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• FIN 534 Entire Course (Str Course)
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• FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 1 Solution
• FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2 Solution
• FIN 534 Week 2 Chapter 3 Solution
• FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 4 Solution
• FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 5 Solution
• FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 6 Solution
• FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 7 Solution
• FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 8 Solution
• FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 9 Solution

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• FIN 534 Final Exam Set 1 (4 Sets)
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• FIN 534 Final Exam Part 1 Set 1
• Question 1
• BLW Corporation is considering the
  terms to be set on the options it plans to issue
  to its executives. Which of the following actions
  would decrease the value of the options, other
  things held constant?

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• FIN 534 Final Exam Set 2 (4 Sets)
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• FIN 534 Final Exam Part 2 Set 1
• Question 1
• Which of the following is NOT
  normally regarded as being a good reason to
  establish an ESOP?

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• FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 1 Solution (Str Course)
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• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. One of the disadvantages of a sole
  proprietorship is that the proprietor is exposed
  to unlimited liability.
• b. It is generally easier to transfer ones
  ownership interest in a partnership than in a
  corporation.
• c. One of the advantages of the corporate form of
  organization is that it avoids double taxation.

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• FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2 Solution (Str Course)
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• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. Typically, a firms DPS should exceed its EPS.
• b. Typically, a firms EBIT should exceed its
  EBITDA.
• c. If a firm is more profitable than average
  (e.g., Google), we would normally expect to see
  its stock price exceed its book value per share.
• d. If a firm is more profitable than most other
  firms, we would normally expect to see its book
  value per share exceed its stock price,
  especially after several years of high inflation.
• e. The more depreciation a firm has in a given
  year, the higher its EPS, other things held
  constant.

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• FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 1 (Str Course)
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• Imagine a startup company of your own and briefly
  trace its development from a sole proprietorship
  to a major corporation with a focus on how that
  development would be financed.

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• FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 2 (Str Course)
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• Week 1 discussion 2
• Discuss ways that the basic concepts we have
  discussed in this chapter directly impact your
  life. Provide specific examples to support your
  response.

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• FIN 534 Week 1 Quiz 1 (Str Course)
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• Question 1
• You recently sold 100 shares of your new company,
  XYZ Corporation, to your brother at a family
  reunion. At the reunion your brother gave you a
  check for the stock and you gave your brother the
  stock certificates. Which of the following
  statements best describes this transaction?
• 1) This is an example of an exchange of physical
  assets.
• 2) This is an example of a primary market
  transaction.

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• FIN 534 Week 2 Chapter 3 Solution (Str Course)
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• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. The ratio of long-term debt to total capital
  is more likely to experience seasonal
  fluctuations than is either the DSO or the
  inventory turnover ratio.
• b. If two firms have the same ROA, the firm with
  the most debt can be expected to have the lower
  ROE.
• c. An increase in the DSO, other things held
  constant, could be expected to increase the total
  assets turnover ratio.

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• FIN 534 Week 2 DQ 1 (Str Course)
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• Week 2 discussion 1
• Assume you are deciding whether or not to invest
  in a particular company. Discuss which elements
  of which financial statements you would want to
  carefully examine. Explain your rationale.

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• FIN 534 Week 2 DQ 2 (Str Course)
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• Week 2 discussion 2
• From the e-Activity, determine if the company you
  analyzed would be a good investment for you or
  not. Provide specific examples to support your
  response.

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• FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 4 Solution (Str Course)
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• A 50,000 loan is to be amortized over 7 years,
  with annual end-of-year payments. Which of these
  statements is CORRECT?
• a. The annual payments would be larger if the
  interest rate were lower.
• b. If the loan were amortized over 10 years
  rather than 7 years, and if the interest rate
  were the same in either case, the first payment
  would include more dollars of interest under the
  7-year amortization plan.
• c. The proportion of each payment that represents
  interest as opposed to repayment of principal
  would be lower if the interest rate were lower.
• d. The last payment would have a higher
  proportion of interest than the first payment.
• e. The proportion of interest versus principal
  repayment would be the same for each of the 7
  payments.

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• FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 5 Solution (Str Course)
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• Three 1,000 face value bonds that mature in 10
  years have the same level of risk, hence their
  YTMs are equal. Bond A has an 8 annual coupon,
  Bond B has a 10 annual coupon, and Bond C has a
  12 annual coupon. Bond B sells at par. Assuming
  interest rates remain constant for the next 10
  years, which of the following statements is
  CORRECT?
• a. Bond As current yield will increase each
  year.
• b. Since the bonds have the same YTM, they should
  all have the same price, and since interest rates
  are not expected to change, their prices should
  all remain at their current levels until
  maturity.
• c. Bond C sells at a premium (its price is
  greater than par), and its price is expected to
  increase over the next year.
• d. Bond A sells at a discount (its price is less
  than par), and its price is expected to increase
  over the next year.

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• FIN 534 Week 3 DQ 1 (Str Course)
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• Week 3 discussion 1
• Starting with your current situation, describe
  what you must do to ensure an annual retirement
  income of 60,000 starting at age 65.

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• FIN 534 Week 3 DQ 2 (Str Course)
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• Week 3 discussion 2
• Discuss the impact of Standard Poors
  downgrading the U.S. credit rating in 2011.
  Address current and likely future impact on U.S.
  business, individuals, the global economy and
  current financial practices. Provide specific
  examples to support your response.

