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FIN 534 Final Exam Set 1 (4 Sets) For more
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534 Final Exam Part 1 Set 1            Question
1                         BLW Corporation is
considering the terms to be set on the options it
plans to issue to its executives. Which of the
following actions would decrease the value of the
options, other things held constant?
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534 Final Exam Part 2 Set 1            Question
1               Which of the following is NOT
normally regarded as being a good reason to
establish an ESOP?                                
             Question 2                    
Which of the following is NOT normally regarded
as being a barrier to hostile takeovers?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 1 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   1. Which
of the following statements is CORRECT? a. One of
the disadvantages of a sole proprietorship is
that the proprietor is exposed to unlimited
liability. b. It is generally easier to transfer
ones ownership interest in a partnership than in
a corporation. c. One of the advantages of the
corporate form of organization is that it avoids
double taxation.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   1.Which
of the following statements is CORRECT?   a.
Typically, a firms DPS should exceed its EPS. b.
Typically, a firms EBIT should exceed its
EBITDA. c. If a firm is more profitable than
average (e.g., Google), we would normally expect
to see its stock price exceed its book value per
share.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating A   Imagine a startup
company of your own and briefly trace its
development from a sole proprietorship to a major
corporation with a focus on how that development
would be financed.
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating A   Discuss ways that
the basic concepts we have discussed in this
chapter directly impact your life. Provide
specific examples to support your response.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 Quiz 1 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating A   Question 1 You
recently sold 100 shares of your new company, XYZ
Corporation, to your brother at a family
reunion.  At the reunion your brother gave you a
check for the stock and you gave your brother the
stock certificates.  Which of the following
statements best describes this transaction?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 2 Chapter 3 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   1. Which
of the following statements is CORRECT?   a. The
ratio of long-term debt to total capital is more
likely to experience seasonal fluctuations than
is either the DSO or the inventory turnover ratio.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 2 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating A   Assume you are
deciding whether or not to invest in a particular
company. Discuss which elements of which
financial statements you would want to carefully
examine. Explain your rationale.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 2 DQ 2 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating A   From the
e-Activity, determine if the company you analyzed
would be a good investment for you or not.
Provide specific examples to support your
response.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 4 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 1 Times, Rating A   1. A
50,000 loan is to be amortized over 7 years,
with annual end-of-year payments. Which of these
statements is CORRECT? a. The annual payments
would be larger if the interest rate were
lower. b. If the loan were amortized over 10
years rather than 7 years, and if the interest
rate were the same in either case, the first
payment would include more dollars of interest
under the 7-year amortization plan.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 5 Solution For
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Three 1,000 face value bonds that mature in 10
years have the same level of risk, hence their
YTMs are equal. Bond A has an 8 annual coupon,
Bond B has a 10 annual coupon, and Bond C has a
12 annual coupon. Bond B sells at par. Assuming
interest rates remain constant for the next 10
years, which of the following statements is
CORRECT?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating B   Starting with
your current situation, describe what you must do
to ensure an annual retirement income of 60,000
starting at age 65.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 DQ 2 For more course
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Purchased 0 Times, Rating No rating   Discuss
the impact of Standard Poors downgrading the
U.S. credit rating in 2011. Address current and
likely future impact on U.S. business,
individuals, the global economy and current
financial practices. Provide specific examples to
support your response.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 Quiz 2 For more course
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Purchased 4 Times, Rating A   Question 1 Which
of the following statements is CORRECT?  a. Since
companies can deduct dividends paid but not
interest paid, our tax system favors the use of
equity financing over debt financing, and this
causes companies debt ratios to be lower than
they would be if interest and dividends were both
deductible.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 6 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   Which of
the following statements is CORRECT? a. If you
add enough randomly selected stocks to a
portfolio, you can completely eliminate all of
the market risk from the portfolio.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 7 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   1. Which
of the following statements is CORRECT? a. The
constant growth model takes into consideration
the capital gains investors expect to earn on a
stock. b. Two firms with the same expected
dividend and growth rates must also have the same
stock price. c. It is appropriate to use the
constant growth model to estimate a stock's value
even if its growth rate is never expected to
become constant.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   of corporate
mismanagement or fraud should be taken into
account when assessing the risks associated with
certain types of investments.  Information is the
investor's best tool when it comes to investing
wisely. Often, the lack of reliable, readily
available, current information also opens the
door to fraud. It is easier for the unscrupulous
to spread false information and to manipulate a
stock's price when accurate information about the
company is scarce.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 DQ 2 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating No rating   Discuss
the non-rational factors that may have a role in
the valuation of stocks and stock market
equilibrium. Provide specific examples to support
your response.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 Quiz 3 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating B   1. Which of the
following statements is CORRECT?   1)      A time
line is not meaningful unless all cash flows
occur annually 2)      Time lines are useful for
visualizing complex problems prior to doing
actual calculations
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 8 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 1 Times, Rating B   1. Which
of the following statements is CORRECT? a. Put
options give investors the right to buy a stock
at a certain strike price before a specified
date. b. Call options give investors the right to
sell a stock at a certain strike price before a
specified date. c. Options typically sell for
less than their exercise value.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 9 Solution For
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Bankston Corporation forecasts that if all of its
existing financial policies are followed, its
proposed capital budget would be so large that it
would have to issue new common stock. Since new
stock has a higher cost than retained earnings,
Bankston would like to avoid issuing new stock.
Which of the following actions would REDUCE its
need to issue new common stock?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 5 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   Based on what you
discovered in the e-Activity, make at least two
recommendations for regarding how your selected
company should approach its capital budgeting.
