TEST BANK Foundations of Financial Management 18th Ed by Stanley Block, Geoffrey Hirt, Bartley Danielsen Verified Chapter 1 - 21, ISBN:9781260326918

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Foundations of Financial Management, 17e (Block) Chapter 1 The Goals and Activities of Financial Management 1) As finance emerged as a new field, much emphasis was placed on mergers and acquisitions. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 2) Inflation is assumed to be a temporary problem that does not affect financial decisions. Answer: FALSE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Financial management decisions Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 3) Financial capital is composed of long-term plant and equipment, as well as other tangible investments. Answer: FALSE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 4) Real capital is composed of long-term plant and equipment. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember 1 Copyright © 2019 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 5) During the 1930s, financial practice revolved around such topics as the preservation of capital, maintenance of liquidity, the reorganization of financially troubled corporations, and bankruptcy. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 6) In the mid 1950s, finance began to change to a more analytical, decision-oriented approach. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 7) Recently, the emphasis of financial management has been on the relationship between risk and return. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas.; 01-03 The relationship of risk to return is a central focus of finance. Bloom's: Understand AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 8) The first Nobel Prizes given to finance professors were for their contributions to capital structure theory and portfolio theories of risk and return. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember 2 Copyright © 2019 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 9) How investors handle risk is an important topic that usually only economists observe. Answer: FALSE Explanation: Behavioral finance is something that the finance industry puts heavy emphasis on. Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 10) Mortgage-backed securities were devalued by accounting standards because of the high credit ratings (AAA). Answer: FALSE Explanation: These securities were devalued because borrowers defaulted on their loans and didn't have the financial means to back up their loans in other ways. Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 11) "Credit default swaps" are one of several tools that Congress and the President of the United States have jointly developed to ease the financial crisis that began in 2008. Answer: FALSE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Understand AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 3 Copyright © 2019 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education. 12) The Dodd-Frank Act was created by Congress along with its goals and regulatory responsibility, but it is facilitated by various agencies. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Remember AACSB: Reflective Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 13) The Dodd-Frank Act contains the Volcker Rule, which encourages financial institutions to allow for more speculative investments for average investors. Answer: FALSE Difficulty: 2 Medium Topic: Ethics, governance, and regulation Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Understand AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 14) The Dodd-Frank Act's oversight allowing regulation of banking fees and available products has been considered as not being in the best interests of a free market. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 2 Medium Topic: Ethics, governance, and regulation Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Understand AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 15) The Internet impacts e-commerce by creating a mechanism for improved communications between a business, its customers, and its suppliers. Answer: TRUE Difficulty: 1 Easy Topic: Introduction to corporate finance Learning Objective: 01-01 The field of finance integrates concepts from economics, accounting, and a number of other areas. Bloom's: Understand AACSB: Analytical Thinking Accessibility: Keyboard Navigation 4 Copyright © 2019 McGraw-Hill Education. All rights reserved. No reproduction or distribution without the prior written consent of McGraw-Hill Education.