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FIN 515 Week 7 Project Capital Budgeting Analysis
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  Once again, your team is the key financial
management team for your company. The companys
CEO is now looking to expand its operations by
investing
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FIN 515 Week 7 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Chapter 26 (page
903) 1. Answer the following questions a. What
is the difference between a firms cash cycle and
its operating cycle? 2. How will a firms
cash cycle be affected if a firm increases its
inventory, all else being equal?
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FIN 515 Week 7 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Week 7 (16-1) Cash
Management Williams Sons last year reported
sales of 10 million and an inventory turnover
ratio of 2. The company is now adopting a new
inventory system. If the
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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 2 Your Preference for Working
Capital Management Policy FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Your Preference for
Working Capital Management Policy
(graded) Consider the company you work for or a
company in which you are interested. Also, do
some research to find some current cost estimates
for various
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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry Approaches to
Working Capital Financing FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Industry Approaches to
Working Capital Financing (graded) Do some
research on two firms in your industry or an
industry in which you are interested. Can you get
an idea of their working capital management
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FIN 515 Week 6 Project Calculating the Weighted
Average Cost of Capital (Nike) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Once again, your team
is the key financial management team for your
company. The companys CEO is now looking to
expand its operations by investing in new
property, plant, and equipment. In order to
effectively evaluate the projects effectiveness,
you have been asked to determine the firms
weighted average cost of capital. To determine
the cost of capital, here is what you have been
asked to do.
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FIN 515 Week 6 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Chapter 29 (pages
983-984) 1.What inherent characteristic of
corporations creates the need for a system of
checks on manager behavior? 2. What are some
examples of agency problems?
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FIN 515 Week 6 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Week 6 (121) AFN
Equation Baxter Video Productss sales are
expected to increase by 20 from 5 million in
2010 to 6 million in 2011. Its assets totaled 3
million at the end of
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FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 2 The Role of Financial
Managers in Ethical Corporate Governance FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   The Role of
Financial Managers in Ethical Corporate
Governance (graded) Does the financial manager
have a greater responsibility or a lesser
responsibility for maintaining ethical corporate
governance? Why or why not? What is
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FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 1 Examples of Real Agency
Problems and How They Could Have Been
Prevented FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.co
m   Examples of Real Agency Problems and How They
Could Have Been Prevented (graded) Do some
research and find some historical or current real
life examples of agency problems. Will the
measures discussed in the text help to prevent
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FIN 515 Week 6 Course Project 2 (2 Different
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m   This Tutorial contains 2 Different Course
Projects Second Project The purpose of this
project is for you to have some practice working
with financial concepts in the real world. This
will involve integrating some material
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FIN 515 Week 5 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1 (TCO C)
Company A has a beta of 2.77. Company B has a
beta of .73. Company C has a beta of .90. The
risk free rate is 6 and the market risk premium
is 4. What is the expected return of investing
in Company B? Show your work. Question 2.
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FIN 515 Week 5 problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Chapter 10 (pages
345348) 4. You bought a stock one year ago for
50 per share and sold it today for 55 per
share. It paid a 1 per share dividend today. a.
What was your realized return?
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FIN 515 Week 5 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   10-8) NPVs, IRRs, and
MIRRs for Independent Projects
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FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 2 Finding Stock Values for Real
Stocks Using Beta and the SML FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Finding Stock Values
for Real Stocks Using Beta and the SML
(graded) Our second discussion topic concerns the
calculation of stock values using the Capital
Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). We will start with a
discussion of risk
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FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 1 Calculating WACC for a Real
Firm FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   C
alculating WACC for a Real Firm (graded) The
Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) for a
firm can be calculated or found through research.
Select two firms in the same industry. The
industry
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  FIN 515 Week 4 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Bonds-1. Interest on a
certain issue of bonds is paid annually with a
coupon rate of 8. The bonds have a par value of
1,000. The yield to maturity is 9. What is the
current market piece of these bonds? The bonds
will mature in 5 years. Bonds-2. A certain bond
has 12 years left to maturity. Interest is paid
annually at a coupon rate of 10. The bonds are
currently selling for 850. What is their YTM?
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FIN 515 Week 4 Midterm FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1. Question
(TCO G) The firm's asset turnover
measures Question 2. Question (TCO G) If Moon
Corporation has an increase in sales, which of
the following would result in no change in its
EBIT margin?
