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FIN 515 Course Project 1 and 2 For more course
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contains Week 3 Course Project (3 Sets) Week 6
Course Project (2 Sets)
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FIN 515 Entire Course For more course tutorials
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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)
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FIN 515 Final Exam (all 3 Sets) For more course
tutorials visit www.fin515.com FIN 515 Final
Exam Set 1 FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 FIN 515 Final
Exam Set 3
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1 For more course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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 proprietorship b. C
corporation c. S corporation d. Limited
partnership
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 For more course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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 course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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 Question 2.2. (TCO A) A sole
proprietorship is owned by (Points 5)
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance For
more course tutorials visit www.fin515.com Accou
nting 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
course tutorials visit www.fin515.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 course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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 course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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 course tutorials
visit www.fin515.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 course tutorials
visit www.fin515.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
course tutorials visit www.fin515.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. Your second
post can be a description of how the problem
posed by another student can be solved. Your
professor may provide an example.
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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM
Model For more course tutorials
visit www.fin515.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 course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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.
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FIN 515 Week 2 Quiz For more course tutorials
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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) For
more course tutorials visit www.fin515.com 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.
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
Expenditure From Your Industry For more course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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. Describe and provide an approximate value
of the annual cash flows.
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
Considerations For more course tutorials
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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.
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FIN 515 Week 3 Problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.fin515.com Week 3 Problem
Set 1.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 course tutorials
visit www.fin515.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. Wat 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
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FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
Versus DDM Value For more course tutorials
visit www.fin515.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 course tutorials
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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 course tutorials
visit www.fin515.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 course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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 course tutorials visit www.fin515.co
m 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.
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FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 2 Finding Stock Values for Real
Stocks Using Beta and the SML For more course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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.
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FIN 515 Week 5 problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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? 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 For more course tutorials
visit www.fin515.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 course tutorials
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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 For more course tutorials
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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? What else would you
advise? You may provide examples of agency
problems from your own experience.
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FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 2 The Role of Financial
Managers in Ethical Corporate Governance For more
course tutorials visit www.fin515.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 course
tutorials visit www.fin515.com Chapter 29 (pages
983-984) 1.What inherent characteristic of
corporations creates the need for a system of
cecks on manager behavior? 2. What are some
examples of agency problems? 3.What are the
advantages and disadvantages of the corporate
organizational structure? 4.What is the role of
the board of directors in corporate governance?
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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry Approaches to
Working Capital Financing For more course
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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 course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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 course
tutorials visit www.fin515.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?
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it.....To Best way....
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