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FIN 515 Complete Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) 

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• FIN 515 Week 2 Project Financial Statement
  Analysis (Nike)
• FIN 515 Week 3 Project Financial Statement
  Analysis (Nike)
• FIN 515 Week 6 Project Calculating the Weighted
  Average Cost of Capital (Nike)
• FIN 515 Week 7 Project Capital Budgeting Analysis
  (Nike)

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FIN 515 Course Project 1 and 2 

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• This Tutorial contains
• Week 3 Course Project (3 Sets)
• Week 6 Course Project (2 Sets)

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FIN 515 Entire Course

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• This tutorial doesnt 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) 

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• 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 

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• 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 3 

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• . (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 FinalExam Set 2 

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• 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?
• Question 4.4. (TCO B) In a TVM calculation, if
  incoming cash flows are positive, outgoing cash
  flows must be

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FIN 515 Midterm Exam All 3 Sets 

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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 1 (New) 

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• 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) 

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• 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)
• Question 2. 2. (TCO G) If Moon Corporation has an
  increase in sales, which of the following would
  result in no change in its EBIT margin? (Points
  10)

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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance 

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• 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.
  One example is the use of market value rather
  than historical cost in the valuation of assets.

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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis

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• 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 

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• 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?

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FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New) 

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• 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, OR pick a ratio for
  which a higher number typically would be
  preferred and describe a situation in which a
  lower number for that ratio would be preferred.

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FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz 

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• 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 

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• 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
• FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
  Considerations
• FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
  Versus DDM Value

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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem

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• 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 

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• 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 

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• 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 Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) 

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• As the new financial manager of your company, the
  CEO has asked your team to provide a brief
  analysis of the companys performance to present
  at the upcoming board of directors meeting. The
  CEO has asked that you assess the companys
  performance against your companys industry.
  Thus, to do this, you will need to use ratio
  analysis or other techniques to determine areas
  in which the company is doing well, as well as
  areas that management should look at.

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FIN 515 Week 2 Quiz 

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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 2 Quiz

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• 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 enjoy it?

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FIN 515 Week 3 Course Project 1 (3 Papers) 

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• 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.
• You are to pick a company. You should pick one
  either from the industry in which you are
  currently working or an industry in which you are
  interested. You could also pick a division of a
  company. It is imperative to use that sufficient
  data about your company and that it is available.
  One way to do this is to pick a publicly held
  company. If you pick a privately held company or
  a division of a company, make sure that the data
  necessary to do a significant financial analysis
  is available.

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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
Expenditure From Your Industry 

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• 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

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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
Considerations 

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• 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? Incremental
  earnings, interest expenses,

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FIN 515 Week 3 Problem Set 

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• 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 Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) 

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• Continuing with your Week 2 Project, now your CEO
  after reviewing your earlier Week 2 PowerPoint
  submission has asked your team to complete an
  additional benchmark analysis task, before the
  upcoming Board Meeting. For this part of the
  project your team needs to do an analysis of the
  market and operational characteristics of your
  company and its financial profile. For this
  project, your team will need to select four
  companies that are direct competitors of your
  company. This sample selection should be based on
  revenue, profitability, market capitalization,
  market segment and product characteristics

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FIN 515 Week 3 Quiz 

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• 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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• 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. What is the return
  on your portfolio?
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FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
Versus DDM Value 

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• 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 

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• 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 

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• 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?
• Question 3.

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FIN 515 Week 4 Problem Set 

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• 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 

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• 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 

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• 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 

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• 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 

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• 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) 

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• Second Project
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• 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. The project does
  not provide a step-by-step procedure for you to
  follow.

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FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 1 Examples of Real Agency
Problems and How They Could Have Been Prevented 

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• 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? What else would you advise?

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FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 2 The Role of Financial
Managers in Ethical Corporate Governance

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• 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 

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• 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?

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FIN 515 Week 6 Project Calculating the Weighted
Average Cost of Capital (Nike) 

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• Once again, your team is the key financial
  management team for your company. The companys
  CEO is now looking to expand its operations by
  investing in new property, plant, and equipment.
  In order to effectively evaluate the projects
  effectiveness, you have been asked to determine
  the firms weighted average cost of capital. To
  determine the cost of capital, here is what you
  have been asked to do.
• yeglasses are not covered.

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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry Approaches to
Working Capital Financing 

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• 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? Which policy
  do you think is better and why?

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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 2 Your Preference for Working
Capital Management Policy 

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• 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

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FIN 515 Week 7 Problem Set 

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• Chapter 26 (page 903)
• 1. Answer the following questions
• a. What is the difference between a firms cash
  cycle and its operating cycle?

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FIN 515 Week 7 Project Capital Budgeting Analysis
(Nike) 

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• Once again, your team is the key financial
  management team for your company. The companys
  CEO is now looking to expand its operations by
  investing in new property, plant, and equipment.
  Your team recently calculated the WACC for your
  company, which will now be useful in evaluating
  the projects effectiveness. You are now asked to
  do some capital budgeting analysis that will
  determine whether the company should invest in
  these new plant assets.

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