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• FIN 486 Entire Course
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• FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 3 JJs Jammers
  Summary
• FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment  Part 1 Financial
  Statement Construction and Part 2 Cash Flow
  Reconciliation
• FIN 486 Week 1 Video Summary  (350 Words)
• FIN 486 Week 2 Individual Assignment  (Chapter 5,
  Chapter 8)
• FIN 486 Week 2 Team Assignment (P4-6, P4-19)

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 1 Financial
  Statement
• Construction and Part 2 Cash Flow Reconciliation
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• Part 1 Financial Statement Construction Exercise
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• Take the following results for JJs Jammers and
  create a Balance Sheet and Income Statement in
  the 2012 columns of the template showing JJs
  Jammers 2011 results (In alphabetical order).
  Make sure you make the embedded calculations for
  the caption accounts (like total Current Assets
  or Gross Profit)

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 3 JJs Jammers
  Summary
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• Write a 525- to 700-word summary that includes
  the following
• Explain how the three different parts of the
  Financial Statement work together to provide a
  picture of how the business is operating.
• Explain the role of the Financial Manager in
  stewarding the companys resources.
• Formulate and write your opinion as to whether
  the ma

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• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 1
• What are a chief financial officers (CFO) two
  roles? Use real-world examples to explain why
  these roles are important to a companys
  success.

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• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 2
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• Research in the University Library to locate at
  least two research studies on human services
  management that provide examples of the two types
  of evaluation research.
• Write a 700- to 1050--word paper about research
  evaluation. Include the following topics in your
  paper

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
  Ethics (2 Papers)
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• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing the de
  mise of Enron Corporation and WorldCom.
• Identify major factors that led to the dissolution
   of Enron Corporation and WorldCom.
• Explain specific ethical violations in accounting 
  practices at Enron Corporation and WorldCom.
• Describe the role of business ethics in strategic 
  financial planning.
• Cite readings and at least one other source, inclu
  ding the Internet.
• Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.
  

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Video Summary (350 Words)
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• FIN 486 Week 1 Video Summary

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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1
• Why are financial ratios used to assess a
  companys financial performance? Why are sales
  reports, profits, debts, or current liability
  reports insufficient? How have financial ratios
  been used in your company? Do you think they are
  an effective assessment of financial performance?
  If so, why? If not, why?

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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1
• Why are financial ratios used to assess a
  companys financial performance? Why are sales
  reports, profits, debts, or current liability
  reports insufficient? How have financial ratios
  been used in your company? Do you think they are
  an effective assessment of financial performance?
  If so, why? If not, why?

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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 2
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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 2
• If you had to pick three commonly calculated
  ratios to analyze the financial health of a
  company, which would you analyze? Why would you
  choose those ratios?

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• FIN 486 Week 2 Individual Assignment (Chapter 5,
  Chapter 8)
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• P83 Risk preferences Sharon Smith, the financial
  manager for Barnett Corporation, wishes to
  evaluate three prospective investments X, Y, and
  Z. Sharon will evaluate each of these investments
  to decide whether they are superior to
  investments that her company already has in
  place, which have an expected return of 12 and a
  standard deviation of 6. The expected returns
  and standard deviations of the investments are as
  follows
• a. If Sharon were risk neutral, which investments
  would she select? Explain why.

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• FIN 486 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
  Department Budgets (2 Papers)
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• P83 Risk preferences Sharon Smith, the financial
  manager for Barnett Corporation, wishes to This
  Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers
• Your Learning Team is the financial management
  team for Huffman Trucking, responsible for
  creating the financial portion of a strategic
  plan.
• You must obtain information from the marketing,
  sales, operations, and human resources
  departments to complete it.

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• FIN 486 Week 2 Team Assignment (P4-6, P4-19)
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• P46
• Finding operating and free cash flows Consider
  the following
• balance sheets and selected data from the income
  statement of Keith
• Corporation.
• Keith Corporation Balance Sheets

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• FIN 486 Week 2 Video
• Summary
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• FIN 486 Week 2 Video Summary

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• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 1
• In your own words, explain capital budgeting. Why
  is it important to a companys long-term success?
  Provide an example of poorly performed capital
  budgeting. How does this affect a companys
  long-term success?

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• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 2
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• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 2
• Why is capital budgeting part of a companys
  long-term strategic planning process? What are
  the pros and cons of these methods

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Individual Assignment
  (P102,P107, P1010, P1014, P1021, P111,
  P114, P117, P118, P119)
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• P102 Payback comparisons Nova Products has a
  5-year maximum acceptable payback period. The
  firm is considering the purchase of a new machine
  and must choose between two alternative ones. The
  first machine requires an initial investment of
  14,000 and generates annual after-tax cash
  inflows of 3,000 for each of the next 7 years.
  The second machine requires an initial investment
  of 21,000 and provides an annual cash inflow
  after taxes of 4,000 for 20 years. a. Determine
  the payback period for each machine. b. Comment
  on the acceptability of the machines, assuming
  that they are independent projects. c. Which
  machin

