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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 1 Solution
STRAYER FIN 534 Entire Course (UOP Course)
1. 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.
  STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 1
Solution STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2
Solution STRAYER FIN 534 Week 2 Chapter 3
Solution STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 4 Solution
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2 Solution
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.
  1.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.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 Quiz 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 2
  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?  
  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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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 2 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 2 Chapter 3 Solution
  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.
  1. 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.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 4 Solution
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 2 DQ 2
  1. A 50,000 loan is to be amortized over 7
years, with annual end-of-year payments. Which of
these statements is CORRECT?
  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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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 5 Solution
  Starting with your current situation, describe
what you must do to ensure an annual retirement
income of 60,000 starting at age 65.
1 . 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.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 Quiz 2
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 3 DQ 2
  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.
  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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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 7 Solution
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 6 Solution
  1. 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.
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.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 DQ 2
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 DQ 1
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.
  of corporate mismanagement or fraud should be
taken into account when assessing the risks
associated with certain types of investments.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 8 Solution
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 4 Quiz 3
  1. 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.
  1. Which of the following statements is
CORRECT?   1)      A time line is not meaningful
unless all cash flows occur annually
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 5 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 9 Solution
  Based on what you discovered in the e-Activity,
make at least two recommendations for regarding
how your selected company should approach its
capital budgeting. Explain the reasoning behind
your recommendations.
1. Bankston Corporation forecasts that if all of
its existing financial policies are followed, its
proposed capital budget would be so large that it
would have to issue new common stock. Since new
stock has a higher cost than retained earnings,
Bankston would like to avoid issuing new stock.
Which of the following actions would REDUCE its
need to issue new common stock?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 10 Solution
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 5 Quiz 4
  1. Which of the following statements is
CORRECT? a. The internal rate of return method
(IRR) is generally regarded by academics as being
the best single method for evaluating capital
budgeting projects.
  Question 1             Assume that in recent
years both expected inflation and the market risk
premium (rM
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 6 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 11 Solution
  Analyze the concept of stress test as applied
to financial institutions and create a better
alternative for assessing the viability of a
financial institution.
  1. Which of the following statements is
CORRECT?   a. An externality is a situation where
a project would have an adverse effect on some
other part of the firms overall operations. If
the project would have a favorable effect on
other operations, then this is not an externality.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 Chapter 12 Solution
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 6 Quiz 5
  1. Which of the following statements is
CORRECT? a. Perhaps the most important step when
developing forecasted financial statements is to
determine the breakdown of common equity between
common stock and retained earnings.
  Question 1 Call options on XYZ Corporations
common stock trade in the market.  Which of the
following statements is most correct, holding
other things constant?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 Chapter 13 Solution
Analyze the process of forecasting financial
statements and make at least one recommendation
for improving the accuracy of forecasts. Provide
specific examples to support your response.
  1. Suppose Leonard, Nixon, Shull
Corporations projected free cash flow for next
year is 100,000, and FCF is expected to grow at
a constant rate of 6. If the companys weighted
average cost of capital is 11, what is the value
of its operations?
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 8 Chapter 14 Solution
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 7 DQ 2
  1. Which of the following statements about
dividend policies is CORRECT?   a. Modigliani and
Miller argue that investors prefer dividends to
capital gains because dividends are more certain
than capital gains. They call this the
?bird-in-the hand? effect.
  Question 1 Which of the following statements is
CORRECT? Answer                                   
    Question 2 Which of the following statements
is CORRECT?                                      Q
uestion 3
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 8 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 8 Chapter 15 Solution
  I examined PepsiCo to determine how it should
address its free cash flow, either through
distributions to shareholders or repurchasing of
stock.
  1. Which of the following statements best
describes the optimal capital structure? a. The
optimal capital structure is the mix of debt,
equity, and preferred stock that maximizes the
companys earnings per share (EPS).
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 8 Quiz 7
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 8 DQ 2
  This quiz consist of 30 multiple choice
questions. The first 15 questions cover the
material in Chapter 12. The second 15 questions
cover the material in Chapter 13. Be sure you are
in the correct Chapter when you take the quiz.  
  Capital structure is the manner in which a
firms assets are financed that is, the
right-hand side of the balance sheet. Capital
structure is normally expressed as the percentage
of each type of capital used by the firm--debt,
preferred stock, and common equity.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 9 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 9 Chapter 16 Solution
  Based on the content of this chapter and what
you discovered in the e-Activity, analyze cash
management technology and make at least one
recommendation for another technique that would
enhance working capital management. Explain the
reasoning behind your recommendation.
  This quiz consist of 30 multiple choice
questions. The first 15 questions cover the
material in Chapter 12. The second 15 questions
cover the material in Chapter 13. Be sure you are
in the correct Chapter when you take the quiz.  
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 9 Quiz 8
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 9 DQ 2
Question 1  Which of the following statements
about dividend policies is correct?  Question
2  If a firm adheres strictly to the residual
dividend policy, the issuance of new common stock
would suggest that
  Create an idea for a startup venture and
discuss the most viable way to raise the working
capital to get the startup running. Explain your
rationale.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 1
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 10 Chapter 17 Solution
  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.
1. 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.
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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 10 Quiz 9
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 2
  Question 1   Which of the following statements
is NOT CORRECT?   Question 2   Which of the
following statements is CORRECT?  
  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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STRAYER FIN 534 Week 11 DQ 2
STRAYER FIN 534 Week 11 DQ 1
  Reflect on the lessons learned during this
class and discuss the most interesting or
surprising thing you learned. Explain what made
it so.
  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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STRAYER FIN 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. 
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