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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (3 Set with Excel File)
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  www.fin571nerd.com     Thi
s 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 1.Which one of the following
parties is considered a stakeholder of a firm?
2.The process of planning and managing a firm's
long-term assets is called
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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 (New, 2017) 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 divided by
the required rate of return. B. An amount
computed as the next annual dividend divided by
the market rate of return
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FIN 571 Final Exam Guide Set 2 (NEW) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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
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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Math and
Accounting Review) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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
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FIN 571 Week 1 Connect Problems (Week 1 Problem
Set) FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT   www.fin571nerd.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. board of directors. chairman of the
board. chief executive officer. stockholders. 1.
(Set 2) If a firm is
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FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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.fin571nerd.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 Financial Ratio Analysis 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
industries Pharmaceutical Energy
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FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
Structures FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT   www.fin571ner
d.com     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 Connect Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT   www.fin571nerd.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.
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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?
You own 1 million worth of 90-day
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FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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.fin571nerd.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
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ethics and
Finance FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT  www.fin571nerd.co
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 to strengthen the role of the Securities
and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio
Analysis Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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
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FIN 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT   www.fin571nerd.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.
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  FIN 571 Week 2 Stock Valuation and Analysis
FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT   www.fin571nerd.com   Ass
ignment Steps Resources Yahoo Finance Select a
Fortune 500 Company from one of the following
industries Pharmaceutical Energy Retail
Automotive Computer Hardware
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FIN 571 Week 3 Connect Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT   www.fin571nerd.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
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FIN 571 Week 3 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT   www.fin571nerd.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.fin571nerd.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.fin571nerd.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,
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FIN 571 Week 3 Learning Team Reflection FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT   www.fin571nerd.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 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
to industry averages, a list of top executives
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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 companies
should be foreign. If possible, choose from among
the team members' places of business or similar
industries. Calculate the following
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FIN 571 Week 4 Assignment Rate of Return for
Stocks and Bonds 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 allows the student to apply
concepts related to CAPM
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FIN 571 Week 4 Connect Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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. If the yield to maturity is 8
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FIN 571 Week 4 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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.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 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 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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
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FIN 571 Week 4 Team Assignment Operating Leverage
and Forecasting FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT   www.fin571nerd.com     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 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.
Students will gain an understanding of the
different levels of market efficiency and how
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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
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FIN 571 Week 5 Connect Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT   www.fin571nerd.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.
profitability index. discounted payback period.
net present value. 2.Which statement concerning
the net present value (NPV)
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FIN 571 Week 5 DQ 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT   www.fin571nerd.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.fin571nerd.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.fin571nerd.
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.
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FIN 571 Week 5 Learning Team Reflection FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT  www.fin571nerd.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. Click
the Assignment Files tab to submit your
assignment.
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