A company has six fraudulent checks clear its primary disbursement account for a total of $7,652. The bank agrees to split the loss with the company to maintain a good relationship.
As a condition of sharing the expense, the bank requires the company to establish positive pay on its disbursement accounts or have the company absorb the losses on future fraudulent payments.
If the company determines that positive pay is too expensive and decides NOT to implement it, what type of risk financing technique is the company using?
ABC Company, a U.S. company, has an overseas customer, XYZ Inc., who wants to purchase $3.1 million of equipment from ABC Co. XYZ Inc. wants to structure payment by paying 10% at time of order, 40% at time of shipment and the remaining 50% at time of receipt of the equipment. The last time XYZ Inc. purchased equipment from ABC Co. they never paid the final 50%, claiming the equipment did not work properly. Which of the following can ABC Co. use for this transaction to guarantee payment?
A United States corporation purchases finished products from a German subsidiary and sells raw materials to the subsidiary several times in one month. To minimize foreign exchange transaction costs, the U.S. corporation's cash manager would MOST LIKELY use:
A company is evaluating a project. What is the appropriate discount rate that it should use if its marginal tax rate is 34%, its capital structure is 40% common equity, and 60% debt. Its cost of equity is 10%, and its average cost of debt is 4%?