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Individual Assignment Long-Term
  Financial Needs (2 Papers)
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• You are the head of the Huffman Trucking accountin
  g department. The chief executive officer (CEO) ha
  s asked you to prepare a financial report addressi
  ng long-term financial needs.
• Resource Virtual Organizations
• Examine financial information for Huffman Trucking
  , within the Virtual Organization web link located
   on the course materials page. Read the New Strate
  gic Directions Memo. Calculate external funds need
  ed (EFN) to create the pro forma balance sheet. Ca
  lculate the following year-end ratios for the pro 
  forma statements
•  Profit as a percentage of sales

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Team Assignment
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• a) Calculate the after-tax cost of
  debt                                              
                                                    
                         
•                                                   
                                                    
         
• b) Calculate the cost of preferred
  stock                                             
                                                    
                        
•                                                   
                                                    
         
• c) Calculate the cost of retained
  earnings                                          
                                                    
                        
• d) calculate the cost of common
  stock                                             
                                                    
                         
•                                                   
                                   
• e) calculate the firms weighted average cost of
  capital using retained earnings and the capital
  structure weights                                 
                                                    
                                      
• f) calculate the firms weighted average cost of
  capital using new common stock and the capital
  structure weights                                 
                                                    
                                      

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Video Summary Short Term Finance
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• IN 486 Week 3 Video Summary Short Term
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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1
• What are major areas of risk in financial
  management? What are major areas of financial
  risk in your company? Which risk management
  techniques are important to your company?
  Why?                              

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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1
• What are major areas of risk in financial
  management? What are major areas of financial
  risk in your company? Which risk management
  techniques are important to your company?
  Why?                              

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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1
• What are major areas of risk in financial
  management? What are major areas of financial
  risk in your company? Which risk management
  techniques are important to your company?
  Why?                              

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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 2
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• What is capital structure? Why does it matter in
  terms of a companys financial performance? How
  does a companys capital structure affect overall
  risk?                             

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Individual Assignment (P12-1,
  P12-3, P12-6, P12-17, P12-19)
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• P121
• Recognizing risk Caradine Corp., a media services
  firm with net earnings of 3,200,000 in the last
  year, is considering the following projects.
• LG 1
• The media services business is cyclical and
  highly competitive. The board of directors has
  asked you, as chief financial officer, to do the
  following                             

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Individual Assignment Capital
  Budgeting Scenarios
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• P121
• Recognizing risk Caradine Corp., a media services
  firm with net earnings of 3,200,000 in the last
  year, is considering the following projects.
• LG 1
• The media services business is cyclical and
  highly competitive. The board of directors has
  asked you, as chief financial officer, to do the
  following                             

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Team Assignment Case Study OGrady
  Apparel Company
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• OGrady Apparel Company was founded nearly 160
  years ago when an Irish merchant named Garrett
  OGrady landed in Los Angeles with an inventory
  of heavy canvas, which he hoped to sell for tents
  and wagon covers to miners headed for the
  California goldfields. Instead, he turned to the
  sale of harder-wearing clothing.
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• Today, OGrady Apparel Company is a small
  manufacturer of fabrics and clothing whose stock
  is traded in the OTC market. In 2015, the Los
  Angelesbased company experienced sharp increases
  in both domestic and European markets resulting
  in record earnings. Sales rose from 15.9 million
  in 2014 to 18.3 million in 2015 with
  earni                             

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Eboy
  Corporation
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• The current balance in accounts receivable for
  Eboy Corporation is 443,000. This level was
  achieved with annual (365 days) credit sales of
  3,544,000. The firm offers its customers credit
  terms of net 30. However, in an effort to help
  its cash flow position and to follow the actions
  of its rivals, the firm is considering changing
  its credit terms from net 30 to 2/10 net 30. The
  objective is to speed up the receivable
  collections and thereby improve the firms cash
  flows. Eboy would like to increase its accounts
  receivable turnover to 12.0.
• The firm works with a raw material whose current
  annual usage is 1,450 units. Each
  fin                             

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Final
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• FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment
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• FIN 486 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Strategic
  Financial Plan (2 Papers)
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• Resource The previously completed budgeting sprea
  dsheets
• Create the financial portion of the strategic plan
  . The plan must include 3 years of income statemen
  ts, balance sheets, and cash flow statements.
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word memo that explains the 
  plans major assumptions and identifies areas of r
  isk. The memo must include the following
•  A review of cash f                            

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Summary Long Term Financing
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• FIN 486 Week 5 Team Assignment Asor Products, Inc
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• Jenny Rene, the CFP of Asor Products, Inc. has
  just completed an evaluation of a proposed
  capital expenditure for equipment that would
  expand the firm's manufacturing capacity. Using
  the traditional NPV methodology, she found the
  project unacceptable because NPV traditional
  -1,700 lt 0 Before recommending rejection of the
  proposed project, she has decided to assess
  whether there might be real options embedded in
  the firm's cash flows. Her evaluation uncovered
  three options
• Option 1 Abandonment The proje                  
          

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Team Assignment Case Study Casa de
  Diseno
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• Chapter 16 
• Case Study Casa de Diseno
• In January 2012, Teresa Leal was named treasurer
  of Casa de Diseno. She decided that she could
  best orient herself by systematically examining
  each area of the companys financial operations.
  She began by studying the firms short-term
  financial activities.                     

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