4.You have been asked by the president of your company to evaluate the proposed acquisition of a new special-purpose truck for $290,000. The truck falls into the MACRS 10-year class, and it will be sold after 10 years for $29,000. Use of the truck will require an increase in NWC (spare parts inventory) of $5,900. The truck will have no effect on revenues, but it is expected to save the firm $123,000 per year in before-tax operating costs, mainly labor. The firm’s marginal tax rate is 35 percent. What will the cash flows for this project be during year 2? 

$117,100 

$98,220 

$132,150 

$70,800

5.Portfolio Beta You own $21,500 of City Steel stock that has a beta of 3.32. You also own $38,500 of Rent-N-Co (beta = 1.77) and $20,700 of Lincoln Corporation (beta = -.83). What is the beta of your portfolio? 

4.88 

1.52 

1.00 

4.26

6.Portfolio Beta You have a portfolio with a beta of .93. What will be the new portfolio beta if you keep 30 percent of your money in the old portfolio and 70 percent in a stock with a beta of 1.53? 

2.46 

1.23 

1.00 

1.35

7.FlavR Co stock has a beta of 2.08, the current risk-free rate is 2.08 percent, and the expected return on the market is 9.08 percent. What is FlavR Co’s cost of equity?  

16.64% 

20.97% 

11.16% 

13.24%

8.You have been asked by the president of your company to evaluate the proposed acquisition of a new special-purpose truck for $190,000. The truck falls into the MACRS 5-year class, and it will be sold after 5 years for $19,000. Use of the truck will require an increase in NWC (spare parts inventory) of $4,900. The truck will have no effect on revenues, but it is expected to save the firm $86,000 per year in before-tax operating costs, mainly labor. The firm’s marginal tax rate is 40 percent. What will the cash flows for this project be during year 2? 

$112,400 

$75,920 

$81,100 

$25,200

9.CAPM Required Return A company has a beta of 1.13. If the market return is expected to be 11.8 percent and the risk-free rate is 3.90 percent, what is the company’s required return? 

12.83% 

13.33% 

17.23% 

16.73%

10.Debt Management Ratios Trina’s Trikes, Inc. reported a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.93 times at the end of 2008. If the firm’s total debt at year-end was $10.70 million, how much equity does Trina’s Trikes have?

$5.54 million

$10.70 million

$1.93 million

$20.65 million

Instructions: Write a paper related to your assigned cardiopulmonary condition then summarize the paper in a presentation of no more than 15 minutes.  

Content: The paper must at minimum address all of the topics/questions on the next page. Any information that is specific to your condition should also be included.

Sources: The paper should be based on the Essentials of Cardiopulmonary Physical therapy textbook and any other textbooks utilized or accessible in the program or library. The paper MUST contain a MINIMUM of 4 research articles from a scholarly journal no older than 2014.

Format/Style: The paper and references (both books and journals) must be in APA style (See Writing Lab for assistance)

Intellectual property: All content in the paper must be your own thoughts. All information taken from textbooks, scholarly journals or other sources must be cited within the paper and cited in the references. Any plagiarism will result in an automatic “0” on the project. The similarity index for submission on Turnitin.com must be 25% or less. 

Cardiopulmonary Conditions Instructions

(Must be included in paper and discussed in presentation)

1. What population is this condition typically found in?

2. How does the condition typically occur? What is the etiology?

3. What anatomical structures are involved?

4. What medical interventions are required?

5. What precautions or contraindications must the PTA be aware of during the patient’s medical treatment and/or during recovery?

6. What is the typical time frame for patient full recovery OR how long following medical intervention until the patient is considered able to return to full functional abilities (or return to PLOF).

7. What types of PT interventions are typically used to treat the condition during the:

a. acute phase

b. functional phase

8. Are there any recommended interventions that do not fall under the PTA’s scope of work?