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• FIN 571 Entire Course And Final Guide
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• FIN 571 Entire Course And Final Guide

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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

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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

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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 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.

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• FIN 571 Final Exam Guide 2
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• 1) Occurs when a "follower" receives the benefit
  of an expenditure made by a "leader" by imitating
  the leader's behavior.
• 2) Occurs when inaccurate information can falsely
  exist.

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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 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 4.Which one of these
  best fits the description of an agency cost?
  5.The primary goal of financial management is to
  6.Which one of the following business types is
  best suited to raising large amounts of capital?

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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 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 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 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?

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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?
• ? You own 1 million worth of 90-day Treasury
  bills. You roll over this investment every 90
  days by reinvesting the proceeds in another issue
  of 90-day Treasury bills. Is this investment
  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
• the asset has negative risk? Why would anyone
  ever invest in an asset that has an expected

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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. 

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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). 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.
  Create a 1,400-word analysis of the application
  of SOX in which you include the following
  Discuss the mistakes made by the company and
  their leadership. Discuss the steps leadership
  could have taken to prevent or mitigate the
  repercussions. Explain the role of market
  pressures on unethical behavior.

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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.

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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.

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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 2.The most recent
  financial statements for Williamson,

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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 results against company 

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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.
• To measure operating cycle we need another
  measure called the days' payables outstanding.

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• FIN 571 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection
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• Watch the "Concept Review Video Working Capital
  Management" video located in theWileyPLUS
  Assignment Week 3 Videos Activity.
• Discuss strategies these business owners used to
  manage their working capital.
• Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.

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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 2
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• 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

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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. 

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• FIN 571 Week 4 Individual Practice Quiz
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• Multiple Choice Question 66
• Present value Tommie Harris is considering an
  investment that pays 6.5 percent annually. How
  much must he invest today such that he will have
  25,000 in seven years? (Round to the nearest
  dollar.)
• Multiple Choice Question 61

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• FIN 571 Week 4 Learning Team Reflection
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• 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
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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 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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• Problem 5.17
• Problem 5.21
• Problem 6.19
• Problem 6.27
• Problem 7.16

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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.

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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

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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.
• Year Cash Flow
• 1 512,496
• 2 -242,637
• 3 814,558

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