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• FIN 571 Entire Course

• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide

• Multiple Choice Question 51
•  Which of the following is considered a hybrid
  organizational form?
• partnership
• limited liability partnership 
• sole proprietorship 
• corporation
• Multiple Choice Question 59
• Which of the following is a principal within the
  agency relationship?

• FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Practice Quiz
• FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
  Structures
• FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1
• FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 2
• FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business
  Structure Advice

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• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 1

• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 1 and 2

• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 1
• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 2

• 1) Which principle states that extraordinary
  returns are achievable with new ideas?
• 2) Occurs when a "follower" receives the benefit
  of an expenditure made by a "leader" by imitating
  the leader's behavior.
• 3) Occurs when inaccurate information can falsely
  exist.

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• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 2

• FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1

• What is ethics? If you follow all applicable
  rules and regulations, are you an ethical person?

• 1) Occurs when a "follower" receives the benefit
  of an expenditure made by a "leader" by imitating
  the leader's behavior.
• 2) Occurs when inaccurate information can falsely
  exist.
• 3) Refers to situations wherein the agent can
  take unseen actions for personal benefit even
  though such actions are costly to the principal.

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• FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 2

• FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
  Structures

• Watch the "Your Business Structure" and
  "Corporate Business Structures" videos on the
  Electronics Reserve Readings page.
• Identify the different 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)?

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• FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Practice Quiz

• FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 1

• Multiple Choice Question 42
•  Which of the following business organizational
  forms subjects the owner(s) to unlimited
  liability? 
• a) sole proprietorship
• b) partnership
• c) corporation
• d) a and b 
• Multiple Choice Question 44
• Which of the following business organizational
  forms is easiest to raise capital?

• 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 DQ 2

• FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business
  Structure Advice

• 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?

• 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. I am not sure
  exactly how it will be financed and whether or
  not I want to take on partners. I am interested
  and willing to learn the intricacies of my
  options to determine how to best proceed with my
  plan.

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• FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio
  Analysis Problems

• FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Practice Quiz

• Multiple Choice Question 53
•  Which one of the following statements about
  trend analysis is NOT correct?
•  It allows management to examine each ratio over
  time and determine whether the trend is good or
  bad for the firm.
• This benchmark is based on a firm's historical
  performance.
• The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC)
  System is used to identify benchmark firms.

• Ratio Analysis Problems
• 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.

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• FIN 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection

• FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 1

• Why are interest rates on short-term loans not
  necessarily comparable to each other? Give three
  possible reasons.

• 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.

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• FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 2

• FIN 571 Week 3 Individual Assignment Interpreting
  Financial Results

• 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
• Compare the financial ratios with each of the
  preceding three (3) years (e.g. 2014 with 2013
  2013 with 2012 and 2012 with 2011).

• 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 Practice Quiz

• FIN 571 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection

• Watch the "Concept Review Video Working Capital
  Management" video located in theWileyPLUS
  Assignment Week 3 Videos Activity.
• Discuss strategies these business owners used to
  manage their working capital.

• Multiple Choice Question 32
• The operating cycle
•  ends not with the finished goods being sold to
  customers and the cash collected on the sales
  but when you take into account the time taken by
  the firm to pay for its purchases.

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• FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 1

• FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 2

• 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. Assuming you
  have a choice between depreciation methods, whose
  advice should you follow? Why?

• 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 Statements

• FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Practice Quiz

• Multiple Choice Question 66 
• Present value Tommie Harris is considering an
  investment that pays 6.5 percent annually. How
  much must he invest today such that he will have
  25,000 in seven years? (Round to the nearest
  dollar.)
• Multiple Choice Question 61

• 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.

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• FIN 571 Week 4 Learning Team Reflection

• FIN 571 Week 4 Team Assignment Operating Leverage
  and Forecasting

• 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.

• 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.

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• FIN 571 Week 5 DQ 1

• FIN 571 Week 5 DQ 2

• 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.

• 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
  Problems

• FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Practice Quiz

• Multiple Choice Question 55
•  Genaro needs to capture a return of 40 percent
  for his one-year investment in a property. He
  believes that he can sell the property at the end
  of the year for 150,000 and that the property
  will provide him with rental income of 25,000.
  What is the maximum amount that Genaro should be
  willing to pay for the property?

• 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.

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• FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Wileyplus Assignment

• FIN 571 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection

• 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.

• Problem 5.17
• Problem 5.21
• Problem 6.19
• Problem 6.27
• Problem 7.16
• Problem 8.24
• Problem 9.15

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• FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Homework
  Problems

• FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Working
  Capital Simulation Managing Growth Assignment

• 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
• Review the following scenario
• Acting as the CEO of a small company, you will
  apply the principles of capital budgeting to
  invest in growth and cash flow improvement
  opportunities in three phases over 10 simulated
  years.

• Week 6
• Homework
• Complete the following problems. You should do
  this work in excel. A set of ungraded practice
  problems similar to the homework is provided in
  the week six material to help you do this
  assignment.

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• FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Practice Quiz

• FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Wileyplus Assignment

• Problem 10.14
• Briarcrest Condiments is a spice-making firm.
  Recently, it developed a new process for
  producing spices. The process requires new
  machinery that would cost 1,968,450. Have a life
  of five years, and would produce the cash flows
  shown in the following table.

• Multiple Choice Question 55
•  Planning models that are more sophisticated than
  the percent of sales method have
• working capital accounts like inventory, accounts
  receivables, and accounts payables vary directly
  with sales.
• fixed assets that do not always vary directly
  with sales.
• all of these are true.

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• FIN 571 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection

• 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.

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