IMA CMA-Strategic-Financial-Management actual dump : CMA Part 2: Strategic Financial Management Exam

A company is considering a capital project that includes the purchase of a new machine costing $100,000. The machines estimated useful life is five years with no salvage value. The annual operating cash inflows from the project are shown below.
Given an effective income tax rate of 20% and using straight-line depreciation, what would be the projects net cash flow in Year 3?

• A. $36,000
• B. $16,000
• C. $20,000
• D. $32,000

The CFO at GameX, a handheld game manufacturer has asked a financial analyst to provide an analysis and evaluation of the company versus three of its competitors. The analyst prepared the following report.

Based or the analysis the analyst is justified to write in his evaluation mat in order to Improve its position in the market. GameX should

• A. reduce its debt load
• B. increase its inventory

Identify and explain two risks that Guda may face after it acquires Blue Moon.
Essay
Apex Manufacturing lnc. (AMI) is a Canada-based company that manufactures a manufactures and unique part for aircrafts. It has few competitors in the market. The company is exposed to exchange rate risk because about 90% of its products are exported to the U.S, and most of its sales contracts are in U.S. dollars. AMI has the capacity to manufacture 1,500 units of the part per year. For the year just ended. AMI manufactured and sold 1,000 units. The operating results are shown below.

Recently, A new customer made a one-area order of 500 units of the part at $1.200 per unit. The CTO asked the controller to analyze this offer. AMI is considering adjusting its sales price next year in a recent meeting, the CFO suggested to use the market-based approach for pricing decisions, bat the controller insisted that the cost-based approach is more favorable to the company.

Explain two potential benefits for Guda if it acquires Blue Moon.
Essay
Food Depot Ltd, (FDL) is a privately-held company that provides catering services to airlines and operates several restaurant chains including fast food, casual dining, and fine dining restaurants, FDL has been profitable in recent years and has a very strong cash position. FDL's newest division. Food_TO-Go is an online meal ordering and delivery platform acquired by FDL two year ago.
In 20X7, sales for the entire company were $1 billion, with 50% of the business coming from the Airline Catering division. FDL is the country 's leading airline catering services provider and control 60% of the market share. However, the outlook of the airline catering industry is gloomy. The compound annual growth rate of the industry for the past five years was only 0.5% as airline networks have increasingly dropped catering on short domestic flights.
The Food-To-division only contribution 5% of FDL's total sales in 20X7 and is far behind in competing for marketing for market share of the online meal ordering and delivery industry, it is estimated that Food-To-Go's sales were only 20% of the industry leader's sales. However, the outlook for the online meal ordering and delivery services industry is bright. The compound annual growth rate of the industry since it started three years ago was 50%. It is estimated the rapid growth of the industry will continue in the foreseeable future.
Susan Willey, the head of Food-To-Go, does not agree that the Airline Catering division is the best-performing division in the company. Wiley argues that ber division bad the highest ROI in 20X7, and it deserves more capital finding. FDL's requested rate of return is 12%. The selected financial data for the Airline Catering division and Food-To-Go division in 20X7 are as follow (in $ millions)

A company currently offers all of its customers trade credit with terms of 1/15 net 45 of the following alternatives which would not Increase the company's average collection period from its current level?

• A. I and II only
• B. III only
• C. I only.
• D. Ill and Iv only.