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  • FIN 515 Entire Course
  • FIN 515 Course Project 1 and 2
  • 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
  • This Tutorial contains
  • Week 3 Course Project (3 Sets)
  • Week 6 Course Project (2 Sets)

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  • FIN 515 Final Exam (all 3 Sets)
  • FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1
  • FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1
  • FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2
  • FIN 515 Final Exam Set 3
  • 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
  • FIN 515 Final Exam Set 3
  • 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
  • Question 3.3. (TCO B) Which of the following
    would cause the present value of an annuity to
    decrease?
  • 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 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance
  • FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis
  • 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 other
    attempts to mislead anyone.
  • 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.

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  • FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set
  • FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New)
  • 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?
  • 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,

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  • FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz
  • FIN 515 Week 1-7 DQs
  • 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?
  • 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
  • FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
    Expenditure From Your Industry

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  • FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem
  • FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM Model

FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem
  • 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
  • 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 Problem Set
  • FIN 515 Week 2 Quiz
  • 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)?
  • 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)
  • FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
    Expenditure From Your Industry
  • 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.
  • 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
  • FIN 515 Week 3 Problem Set
  • 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.
  • Week 3 Problem Set
  • 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 Quiz
  • FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
    Versus DDM Value
  • 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. Company A has an actual return of -8 and
    Company B has a return of 12. What is the return
    on your portfolio?
  • 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
  • FIN 515 Week 4 Midterm

FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 2 Differences in YTM of Real
Life Bonds
  • 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.
  • 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
  • FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 1 Calculating WACC for a Real
    Firm
  • 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.
  • Bonds-2. A certain bond has 12 years left to
    maturity. Interest is paid annually at a coupon
    rate of 10. The bonds are currently selling for
    850. What is their YTM?
  • 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.

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  • FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 2 Finding Stock Values for Real
    Stocks Using Beta and the SML
  • FIN 515 Week 5 problem Set
  • 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.
  • 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
  • FIN 515 Week 6 Course Project 2 (2 Different
    Projects)
  • 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.
  • Question 2.
  • 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
  • FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 2 The Role of Financial
    Managers in Ethical Corporate Governance
  • Examples 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?
  • The Role of Financial Managers in Ethical
    Corporate Governance (graded)
  • Does the financial manager have a greater
    responsibility or a lesser responsibility for
    maintaining ethical corporate governance? Why or
    why not? What is or will be your approach to
    ethical corporate governance now or in the future?

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  • FIN 515 Week 6 Problem Set
  • FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry Approaches to
    Working Capital Financing
  • Chapter 29 (pages 983-984)
  • 1.What inherent characteristic of corporations
    creates the need for a system of checks on
    manager behavior?
  • 2. What are some examples of agency problems?
  • 3.What are the advantages and disadvantages of
    the corporate organizational structure?
  • Industry Approaches to Working Capital Financing
    (graded)
  • Do some research on two firms in your industry or
    an industry in which you are interested. Can you
    get an idea of their working capital management
    policies from publicly available information? How
    do the two companies differ in their apparent
    working capital management policies? Which policy
    do you think is better and why?

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  • FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 2 Your Preference for Working
    Capital Management Policy
  • FIN 515 Week 7 Problem Set
  • Your Preference for Working Capital Management
    Policy (graded)
  • Consider the company you work for or a company in
    which you are interested. Also, do some research
    to find some current cost estimates for various
    means of financing working capital. What would be
    your recommendation to the company for financing
    its working capital needs?
  • Chapter 26 (page 903)
  • 1. Answer the following questions
  • a. What is the difference between a firms cash
    cycle and its operating cycle?
  • 2. How will a firms cash cycle be affected
    if a firm increases its inventory, all else being
    equal?
  • 2. How will a firms cash cycle be affected
    if a firm begins to take the discounts offered by
    its suppliers, all else being equal?

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