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• FIN 420 Entire Course
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• FIN 420 Week 1 DQ 1
• FIN 420 Week 1 DQ 2
• FIN 420 Week 1 Individual Assignment Personal
  Finance Mission Statement
• FIN 420 Week 2 Individual Assignment Personal
  Finance Problems and Summary
• FIN 420 Week 2 Personal Finance Quiz
• FIN 420 Week 2 DQ 1
• FIN 420 Week 2 DQ 2
• FIN 420 Week 3 Individual Problem Worksheet
• FIN 420 Week 3 Learning Team Problems
• FIN 420 Week 3 DQ 1
• FIN 420 Week 3 DQ 2

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• FIN 420 Week 1 DQ 1
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• Describe your current budgeting system. What
  factors influence your financial decisions? What
  are the benefits or concerns of your current
  budgeting system?

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• FIN 420 Week 1 DQ 2
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• Ch. 1 of Focus on Personal Finance introduces
  eight components of personal financial planning.
  Describe three components of personal financial
  planning. Visit one of the Key websites suggested
  on the corresponding pages of Focus on Personal
  Finance for each of the three components you
  described. What information did you find most
  valuable on the websites you visited?

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• FIN 420 Week 1 Individual Assignment Personal
  Finance Mission Statement
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• Write a 350- to 700-word personal finance mission
  statement that describes where you want to be
  financially and how you want to get there.
  Communicate the following in your mission
  statement 
• Personal values
• Financial goals
• Future vision
• An easy action to take to meet your mission
• A difficult action to take to meet your mission 
• Format your assignment consistent with APA
  guidelines.

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• FIN 420 Week 2 DQ 1
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• Consider your personal cash flows. How would you
  adjust cash outflows (i.e. adjust your budget) if
  your household income was cut in half? If your
  cash inflows increased, how would you reallocate
  your surplus to meet your personal needs and
  objectives? How do you use credit as a part of
  your personal financial plan?

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• FIN 420 Week 2 DQ 2
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• Many different types of financial institutions
  exist. Differentiate between deposit institutions
  and non-deposit institutions. Provide two
  examples of deposit and non-deposit financial
  institutions with a brief explanation of each.
  How can you use each of these financial
  institutions to manage your cash flows and
  develop or enhance your personal financial plan?  

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• FIN 420 Week 2 Individual Assignment Personal
  Finance Problems and Summary
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• Complete the Personal Finance Problems - Week 2.
• Write a 750- to 1,050-word summary of the
  problems in which the team includes the
  following 
• What influence does present and future value of
  money have on the different scenarios? 
• What is the role of risk in determining decisions
  to diversify or how assets are allocated? 
• Submit the team's answers to the questions
  including all calculations and a summary of the
  results.Click the Assignment Files tab to submit
  your assignment.

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• FIN 420 Week 2 Personal Finance Quiz
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• 1  Carla Lopez deposits 2,500 a year into her
  retirement account. If these funds have an
  average earning of 8 percent over the 40 years
  until her retirement, what will be the value of
  her retirement account?
• 2  An ATM with a service fee of 2 is used by a
  person 100 times in a year. What would be the
  future value in 10 years (use a 3 percent rate)
  of the annual amount paid in ATM fees?
• 3  If a person spends 10 a week on coffee
  (assume 500 a year), what would be the future
  value of that amount over 10 years if the funds
  were deposited in an account earning 3 percent?
• 4 A financial company that advertises on
  television will pay you 60,000 now for annual
  payments of 10,000 that you are expected to
  receive for a legal settlement over the next 10
  years.  What is the present value of this
  assuming the time value of the money at 10?
• 5 Brenda plans to reduce her saving (that is, she
  will spend more) by 50 a month. What would be
  the foregone future value of this reduced saving
  over the next 10 years?

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• FIN 420 Week 3 DQ 1
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• Evaluate your personal risk tolerance using
  Exhibit 11-2 A Quick Test to Measure Investment
  Risk in Ch. 11 of Focus on Personal Finance.
  Based on your results, were you considered more
  conservative or less conservative? What factors
  affected your investment choices? Consider a
  friend or family member who is more conservative
  or less conservative than you. How do their money
  management behaviors differ from your own?

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• FIN 420 Week 3 DQ 2
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• Financial experts agree that having an emergency
  fund is an essential component of a comprehensive
  financial plan. However, advice regarding the
  number of months of household expenses the
  emergency fund should cover varies between 3 and
  9 months. Taking into account the current
  financial environment, how many months of
  expenses would you recommend for an emergency
  fund and why? What are three investment options
  that are appropriate for an emergency fund? Which
  of these investment options offer the best
  returns? What reasons might encourage you to
  forego a higher return on your emergency funds?

