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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (3 Set with Excel File)
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com   This Tutorial also contains
2 other sets This tutorial contains 3 set of
final along with excel file which can be used to
solve question in case value changes
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571tutor.com      
1.A proxy fight occurs when the board of
directors disagree on the members of the
management team. 2. A stakeholder is any person
or entity 3.Which one of the following is
least apt to help convince managers to work in
the best interest of the stockholders? threat of
a proxy fight pay raises based on length of
service implementation of a stock option plan
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide Set 2 (NEW) FOR MORE
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www.fin571tutor.com   1. Financial managers
should primarily strive to 2. The process of
planning and managing a firm's long-term assets
is called 3. Which one of the following actions
by a financial manager creates an agency
problem? 4. Which one of these is a cash outflow
from a corporation? 5. For each of the following,
compute the present value 6. Gerold invested 115
in an account that pays 5 percent
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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Math and
Accounting Review) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com       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 1.
Which Excel cell entry will calculate the square
root of 165? 2. Which statements about Excels FV
function are correct? 3. Which fields are
required to calculate net present value (NPV) in
Excel?
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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Week 1 Problem
Set) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com       FIN 571 Week 1 Connect
Problems (Week 1 Problem Set) 1.The
ultimate control of a corporation lies in the
hands of the corporate president.
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FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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.fin571tutor.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 Individual Assignment Business
Structures FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com       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 2 Connect Problems FOR MORE
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www.fin571tutor.com       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. (Do not round intermediate
calculations.) What is the value of the
shareholders' equity account for this firm?
How much is net working capital? 2.
Which one of the following assets is generally
the most liquid?
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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?
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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.fin571tutor.com       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 intricacies of my options to determine how to
best proceed with my plan.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics and
Finance FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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 strengthen the role
of the Securities and Exchange Commission
(SEC). Research a case of corporate financial
abuse related to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
and apply this to your current work or desired
place of employment.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio
Analysis Problems FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com       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.
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FIN 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection FOR
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www.fin571tutor.com       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. Write a 350-
to 700-word summary of your discussion.
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FIN 571 Week 3 Connect Problems FOR MORE
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www.fin571tutor.com       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 2.The most recent financial statements for
Williamson, Inc., are shown here
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FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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.fin571tutor.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.fin571tutor.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
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FIN 571 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection FOR
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www.fin571tutor.com     Watch the "Concept Review
Video Working Capital Management" video located
in theWileyPLUS Assignment Week 3 Videos
Activity.
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  FIN 571 Week 3 Team Assignment Financial
Statement Interpretation   FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571tutor.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. Calculat
e the following Current ratio
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FIN 571 Week 4 Connect Problems FOR MORE
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www.fin571tutor.com       FIN 571 Week 4 Connect
Problems Q-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.
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FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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 projects that appear to have positive
NPVs.
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FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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 projects life. Joanna believes that
the firm should use the modified accelerated cost
recovery system depreciation because it reduces
the tax liability during the early years of the
projects life. Assuming you have a choice
between depreciation methods, whose advice should
you follow? Why?
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FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Assignment Analyzing
Pro Forma Statements FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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). 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
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FIN 571 Week 4 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com     Watch the "Concept Review
Video Stock Valuation" video located in the
WileyPLUS Assignment Week 4 Videos
Activity. Discuss how markets and investors value
a stock. 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 4 Team Assignment Operating
Leverage and Forecasting FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com       Opera
ting 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 Connect Problems   FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com       1.The difference
between the present value of an investments
future cash flows and its initial cost is
the payback period. internal rate of return.
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FIN 571 Week 5 DQ 1   FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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.fin571tutor.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 means that firms can comfortably maintain
higher degrees of leverage than they could prior
to the development of this market.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Individual Assignment DCF and WACC
Problems FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com       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. Calculate the future value
of 1,535 invested today for 8 years at 6 percent.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com     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.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Team Assignment Capital Budgeting
Assignment, Part 1 (New Heritage Doll)   FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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.
Examples of opportunities include taking on new
customers, capitalizing on supplier discounts,
and reducing inventory.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Working Capital Simulation
Managing Growth, Part 1 (SNC) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571tutor.com   Act
ing 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. Examples of
opportunities include taking on new customers,
capitalizing on supplier discounts, and reducing
inventory. The team must understand how the
income statement, balance sheet, and statement of
cash flows are interconnected and be able to
analyze forecasted financial information to
consider possible effects of each opportunity on
the firm's financial position. The company
operates on thin margins with a constrained cash
position and limited available credit. You must
optimize use of
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FIN 571 Week 6 Individual Assignment Working
Capital Simulation Managing Growth Assignment
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com     Resources Harvard
Business Publishing Working Capital Simulation
Managing Growth Assignment Ch. 1 - 21
ofFundamentals of Corporate Finance
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FIN 571 Week 6 Learning Team Reflection FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.com     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. Write
a summary of no more than 700 words explaining
how the capital improvement you identified could
help the business.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Team Assignment Capital Budgeting
Assignment, Part 2 (New Heritage Doll) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT
www.fin571tutor.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 New Heritage Doll Compare the
decisions and results of all members of the team.
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FIN 571 Week 6 Working Capital Simulation
Managing Growth, Part 2 (SNC) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin571tutor.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 script of the
presentation in which you include the following
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