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- FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (New)
- FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Math and
Accounting Review)
- 1.A proxy fight occurs when
- the board of directors disagree on the members of
the management team. - 2. A stakeholder is any person or entity
- 3.Which one of the following is least apt to
help convince managers to work in the best
interest of the stockholders?
- FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Math
Accounting Review) - 1. Functions
- Excel will make your life as a finance student
much easier. This section will show how to use
various functions in Excel. Once you understand
the how and why of a particular financial
equation, you can make - 1. Which Excel cell entry will calculate the
square root of 165?
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- FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Week 1 Problem
Set)
- FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Week 1 Problem
Set) - 1.If a firm is currently profitable, then
- 2.Short-term finance deals with
- 3.A stakeholder is any person or entity
- 4.Which one of these best fits the description of
an agency cost?
- What is ethics? If you follow all applicable
rules and regulations, are you an ethical person?
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- FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
Structures
- Assume that interest rates have increased
substantially. Would this tend to increase or
decrease - the market value (meaning the price an investor
in the firm's paper is willing to pay) of a
firms liabilities (relative to the book value of
liabilities)?
- Watch the "Your Business Structure" and
"Corporate Business Structures" videos on the
Electronics Reserve Readings page. - Identify the different business structures.
- Write a 350 to 700 word explanation of how each
business structure might and might not be
advantageous.
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- FIN 571 Week 2 Connect Problems
- FIN 571 Week 2 Connect Problems
- 1.Sankey, Inc., has current assets of 4,230, net
fixed assets of 25,700, current liabilities of
3,500, and long-term debt of 14,400. What is
the value of the shareholders' equity account for
this firm? - 2.Which one of the following assets is generally
the most liquid?
- In order to receive proper credit, please reply
to this message when posting your answers to WK2
DQ1. - ? Suppose you own 1 million worth of
30-year Treasury bonds. Is this asset riskless? - ? You own 1 million worth of 90-day
Treasury bills. You roll over this investment
every 90 days by reinvesting the proceeds in
another issue of 90-day Treasury bills. Is this
investment riskless?
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- FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business
Structure
- Suppose rf is 5 and rM is 10. According to the
SML and the CAPM, an asset with a beta of -2.0 - has a required return of negative 5 5 - 2(10
- 5). Can this be possible? Does this mean that - the asset has negative risk? Why would anyone
ever invest in an asset that has an expected and - required return that is negative? Explain
- Write a 350 to 700 word response to the following
e-mail - Dear Consultant,
- I am currently starting a business and developing
my business plan. I'm in need of some advice on
how to start forming my business.
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- FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics and
Finance
- FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio
Analysis Problems
- The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was passed
as the result of the Enron scandal and other
instances of accounting fraud. This act was
passed to strengthen the role of the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC).
- Ratio Analysis
- (Individual Assignment)
- You may use excel or word.doc format for this
assignment. - Please post your homework as a word.doc or excel
file in the class discussion section below by the
due date. - 1. Analysis of cost of goods sold problem.
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- FIN 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection
- FIN 571 Week 3 Connect Problems
- Read the Ethics case, "A Sad Tale The Demise of
Arthur Anderson" located in the WileyPLUS Week
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance Chapter
readings. - Discuss the mistakes made by Arthur Anderson and
potential actions that leadership could have
taken to prevent the organizational failure.
- FIN 571 Week 3 Connect Problems
- If the Garnett Corp. has a 15 percent ROE and a
25 percent payout ratio, what is its sustainable
growth rate? - 1.If the Hunter Corp. has an ROE of 15 and a
payout ratio of 18 percent, what is its
sustainable growth rate
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- Why are interest rates on short-term loans not
necessarily comparable to each other? Give three
possible reasons.
- Optical Supply Company offers credit terms of
2/10, net 60. If Optical Supply is considering a
change in its credit terms to one of those
indicated, explain whether the change should
increase or decrease sales. (a) 2/10, net 30,
(b) net 60, (c) 3/15, net 60, (d) 2/10, net 30,
30 extra
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- FIN 571 Week 3 Individual Assignment Interpreting
Financial
- FIN 571 Week 3 Team Assignment Financial
Statement Interpretation
- Resource Financial Statements for the company
assigned by your instructor in Week 2. - Review the assigned company's financial
statements from the past three years. - Calculate the financial ratios for the assigned
company's financial statements, and then
interpret those results against company
historical data as well as industry benchmarks
- Select three publicly traded companies. Choose
one each from the following sectors
manufacturing, service, and retail. At least one
of the three companies should be foreign. If
possible, choose from among the team members'
places of business or similar industries.
