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• FIN 486 Entire Course
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• FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 3 JJs Jammers
  Summary
• FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 1 Financial
  Statement Construction and Part 2 Cash Flow
  Reconciliation
• FIN 486 Week 1 Video Summary (350 Words)
• FIN 486 Week 2 Individual Assignment (Chapter 5,
  Chapter 8)
• FIN 486 Week 2 Team Assignment (P4-6, P4-19)
• FIN 486 Week 3 Individual Assignment
  (P102,P107, P1010, P1014, P1021, P111,
  P114, P117, P118, P119)
• FIN 486 Week 3 Video Summary Short Term Finance
• FIN 486 Week 3 Team Assignment
• FIN 486 Week 4 Individual Assignment P12-1,
  P12-3, P12-6, P12-17, P12-19)

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 1 Financial
  Statement Construction and Part 2 Cash Flow
  Reconciliation
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• Part 1 Financial Statement Construction Exercise
• Take the following results for JJs Jammers and
  create a Balance Sheet and Income Statement in
  the 2012 columns of the template showing JJs
  Jammers 2011 results (In alphabetical order).
  Make sure you make the embedded calculations for
  the caption accounts (like total Current Assets
  or Gross Profit)
• Accounts Receivable 77251 Cash and Securities
  315954 Goodwill and Other Assets 448484

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Assignment Part 3 JJs Jammers
  Summary
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• Write a 525- to 700-word summary that includes
  the following
• Explain how the three different parts of the
  Financial Statement work together to provide a
  picture of how the business is operating.
• Explain the role of the Financial Manager in
  stewarding the companys resources.
• Formulate and write your opinion as to whether
  the market for JJs Jammers is good based on the
  financial results depicted in the 2011 and 2012
  results.

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• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 1
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• 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
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• FIN 486 Week 1 DQ 2
• Explain business ethics in your own words. Why
  are business ethics important in strategic
  planning? Howdobusinessethicsaffecttheworkplace?

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business
  Ethics (2 Papers)
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• This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word paper describing the
  demise of Enron Corporation and WorldCom.
• Identify major factors that led to the
  dissolution of Enron Corporation and WorldCom.
• Explain specific ethical violations in accounting
  practices at Enron Corporation and WorldCom.
• Describe the role of business ethics in strategic
  financial planning.
• Cite readings and at least one other source,
  including the Internet.

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• FIN 486 Week 1 JJs Jammer Assignment
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• Read the attached documents for assignment
  instructions.
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  assignment.
• a.     Compute the 13 ratios for both companies.
  (Use a 360-day year. Do not round intermediate
  calculations. Input your profit margin, return on
  assets, return on equity, and debt to total
  assets answers as a percent rounded to 2 decimal
  places. Round all other answers to 2 decimal
  places.)
• b.    Provide what each ratio represents to each
  of the two companies.

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Video Summary (350 Words)
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• FIN 486 Week 1 Video Summary

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• FIN 486 Week 1 Video Summary
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• FIN 486 Week 2 Apply Gale Force Surfing Case
  Study
• Purpose
• This assignment allows students to view the
  impact of level versus seasonal production on
  inventory levels, bank loan requirements, and
  profitability. In addition, it allows students
  the opportunity to demonstrate the ability to
  apply profitability analysis activities used in
  financial decision making.
• Assignment Instructions

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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 1
• Why are financial ratios used to assess a
  companys financial performance? Why are sales
  reports, profits, debts, or current liability
  reports insufficient? How have financial ratios
  been used in your company? Do you think they are
  an effective assessment of financial performance?
  If so, why? If not, why?

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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 2
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• FIN 486 Week 2 DQ 2
• 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 Individual Assignment (Chapter 5,
  Chapter 8)
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• FIN 486 Week 2 Individual Assignment
  (5-1,5-4,5-5,5-8,5-10,5-17,5-21,P8-3,P8-4,P8-9,P8-
  10,P8-13,P8-24,P8-25,P8-26)
• P83 Risk preferences Sharon Smith, the financial
  manager for Barnett Corporation, wishes to
  evaluate three prospective investments X, Y, and
  Z. Sharon will evaluate each of these investments
  to decide whether they are superior to investments

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• FIN 486 Week 2 Learning Team Assignment
  Department Budgets (2 Papers)
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• This Tutorial contains 2 Different Papers
• Your Learning Team is the financial management
  team for Huffman Trucking, responsible for
  creating the financial portion of a strategic
  plan.
• You must obtain information from the marketing,
  sales, operations, and human resources
  departments to complete it.
• Resource Virtual Organizations
• Review Huffman Trucking's financial information
  within the Virtual Organizations web link located
  on the course materials page.

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• FIN 486 Week 2 Team Assignment (P4-6, P4-19)
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• P46
• Finding operating and free cash flows Consider
  the following
• balance sheets and selected data from the income
  statement of Keith
• Corporation.
• Keith Corporation Balance Sheets
• December 31 Assets 2015 2014 Cash 1,500 1,000
  Marketable securities 1,800 1,200 Accounts
  receivable 2,000 1,800 Inventories 2,900

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• FIN 486 Week 2 Video Summary
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• FIN 486 Week 2 Video Summary

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Apply Berkshire Instruments Case
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• FIN 486 Week 3 Apply Berkshire Instruments Case
  Study
• Purpose
• This assignment allows students to work with
  issues related to the cost of capital. In
  addition, students will practice calculations
  related to capital structure and use them in
  making financial decisions.
• Assignment Instructions       
• Review the Week 3 Case Study.
• Complete the required activities 1 to 3 in
  Microsoft Excel or Microsoft Word.
• Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your
  assignment.

