The interest rate on EUR deposits is 7%. The interest rate on GBP deposits is 5%. The spot rate is EUR/GBP0.8500. What is the one year forward rate predicted to be assuming interest rate parity holds true?
Answer : B
Which of the following are the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations (COSO) key principles of enterprise risk management?
Select ALL that apply.
Answer : B, D, E
S Doc is an out-of-hours service provided by a country's government. The service allows members of the public to call and speak to a nurse who can advise on medical situations which are not obviously emergencies. Depending on the situation the caller can be referred to the full emergency services, or be advised to go to Accident and Emergency at the nearest hospital. Alternatively, a callout from a general practitioner (GP) can be organised; the caller can be advised of where GP services are available; advice can be given over the phone; or a decision can be taken that no further action is required at least until normal services resume on the next working day.
There has been a suggestion that the nurses who take these calls could be replaced by suitably trained operatives who have available to them a specially designed expert system.
Which of the following are advantages of using an expert system instead of nurses?
Answer : C, D, E
The managers of a company are agents for the shareholderstasked with increasing shareholders' wealth. Which of the following will usually increase shareholders' wealth?
Answer : B
Kis a manufacturing company. It has sourced new equipment from the US to equip a new production facility.
It has to make a payment of USD1,000,000 in3 months' time.
K's production manager needs to know whether it is cheaper to use a forward contract or a money market hedge.
Current spot and forward exchange rates are as follows:
Current mid-point money market rates (annual) are as follows:
Ignoring taxation, which of the following statements is correct?
Answer : A
Kate is a management accountant. Her immediate superior plans to apply for a promotion and his strongest competitor is the sales manager.Kate's superior has ordered her to set unattainable salestargets in a sales budget in order to reduce the sales manager's promotion prospects. He told her not to tell anybody.
Kateasked the finance director for advice. He told her that he wanted her immediate superior to get the promotion and so she should set the unattainable budget as instructed.
Kate set the budget as instructed.
WhichTHREEfundamental ethical principles has Kate breached?
Answer : A, B, E
R is a company running gas-fired power stations in Western Europe. The Risk Committee hasjust received a reportthata power station built to the same design and specification in a developing country has recently collapsed. The causes of the collapse are unclear,but if something similiar were to happen in Europe the consequencesfor Rcould be catastrophic.
Which of the following actions being considered by the Risk Committee are ethical?
Answer : A, C, F