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FIN 486 Entire Course For more course
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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) FIN 486 Week 3
Individual Assignment (P102,P107, P1010,
P1014, P1021, P111, P114, P117, P118, P119)
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FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 1 Financial
Statement Construction and Part 2 Cash Flow
Reconciliation For more course tutorials
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Statement Construction Exercise   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) Accounts Receivable 77251 Cash and
Securities 315954 Goodwill and Other Assets
448484 Inventories 40712 less Accumulated
Depreciation -594200 Other Current Assets 21349
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FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 3 JJs Jammers
Summary For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com 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 market for JJs Jammers is good based
on the financial results depicted in the 2011 and
2012 results.  
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FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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 (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Explai
n business ethics in your own words. Why are
business ethics important in strategic planning?
Howdobusinessethicsaffecttheworkplace?
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FIN 486 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
Ethics (2 Papers) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial contains 
2 Different Papers   Write a 700- to 1,050-word pa
per describing the demise of Enron Corporation an
d WorldCom. Identify major factors that led to th
e dissolution of Enron Corporation and WorldCom.
Explain specific ethical violations in accounting
 practices at Enron Corporation and WorldCom.
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FIN 486 Week 1 JJs Jammer Assignment For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Read
 the attached documents for assignment
instructions. Click the Assignment Files tab to
submit your assignment. a.     Compute the 13
ratios for both companies. (Use a 360-day year.
Do not round intermediate calculations. Input
your profit margin, return on assets, return on
equity, and debt to total assets answers as a
percent rounded to 2 decimal places. Round all
other answers to 2 decimal places.) b.    Provide
what each ratio represents to each of the two
companies. a.  Compute the following 13 ratios
for both companies. (Use a 360-day year. Do not
round intermediate calculations. Input your
profit margin, return on assets, return on
equity, and debt to total assets answers as a
percent rounded to 2 decimal places. Round all
other answers to 2 decimal places.)
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  FIN 486 Week 1 Video Summary (350 Words) For
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IN 486 Week 1 Video Summary (350 Words)
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FIN 486 Week 2 Apply Gale Force Surfing Case
Study For more course tutorials
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Apply Gale Force Surfing Case Study Purpose This
assignment allows students to view the impact of
level versus seasonal production on inventory
levels, bank loan requirements, and
profitability. In addition, it allows students
the opportunity to demonstrate the ability to
apply profitability analysis activities used in
financial decision making. Assignment
Instructions Review the Week 2 Case Study.
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FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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 (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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) For more course tutorials
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Individual Assignment  (5-1,5-4,5-5,5-8,5-10,5-17,
5-21,P8-3,P8-4,P8-9,P8-10,P8-13,P8-24,P8-25,P8-26)
    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
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FIN 486 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
Department Budgets (2 Papers) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial
 contains 2 Different Papers   Your Learning Team 
is the financial management team for Huffman Truck
ing, responsible for creating the financial portio
n of a strategic plan.  You must obtain informatio
n from the marketing, sales, operations, and human
 resources departments to complete it. Resource V
irtual Organizations
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FIN 486 Week 2 Team Assignment (P4-6, P4-19)
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com P46Finding operating and free cash flows
Consider the followingbalance sheets and
selected data from the income statement of
KeithCorporation.Keith Corporation Balance
SheetsDecember 31 Assets 2015 2014 Cash 1,500
1,000 Marketable securities 1,800 1,200
Accounts receivable 2,000 1,800 Inventories 2,900
2,800 8,200 6,800 Gross fixed assets 29,500
28,100 Less Accumulated depreciation 14,700
13,100 Net fixed assets 14,800 15,000 Total
assets 23,000 21,800 Total current assets
Liabilities and stockholders equity Keith
Corporation Balance Sheets
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FIN 486 Week 2 Video Summary For more course
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2 Video Summary
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FIN 486 Week 3 Apply Berkshire Instruments Case
Study For more course tutorials
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Apply Berkshire Instruments Case
Study Purpose This assignment allows students to
work with issues related to the cost of capital.
In addition, students will practice calculations
related to capital structure and use them in
making financial decisions. Assignment
Instructions Review the Week 3 Case
Study. Complete the required activities 1 to 3 in
Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word. Click the
Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.
