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FIN 571 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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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Entire Course And Final Guide
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Multiple Choice
Question 51 Which of the following is considered
a hybrid organizational form? partnership limited
liability partnership sole proprietorship Corporat
ion
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Final Exam Guide 1 FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 2
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VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.
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VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 Connect Problems (Math and
Accounting Review) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     FIN 571 Week 1
Connect Problems (Math Accounting Review) 1.
Functions Excel will make your life as a finance
student much easier. This section will show how
to use various functions in Excel. Once you
understand the how and why of a particular
financial equation, you can make 1. Which Excel
cell entry will calculate the square root of 165?
2.
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  FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Week 1
Problem Set) 1.If a firm is currently profitable,
then 2.Short-term finance deals with 3.A
stakeholder is any person or entity 4.Which one
of these best fits the description of an agency
cost? 5.The primary goal of financial management
is to 6.Which one of the following business
types is best suited to raising large amounts of
capital?
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FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     What is ethics? If
you follow all applicable rules and regulations,
are you an ethical person?
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FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 Assignment Business
Structures FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd
.com     Watch the "Your Business Structure" and
"Corporate Business Structures" videos on the
Electronics Reserve Readings page.
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FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Practice Quiz FOR
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Choice Question 42 Which of the
following business organizational forms subjects
the owner(s) to unlimited liability?
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FIN 571 Week 2 Connect Problems FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     FIN 571 Week
2 Connect Problems 1.Sankey, Inc., has current
assets of 4,230, net fixed assets of 25,700,
current liabilities of 3,500, and long-term debt
of 14,400. What is the value of the
shareholders' equity account for this firm?
2.Which one of the following assets is generally
the most liquid? 3.Which one of the following
accounts is included in stockholders' equity
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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?
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business
Structure Advice FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics and
Finance FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.co
m     The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was
passed as the result of the Enron scandal and
other instances of accounting fraud. This act was
passed to strengthen the role of the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio
Analysis Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Ratio Analysis
Problems   Ratio Analysis (Individual
Assignment) You may use excel or word.doc format
for this assignment.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Practice Quiz FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 Connect Problems FOR MORE
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3 Connect Problems If the Garnett Corp. has a 15
percent ROE and a 25 percent payout ratio, what
is its sustainable growth rate? 1.If the Hunter
Corp. has an ROE of 15 and a payout ratio of 18
percent, what is its sustainable growth rate
2.The most recent financial statements for
Williamson, Inc., are shown here Assets and costs
are proportional to sales.
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FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Why are interest
rates on short-term loans not necessarily
comparable to each other? Give three possible
reasons.
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FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 Assignment Interpreting
Financial Results FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.
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FIN 571 Week 3 Individual Practice Quiz FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 3 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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. Write a 350-700 word
summary of your discussion.
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FIN 571 Week 4 Connect Problems FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     FIN 571 Week
4 Connect Problems 1.Even though most corporate
bonds in the United States make coupon payments
semiannually, bonds issued elsewhere often have
annual coupon payments. Suppose a German company
issues a bond with a par value of 1,000, 20
years to maturity, and a coupon rate of 7 percent
paid annually.If the yield to maturity is 8.1
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FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.
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FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Assignment Analyzing
Pro Forma Statements FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com   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 Individual Practice Quiz FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.)
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FIN 571 Week 4 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 4 Team Assignment Operating Leverage
and Forecasting FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.
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FIN 571 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Assignment DCF and WACC
Problems FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.c
om     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.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Practice Quiz FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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
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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Wileyplus Assignment
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Pro
blem 5.17 Problem 5.21 Problem 6.19 Problem
6.27 Problem 7.16
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FIN 571 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Homework
Problems FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.c
om     Week 6 HomeworkComplete 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 Assignment Working
Capital Simulation Managing Growth Assignment
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Res
ources Harvard Business Publishing Working
Capital Simulation Managing Growth
Assignment Ch. 1 - 21 ofFundamentals of Corporate
Finance WileyPLUS Assignments All additional
resources from each week
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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Practice Quiz FOR
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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.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Wileyplus Assignment
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Pro
blem 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.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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. Write a summary of no more than 700
words explaining how the capital improvement you
identified could help the business.
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