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		| 1.  | There are many reasons for determining the value of a company. The reasons for a valuation do NOT include: | 
	
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		| 2.  | Tough economic times and economies of scale encourage all the following EXCEPT | 
	
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		| 3.  | The estimated rate of capitalization (cost of capital) includes | 
	
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		| 4.  | For the dissolution of the business, the company's value might be based on the ___________________ of the company's assets.  | 
	
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		| 5.  | Business valuation methods do NOT include | 
	
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		| 6.  | The discount rate ordinarily used in present value calculations is the | 
	
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		| 7.  | The present value of $110,000 expected to be received one year from today at an interest rate (discount rate) of 10% per year is: (Note: the present value of $1 at 10% for one period is 0.909). | 
	
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		| 8.  | A business is worth the discounted value of future cash earnings plus the discounted value of the expected selling price. Which of the following used this concept? | 
	
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		| 9.  | "Earnings surprises” are defined as | 
	
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		| 10.  | __________________ is NOT an approach to determining the fundamental value for a security investment. | 
	
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		| Read 'Chapter 2: Security and Real Estate Valuation' & answer the following question(s):  | 
	
		| 11.  | The valuation process for a bond does NOT require knowledge of | 
	
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		| 12.  | Which of the following is directly applied in determining the value of a stock when using the Gordon’s valuation model? | 
	
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		| 13.  | Consider a common stock that paid a $3 dividend per share at the end of the last year and is expected to pay a cash dividend every year at a growth rate of 10 percent. Assume the investor's required rate of return is 12 percent. The value of the stock would be | 
	
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		| 14.  | A beta of “0” means | 
	
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		| 15.  | Price-earnings ratio is NOT affected by | 
	
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		| 16.  | The capitalization of earnings method is based on the _______________ assumption. | 
	
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		| 17.  | A measure of a security's volatility relative to an average security is | 
	
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		| 18.  | Forecasted price at the end of year is | 
	
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		| 19.  | Assume that required rate of return stay the same but that the future dividends are expected to grow over the long run. As a result of the growth in dividends, the company’s stock price should | 
	
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		| 20.  | The market value of a firm’s outstanding common shares will be higher if | 
	
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		| 21.  | By using the dividend growth model, estimate the value of the stock for a firm with a required rate of 20%, an estimated dividend at the end of the first year of $3.00 per share, and an expected growth rate of 10%. | 
	
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		| 22.  | The difference between the required rate of return on a given risky investment and that on a riskless investment with the same expected return is the | 
	
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		| 23.  | ______________________ is NOT considered a pragmatic approach to common stock valuation. | 
	
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		| 24.  | The market portfolio, such as Standard & Poor’s 500, has a beta of ____. | 
	
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		| 25.  | The ___________________________ method uses the present value technique under which the asking price or value of a real estate investment is the present worth of the future after-tax cash flows from the investment, discounted at the rate of return required by the investor. | 
	
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		| 26.  | _________________ is NOT a rule-of-thumb method to arrive at the estimated value of an income producing property. | 
	
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		| 27.  | Certain terms used in real estate investments have applications similar to those used in security analysis. For example, the price earnings (P/E) ratio found in the analysis of stocks is equivalent to _____________ in real estate investment analysis. | 
	
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		| 28.  | Which of the following is equal to before-tax cash flow from operations? | 
	
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		| 29.  | Calculate the capitalization rate for the following investment: Net operating income (NOI) = $18,750; Purchase price = $150,000; Equity = 20% | 
	
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		| 30.  | The capitalization rate is | 
	
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