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FIN 571 In order to succeed, you must
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FIN 571 Entire Course

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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
• FIN 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection

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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Math and
Accounting Review)

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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

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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 1

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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. 3) Occurs when
  inaccurate information can falsely exist. 4)
  The annual report refers to 5) Remaining
  maturity refers to 6) Generally accepted
  accounting principles (GAAP) refers to 7) The
  firms assets in the balance sheet refer to 8)
  Original maturity refers to

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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 1 and 2

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• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 1
• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 2

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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
• Multiple Choice Question 59
• Which of the following is a principal within the
  agency relationship?
• the board of directors
• a company engineer

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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
• Multiple Choice Question 59
• Which of the following is a principal within the
  agency relationship?
• the board of directors
• a company engineer

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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.
• Identify the different business structures.
• Write a 350 to 700 word explanation of how each
  business structure might and might not be
  advantageous.
• Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your
  assignment.

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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

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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
  firms liabilities (relative to the book value of
  liabilities)?

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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?
• a) sole proprietorship
• b) partnership
• c) corporation

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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 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 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. I am interested
  and willing to learn the in

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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 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 Problems

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• Ratio Analysis Problems
• Ratio Analysis
• (Individual Assignment)
• You may use excel or word.doc format for this
  assignment.Please post your homework as a
  word.doc or excel file in the class discussion
  section below by the due date.
• 1. Analysis of cost of goods sold problem.
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  1992
  1993 1994
• Gross Profit Margin
  60 55 51
• What is happening to cost of goods sold? As was
  done in the week 2 online lecture on ratio
  analysis, please assume sales of 1 dollar each
  year as you do your analysis. This problem
  follows the process shown in the Week 2 Ratio
  Analysis online lecture section titled "Another
  Income Statement Analytical Approach Percent of

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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Practice Quiz

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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.
• This benchmark is based on a firm's historical
  performance

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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
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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.
• Calculate the financial ratios for the assigned
  company's financial statements, and then
  interpret those

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FIN 571 Week 3 Individual Practice Quiz

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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 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 percent, what is the
  current price of the bond?

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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 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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• 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 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. Be sure to
  double check the calculations in your pro forma
  statements. Make assumptions that support each
  line item increase or decrease for your

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FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Practice Quiz

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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. Be sure to
  double check the calculations in your pro forma
  statements. Make assumptions that support each
  line item increase or decrease for your

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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
Problems

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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 Assignment DCF and WACC
Problems

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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 maximum amount that Genaro should be
  willing to pay for the property?

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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Wileyplus Assignment

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• 1 Problem 5.17
• 2 Problem 5.21
• 3 Problem 6.19
• 4 Problem 6.27
• 5 Problem 7.16
• 6 Problem 8.24
• 7 Problem 9.15
• Problem 5.17

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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.
• Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your
  assignment.

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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Homework
Problems

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• Week 6
• Homework
• Complete 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
• Review the following scenario
• Acting as the CEO of a small company, you 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. Examples of opportunities
  include taking on new customers, capitalizing on
  supplier discounts, and reducing inventory.
• You must understand how the income statement,
  balance

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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Practice Quiz

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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.
• fixed assets that do not always 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.

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FIN 571 In order to succeed, you must
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