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• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 1
• 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
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• FIN 486 Week 3 DQ 2
• 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

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Individual Assignment
  (P102,P107, P1010, P1014, P1021, P111,
  P114, P117, P118, P119)
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• P102 Payback comparisons Nova Products has a
  5-year maximum acceptable payback period. The
  firm is considering the purchase of a new machine
  and must choose between two alternative ones. The
  first machine requires an initial investment of
  14,000 and generates annual after-tax cash
  inflows of 3,000 for each of the next 7 years.
  The second machine requires an initial investment
  of 21,000 and provides an annual cash inflow
  after taxes of 4,000 for 20 years. a. Determine
  the payback period for

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Individual Assignment Long-Term
  Financial Needs (2 Papers)
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• You are the head of the Huffman Trucking
  accounting department. The chief executive
  officer (CEO) has asked you to prepare a
  financial report addressing long-term financial
  needs.
• Resource Virtual Organizations

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Team Assignment
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• a) Calculate the after-tax cost of debt
  
  
  
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• e) calculate the firms weighted average cost of
  capital using retained earnings and the capital
  structure

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• FIN 486 Week 3 Video Summary Short Term Finance
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• FIN 486 Week 3 Video Summary Short Term Finance

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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1
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• FIN 486 Week 4 DQ 1
• 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?

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Individual Assignment (P12-1,
  P12-3, P12-6, P12-17, P12-19)
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• P121
• Recognizing risk Caradine Corp., a media services
  firm with net earnings of 3,200,000 in the last
  year, is considering the following projects.
• LG 1
• The media services business is cyclical and
  highly competitive. The board of directors has
  asked you, as chief financial officer, to do the
  following

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Individual Assignment Capital
  Budgeting Scenarios
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• FIN 486 Week 4 Individual Assignment Capital
  Budgeting Scenarios
• 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. Answer the
  following in your report

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• FIN 486 Week 4 KFC and the Colonel Case Study
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• FIN 486 Week 4 Apply KFC and the Colonel Case
  Study
• Purpose
• This assignment allows students to provide
  practical business strategies.
• Assignment Instructions
• Review the Week 4 Case Study.
• Summarize the following in 2 to 3 pages
• Discuss issues raised concerning Sanders
  approach in connection with the sale to Brown and
  Massey.
• Include some of the other options that Sanders
  may have considered other than the 2,000,000

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Risk and Return Summary
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• FIN 486 Week 4 Risk and Return Summary

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Signature Assignment Capital
  Budgeting Scenarios (New Factory)
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• FIN 486 Week 4 Signature Assignment Capital
  Budgeting Scenarios
• About Your Signature Assignment
• Signature/Benchmark Assignments are designed to
  align with specific program student learning
  outcome(s) in your program. Program Student
  Learning Outcomes are broad statements that
  describe what students should know and be able to
  do upon completion of their degree

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• FIN 486 Week 4 Team Assignment Case Study OGrady
  Apparel Company
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• OGrady Apparel Company was founded nearly 160
  years ago when an Irish merchant named Garrett
  OGrady landed in Los Angeles with an inventory
  of heavy canvas, which he hoped to sell for tents
  and wagon covers to miners headed for the
  California goldfields. Instead, he turned to the
  sale of harder-wearing clothing.

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Eboy
  Corporation
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• The current balance in accounts receivable for
  Eboy Corporation is 443,000. This level was
  achieved with annual (365 days) credit sales of
  3,544,000. The firm offers its customers credit
  terms of net 30. However, in an effort to help
  its cash flow position and to follow the actions
  of its rivals, the firm is considering changing
  its credit terms from net 30 to 2/10 net 30. The
  objective is to speed up the receivable
  collections and thereby

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Final
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• FIN 486 Week 5 Individual Assignment Final

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Learning Team Assignment Strategic
  Financial Plan (2 Papers)
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• Resource The previously completed budgeting
  spreadsheets
• Create the financial portion of the strategic
  plan. The plan must include 3 years of income
  statements, balance sheets, and cash flow
  statements.
• Write a 700- to 1,050-word memo that explains the
  plans major assumptions and identifies areas of
  risk. The memo must include the following

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Signature Assignment Harrods
  Sporting Goods Case Study
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• FIN 486 Week 5 Apply Signature Assignment
  Harrods Sporting Goods Case Study
• About Your Signature Assignment
• Harrods Sporting Goods Case Study is designed to
  align with specific program student learning
  outcome(s) in your program. Program Student
  Learning Outcomes are broad statements that
  describe what students should know and be able to
  do upon completion of their degree.
  Signature/Benchmark Assignments are graded with a
  grading guide or an automated rubric that allows
  the University to

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Summary Long Term Financing
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• FIN 486 Week 5 Summary Long Term Financing

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Team Assignment Asor Products, Inc
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• Jenny Rene, the CFP of Asor Products, Inc. has
  just completed an evaluation of a proposed
  capital expenditure for equipment that would
  expand the firm's manufacturing capacity. Using
  the traditional NPV methodology, she found the
  project unacceptable because NPV traditional
  -1,700 lt 0 Before recommending rejection of the
  proposed project, she has decided to assess
  whether there might be real options embedded in

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• FIN 486 Week 5 Team Assignment Case Study Casa de
  Diseno
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• Chapter 16
• Case Study Casa de Diseno
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• In January 2012, Teresa Leal was named treasurer
  of Casa de Diseno. She decided that she could
  best orient herself by systematically examining
  each area of the companys financial operations.
  She began by studying the firms short-term
  financial activities.

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