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The questions please see attach. Please upload it as a word document. From the book please do the 4.7 4.12 4.13 and 4.2
The answers are on chegg.com. Just google the beginning part of a question and you will see it. I have no access to chegg so anyone with access can help.

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4.2 Earnings per Share. Firm A reports an increase in earnings per share; Firm B reports a
decrease in earnings per share. Is this unconditionally informative about each firm’s
performance? If not, why is earnings per share so commonly discussed in the financial
press?
Earnings per share commonly known as EPS, it divides the firms earning by its total number of
outstanding equity share in the market, even if two firms are completely identical in all aspects
they can report two different types of EPS since the difference of this amount will only because
of management decision regarding the total number of outstanding share in the market. Since
EPS is highly depended on outstanding share it cannot be used as the right tool to compare two
firms performance.
Press conference always hike the news about EPS since it is compared to price per share and
used to calculate the price-earnings ratio which in a way helps the investors to make a estimate
value of the firms earning pattern.
4.7 The intuition be...
