CCRA-L2 Free Questions – Certified Credit Research Analyst Level 2

1. Scott is a credit analyst with one of the credit rating agencies in India. He was looking in Oil and Gas Industry companies and has presented brief financials for following 4 entities:

Which of the four entities has best interest coverage ratios?

2. Scott is a credit analyst with one of the credit rating agencies in India. He was looking in Oil and Gas Industry companies and has presented brief financials for following 4 entities:

Two credit analysts are discussing the DM-approach to credit risk modeling. They make the following statements:

Analyst A: A portfolio’s standard deviation of credit losses can be determined by considering the standard deviation of credit losses of individual exposures in the portfolio and summing them all up.

Analyst B: I do not fully agree with that. Apart from individual standard deviations, one also needs to consider the correlation of the exposure with the rest of the portfolio so as to account for diversification effects. Higher correlations among credit exposures will lead to higher standard deviation of the overall portfolio.

3. Scott is a credit analyst with one of the credit rating agencies in India. He was looking in Oil and Gas Industry companies and has presented brief financials for following 4 entities:

Which of the following statements is incorrect?

4. Ms. Mary Brown is a credit rating analyst. She had prepared a detailed report on one of her client, FlyHigh

Airlines Ltd, a company operating chartered aircrafts in India. As she was heading for a meeting with her superior on the matter, coffee spilled over her set of prepared paper(s). As she was getting late for meeting, instead of preparing entire set she could recollect few numbers from her memory and reconstructed following partial financial table:

PAT margins are highest in which of the years?

5. The following information pertains to bonds:

Further following information is available about a particular bond ‘Bond F’

There is a 10.25% risky bond with a maturity of 2.25% year(s) its current price is INR105.31, which corresponds to YTM of 9.22%. The following are the benchmark YTMs.

From the time January 2013 to April 2013, what can you predict about the market conditions, assuming the GSec has not changed?

6. The following information pertains to bonds:

Further following information is available about a particular bond ‘Bond F’

There is a 10.25% risky bond with a maturity of 2.25% year(s) its current price is INR105.31, which corresponds to YTM of 9.22%. The following are the benchmark YTMs.

Assuming the G-Sec has not changed from the time January 2013 to April 2013, what can you predict about the changes bond price and change in issues borrowing rates:

7. If XYZ Ltd. incurs (with purchase and installation of machinery) using cash, which of the following ratios will remain unchanged, if all other things remain constant?

8. Mr. Gopi, while teaching the CCRA course to students described Altman’s Model and stated that following variables do exist for Altman’s Model:

1. total debt/total assets,
2. retained earnings/total assets.
3. earnings before interest and taxes/total assets,
4. market value equity/book value of total liabilities,
5. sales/total assets

Exactly how many variables are incorrectly identified?

9. Two economies HardLand and SincereLand have provided following information with respect to their economies in USD Billion:

Based on the above information which entity is better in terms of current account deficit %?

10. The longer the term to maturity of bond: