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FIN 515 Complete Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   This Tutorial
contains Week 3 Course Project (3 Sets) Week 6
Course Project (2 Sets)
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FIN 515 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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) FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set FIN
515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem
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FIN 515 Final Exam (all 3 Sets) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 1.1) Which of the following is not a
step in the WACC valuation method?
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 3 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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)
one person.
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam All 3 Sets FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question
included in these Midterms could be found on this
link FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 1
(New) Linkhttp//www.fin515nerd.com/product-72-FI
N-515-Midterm-Exam-Set-1-(New) FIN 515 Midterm
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 1 (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 2 (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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)
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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. One example is the
use of market value rather than historical cost
in the valuation of assets. What are some other
examples of the differences between financial
management and financial accounting?
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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.
Calculate all four terms of the DuPont Identity
and present the results but do not analyze the
results.
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FIN 515 Week 1 Homework Problem FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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
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FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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?
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FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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
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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Assum
ptions 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
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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. 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.
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
Expenditure From Your Industry FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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. Provide an estimation
of the life of the project, as well as the exit
costs.
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
Considerations FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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, depreciation, and salvage value as
well as others.
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FIN 515 Week 3 Homework Problems FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Week
3 Homework Problems 5-1 Bond Valuation with
Annual payments Jackson Corporations bonds have
12 years remaining to maturity. Interest is paid
annually, the bonds have a 1,000 par value, and
the coupon interest rate is 8.
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FIN 515 Week 3 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 Meeting.
For this part of the project your team needs to
do an analysis of the market and operational
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FIN 515 Week 3 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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?  
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FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
Versus DDM Value FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd
.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
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 in which you are
interested. Calculate or find the WACC for the
two firms. How do the WACCs compare? Are the
WACCs what you would expect? What causes the
differences between the two firms' WACCs?
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FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 2 Finding Stock Values for Real
Stocks Using Beta and the SML FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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.
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FIN 515 Week 5 Homework Problems FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.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.
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FIN 515 Week 5 problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.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 CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.
com   This Tutorial contains 2 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 CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Examp
les 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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