MIE258/358 Engineering Economics and Accounting

Assignment 1

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Due: Sept. 26, 2015 5 pm - Submit to Drop-box: RS Building 2nd

(In addition to the hard copy, a scanned copy must be submitted on

BB)
Resubmissions/re-grading: September 30 and Oct 4.
Late submissions will not be accepted.

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MIE258/358 Engineering Economics and Accounting

Assignment 1
1. Find the 2016 Financial Statements for Blackberry and use them to calculate:
(a) the 2016 value of working capital
(b) the 2016 value of the debt to equity ratio
(c) the 2016 value of the book value per share.
2. Find the closing price of BB on the NASDAQ exchange as at the end of trading
August 31, 2016. Find the closing price of BB on the TSE exchange as at the end of
trading August 31, 2016.
Use your results to calculate the price of the Canadian dollar in US dollars. How
does it compare to the closing price published by the Bank of Canada on the same
date?
3. Why did RIM not pay a dividend in 2009?
Why did BB not pay a dividend in 2016?
4. Find the 2015 financial statements for Loblaw and use them to calculate the most
recent return on assets. (Note that you will be studying the 2013 numbers for
Loblaw in tutorial.)