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FIN 534 Entire Course   For more classes
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Chapter 1 Solution FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2
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FIN 534 Final Exam Set 1 (4 Sets)   For more
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Final Exam Part 1 Set 1                Question
1                         BLW Corporation is
considering the terms to be set on the options it
plans to issue to its executives. Which of the
following actions would decrease the value of the
options, other things held constant?              
                      
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FIN 534 Final Exam Set 2 (4 Sets)   For more
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Final Exam Part 2 Set 1              Question
1                         Which of the following
is NOT normally regarded as being a good reason
to establish an ESOP?                             
                   Question 2            
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FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 1 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. b. It is generally easier to transfer
ones ownership interest in a partnership than in
a corporation. c. One of the advantages of the
corporate form of organization is that it avoids
double taxation.
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FIN 534 Week 1 Chapter 2 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com    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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FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 1   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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.      
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FIN 534 Week 1 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 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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FIN 534 Week 1 Quiz 1   For more classes
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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?  
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FIN 534 Week 2 Chapter 3 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. b. If two firms have the same ROA, the
firm with the most debt can be expected to have
the lower ROE.
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  FIN 534 Week 2 DQ 1   For more classes
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1 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.  
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FIN 534 Week 2 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 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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  FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 4 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   A 50,000
loan is to be amortized over 7 years, with annual
end-of-year payments. Which of these statements
is CORRECT? a. The annual payments would be
larger if the interest rate were lower.
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FIN 534 Week 3 Chapter 5 Solution For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. Assuming interest
rates remain constant for the next 10
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FIN 534 Week 3 DQ 1 For more classes
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1 Starting with your current situation, describe
what you must do to ensure an annual retirement
income of 60,000 starting at age 65.
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FIN 534 Week 3 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 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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FIN 534 Week 3 Quiz 2   For more classes
visit www.snaptutorial.com   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.
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FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 6 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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FIN 534 Week 4 Chapter 7 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. b. Two
firms with the same expected dividend and growth
rates must also have the same stock price.
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FIN 534 Week 4 DQ 1   For more classes
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1 Drawing on what you discovered in the
e-Activity, discuss how instances of corporate
mismanagement or fraud should be taken into
account when assessing the risks associated with
certain types of investments.
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FIN 534 Week 4 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 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.
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FIN 534 Week 4 Quiz 3 For more classes
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following statements is CORRECT?   1)      A time
line is not meaningful unless all cash flows
occur annually 2)      Time lines are useful for
visualizing complex problems prior to doing
actual calculations
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FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 8 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. b. Call options give investors the right to
sell a stock at a certain strike price before a
specified date.
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FIN 534 Week 5 Chapter 9 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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
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FIN 534 Week 5 DQ 1   For more classes
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1 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.
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FIN 534 Week 5 Quiz 4   For more classes
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quiz 4   Question 1             Assume that in
recent years both expected inflation and the
market risk premium (rM - rRF) have declined. 
Assume also that all stocks have positive betas. 
Which of the following would be most likely to
have occurred as a result of these changes?
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FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 10 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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.
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  FIN 534 Week 6 Chapter 11 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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FIN 534 Week 6 DQ 1   For more classes
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1 Analyze the concept of stress test as applied
to financial institutions and create a better
alternative for assessing the viability of a
financial institution.  
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FIN 534 Week 6 Quiz 5   For more classes
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Quiz5   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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FIN 534 Week 7 Chapter 12 Solution For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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.
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FIN 534 Week 7 Chapter 13 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   . 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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FIN 534 Week 7 DQ 1   For more classes
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1 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.
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FIN 534 Week 7 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 Drawing on what you discovered in the
e-Activity, determine what additional steps can
be taken in the valuation of a corporation to
avoid instances like the one you researched from
occurring in the future. Provide specific
examples to support your response.  
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FIN 534 Week 7 Quiz 6   For more classes
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quiz 6   Question 1                          
Which of the following statements is
CORRECT? Answer                                   
                                   
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FIN 534 Week 8 Chapter 14 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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.
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FIN 534 Week 8 Chapter 15 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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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FIN 534 Week 8 DQ 1   1For more classes
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1 I examined PepsiCo to determine how it should
address its free cash flow, either through
distributions to shareholders or repurchasing of
stock.
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FIN 534 Week 8 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 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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FIN 534 Week 8 Quiz 7   For more classes
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quiz 7   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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FIN 534 Week 9 Chapter 16 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   Swim Suits
Unlimited is in a highly seasonal business, and
the following summary balance sheet data show its
assets and liabilities at peak and off-peak
seasons (in thousands of dollars)
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FIN 534 Week 9 DQ 1   For more classes
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1 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.
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FIN 534 Week 9 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 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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FIN 534 Week 9 Quiz 8   For more classes
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1                           Which of the
following statements about dividend policies is
correct?                                        Qu
estion 2                          
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FIN 534 Week 10 Chapter 17 Solution   For more
classes visit www.snaptutorial.com   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. All securities are of
equal risk, and Japanese securities are
denominated in terms of the Japanese yen.
Assuming that interest rate parity holds in all
markets, which of the following statements is
most CORRECT
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FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 1   For more classes
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1 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.
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FIN 534 Week 10 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 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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FIN 534 Week 10 Quiz 9   For more classes
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quiz 9     Question 1   Which of the following
statements is NOT CORRECT?  
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    FIN 534 Week 11 DQ 1   For more classes
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1 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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FIN 534 Week 11 DQ 2   For more classes
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2 Discuss how you plan on using what you learned
in this course in your current or future
position. What will prove to be the most
valuable?  
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FIN 534 Week 11 Quiz 10   For more classes
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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 agre
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