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• FIN 486 Entire Course

• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 1

• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 1
• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 2
• FIN 486 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
  Ethics
• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1
• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 2
• FIN 486 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
  Department Budgets
• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 1

• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 1
• What are a chief financial officers (CFO) two
  roles? Use real-world examples to explain why
  these roles are important to a companys success.
  

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• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 2

• FIN 486 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
  Ethics

• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 2
• Explain business ethics in your own words. Why
  are business ethics important in strategic
  planning? How do business ethics affect the
  workplace?

• FIN 486 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
  Ethics
•  Write a paper of no more than 1,000 words,
  describing the demise of Enron Corporation and
  WorldCom.
•  Identify major factors that led to the
  dissolution of Enron Corporation and WorldCom.

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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1

• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 2

• Why are financial ratios used to assess a
  companys financial performance? Why are sales
  reports, profits, debts, or current liability
  reports insufficient? How ave financial ratios
  been used in your company? Do you think they are
  an effective assessment of financial performance?
  If so, why? If not, why?

• If you had to pick three commonly calculated
  ratios to analyze the financial health of a
  company, which would you analyze? Why would you
  choose those ratios?

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• FIN 486 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
  Department Budgets

• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 1

• A summary of team players and their role in
  creating a strategic plan
• Instructions explaining how managers should
  complete their budgets in the spreadsheets,
  including information needed to prepare a cash
  flow budget, and to time cash coming in and going
  out

• In your own words, explain capital budgeting. Why
  is it important to a companys long-term success?
  Provide an example of poorly performed capital
  budgeting. How does this affect a companys
  long-term success?

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• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 2

• FIN 486 Week 3 Individual Assignment Long-Term
  Financial Needs

• Why is capital budgeting part of a companys
  long-term strategic planning process? What are
  the pros and cons of these methods
•  o NPV
•  o Simple payback
•  o IRR

• Examine financial information for Huffman
  Trucking, within the Virtual Organization web
  link located on the course materials page. Read
  the New Strategic Directions Memo. Calculate
  external funds needed (EFN) to create the pro
  forma balance sheet. Calculate the following
  year-end ratios for the pro forma statements

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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1

• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 2

• What are major areas of risk in financial
  management? What are major areas of financial
  risk in your company? Which risk management
  techniques are important to your company? Why?

• What is capital structure? Why does it matter in
  terms of a companys financial performance? How
  does a companys capital structure affect overall
  risk?

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Individual Assignment Capital
  Budgeting Scenarios

• FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Final

• Choose a scenario from the Capital Budgeting
  Worksheet to review and analyze. Using net
  present value, determine the proposals
  appropriateness and economic viability.
•  Prepare a 500-word report explaining your
  calculations and conclusions.  

• FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Final

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Strategic
  Financial Plan

• Create the financial portion of the strategic
  plan. The plan must include 3 years of income
  statements, balance sheets, and cash flow
  statements.

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