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• FIN 515 Entire Course

• FIN 515 Course Project 1 and 2

• This tutorial doesnt contain Final Exam Guide
• FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance
• FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis
• FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz
• FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New)
• FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set
• FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem

• This Tutorial contains
• Week 3 Course Project (3 Sets)
• Week 6 Course Project (2 Sets)

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• FIN 515 Final Exam (all 3 Sets)

• FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1

• FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1
• FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2
• FIN 515 Final Exam Set 3

• 1. (TCO A) In the United States, which of the
  following types of organization has the greatest
  revenue in total? (Points 5)
• a. Sole proprietorship
• b. C corporation
• c. S corporation
• d. Limited partnership
• 1.1) Which of the following is not a step in the
  WACC valuation method?

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• FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2

• FIN 515 Final Exam Set 3

• Question 1.1. (TCO A) Double taxation is a
  drawback for which of the following types of
  business organization except?
• Question 2.2. (TCO A) Sole proprietorships have
  all of the following advantages except
• Question 3.3. (TCO B) Which of the following
  would cause the present value of an annuity to
  decrease?

• 1. (TCO A) In the United States, which of the
  following types of organization has the greatest
  revenue in total? (Points 5)
• Sole proprietorship
• C corporation
• S corporation
• Limited partnership
• Question 2.2. (TCO A) A sole proprietorship is
  owned by (Points 5)
• one person.

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• FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance

• FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis

• Accounting Versus Finance (graded)
• Much of the analysis done by financial managers
  is based on numbers that are different from what
  would seem to the corresponding numbers presented
  in the financial statements. This difference is
  not due to any kind of cooking the books or other
  attempts to mislead anyone.

• Financial Analysis (graded)
• In this discussion, we will be working with the
  variety of financial analysis tools available to
  us. Let's start with the DuPont Identity
  introduced in Chapter 2 of the text. For your
  initial post, locate the financial statements for
  two firms in one industry.

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• FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set

• FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New)

• Chapter 1
• The Corporation
• 1-1. What is the most important difference
  between a corporation and all other
  organizational forms?
• 1-2. What does the phrase limited liability
  mean in a corporate context?

• Question 1.
• (TCO G) The lecture says that some ratios
  typically are better when they are higher and
  some of the ratios are better when they are
  lower. Pick a ratio for which a lower number
  typically would be preferred and describe a
  situation, in which a higher number for that
  ratio would be preferred,

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• FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz

• FIN 515 Week 1-7 DQs

• Question 1
• (TCO G) Which do you think provides a more valid
  measure of how a company is doing, comparison of
  current results with historical results or
  comparison of current results with the current
  results of another company?

• FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance
• FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis
• FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem
• FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM Model
• FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
  Expenditure From Your Industry

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• FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem

• FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM Model

FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem

• TVM Pass-a-Problem (graded)
• This week, the lecture provided some
  examples of TVM problem scenarios. For your first
  post, provide a story problem that can be solved
  using one or more of the TVM calculations.
• Your second post can be a description
  of how the problem posed by another student can
  be solved. Your professor may provide an example

• Assumptions of the TVM Model (graded)
• What are some of the assumptions behind the TVM
  calculations? How do these assumptions limit our
  application of these calculations?

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• FIN 515 Week 2 Problem Set

• FIN 515 Week 2 Quiz

• 3.Calculate the future value of 2000 in
• a. five years at an interest rate of 5 per year
• b. ten years at an interest rate of 5 per year
  and
• c. five years at an interest rate of 10 per
  year.
• d. Why is the amount of interest earned in part
  (a) less than half the amount of interest earned
  in part (b)?

• FIN 515 Week 2 Quiz
• Question 1
• (TCO B) You are a trust fund baby. Your trust
  fund is currently worth 1,234,000. The problem
  is the terms of the trust dont allow you to
  receive any of the money until you are 27. You
  are now 21. The fund is earning 7.7 per year.
  How much will the fund be worth when you are 27
  and too old to enjoy it?

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• FIN 515 Week 3 Course Project 1 (3 Papers)

• FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
  Expenditure From Your Industry

• This Tutorial contains 3 Different Course
  Projects
• First Course Project
• The purpose of this project is to help you
  develop skills not only in performing the
  calculations behind financial analysis but
  interpreting the numbers as well.
• You are to pick a company. You should pick one
  either from the industry in which you are
  currently working or an industry in which you are
  interested.

• FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
  Expenditure From Your Industry (graded)
• Describe a potential capital expenditure project
  from the industry in which you now work or an
  industry in which you are interested. What is the
  project? Describe and provide an approximate
  value of the initial cash flow. Describe and
  provide an approximate value of the annual cash
  flows. Provide an estimation of the life of the
  project, as well as the exit costs.

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• FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
  Considerations

• FIN 515 Week 3 Problem Set

• Capital Budgeting Terms and Considerations
• Our textbook and lecture discuss some
  considerations that should be taken into account
  when doing capital budgeting. How will these
  considerations affect the project you described
  in the other topic? Incremental earnings,
  interest expenses, taxes, opportunity costs,
  externalities, sunk costs, cannibalization or
  erosion, depreciation, and salvage value as well
  as others.

• Week 3 Problem Set
• Your brother wants to borrow 10,000 from you. He
  has offered to pay you back 12,000 in a year. If
  the cost of capital of this investment
  opportunity is 10, what is its NPV? Should you
  undertake the investment opportunity? Calculate
  the IRR and use it to determine the maximum
  deviation allowable in the cost of capital
  estimate to leave the decision unchanged.