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• FIN 420 Week 3 Individual Problem Worksheet
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• Complete Worksheet 37 in Focus on Personal
  Finance, Your Financial Plan Evaluating
  Corporate Bonds.
• Explain the principle of asset allocation. Using
  the Internet or library research, prepare a
  2-minute presentation describing why the
  principle of asset allocation is important when
  establishing an investment program.
• Assume you are 59 years old, want to retire in 6
  years, and currently have an investment portfolio
  valued at 550,000 invested in technology stocks.

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• FIN 420 Week 3 Learning Team Problems
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•  Assume that you are choosing an investment for
  your retired parents. What are the advantages and
  disadvanges of each of the following?
• o   a bond issued by the federal government,
• o   a state or local government,
• o   or a corporation?
•          Which would you recommend for your
  retired parents? Justify your answer.
•          Five years ago, you purchased a 1,000
  corporate bond issued by General Electric. The
  interest rate for the bond was 5. Comparable
  bonds are paying 6 today.

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• FIN 420 Week 4 DQ 1
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• Adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) have received a
  great deal of bad press due to the tremendous
  number of foreclosures resulting from families
  who could not afford the loan payments once the
  interest rates increased. Do you believe this
  loan option was used appropriately in recent
  years? Why or why not? Under what circumstances
  does the use of ARMs make sense? Please explain.

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• FIN 420 Week 4 DQ 2
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• Visit a site such as www.bankrate.com to
  determine current rates for both a 60-month and a
  36-month loan on a new car where the buyer must
  finance 20,000. Using the loan calculator, what
  is the difference in monthly payments between the
  60-month loan and the 36-month loan? Review the
  amortization tables. What is the difference in
  total interest one would pay over the life of
  these two loans? What do these differences show
  you about the true cost of the car?.

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• FIN 420 Week 4 Individual Assignment Mutual Fund
  Evaluation
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• Choose a mutual fund family such as Vanguard,
  American Funds, T. Rowe Price, and so forth.
• Identify one mutual fund from that family for
  each of the following categories 
• Actively managed common stock fund
• Fixed income fund
• Balanced fund
• International fund
• Fund devoted to retirement investing 
• Write a 350- to 700-word mutual fund evaluation
  for each mutual fund using the worksheet of your
  financial plan as a template.

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• FIN 420 Week 4 Personal Finance Quiz
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• 1 As a stockholder of Kentucky Gas and Oil, you
  receive its annual report. In the financial
  statements, the firm reported after-tax earnings
  of 1,200,000 and has issued 1,500,000 shares of
  common stock. The stock is currently selling for
  24 a share.  What is the per earnings share for
  Kentucky Gas and Oil?

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• FIN 420 Week 5 DQ 1
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• Life insurance is a topic many people do not like
  to discuss, but understanding your familys needs
  and planning appropriately in the event of a
  premature death is also part of a comprehensive
  financial plan. Outlined in Ch. 10 are four
  methods for estimating life insurance needs.

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• FIN 420 Week 5 DQ 2
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• Consider your current financial plan. Based on
  what you have learned about your financial goals,
  risk tolerance, and risk and return of various
  investment options, what adjustments should you
  make to the asset allocation of your investment
  portfolio? What specific actions do you need to
  take to make those adjustments or to establish
  your investment portfolio? What adjustments will
  you need to make to your budget and investment
  portfolio to include adequate insurance?Consider
  your current financial plan. Based on what you
  have learned about your financial goals, risk
  tolerance, and risk and return of various
  investment options, what adjustments should you
  make to the asset allocation of your investment
  portfolio? What specific actions do you need to
  take to make those adjustments or to establish
  your investment portfolio? What adjustments will
  you need to make to your budget and investment
  portfolio to include adequate insurance?

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• FIN 420 Week 5 Individual Problem Worksheet
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• Complete the following problems
• Describe the two types of tax-deferred
  investment accounts an IRA, and a 401(k) or
  403(b), and contrast them with a regular taxable
  investment account

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• FIN 420 Week 5 Team Assignment Financial Planning
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• Choose a minimum of three of the four following
  life situations (or use all four)
• Husband/wife, two kids, 1 income, mortgage, good
  salary, some savings, no college fund
• Divorced, 55 years old, 1.2 million, 2 kids in
  college, no debt
• 24-year-old single woman, college graduate,
  engineer, 20,000 savings
• 74-year-old widower, excellent pension, 500,000,
  long-term care insurance, three children
• Write a 1,050- to 1,400-word paper in which you
  do the following
• Describe the risk tolerance and recommended asset
  allocation to match that risk for each of the
  life situations selected.
• Choose some appropriate investments.

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