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FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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 (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Why
is capital budgeting part of a companys
long-term strategic planning process? What are
the pros and cons of these methods   o   
NPV o    Simple payback o    IRR
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FIN 486 Week 3 Individual Assignment
(P102,P107, P1010, P1014, P1021, P111,
P114, P117, P118, P119) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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
machine should the firm accept? Why? d. Do the
machines in this problem illustrate any of the
weaknesses of using payback? Discuss.
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FIN 486 Week 3 Individual Assignment Long-Term
Financial Needs (2 Papers) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This Tutorial
 contains 2 Different Papers   You are the head of
 the Huffman Trucking accounting department. The c
hief executive officer (CEO) has asked you to prep
are a  financial report addressing long-term finan
cial needs. Resource Virtual Organizations Examin
e financial information for Huffman Trucking, with
in the Virtual Organization web link located on th
e course materials page. 
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FIN 486 Week 3 Team Assignment For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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                                           
                                                  
                          
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FIN 486 Week 3 Video Summary Short Term Finance
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Finance  
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FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1 (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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 (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com P121 Recogni
zing 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 a.Evaluate the risk of each proposed
project and rank it low, medium, or high.
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FIN 486 Week 4 Individual Assignment Capital
Budgeting Scenarios (UOP Course) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com Choose
 a scenario from the Capital Budgeting Worksheet
to review and analyze. Using net present value,
determine the proposals appropriateness and
economic viability. Prepare a 500-word report
explaining your calculations and conclusions.
Answer the following in your report
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FIN 486 Week 4 KFC and the Colonel Case Study
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com   FIN 486 Week 4 Apply KFC and the Colonel
Case Study Purpose This assignment allows
students to provide practical business
strategies. Assignment Instructions Review the Wee
k 4 Case Study. Summarize the following in 2 to 3
pages Discuss issues raised concerning Sanders
approach in connection with the sale to Brown and
Massey.
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IN 486 Week 4 Risk and Return Summary  
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FIN 486 Week 4 Signature Assignment Capital
Budgeting Scenarios (New Factory) For more
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486 Week 4 Signature Assignment Capital Budgeting
Scenarios About Your Signature Assignment Signatur
e/Benchmark Assignments are designed to align
with specific program student learning outcome(s)
in your program. Program Student Learning
Outcomes are broad statements that describe what
students should know and be able to do upon
completion of their degree. Signature/Benchmark
Assignments are graded with a grading guide or an
automated rubric that allows the University to
collect data that can be aggregated across a
location or college/school and used for
course/program improvements.
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FIN 486 Week 4 Team Assignment Case Study
OGrady Apparel Company For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com 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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FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Eboy
Corporation For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com 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.
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FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Final (UOP
Course) For more course tutorials
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Individual Assignment Final (UOP Course)
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FIN 486 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment
Strategic Financial Plan (2 Papers) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com This T
utorial contains 2 Different Papers   Resource Th
e previously completed budgeting spreadsheets Crea
te the financial portion of the strategic plan. Th
e plan must include 3 years of income statements, 
balance sheets, and cash flow statements. Write a 
700- to 1,050-word memo that explains the plans m
ajor assumptions and identifies areas of risk. The
 memo must include the following  A review of ca
sh flow statements and a recommendation of impleme
nting new short-term working capital strategies on
 long-term cash flow
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FIN 486 Week 5 Signature Assignment Harrods
Sporting Goods Case Study For more course
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Week 5 Apply Signature Assignment Harrods
Sporting Goods Case Study About Your Signature
Assignment Harrods Sporting Goods Case Study
is designed to align with specific program
student learning outcome(s) in your program.
Program Student Learning Outcomes are broad
statements that describe what students should
know and be able to do upon completion of their
degree. Signature/Benchmark Assignments are
graded with a grading guide or an automated
rubric that allows the University to collect data
that can be aggregated across a location or
college/school and used for course/program
improvements.
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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 For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com 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
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  FIN 486 Week 5 Team Assignment Case Study Casa
de Diseno For more course tutorials
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Study Casa de DisenoIn 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.Casa de Diseno is located in Southern
California and specializes in a furniture line
called Ligne Moderna. Of high quality and
contemporary design, the furniture appeals to the
customer who wants something unique for his or
her home or apartment.
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