A Firm Is Considering the Purchase of an Asset Whose

question 58

Multiple Choice

A firm is considering the purchase of an asset whose risk is greater than the current risk of the firm,based on any method for assessing risk.In evaluating this asset,the decision maker should

• A) Increase the IRR of the asset to reflect the greater risk.
• B) Increase the NPV of the asset to reflect the greater risk.
• C) Reject the asset,since its acceptance would increase the risk of the firm.
• D) Ignore the risk differential if the asset to be accepted would comprise only a small fraction of the total assets of the firm.
• E) Increase the required rate of return used to evaluate the project to reflect the higher risk of the project.

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Definitions:

T Test

A statistical test used to determine if there is a significant difference between the means of two groups which may be related in certain features.

One-tailed Test

A statistical test that determines the direction of a relationship between variables, assessing whether one mean is greater than or less than another.

Two-tailed Test

A statistical test that considers both directions of an effect or relationship, testing for the possibility of positive or negative differences.

ANOVA Test

A statistical method used to determine if there are any statistically significant differences between the means of three or more independent groups.