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FIN 515 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 FIN 515 Week 2
DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM Model FIN 515 Week 2
Quiz
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FIN 515 Course Project 1 and 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Final Exam Set
1 FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 FIN 515 Final Exam Set
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   1. (TCO A) In the
United States, which of the following types of
organization has the greatest revenue in total?
(Points 5)a. Sole proprietorshipb. C
corporationc. S corporationd. Limited
partnership
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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? 
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 3 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam All 3 Sets FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question included in
these Midterms could be found on this link FIN
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 1 (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1.     
Question         (TCO G) If Company A and
Company B are in the same industry and use the
same production method, and Company As asset
turnover is higher than that of Company B, then
all else equal we can conclude Question 2.     
Question         (TCO G) Suppose Novak Company
experienced a reduction in its ROE over the last
year. This fall could be attributed to
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 2 (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1. 1. (TCO G)
If Company A and Company B are in the same
industry and use the same production method, and
Company As asset turnover is higher than that of
Company B, then all else equal we can conclude
(Points 10)
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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.
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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? 1-3.      Which organizational forms
give their owners limited liability?            
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FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 1-7 DQs FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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.
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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM
Model FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com  
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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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)?
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FIN 515 Week 2 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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
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FIN 515 Week 3 Course Project 1 (3 Papers) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   This
Tutorial contains 3 Different Course
Projects First Course ProjectThe 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.
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
Expenditure From Your Industry FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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.
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
Considerations FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 3 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Week 3 Problem
Set1.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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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? 
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FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
Versus DDM Value FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.c
om   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.  
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FIN 515 Week 4 Midterm FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 1 Calculating WACC for a Real
Firm FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   C
alculating 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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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. Choose a
few firms from that list and discuss whether the
betas are what you would expect. Be sure to
explain why or why not.
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FIN 515 Week 5 problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 5 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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.
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FIN 515 Week 6 Course Project 2 (2 Different
Projects) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.co
m   This Tutorial contains 2 Different Course
Projects Second ProjectThe 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 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.co
m   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?
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FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 2 The Role of Financial
Managers in Ethical Corporate Governance FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry Approaches to
Working Capital Financing FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 2 Your Preference for Working
Capital Management Policy FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 7 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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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