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by rajatvmittal » Fri Feb 08, 2013 7:21 pm
Alexis: In many cases, the unnecessary loans that you mention are decisions made by upper management on behalf of the company. CEO's will often choose the financing option that maximizes the debt to equity ratio and potential valuation of the company, but may not necessarily benefit the company. As a result, in order to succeed in reducing the price of credit default swaps, we should allow the company's board of directors to vote on which form of financing the company should allow and which forms it should not allow.

identify the assumption


CEOs are generally able to pick out, with consistent reliability, which loans and financing options would be best for the company.

Additional loans do not account for an insignificant part of why investors have bid up the probability of the company defaulting on existing loans.

Credit default swap prices in other industries such as oil & gas and retail, have been lowered by reducing the number of additional loans taken out by the company.

Company shareholders are not as likely as CEOs to take out additional loans.

Credit default swap prices have increased three times as fast in the past 3 years than they have over the past decade.

Dont know the answer. IMO A
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by brianlange77 » Fri Feb 08, 2013 8:17 pm
rajatvmittal wrote:Alexis: In many cases, the unnecessary loans that you mention are decisions made by upper management on behalf of the company. CEO's will often choose the financing option that maximizes the debt to equity ratio and potential valuation of the company, but may not necessarily benefit the company. As a result, in order to succeed in reducing the price of credit default swaps, we should allow the company's board of directors to vote on which form of financing the company should allow and which forms it should not allow.

identify the assumption


CEOs are generally able to pick out, with consistent reliability, which loans and financing options would be best for the company.

Additional loans do not account for an insignificant part of why investors have bid up the probability of the company defaulting on existing loans.

Credit default swap prices in other industries such as oil & gas and retail, have been lowered by reducing the number of additional loans taken out by the company.

Company shareholders are not as likely as CEOs to take out additional loans.

Credit default swap prices have increased three times as fast in the past 3 years than they have over the past decade.

Dont know the answer. IMO A
My vote here would be option D... why? Well, the paragraph clearly wants you to believe that, for whatever reason, the board should be trusted more than the CEO when it comes to making financing decisions on behalf of the company. But, do we know that for sure? We don't... hence, choice D.

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by aditya8062 » Wed Feb 20, 2013 6:04 am
even my take is D .but i must admit that language was convoluted

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by ceilidh.erickson » Wed Feb 20, 2013 10:30 am
What is the source of this question? It sounds much more business-jargon-y than a real GMAT question. For the most part, the GMAT will not require any prior business knowledge (except the very very basics, such as profit = revenue - cost). A CR question will never bring up "credit default swaps" without first telling you what that is.

Be wary of studying from any source that offers un-GMAT-like questions.
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by brianlange77 » Thu Feb 21, 2013 7:57 pm
ceilidh.erickson wrote:What is the source of this question? It sounds much more business-jargon-y than a real GMAT question. For the most part, the GMAT will not require any prior business knowledge (except the very very basics, such as profit = revenue - cost). A CR question will never bring up "credit default swaps" without first telling you what that is.

Be wary of studying from any source that offers un-GMAT-like questions.
Fair point here Ceilidh -- and a good warning for all. The best way to practice and get better prepared for the GMAT is for all of us to focus on actual GMAT questions :-)

Would love to figure out how to make it a beatthegmat.com best practice that all questions require sourcing/footnoting.

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