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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)
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (New, 2018) 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
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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 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 Financial Ratio Analysis (Apple)
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pose of Assignment The purpose of this assignment
is to help students gain a better understanding
of the financial statements used for corporate
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FIN 571 Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis (General
Motors) 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
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FIN 571 Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis (Pfizer)
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urpose of Assignment The purpose of this
assignment is to help students gain a better
understanding of the financial statements used
for corporate
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FIN 571 Week 1 Financial Ratio Analysis
(Walmart) 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 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.

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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 DQ 2
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• 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
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• 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
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m     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
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• FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio
  Analysis Problems
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• Ratio Analysis Problems
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• 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
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om     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
(Apple) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin571nerd.co
m     Assignment Steps Resources Yahoo Finance
Select a Fortune 500 Company from one of the
following industries Pharmaceutical Energy
Retail
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FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
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    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
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FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
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om     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
(Walmart) 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 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.

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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 the financial
research database Plunkett Research Online.
Plunkett Research Online provides in-depth
analysis of a company's financials, comparisons
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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
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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),
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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
understand the effects of dividends capital
gains inflation rates and how the nominal rate
of return affects valuation and pricing. The
assignment also
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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 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
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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).

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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 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.
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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 could affect
the value of the company's equity and redefine
the capital structure. The problem will also
allow students to explore the effect of corporate
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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 Team Assignment Capital
Budgeting Assignment, Part 1 (New Heritage Doll)
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ing as the executive team for a small company
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