic risk principle.

[单选题]Which one of following is the rate at which a stock's price is expected to appreciate?
A. Current yield
B. Total return
C. Dividend yield
D. Capital gains yield
E. Coupon rate
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Stock dividends
Learning Objective: 08-01 Explain how stock prices depend on future dividends and dividend growth.

[单选题]Which one of the following statements concerning interest rates is correct?
A. Savers would prefer annual compounding over monthly compounding given the same annual percentage rate.
B. The effective annual rate decreases as the number of compounding periods per year increases.
C. The effective annual rate equals the annual percentage rate when interest is compounded annually.
D. Borrowers would prefer monthly compounding over annual compounding given the same annual percentage rate.
E. For any positive rate of interest, the annual percentage rate will always exceed the effective annual rate.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Interest rates
Learning Objective: 06-04 Show how interest rates are quoted (and misquoted..

[单选题]Which one of the following correctly defines the upward chain of command in a typical corporate organizational structure?
A. The vice president of finance reports to the chairman of the board.
B. The chief executive officer reports to the president.
C. The controller reports to the chief financial officer.
D. The treasurer reports to the president.
E. The chief operations officer reports to the vice president of production.

[单选题]Which one of the following statements related to loan interest rates is correct?
A. The annual percentage rate considers the compounding of interest.
B. When comparing loans you should compare the effective annual rates.
C. Lenders are most apt to quote the effective annual rate.
D. Regardless of the compounding period, the effective annual rate will always be higher than the annual percentage rate.
E. The more frequent the compounding period, the lower the effective annual rate given a fixed annual percentage rate.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Loan interest and rates
Learning Objective: 06-04 Show how interest rates are quoted (and misquoted..

[单选题]Which one of the following compounding periods will yield the lowest effective annual rate given a stated future value at Year 5 and an annual percentage rate of 10 percent?
A. Annual
B. Semi-annual
C. Monthly
D. Daily
E. Continuous
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Interest rates
Learning Objective: 06-04 Show how interest rates are quoted (and misquoted..

[单选题]Which one of the following standardizes items on the income statement and balance sheet relative to their values as of a chosen point in time?
A. Statement of standardization
B. Statement of cash flows
C. Common-base year statement
D. Common-size statement
E. Base reconciliation statement
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Standardized financial statements

[单选题]Which one of the following correctly describes the dividend yield?
A. Next year's annual dividend divided by today's stock price
B. This year's annual dividend divided by today's stock price
C. This year's annual dividend divided by next year's expected stock price
D. Next year's annual dividend divided by this year's annual dividend
E. The increase in next year's dividend over this year's dividend divided by this year's dividend
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Stock returns and yields
Learning Objective: 12-01 Calculate the return on an investment.

[单选题]Which one of the following statements correctly applies to the period 1926–2016?
A. Large-company stocks earned a higher average risk premium than did small-company stocks.
B. The average inflation rate exceeded the average return on U.S. Treasury bills.
C. Large-company stocks had an average annual return of 14.7 percent.
D. Inflation averaged 2.6 percent for the period.
E. Long-term corporate bonds outperformed long-term government bonds.
Difficulty: 1 Easy
Topic: Historical performance
Learning Objective: 12-02 Discuss the historical returns on various important types of investments.