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- FIN 571 Week 4 Connect Problems
- FIN 571 Week 4 Connect Problems
- 1.Even though most corporate bonds in the United
States make coupon payments semiannually, bonds
issued elsewhere often have annual coupon
payments. Suppose a German company issues a bond
with a par value of 1,000, 20 years to maturity,
and a coupon rate of 7 percent paid annually.If
the yield to maturity is 8.1 percent, what is the
current price of the bond?
- A firm uses a single discount rate to compute the
NPV of all its potential capital budgeting
projects, even though the projects have a wide
range of nondiversifiable risk. The firm then
undertakes all those projects that appear to have
positive NPVs. Briefly explain why such a firm
would tend to become riskier over time.
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- FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Assignment Analyzing
Pro Forma
- Phyllis believes that the firm should use
straight-line depreciation for a capital project
because it results in higher net income during
the early years of the projects life. Joanna
believes that the firm should use the modified
accelerated cost recovery system depreciation
because it reduces the tax liability during the
early years of the projects life.
- Decide upon an initiative you want to implement
that would increase sales over the next five
years, (for example, market another product,
corporate expansion, and so on). - Using the sample financial statements, create pro
forma statements of five year projections that
are clear, concise, and easy to read. Be sure to
double check the calculations in your pro forma
statements.
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- FIN 571 Week 4 Learning Team Reflection
- FIN 571 Week 4 Team Assignment Operating Leverage
and Forecasting
- Watch the "Concept Review Video Stock Valuation"
video located in the WileyPLUS Assignment Week 4
Videos Activity. - Discuss how markets and investors value a stock.
- Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.
- Operating Leverage and Forecasting Problems Team
Assignment - Please complete the following problems. When
calculating earnings per share and PE ratios,
please show your work. This problem is similar
to the examples shown in the lecture. - You manufacture hunting pack systems in China for
80 dollars each, including shipping.
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- FIN 571 Week 5 Connect Problems
- 1.The difference between the present value of an
investments future cash flows and its initial
cost is the - payback period.
- internal rate of return.
- profitability index.
- discounted payback period.
- net present value.
- Because the weighted average is always a correct
measure of a required return, why do firms not
create securities to finance each project and
offer them in the capital market in order to
accurately determine the required return for the
project?
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- FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Assignment DCF and WACC
- The development of the new issue junk bond market
had important implications for capital structure
choice. The existence of a viable junk bond
market means that firms can comfortably maintain
higher degrees of leverage than they could prior
to the development of this market. Do you agree
or disagree? Justify your answer.
- Discounted Cash Flows and WACC Homework Problems
- Please post the answers (and show your work) in
the assignments section by midnight the last day
of the week assigned. - Calculate the future value of 1,535 invested
today for 8 years at 6 percent. - (5 points)
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- FIN 571 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection
- FIN 571 Week 5 Team Assignment Capital Budgeting
Assignment, Part 1
- Watch the "Concept Review Video Cost of Capital"
video located in the WileyPLUS Assignment Week 5
Videos Activity. - Discuss some of the corporate finance challenges
faced by this company. - Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.
- Acting as the executive team for a small company,
your team will apply the principles of capital
budgeting to invest in growth and cash flow
improvement opportunities in three phases over 10
simulated years. Each opportunity has a unique
financial profile and you must analyze the
effects on working capital.
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- FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Homework
Problems
- FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Working
Capital
- 1.Net Present Value Johnson Complex
Fabrications is a metal parts manufacturing
company. It has developed a new process for
producing extruded aluminum tubing. The process
requires 1,968,450 initial investment. It
expected to have a life of five years and would
produce net cash inflows for each of the next
five years
- Resources
- Harvard Business Publishing Working Capital
Simulation Managing Growth Assignment - Ch. 1 - 21 ofFundamentals of Corporate Finance
- WileyPLUS Assignments
- All additional resources from each week
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- FIN 571 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection
- FIN 571 Week 6 Team Assignment Capital Budgeting
Assignment, Part 2
- Watch the "Corporate Finance Video Stable Money
Makers" located in the WileyPLUS Assignment Week
6 Videos Activity. - Identify a capital improvement that could help
Betty with her Alpaca business. - Write a summary of no more than 700 words
explaining how the capital improvement you
identified could help the business.
- The executive team of New Heritage Doll has
completed the decision making for capital
budgeting for the firm. Now the team must decide
which decisions and approach were the best for
the company. The executive team must create a
presentation to be given to the board members of
New Heritage Doll - Compare the decisions and results of all members
of the team.
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