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FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Practice Quiz
FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
Structures
FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1
FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 2
FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business Structure
Advice
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (New)
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Multiple Choice Question 51
Which of the following is considered a hybrid
organizational form?
partnership
limited liability partnership
sole proprietorship
Corporation
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 1 and 2
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1) Which principle states that extraordinary returns are
achievable with new ideas?
2) Occurs when a "follower" receives the benefit of an
expenditure made by a "leader" by imitating the leader's
behavior.
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1) Occurs when a "follower" receives the benefit of an
expenditure made by a "leader" by imitating the leader's
behavior.
2) Occurs when inaccurate information can falsely exist.
3) Refers to situations wherein the agent can take unseen
actions for personal benefit even though such actions are
costly to the principal.
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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Math and Accounting
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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Math & Accounting
Review) 1. Functions Excel will make your life as a
finance student much easier. This section will show how to
use various functions in Excel. Once you understand the
how and why of a particular financial equation, you can
make 1. Which Excel cell entry will calculate the square
root of 165? 2.
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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Week 1 Problem Set)
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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Week 1 Problem Set)
1.If a firm is currently profitable, then: 2.Short-term finance
deals with: 3.A stakeholder is any person or entity:
4.Which one of these best fits the description of an
agency cost? 5.The primary goal of financial management
is to: 6.Which one of the following business types is best
suited to raising large amounts of capital?
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FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1
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What is ethics? If you follow all applicable rules and
regulations, are you an ethical person?
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FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 2
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Assume that interest rates have increased substantially.
Would this tend to increase or decrease
the market value (meaning the price an investor in the
firm's paper is willing to pay) of a firm’s liabilities (relative
to the book value of liabilities)?
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FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
Structures
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Watch the "Your Business Structure" and "Corporate
Business Structures" videos on the Electronics Reserve
Readings page.
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FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Practice Quiz
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Multiple Choice Question 42
Which of the following business organizational forms
subjects the owner(s) to unlimited liability?
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FIN 571 Week 2 Connect Problems
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FIN 571 Week 2 Connect Problems 1.Sankey, Inc., has
current assets of $4,230, net fixed assets of $25,700,
current liabilities of $3,500, and long-term debt of $14,400.
What is the value of the shareholders' equity account for
this firm? 2.Which one of the following assets is generally
the most liquid? 3.Which one of the following accounts is
included in stockholders' equity
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 1
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In order to receive proper credit, please reply to this
message when posting your answers to WK2 DQ1.
Suppose you own $1 million worth of 30-year
Treasury bonds. Is this asset riskless?
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 2
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Suppose rf is 5% and rM is 10%. According to the SML
and the CAPM, an asset with a beta of −2.0
has a required return of negative 5% [= 5 − 2(10 − 5)].
Can this be possible? Does this mean that
the asset has negative risk? Why would anyone ever
invest in an asset that has an expected and
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business Structure
Advice
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Write a 350 to 700 word response to the following e-mail:
Dear Consultant,
I am currently starting a business and developing my
business plan. I'm in need of some advice on how to start
forming my business. I am not sure exactly how it will be
financed and whether or not I want to take on partners.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics and
Finance
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The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) was passed as
the result of the Enron scandal and other instances of
accounting fraud. This act was passed to strengthen the
role of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio Analysis
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Ratio Analysis Problems
Ratio Analysis
(Individual Assignment)
You may use excel or word.doc format for this
assignment.
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Multiple Choice Question 53
Which one of the following statements about trend
analysis is NOT correct?
It allows management to examine each ratio over time
and determine whether the trend is good or bad for the
firm.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection
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Read the Ethics case, "A Sad Tale: The Demise of Arthur
Anderson" located in the WileyPLUS Week Fundamentals
of Corporate Finance Chapter readings.
Discuss the mistakes made by Arthur Anderson and
potential actions that leadership could have taken to
prevent the organizational failure.
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FIN 571 Week 3 Connect Problems
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FIN 571 Week 3 Connect Problems If the Garnett Corp.
has a 15 percent ROE and a 25 percent payout ratio, what
is its sustainable growth rate? 1.If the Hunter Corp. has an
ROE of 15 and a payout ratio of 18 percent, what is its
sustainable growth rate 2.The most recent financial
statements for Williamson, Inc., are shown here Assets
and costs are proportional to sales.
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FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 1
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Why are interest rates on short-term loans not necessarily
comparable to each other? Give three possible reasons.
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FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 2
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Optical Supply Company offers credit terms of 2/10, net
60. If Optical Supply is considering a change in its credit
terms to one of those indicated, explain whether the
change should increase or decrease sales. (a) 2/10, net
30, (b) net 60, (c) 3/15, net 60, (d) 2/10, net 30, 30 extra
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FIN 571 Week 3 Individual Assignment Interpreting
Financial Results
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Resource: Financial Statements for the company
assigned by your instructor in Week 2.
