
336 SOLUTIONS
8. Risk, dislike; averse, avoid; neutral; neutral, compensation, risk; pref-
erence, affinity
9. Diversification, vary, same, same; returns, correlated; tendency;
returns, positively, same, negatively, opposite; uncorrelated, no
10. Risk, add, unsystematic, company; Risk, assets, market, systematic
11. William Sharpe, return, risk, assets; capital, pricing, CAPM; CAPM,
return, asset, return, risk-free, risk; return, compensation, value, pre-
mium, compensation, risk; diversified, risk, assets, nondiversifiable,
market, systematic
12. CAPM, risk, return, arbitrage, model, APM, Stephen Ross; APM,
asset, identical, different, identically; returns, compensate, risk, risk,
economic, company; theoretical, pricing, factor
SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS
Answers
1. The degree of operating leverage (DOL) is the ratio of the percentage
change in operating cash flows to the percentage change in units sold.
The degree of financial leverage (DFL) is the ratio of the percentage
change in cash flows to the owners to the percentage change in operat-
ing cash flows. The degree of total leverage (DTL) is the product of
DOL and DFL. DTL measures the sensitivity of the cash flows to own-
ers to changes in unit sales.
The degree of operating leverage measures the sensitivity of oper-
ating cash flows to changes in sales and the degree of financial lever-
age measures the sensitivity of owners’ cash flows to changes in
operating cash flows. The combination is the degree of total leverage.
2. Default may result from many types of failures. Some examples are:
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Failure to make interest or principal payments
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Failure to make sinking fund payments
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Failure to meet conditions of the loan
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Bankruptcy
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