Explain the reasoning behind your recommendations.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 5 Quiz 4 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   Question
1             Assume that in recent years both
expected inflation and the market risk premium
(rM - rRF) have declined.  Assume also that all
stocks have positive betas.  Which of the
following would be most likely to have occurred
as a result of these changes?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 10 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   1. Which
of the following statements is CORRECT? a. The
internal rate of return method (IRR) is generally
regarded by academics as being the best single
method for evaluating capital budgeting projects.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 11 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating B   1. Which
of the following statements is CORRECT?   a. An
externality is a situation where a project would
have an adverse effect on some other part of the
firms overall operations. If the project would
have a favorable effect on other operations, then
this is not an externality.
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating A   Analyze the
concept of stress test as applied to financial
institutions and create a better alternative for
assessing the viability of a financial
institution.
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   Question 1 Call
options on XYZ Corporations common stock trade
in the market.  Which of the following statements
is most correct, holding other things
constant?  Question 2  Other things held
constant, the value of an option depends on the
stock's price, the risk-free rate, and the
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 Chapter 12 Solution For
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of the following statements is CORRECT? a.
Perhaps the most important step when developing
forecasted financial statements is to determine
the breakdown of common equity between common
stock and retained earnings. b. The first, and
perhaps the most critical, step in forecasting
financial requirements is to forecast future
sales.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 Chapter 13 Solution For
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Suppose Leonard, Nixon, Shull Corporations
projected free cash flow for next year is
100,000, and FCF is expected to grow at a
constant rate of 6. If the companys weighted
average cost of capital is 11, what is the value
of its operations?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating B   Analyze the
process of forecasting financial statements and
make at least one recommendation for improving
the accuracy of forecasts. Provide specific
examples to support your response.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 DQ 2 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating B   Drawing on what
you discovered in the e-Activity, determine what
additional steps can be taken in the valuation of
a corporation to avoid instances like the one you
researched from occurring in the future. Provide
specific examples to support your response.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 Quiz 6 For more course
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Purchased 3 Times, Rating A   Question 1 Which
of the following statements is CORRECT? Answer
                                       Question
2 Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 8 Chapter 14 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   1. Which
of the following statements about dividend
policies is CORRECT?   a. Modigliani and Miller
argue that investors prefer dividends to capital
gains because dividends are more certain than
capital gains. They call this the ?bird-in-the
hand? effect.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 8 Chapter 15 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating B   1. Which
of the following statements best describes the
optimal capital structure? a. The optimal capital
structure is the mix of debt, equity, and
preferred stock that maximizes the companys
earnings per share (EPS).
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   I examined
PepsiCo to determine how it should address its
free cash flow, either through distributions to
shareholders or repurchasing of stock.
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating No rating   Capital
structure is the manner in which a firms assets
are financed that is, the right-hand side of the
balance sheet. Capital structure is normally
expressed as the percentage of each type of
capital used by the firm--debt, preferred stock,
and common equity.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 8 Quiz 7 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   This quiz consist
of 30 multiple choice questions. The first 15
questions cover the material in Chapter 12. The
second 15 questions cover the material in Chapter
13. Be sure you are in the correct Chapter when
you take the quiz.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 9 Chapter 16 Solution For
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utorial Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   This quiz
consist of 30 multiple choice questions. The
first 15 questions cover the material in Chapter
12. The second 15 questions cover the material in
Chapter 13. Be sure you are in the correct
Chapter when you take the quiz.  
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 9 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating A   Based on the
content of this chapter and what you discovered
in the e-Activity, analyze cash management
technology and make at least one recommendation
for another technique that would enhance working
capital management. Explain the reasoning behind
your recommendation.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 9 DQ 2 For more course
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Purchased 1 Times, Rating B   Create an idea
for a startup venture and discuss the most viable
way to raise the working capital to get the
startup running. Explain your rationale.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 9 Quiz 8 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating B   Question
1  Which of the following statements about
dividend policies is correct?  Question 2  If a
firm adheres strictly to the residual dividend
policy, the issuance of new common stock would
suggest that
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 10 Chapter 17 Solution For
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Japan, 90-day securities have a 4 annualized
return and 180-day securities have a 5
annualized return. In the United States, 90-day
securities have a 4 annualized return and
180-day securities have an annualized return of
4.5. All securities are of equal risk, and
Japanese securities are denominated in terms of
the Japanese yen. Assuming that interest rate
parity holds in all markets, which of the
following statements is most CORRECT?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   Based on what you
uncovered in the e-Activity, determine the most
significant risk factors associated with
investing in the company you selected when
compared with investing in a domestic
company. Provide specific examples to support
your response.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 2 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating B   Recommend three
policy changes that would make the Federal
Reserves job of controlling U.S. interest rates
easier. Explain your reasoning
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 10 Quiz 9 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   Question
1   Which of the following statements is NOT
CORRECT?   Question 2   Which of the following
statements is CORRECT?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 11 DQ 1 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   Reflect on the
lessons learned during this class and discuss the
most interesting or surprising thing you learned.
Explain what made it so.
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A   Reflect on the
lessons learned during this class and discuss the
most interesting or surprising thing you learned.
Explain what made it so.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 11 Quiz 10 For more course
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Purchased 2 Times, Rating A  Question
1              Suppose DeGraw Corporation, a U.S.
exporter, sold a solar heating station to a
Japanese customer at a price of 143.5 million
yen, when the exchange rate was 140 yen per
dollar.  In order to close the sale, DeGraw
agreed to make the bill payable in yen, thus
agreeing to take some exchange rate risk for the
transaction.  The terms were net 6 months.  If
the yen fell against the dollar such that one
dollar would buy 154.4 yen when the invoice was
paid, what dollar amount would DeGraw actually
receive after it exchanged yen for U.S. dollars?
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