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• FIN 534 Week 3 Quiz 2 (Str Course)
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• Question 1
• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. Since companies can deduct dividends paid but
  not interest paid, our tax system favors the use
  of equity financing over debt financing, and this
  causes companies debt ratios to be lower than
  they would be if interest and dividends were both
  deductible.
• b. Interest paid to an individual is counted as
  income for tax purposes and taxed at the
  individuals regular tax rate, which in 2008
  could go up to 35, but dividends received were
  taxed at a maximum rate of 15.

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• FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 6 Solution (Str Course)
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• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. If you add enough randomly selected stocks to
  a portfolio, you can completely eliminate all of
  the market risk from the portfolio.
• b. If you were restricted to investing in
  publicly traded common stocks, yet you wanted to
  minimize the riskiness of your portfolio as
  measured by its beta, then according to the CAPM
  theory you should invest an equal amount of money
  in each stock in the market. That is, if there
  were 10,000 traded stocks in the world, the least
  risky possible portfolio would include some
  shares of each one.

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• FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 7 Solution (Str Course)
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• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. The constant growth model takes into
  consideration the capital gains investors expect
  to earn on a stock.
• b. Two firms with the same expected dividend and
  growth rates must also have the same stock price.
• c. It is appropriate to use the constant growth
  model to estimate a stock's value even if its
  growth rate is never expected to become constant.
• d. If a stock has a required rate of return rs
  12, and if its dividend is expected to grow at a
  constant rate of 5, this implies that the
  stocks dividend yield is also 5.

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• FIN 534 Week 4 DQ 1 (Str Course)
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• Week 4 discussion 1
• Drawing on what you discovered in the e-Activity,
  discuss how instances of corporate mismanagement
  or fraud should be taken into account when
  assessing the risks associated with certain types
  of investments.
• Information is the investor's best tool when it
  comes to investing wisely. Often, the lack of
  reliable, readily available, current information
  also opens the door to fraud. It is easier for
  the unscrupulous to spread false information and
  to manipulate a stock's price when accurate
  information about the company is scarce.

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• FIN 534 Week 4 DQ 2 (Str Course)
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• Week 4 discussion 2
• Discuss the non-rational factors that may have a
  role in the valuation of stocks and stock market
  equilibrium. Provide specific examples to support
  your response.

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• FIN 534 Week 4 Quiz 3 (Str Course)
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• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• 1) A time line is not meaningful unless all
  cash flows occur annually
• 2) Time lines are useful for visualizing
  complex problems prior to doing actual
  calculations
• 3) Time lines cannot be constructed to deal
  with situations where some of the cash flows
  occur annually but others occur quarterly
• 4) Time lines can only be constructed for
  annuities where the payments occur at the ends of
  the periods, i.e., for ordinary annuities
• 5) Time lines cannot be constructed where
  some of the payments constitute an annuity but
  others are unequal and thus are not part of the
  annuity

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• FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 8 Solution (Str Course)
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• Which of the following statements is CORRECT?
• a. Put options give investors the right to buy a
  stock at a certain strike price before a
  specified date.
• b. Call options give investors the right to sell
  a stock at a certain strike price before a
  specified date.
• c. Options typically sell for less than their
  exercise value.
• d. LEAPS are very short-term options that were
  created relatively recently and now trade in the
  market.

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• FIN 534 Week 10 Chapter 17 Solution (Str Course)
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• . In Japan, 90-day securities have a 4
  annualized return and 180-day securities have a
  5 annualized return. In the United States,
  90-day securities have a 4 annualized return and
  180-day securities have an annualized return of
  4.5. All securities are of equal risk, and
  Japanese securities are denominated in terms of
  the Japanese yen. Assuming that interest rate
  parity holds in all markets, which of the
  following statements is most CORRECT?
• a. The yen-dollar spot exchange rate equals the
  yen-dollar exchange rate in the 90-day forward
  market.
• b. The yen-dollar spot exchange rate equals the
  yen-dollar exchange rate in the 180-day forward
  market.

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• FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 1 (Str Course)
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• Week 10 discussion 1
• Based on what you uncovered in the e-Activity,
  determine the most significant risk factors
  associated with investing in the company you
  selected when compared with investing in a
  domestic company. Provide specific examples to
  support your response.

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• FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 2 (Str Course)
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• Week 10 discussion 2
• Recommend three policy changes that would make
  the Federal Reserves job of controlling U.S.
  interest rates easier. Explain your reasoning.

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• FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 2 (Str Course)
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• Week 10 discussion 2
• Recommend three policy changes that would make
  the Federal Reserves job of controlling U.S.
  interest rates easier. Explain your reasoning.

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• FIN 534 Week 11 DQ 1 (Str Course)
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• Week 11 discussion 1
• Reflect on the lessons learned during this class
  and discuss the most interesting or surprising
  thing you learned. Explain what made it so.

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• FIN 534 Week 11 DQ 2 (Str Course)
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• Week 11 discussion 2
• Discuss how you plan on using what you learned in
  this course in your current or future position.
  What will prove to be the most valuable?

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• FIN 534 Week 11 Quiz 10 (Str Course)
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• Finance 534 week 11 quiz 10
• Question 1
• Suppose DeGraw Corporation, a U.S.
  exporter, sold a solar heating station to a
  Japanese customer at a price of 143.5 million
  yen, when the exchange rate was 140 yen per
  dollar. In order to close the sale, DeGraw
  agreed to make the bill payable in yen, thus
  agreeing to take some exchange rate risk for the
  transaction. The terms were net 6 months.

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