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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 FIN 515 Week 2
DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM Model
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FIN 515 Final Exam (all 3 Sets) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Final Exam Set
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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
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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 Question
3.3. (TCO B) Which of the following would cause
the present value of an annuity to decrease?
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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
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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 to
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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) Question 2. 2. (TCO G) If Moon
Corporation has an increase in sales, which of
the following would result in no change in its
EBIT margin? (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.
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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 is Michelle DellaTorre, a
professional tennis player who has just come to
the United States from Chile. DellaTorre is a
highly ranked tennis player who would like to
start a company to produce and market apparel she
designs.
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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? 1-3. Which organizational forms
give their owners limited liability?
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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 number
typically would be preferred and describe a
situation in which a lower number for that ratio
would be preferred.
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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 FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of
Capital Expenditure From Your Industry FIN 515
Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
Considerations
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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  
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 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
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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. (3-2)
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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.
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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
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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
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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. You could also pick a division of a
company
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
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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. The bonds have a
yield to maturity of 9. What is the current
market price of these bonds?
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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
characteristics of your company and its financial
profile.
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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
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om   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

(6-1). Portfolio Beta
Your
investment club has only two stocks in its
portfolio. 20,000 is invested in a stock with a
beta of 0.7, and 35,000 is invested in a stock
with a beta of 1.3. What is the portfolios beta?


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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   C
alculating 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. The textbook provides a
list of betas for a selection of stocks. Choose a
few firms from that list and discuss whether the
betas are what you would expect. Be sure to
explain why or why not.
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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. The cash outlay for the
truck is 17,100 and that for the pulley system
is 22,430. The firms cost of capital is 14.
After-tax cash flows, including depreciation, are
as follows
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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?
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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
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m   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. The project does not provide a
step-by-step procedure for you to follow.
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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.co
m   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? What
else would you advise? You may provide examples
of agency problems from your own experience. If
you do that, be careful to provide enough
anonymity that you won't get in trouble.
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FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 2 The Role of Financial
Managers in Ethical Corporate Governance FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Week 6 (121) AFN
Equation Baxter Video Productss sales are
expected to increase by 20 from 5 million in
2010 to 6 million in 2011. Its assets totaled 3
million at the end of 2010. Baxter is already at
full capacity, so its assets must grow at the
same rate as projected sales. At the end of 2010,
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FIN 515 Week 6 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 6 Project Calculating the Weighted
Average Cost of Capital (Nike) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Once again, your team
is the key financial management team for your
company. The companys CEO is now looking to
expand its operations by investing in new
property, plant, and equipment. In order to
effectively evaluate the projects effectiveness,
you have been asked to determine the firms
weighted average cost of capital. To determine
the cost of capital, here is what you have been
asked to do.
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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry Approaches to
Working Capital Financing FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   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?
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FIN 515 Week 7 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Week 7 (16-1) Cash
Management Williams Sons last year reported
sales of 10 million and an inventory turnover
ratio of 2. The company is now adopting a new
inventory system. If the new system is able to
reduce the firms inventory level and increase
the firms inventory turnover ratio to 5 while
maintaining the same level of sales, how much
cash will be freed up?
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FIN 515 Week 7 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Chapter 26 (page
903) 1. Answer the following questions a. What
is the difference between a firms cash cycle and
its operating cycle?
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FIN 515 Week 7 Project Capital Budgeting Analysis
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Once again, your team is the key financial
management team for your company. The companys
CEO is now looking to expand its operations by
investing in new property, plant, and equipment.
Your team recently calculated the WACC for your
company, which will now be useful in evaluating
the projects effectiveness.
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