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• FIN 515 Week 3 Quiz

• FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
  Versus DDM Value

• Company A has a beta of 2.77. Company B has a
  beta of .73. Company C has a beta of .90. The
  risk free rate is 6 and the market risk premium
  is 4. What is the expected return of investing
  in Company B?
• stock portfolio consists of only two stocks. You
  have 15,000 in Company A and 25,000 in Company
  B. Company A has an actual return of -8 and
  Company B has a return of 12. What is the return
  on your portfolio?

• Market Value of a Stock Versus DDM Value (graded)
• Select a stock in which you are interested.
  Calculate its per share value using the DDM or
  another method discussed in Chapter 9. Then find
  the current market value of a share of the stock.
  Compare that two. Can you explain the similarity
  or difference

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• FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 2 Differences in YTM of Real
  Life Bonds

• FIN 515 Week 4 Midterm

FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 2 Differences in YTM of Real
Life Bonds

• Differences in YTM of Real Life Bonds (graded
• Do some research, probably on the Web, and find
  some bonds with differing yields to maturity
  (YTM). How do you explain the difference? Both
  the lecture and the textbook discuss some factors
  that may lead to this difference.

• Question 1.
• Question
• (TCO G) The firm's asset turnover measures
• Question 2.
• Question
• (TCO G) If Moon Corporation has an increase in
  sales, which of the following would result in no
  change in its EBIT margin?

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• FIN 515 Week 4 Problem Set

• FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 1 Calculating WACC for a Real
  Firm

• Bonds-1. Interest on a certain issue of bonds is
  paid annually with a coupon rate of 8. The bonds
  have a par value of 1,000. The yield to maturity
  is 9. What is the current market piece of these
  bonds? The bonds will mature in 5 years.
• Bonds-2. A certain bond has 12 years left to
  maturity. Interest is paid annually at a coupon
  rate of 10. The bonds are currently selling for
  850. What is their YTM?

• Calculating WACC for a Real Firm (graded)
• The Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for a
  firm can be calculated or found through research.
  Select two firms in the same industry. The
  industry may be that in which you currently work
  or it may be an industry in which you are
  interested. Calculate or find the WACC for the
  two firms.

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• FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 2 Finding Stock Values for Real
  Stocks Using Beta and the SML

• FIN 515 Week 5 problem Set

• Finding Stock Values for Real Stocks Using Beta
  and the SML (graded)
• Our second discussion topic concerns the
  calculation of stock values using the Capital
  Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). We will start with a
  discussion of risk and work towards practical
  application of the model. The textbook provides a
  list of betas for a selection of stocks.

• Chapter 10 (pages 345348)
• 4.
• You bought a stock one year ago for 50 per share
  and sold it today for 55 per share. It paid a 1
  per share dividend today.
• a. What was your realized return?
• b. How much of the return came from dividend
  yield and how much came from capital gain?

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• FIN 515 Week 5 Quiz

• FIN 515 Week 6 Course Project 2 (2 Different
  Projects)

• Question 1
• (TCO C) Company A has a beta of 2.77. Company B
  has a beta of .73. Company C has a beta of .90.
  The risk free rate is 6 and the market risk
  premium is 4. What is the expected return of
  investing in Company B? Show your work.
• Question 2.

• This Tutorial contains 2 Different Course
  Projects
• Second Project
• The purpose of this project is for you to have
  some practice working with financial concepts in
  the real world. This will involve integrating
  some material from throughout the course. The
  project will also involve the development of your
  own approach to doing the work.

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• FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 1 Examples of Real Agency
  Problems and How They Could Have Been Prevented

• FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 2 The Role of Financial
  Managers in Ethical Corporate Governance

• Examples of Real Agency Problems and How They
  Could Have Been Prevented (graded)
• Do some research and find some historical or
  current real life examples of agency problems.
  Will the measures discussed in the text help to
  prevent problems like your examples in the
  future?

• The Role of Financial Managers in Ethical
  Corporate Governance (graded)
• Does the financial manager have a greater
  responsibility or a lesser responsibility for
  maintaining ethical corporate governance? Why or
  why not? What is or will be your approach to
  ethical corporate governance now or in the future?

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• FIN 515 Week 6 Problem Set

• FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry Approaches to
  Working Capital Financing

• Chapter 29 (pages 983-984)
• 1.What inherent characteristic of corporations
  creates the need for a system of checks on
  manager behavior?
• 2. What are some examples of agency problems?
• 3.What are the advantages and disadvantages of
  the corporate organizational structure?

• Industry Approaches to Working Capital Financing
  (graded)
• Do some research on two firms in your industry or
  an industry in which you are interested. Can you
  get an idea of their working capital management
  policies from publicly available information? How
  do the two companies differ in their apparent
  working capital management policies? Which policy
  do you think is better and why?

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• FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 2 Your Preference for Working
  Capital Management Policy

• FIN 515 Week 7 Problem Set

• Your Preference for Working Capital Management
  Policy (graded)
• Consider the company you work for or a company in
  which you are interested. Also, do some research
  to find some current cost estimates for various
  means of financing working capital. What would be
  your recommendation to the company for financing
  its working capital needs?

• Chapter 26 (page 903)
• 1. Answer the following questions
• a. What is the difference between a firms cash
  cycle and its operating cycle?
• 2. How will a firms cash cycle be affected
  if a firm increases its inventory, all else being
  equal?
• 2. How will a firms cash cycle be affected
  if a firm begins to take the discounts offered by
  its suppliers, all else being equal?

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