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FIN 571 Entire Course Final Guide FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     FIN 571 Week
1 Financial Ratio Analysis (Walmart) FIN 571 Week
1 Financial Ratio Analysis (General Motors) FIN
571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis (Apple)
FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
(Amazon) FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and
Analysis (Target) FIN 571 Week 2 Stock
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (New, 2019) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Question 1
The underlying assumption of the dividend growth
model is that a stock is worth A. An amount
computed as the next annual dividend
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FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 firms
liabilities (relative to the book value of
liabilities)?
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FIN 571 Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis
(Apple) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com
    Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to help students gain a better
understanding of the financial statements used
for corporate financial reporting and the key
ratios used to make business decisions.
Assignment Steps Select a Fortune 500 Company
from one of the following
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FIN 571 Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis (General
Motors) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com
    Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to help students gain a better
understanding of the financial statements used
for corporate financial reporting and the key
ratios used to make business decisions.
Assignment Steps Select a Fortune 500 Company
from one of the following
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FIN 571 Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis
(Pfizer) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com
    Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to help students gain a better
understanding of the financial statements used
for corporate financial reporting and the key
ratios used to make business decisions.
Assignment Steps Select a Fortune 500 Company
from one of the following
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FIN 571 Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis
(Walmart) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.co
m     Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to help students gain a better
understanding of the financial statements used
for corporate financial reporting and the key
ratios used to make business decisions.
Assignment Steps Select a Fortune 500 Company
from one of the following industries
Pharmaceutical Energy Retail Automotive
Computer Hardware Review the balance sheet and
income statement in the
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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?
You own 1 million worth of 90-day Treasury
bills. You roll over this investment every 90
days by reinvesting the proceeds in another issue
of
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FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
Structures FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.c
om     Watch the "Your Business Structure" and
"Corporate Business Structures" videos on the
Electronics Reserve Readings page. Identify the
different business structures.
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business
Structure Advice FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Write a 350 to 700
word response to the following e-mail Dear
Consultant,
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics and
Finance FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com
    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
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio
Analysis Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Ratio Analysis
Problems   Ratio Analysis (Individual
Assignment) You may use excel or word.doc format
for this assignment.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
(Amazon) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com
    Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to allow students the opportunity
to research a Fortune 500 company stock using the
popular online research tool Yahoo Finance. The
tool allows the student to review analyst reports
and other key financial information necessary to
evaluate the stock value and make an educated
decision on whether to invest. Assignment Steps
Resources Yahoo Finance Select a Fortune 500
Company from one of
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FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
(Apple) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com
    Assignment Steps Resources Yahoo Finance
Select a Fortune 500 Company from one of the
following industries Pharmaceutical Energy
Retail Automotive Computer Hardware
Manufacturing Mining Access Yahoo Finance and
enter the company name.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
(Ford) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com  
  Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to allow students the opportunity
to research a Fortune 500 company stock using the
popular
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FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
(Target) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com
    Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to allow students the opportunity
to research a Fortune 500 company stock using the
popular online research tool Yahoo Finance. The
tool allows the student to review analyst reports
and other key financial information necessary to
evaluate the
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FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
(Tesla) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com
    Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to allow students the opportunity
to research a Fortune 500 company stock using the
popular online research tool Yahoo Finance. The
tool allows the student to review analyst reports
and other key financial information necessary to
evaluate the
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FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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. Calculate the financial ratios for
the assigned company's financial statements, and
then interpret those results against company
historical data as well as
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FIN 571 Week 3 Researching Industry Financial
Statistics FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.
com     Purpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to allow the students an
opportunity to complete their financial
evaluation of a company using
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FIN 571 Week 3 Team Assignment Financial
Statement Interpretation FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Select three
publicly traded companies. Choose one each from
the following sectors manufacturing, service,
and retail. At least one of the three companies
should be foreign. If possible, choose from among
the team members' places of business or similar
industries. Calculate the following Current
ratio
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FIN 571 Week 3 Using the Payback Method, IRR, and
NPV FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com    
The purpose of this assignment is to allow the
student to calculate the project cash flow using
net present value (NPV), internal rate of return
(IRR), and the
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FIN 571 Week 4 Assignment Rate of Return for
Stocks and Bonds (2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     The purpose of this
assignment is to allow the student an opportunity
to calculate the rate of return of equity and
debt instruments. It allows the student to
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  FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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
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FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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
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FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Assignment Analyzing
Pro Forma Statements FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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).
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FIN 571 Week 4 Team Assignment Operating Leverage
and Forecasting FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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
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FIN 571 Week 5 Assignment Capital Market
Efficiency Paper (2 Papers) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Purpose of
Assignment The purpose of this assignment is to
allow the student an opportunity to explain what
it means to have an efficient capital market.
Students will gain an understanding of the
different levels of market efficiency and how
behavioral finance can inhibit reaching market
transparency.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Assignment Effect of Debt Issuance
on Stock Valuation FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Purpose of
Assignment The purpose of this assignment is to
demonstrate to students how the issuance of debt
to purchase outstanding common stock
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FIN 571 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     The development of
the new issue junk bond market had important
implications for capital structure choice. The
existence of a viable junk bond market
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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Assignment DCF and WACC
Problems FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.co
m     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 Team Assignment Capital Budgeting
Assignment, Part 1 (New Heritage Doll) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Acting as
the executive team for a small company, your team
will apply the principles of capital budgeting to
invest in growth and cash flow improvement
opportunities in three phases over 10 simulated
years. Each opportunity has a unique financial
profile and you must analyze the effects on
working capital.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Working Capital Simulation
Managing Growth, Part 1 (SNC) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Acting as the
executive team for a small company, your team
will apply the principles of capital budgeting to
invest in growth and cash flow improvement
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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Working
Capital Simulation Managing Growth Assignment
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     Reso
urces 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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FIN 571 Week 6 Signature Assignment Short Term
Funding (2 PPT) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     About Your Signature
Assignment This signature assignment is designed
to align with specific program student learning
outcome(s) in your program. Program Student
Learning Outcomes are broad statements that
describe what students should know and be able to
do upon completion of their degree. The
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FIN 571 Week 6 Team Assignment Capital Budgeting
Assignment, Part 2 (New Heritage Doll) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     The
executive team of New Heritage Doll has completed
the decision making for capital budgeting for the
firm. Now the team must decide which decisions
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FIN 571 Week 6 Working Capital Simulation
Managing Growth, Part 2 (SNC) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571nerd.com     The executive team
of New Heritage Doll has completed the decision
making for capital budgeting for the firm. Now
the team must decide which decisions and approach
were the best for the company. The executive team
must create a presentation to be given to the
board members of SNC. Compare the decisions and
results of all members of the team. Create a
20-slide Microsoft PowerPoint presentation that
includes detailed speaker notes that act as the
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