Review the assigned company's financial statements from
the past three years.
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Multiple Choice Question 32
The operating cycle
ends not with the finished goods being sold to customers
and the cash collected on the sales; but when you take
into account the time taken by the firm to pay for its
purchases.
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FIN 571 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection
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Watch the "Concept Review Video: Working Capital
Management" video located in theWileyPLUS Assignment:
Week 3 Videos Activity.
Discuss strategies these business owners used to
manage their working capital.
Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.
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FIN 571 Week 4 Connect Problems
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FIN 571 Week 4 Connect Problems 1.Even though most
corporate bonds in the United States make coupon
payments semiannually, bonds issued elsewhere often
have annual coupon payments. Suppose a German
company issues a bond with a par value of €1,000, 20
years to maturity, and a coupon rate of 7 percent paid
annually.If the yield to maturity is 8.1
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FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 1
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A firm uses a single discount rate to compute the NPV of
all its potential capital budgeting projects, even though the
projects have a wide range of nondiversifiable risk. The
firm then undertakes all those projects that appear to have
positive NPVs. Briefly explain why such a firm would tend
to become riskier over time.
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FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 2
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Phyllis believes that the firm should use straight-line
depreciation for a capital project because it results in
higher net income during the early years of the project’s
life. Joanna believes that the firm should use the modified
accelerated cost recovery system depreciation because it
reduces the tax liability during the early years of the
project’s life.
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FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Assignment Analyzing Pro
Forma Statements
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Decide upon an initiative you want to implement that
would increase sales over the next five years, (for
example, market another product, corporate expansion,
and so on).
Using the sample financial statements, create pro forma
statements of five year projections that are clear, concise,
and easy to read.
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FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Practice Quiz
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Multiple Choice Question 66
Present value: Tommie Harris is considering an
investment that pays 6.5 percent annually. How much
must he invest today such that he will have $25,000 in
seven years? (Round to the nearest dollar.)
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FIN 571 Week 4 Learning Team Reflection
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Watch the "Concept Review Video: Stock Valuation" video
located in the WileyPLUS Assignment: Week 4 Videos
Activity.
Discuss how markets and investors value a stock.
Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.
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FIN 571 Week 4 Team Assignment Operating Leverage
and Forecasting
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Operating Leverage and Forecasting Problems Team
Assignment
Please complete the following problems. When
calculating earnings per share and PE ratios, please show
your work. This problem is similar to the examples shown
in the lecture.
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FIN 571 Week 5 DQ 1
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Because the weighted average is always a correct
measure of a required return, why do firms not create
securities to finance each project and offer them in the
capital market in order to accurately determine the
required return for the project?
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FIN 571 Week 5 DQ 2
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The development of the new issue junk bond market had
important implications for capital structure choice. The
existence of a viable junk bond market means that firms
can comfortably maintain higher degrees of leverage than
they could prior to the development of this market. Do you
agree or disagree? Justify your answer.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Assignment DCF and WACC
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Discounted Cash Flows and WACC Homework Problems
Please post the answers (and show your work) in the
assignments section by midnight the last day of the week
assigned.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Practice Quiz
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Multiple Choice Question 55
Genaro needs to capture a return of 40 percent for his
one-year investment in a property. He believes that he can
sell the property at the end of the year for $150,000 and
that the property will provide him with rental income of
$25,000. What is the
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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Wileyplus Assignment
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Problem 5.17
Problem 5.21
Problem 6.19
Problem 6.27
Problem 7.16
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FIN 571 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection
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Watch the "Concept Review Video: Cost of Capital" video
located in the WileyPLUS Assignment: Week 5 Videos
Activity.
Discuss some of the corporate finance challenges faced
by this company.
Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Homework
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Week 6
HomeworkComplete the following problems. You should
do this work in excel. A set of ungraded practice
problems similar to the homework is provided in the week
six material to help you do this assignment.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Working Capital
Simulation Managing Growth Assignment
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Resources:
Harvard Business Publishing: Working Capital Simulation:
Managing Growth Assignment
Ch. 1 - 21 ofFundamentals of Corporate Finance
WileyPLUS Assignments
All additional resources from each week
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Multiple Choice Question 55
Planning models that are more sophisticated than the
percent of sales method have
working capital accounts like inventory, accounts
receivables, and accounts payables vary directly with
sales.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Wileyplus Assignment
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Problem 10.14
Briarcrest Condiments is a spice-making firm. Recently, it
developed a new process for producing spices. The
process requires new machinery that would cost
$1,968,450. Have a life of five years, and would produce
the cash flows shown in the following table.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection
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Watch the "Corporate Finance Video: Stable Money
Makers" located in the WileyPLUS Assignment: Week 6
Videos Activity.
Identify a capital improvement that could help Betty with
her Alpaca business.
Write a summary of no more than 700 words explaining
how the capital improvement you identified could help the
business.
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