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FIN 420 TUTORIALS Learn by Doing
FIN 420 Entire Course   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com FIN 420 Week 1
Individual Assignment Identify Personal Financial
Goals FIN 420 Week 1 DQ 1 FIN 420 Week 1DQ 2 FIN
420 Week 2 Individual Assignment Worksheets 6 and
7 FIN 420 Week 2 LT Deliverable (Update on Final
Project) FIN 420 Week 2 DQ 1
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FIN 420 Week 1 DQ 1   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Describe your
current budgeting system. What factors influence
your financial decisions? What are the benefits
or concerns of your current budgeting system?
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FIN 420 Week 1 DQ 2   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Ch. 1 of Focus on
Personal Finance introduces eight components of
personal financial planning. Describe three
components of personal financial planning. Visit
one of the Key websites suggested on the
corresponding pages of Focus on Personal Finance
for each of the three components you described.
What information did you find most valuable on
the websites you visited?
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FIN 420 Week 1 Individual Assignment Personal
Finance Mission Statement   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Write a 350- to
700-word personal finance mission statement that
describes where you want to be financially and
how you want to get there. Communicate the
following in your mission statement       
Personal values        Financial goals       
Future vision
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FIN 420 Week 2 DQ 2   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Many different
types of financial institutions exist.
Differentiate between deposit institutions and
non-deposit institutions. Provide two examples of
deposit and non-deposit financial institutions
with a brief explanation of each. How can you use
each of these financial institutions to manage
your cash flows and develop or enhance your
personal financial plan?
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FIN 420 Week 2 Individual Assignment Personal
Finance Problems and Summary   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Complete the
Personal Finance Problems - Week 2. Write a 750-
to 1,050-word summary of the problems in which
the team includes the following        What
influence does present and future value of money
have on the different scenarios?        What is
the role of risk in determining decisions to
diversify or how assets are allocated?
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FIN 420 Week 2 Personal Finance Quiz   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com 1  Carla
Lopez deposits 2,500 a year into her retirement
account. If these funds have an average earning
of 8 percent over the 40 years until her
retirement, what will be the value of her
retirement account? 2  An ATM with a service fee
of 2 is used by a person 100 times in a year.
What would be the future value in 10 years (use a
3 percent rate) of the annual amount paid in ATM
fees?
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FIN 420 Week 3 DQ 1   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Evaluate your
personal risk tolerance using Exhibit 11-2 A
Quick Test to Measure Investment Risk in Ch. 11
of Focus on Personal Finance. Based on your
results, were you considered more conservative or
less conservative? What factors affected your
investment choices? Consider a friend or family
member who is more conservative or less
conservative than you. How do their money
management behaviors differ from your own?
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FIN 420 Week 3 DQ 2   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Financial experts
agree that having an emergency fund is an
essential component of a comprehensive financial
plan. However, advice regarding the number of
months of household expenses the emergency fund
should cover varies between 3 and 9 months.
Taking into account the current financial
environment, how many months of expenses would
you recommend 
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FIN 420 Week 3 Individual Problem Worksheet   FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com 1.   
Complete Worksheet 37 in Focus on Personal
Finance, Your Financial Plan Evaluating
Corporate Bonds. 2.    Explain the principle of
asset allocation. Using the Internet or library
research, prepare a 2-minute presentation
describing why the principle of asset allocation
is important when establishing an investment
program.
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FIN 420 Week 3 Learning Team Problems   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com         
Assume that you are choosing an investment for
your retired parents. What are the advantages and
disadvanges of each of the following? o   a bond
issued by the federal government, o   a state or
local government, o   or a corporation?         
Which would you recommend for your retired
parents? Justify your answer.
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FIN 420 Week 4 DQ 1   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Adjustable rate
mortgages (ARMs) have received a great deal of
bad press due to the tremendous number of
foreclosures resulting from families who could
not afford the loan payments once the interest
rates increased. Do you believe this loan option
was used appropriately in recent years? Why or
why not? Under what circumstances does the use of
ARMs make sense? Please explain.
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FIN 420 Week 4 DQ 2   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Visit a site such
as www.bankrate.com to determine current rates
for both a 60-month and a 36-month loan on a new
car where the buyer must finance 20,000. Using
the loan calculator, what is the difference in
monthly payments between the 60-month loan and
the 36-month loan? Review the amortization
tables. What is the difference in total interest
one would pay over the life of these two loans?
What do these differences show you about the true
cost of the car?
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FIN 420 Week 4 Individual Assignment Mutual Fund
Evaluation   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin420tuto
rials.com Choose a mutual fund family such as
Vanguard, American Funds, T. Rowe Price, and so
forth. Identify one mutual fund from that family
for each of the following categories       
Actively managed common stock fund        Fixed
income fund        Balanced fund       
International fund
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FIN 420 Week 4 Personal Finance Quiz   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com 1 As a
stockholder of Kentucky Gas and Oil, you receive
its annual report. In the financial statements,
the firm reported after-tax earnings of
1,200,000 and has issued 1,500,000 shares of
common stock. The stock is currently selling for
24 a share.  What is the per earnings share for
Kentucky Gas and Oil?
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FIN 420 Week 5 DQ 1   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Life insurance is a
topic many people do not like to discuss, but
understanding your familys needs and planning
appropriately in the event of a premature death
is also part of a comprehensive financial plan.
Outlined in Ch. 10 are four methods for
estimating life insurance needs. Which insurance
options are most appropriate for your family
situation? Based on what you have identified as
most appropriate for you, do you currently have
enough life insurance? If not, how can you close
this gap?
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FIN 420 TUTORIALS Learn by Doing
FIN 420 Week 5 DQ 2   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin420tutorials.com Consider your
current financial plan. Based on what you have
learned about your financial goals, risk
tolerance, and risk and return of various
investment options, what adjustments should you
make to the asset allocation of your investment
portfolio? What specific actions do you need to
take to make those adjustments or to establish
your investment portfolio? What adjustments will
you need to make to your budget and investment
portfolio to include adequate insurance?Consider
your current financial plan. 
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