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FIN 515 Complete Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   This Tutori
al 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
visit www.tutorialrank.com   This tutorial doesnt 
contain Final Exam Guide   FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Acc
ounting Versus Finance
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FIN 515 Final Exam (all 3 Sets) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   FIN 515 Fin
al Exam Set 1 FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 FIN 515 Fin
al Exam Set 3
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1 For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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 proprietorshipb. C corpora
tionc. S corporationd. Limited partnership 
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Question 1.
1. (TCO A) Double taxation is a drawback for which
 of the following types of business organization e
xcept?  Question 2.2. (TCO A) Sole proprietorships
 have all of the following advantages except 
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 3 For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam All 3 Sets For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Question
included in these Midterms could be found on this
link   FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 1
(New) Linkhttp//www.tutorialrank.com/FIN/FIN-515
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ew)  
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 1 (New) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Ques
tion 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
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 2 (New) For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Ques
tion 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)
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
com   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
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Fina
ncial 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. Calculate all four terms of the DuPont
Identity and present the results but do not
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FIN 515 Week 1 Homework Problem For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Week
1 Mini Case   Assume that you recently graduated
and have just reported to work as an investment
advisor at the brokerage firm of Balik and Kiefer
Inc. One of the firms clients is Michelle
DellaTorre, substantial amounts of
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FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Chapter
1 The Corporation 1-1.      What is the most
important difference between a corporation and
all other organizational forms?
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FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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, OR pick a ratio for
which a higher
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FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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? Question 2
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FIN 515 Week 1-7 DQs For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 A
ccounting Versus Finance FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Finan
cial Analysis FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Probl
em FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM Mode
l 
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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   TVM
Pass-a-Problem (graded)            This week,
the lecture provided some examples of TVM problem
scenarios.
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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM Model
For more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.
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 Homework Problems For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   FIN
515 Week 2 Homework Problems   (3-1) Days Sales
Outstanding Greene Sisters has a DSO of 20 days.
The companys average daily sales are 20,000.
What is the level of its accounts receivable?
Assume there are 365 days in a year.
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FIN 515 Week 2 Problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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. 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) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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) For
more course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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.tutorialrank.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
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
Considerations For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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, taxes, opportunity
costs, externalities, sunk costs, cannibalization
or erosion,
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FIN 515 Week 3 Homework Problems For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   FIN
515 Week 3 Homework Problems
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FIN 515 Week 3 Problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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
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FIN 515 Week 3 Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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FIN 515 Week 3 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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. What 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.
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FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
Versus DDM Value For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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 Homework Problems For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   (6-5
). Expected Return Discrete Distribution         
                                                  
                                                  
                                   A stocks
return has the following distribution            
                                                  
      
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FIN 515 Week 4 Midterm For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO G) The firm's asset turnover
measures Question 2. Question
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FIN 515 Week 4 Problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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.
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FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 1 Calculating WACC for a Real
Firm For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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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.tutorialrank.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. Choose
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FIN 515 Week 5 Homework Problems For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   (10-
8) NPVs, IRRs, and MIRRs for Independent
Projects Edelman Engineering is considering
including two pieces of equipment, a truck and an
overhead pulley system, in this years capital
budget. The projects are independent. The cash
outlay for the truck is 17,100 and that for
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FIN 515 Week 5 problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.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?
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FIN 515 Week 5 Quiz For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.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
visit www.tutorialrank.com   This Tutorial contain
s 2 Different Course Projects   Second ProjectThe
 purpose of this project is for you to have some p
ractice working with financial concepts in the rea
l world. This will involve integrating some materi
al from throughout the course. The 
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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 visit www.tutorialrank.
com   Examples of Real Agency Problems and How The
y Could Have Been Prevented (graded)   Do some res
earch and find some historical or current real lif
e examples of agency problems.  Will the measures 
discussed in the text help to prevent problems lik
e your examples in the future? 
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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.tutorialrank.com  
The Role of Financial Managers in Ethical Corpora
te Governance (graded)    Does the financial manag
er have a greater responsibility or a lesser respo
nsibility for maintaining ethical corporate govern
ance?  Why or why not? What is or will be your app
roach to ethical corpo
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FIN 515 Week 6 Homework Problems For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Week
6 (121) AFN Equation Baxter Video Productss
sales are expected to increase by 20 from 5
million in 2010 to 6 million in 2011. Its assets
totaled 3 million at the end of 2010. Baxter is
already at full capacity, so its assets must grow
at the same rate as projected sales. At the end
of 2010, current liabilities were 1 million,
consisting of 250,000 of
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FIN 515 Week 6 Problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Chapter 29 
(pages 983-984)   1.What inherent characteristic 
of corporations creates the need for a system of c
hecks on manager behavior?   2. What are some exam
ples of agency problems?
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FIN 515 Week 6 Project Calculating the Weighted
Average Cost of Capital (Nike) For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   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.  
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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry Approaches to
Working Capital Financing For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Industry Ap
proaches to Working Capital Financing (graded)   D
o some research on two firms in your industry or a
n industry in which you are interested.  Can you g
et an idea of their working capital management pol
icies from publicly available information? 
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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 2 Your Preference for Working
Capital Management Policy For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Your Prefer
ence for Working Capital Management Policy (graded
)   Consider the company you work for or a company
 in which you are interested. 
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FIN 515 Week 7 Homework Problems For more
course tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Week
7 (16-1) Cash Management Williams Sons last
year reported sales of 10 million and an
inventory turnover ratio of 2. The company is now
adopting a new inventory system. If the new
system is able to reduce the firms inventory
level and increase the firms inventory turnover
ratio to 5 while maintaining the same level of
sales, how much cash will be freed up?
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FIN 515 Week 7 Problem Set For more course
tutorials visit www.tutorialrank.com   Chapter 26 
(page 903) 1. Answer the following questions
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FIN 515 Week 7 Project Capital Budgeting Analysis
(Nike) For more course tutorials
visit www.tutorialrank.com   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
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