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BUS 401 Entire Course (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     BUS 401 Week 1 DQ
1 The Role of Financial Management in a Firm BUS
401 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Statements BUS 401 Week
1 Financial Management Challenges and Ethics BUS
401 Week 2 DQ 1 Dreams Do Come True BUS 401 Week
2 DQ 2 Investing in Bonds
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BUS 401 Week 1 Assignment Ratio Analysis (Ash
Course) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus401outlet.c
om     Assignments To complete this assignment,
go to this week's Assignment link in the left
navigation BUS 401 Week 1 Assignment Ratio
AnalysisComplete Study Problem 4.10 on page 124
of the text and submit to instructor. In parts
"a" and "b," clearly label the calculation of the
required ratios and solve using Excel.
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BUS 401 Week 1 DQ 1 The Role of Financial
Management in a Firm (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     The Role of
Financial Management in a Firm. Summarize the
role of management as it relates to finance in a
corporation. In your post, address the
following Indicate the various aspects of
finance that management must understand.
Describe why a manager needs to understand the
characteristics and importance of financial
markets including risk and efficiency.
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BUS 401 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Statements
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    Financial Statements. View the Important
Financial Documents video which looks at the
fundamental financial documents every company
needs including the balance sheet, income
statement, and statement of cash flow. In your
post, choose one of the financial statements and
explain how a manager would use the statement to
drive financial analysis and decision-making.
Your post should be 200-250 words in length
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BUS 401 Week 1 Financial Management Challenges
and Ethics (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     Financial
Management Challenges and Ethics. Find at least
two articles from the ProQuest database that
highlight and discuss two of the biggest
challenges facing financial managers today. One
of the articles should be about the challenge of
maintaining ethical financial integrity. The
other article can be on any other challenge that
a financial manager may face (e.g., competition,
foreign markets, government intervention, etc.).
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BUS 401 Week 1 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     BUS 401 Week 1
Quiz Business - General Business 1. Question
The financial goal of a for-profit business
is Student Answer profit maximization.
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BUS 401 Week 2 DQ 1 Dreams Do Come True
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    Dreams Do Come True. Imagine that you have
decided you need a new car, but not any car will
do you have decided to purchase the car of your
dreams. Conduct some research as to the cost of
this car. You have determined in this imagined
scenario that you could afford to make a 10 down
payment. You can borrow the balance either from
your local bank using a four-year loan or from
the dealerships finance company.
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BUS 401 Week 2 DQ 2 Present and Future Values,
and Expected Returns (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     Investing in
Bonds. Go to the Yahoo Finance Bonds
Center. Under Features / BOND LOOKUP / Find
Bonds by Name Type in the first letter of your
last name. Under Type Choose one of the Corp
Bonds. Assume interest rates for bonds today is
5 for an AAA rated bond. Calculate the price of
the bond you have selected relative to the 5. Is
the bond selling at a premium or a discount? Why?
Be sure to show how you arrived at your answer.
What other factors may influence the value of a
bond?
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BUS 401 Week 2 Journal Present and Future Values,
and Expected Returns (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     BUS 401 Week 2
Journal Present and Future Values, and Expected
Returns (New)
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BUS 401 Week 2 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     BUS 401 Week 2
Quiz Business - General Business . Question The
longer we have to wait for a future amount to be
received Student Answer the lower its present
value will be. the higher its present value will
be.
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BUS 401 Week 2 Teaching Net Present Value (NPV)
and Future Value (FV) (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     Teaching Net
Present Value (NPV) Future Value (FV).
Assignment Instructions You have been asked by a
manager in your organization to put together a
training program explaining Net Present Value
(NPV) and Future Value (FV) and how they are used
to evaluate the price of stock.
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BUS 401 Week 3 DQ 1 Cash Flows From Working
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    Cash Flows From Working. It may surprise you
that there are cash flows associated with holding
a job. Using the examples provided in Chapter 6,
construct a simple cash flow statement and
payback calculation for when your job expenses
will be covered for employment you currently have
or have had in the past.
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BUS 401 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting (New) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     Capita
l Budgeting. View the Capital Budgeting video,
which provides some factors that should be
considered in capital budgeting
considerations. Imagine the producers of this
video ask you to appear in the video to offer two
additional considerations in capital budgeting
decisions. One consideration must be quantitative
(numeric). The other must be qualitative
(non-numeric). Write a script to describe capital
budgeting considerations that you think are
important for managers to consider.
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BUS 401 Week 3 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     BUS 401 Week 3
Quiz Business - General Business 1. Question
The appropriate cash flows for evaluating a
corporate investment decision are Student
Answer incremental additional cash
flows. marginal after-tax cash flows.
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BUS 401 Week 3 Return on Investment Education
Funding (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     Return on
Investment Education Funding. Develop a three-
to four-page analysis, excluding the title page
and reference page(s), on the projected return on
investment for your college education and
projected future employment. This analysis will
consist of two parts.
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BUS 401 Week 4 DQ 1 Interviewing Peter Lynch
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    Interviewing Peter Lynch. Review the
Minimizing Risk video segment, which is
available through your online course. In the
video segment, you will watch an interview with
two great investors of the twentieth century.
Imagine you are Harry Reasoner, and you are
allowed to ask Peter Lynch one question about
market risk, discount rates, or the weighted
average cost of capital (WACC). What question
would you ask? Why do you feel that is an
important question?
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BUS 401 Week 4 DQ 2 Cost of Capital (New) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     Cost
of Capital. Corporations often use different
costs of capital for different operating
divisions. Using an example, calculate the
weighted cost of capital (WACC). What are some
potential issues in using varying techniques for
cost of capital for different divisions?
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BUS 401 Week 4 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     BUS 401 Week 4
Quiz Business - General Business 1. Question
Investors will make an investment if Student
Answer the historical rate of return exceeds the
expected rate of return. the required rate of
return exceeds the expected rate of return.
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BUS 401 Week 5 DQ 1 Ratio Analysis (New) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     Ratio
Analysis. Using the Ashford University Library as
a resource, find two articles that discuss
financial ratio analysis. Identify two advantages
and two disadvantages to using ratios in
financial analysis. Be sure to cite your sources
using APA format as outlined in the Ashford
Writing Center.
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BUS 401 Week 5 DQ 2 Applying Ratios to a Business
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    Applying Ratios to a Business. Access the
Evaluating Business Performance Small Business
Case Studies video in your online course. The
video focuses on profitability, liquidity,
efficiency, and stability of business. Given what
you have learned about ratio analysis, choose one
of the businesses from the video (Rose Chong
Costumes, Anros Floor Maintenance, or John
Osbornes Gym
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BUS 401 Week 5 Final Paper (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.bus401outlet.com     Focus of
the Final Paper Evaluation of Corporate
Performance For the Final Paper, you will apply
the concepts learned in class to an analysis of a
company using data from its annual report. Using
the concepts from this course, you will analyze
the strengths and weaknesses of the company. You
will then write a report either recommending or
not recommending purchase of the company stock.
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