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FIN 515 Week 4 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   6-5). Expected
Return Discrete Distribution
A stocks
return has the following distribution

(6-1). Portfolio Beta

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FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 2 Differences in YTM of Real
Life Bonds FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.c
om   Differences in YTM of Real Life Bonds
(graded)
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FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a Stock
Versus DDM Value FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Market Value of a
Stock Versus DDM Value (graded)
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FIN 515 Week 3 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Company A has a beta
of 2.77. Company B has a beta of .73. Company C
has a beta of .90. The risk free rate is 6 and
the market risk premium is 4. What is the
expected return of investing in Company B?  
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FIN 515 Week 3 Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Continuing with your
Week 2 Project, now your CEO after reviewing your
earlier Week 2 PowerPoint submission has asked
your team to complete an
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FIN 515 Week 3 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Week 3 Problem
Set 1. Your brother wants to borrow 10,000 from
you. He has offered to pay you back 12,000 in a
year. If the cost of capital of this investment
opportunity is 10, what is its NPV? Should you
undertake the investment opportunity? Calculate
the IRR and use it to determine the maximum
deviation allowable in
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FIN 515 Week 3 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Week 3
Homework Problems 5-1 Bond Valuation with Annual
payments
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Budgeting Terms and
Considerations FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Capital Budgeting
Terms and Considerations Our textbook and lecture
discuss some considerations that should be taken
into account when doing capital budgeting. How
will these considerations affect the project you
described in the other topic? Incremental
earnings, interest expenses, taxes, opportunity
costs, externalities, sunk costs, cannibalization
or
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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of Capital
Expenditure From Your Industry FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1
Examples of Capital Expenditure From Your
Industry (graded) Describe a potential capital
expenditure project from the industry in which
you now work or an industry in which you are
interested. What is the project?
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FIN 515 Week 3 Course Project 1 (3 Papers) FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   This
Tutorial contains 3 Different Course Projects
First Course Project The purpose of this project
is to help you develop skills not only in
performing the calculations behind financial
analysis but interpreting the numbers as
well. You are to pick a company. You should pick
one either from the industry in which you are
currently working or an industry in which you are
interested.
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FIN 515 Week 2 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Week 2
Quiz   Question 1   (TCO B) You are a trust fund
baby. Your trust fund is currently worth
1,234,000. The problem is the terms of the trust
dont allow you to receive any of
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  FIN 515 Week 2 Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   As the new financial
manager of your company, the CEO has asked your
team to provide a brief analysis of the companys
performance to present at the upcoming board of
directors meeting. The
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FIN 515 Week 2 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   3.Calculate the future
value of 2000 in a. five years at an interest
rate of 5 per year
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FIN 515 Week 2 Homework Problems FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Week 2
Homework Problems (3-1) Days Sales
Outstanding Greene Sisters has a DSO of 20 days.
The companys average daily sales are 20,000.
What is the level of its accounts receivable?
Assume there are 365 days in a year.
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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2 Assumptions of the TVM
Model FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com  
Assumptions of the TVM Model (graded) What are
some of the assumptions behind the TVM
calculations? How do these assumptions limit our
application of these calculations?
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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Pass-a-Problem FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   TVM
Pass-a-Problem (graded) This week,
the lecture provided some examples of TVM problem
scenarios. For your first post, provide a story
problem that can be solved using one or more of
the TVM calculations. Your second
post can be a description of how the problem
posed by another student can be solved. Your
professor may provide an example.
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FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1   (TCO G)
Which do you think provides a more valid measure
of how a company is doing, comparison of current
results with historical results or
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FIN 515 Week 1-7 DQs FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1
Accounting Versus Finance FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2
Financial Analysis FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM
Pass-a-Problem
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FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1. (TCO G)
The lecture says that some ratios typically are
better when they are higher and some of the
ratios are better when they are lower. Pick a
ratio for which a lower number typically would be
preferred and describe a situation, in which a
higher number for that ratio would be preferred,
OR pick a ratio for which a higher number
typically would be preferred and describe a
situation in which a lower number for that ratio
would be preferred.
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FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Chapter 1 The
Corporation 1-1. What is the most important
difference between a corporation and all other
organizational forms? 1-2. What does the
phrase limited liability mean in a corporate
context?
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FIN 515 Week 1 Homework Problem FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Week 1 Mini
Case Assume that you recently graduated and have
just reported to work as an investment advisor at
the brokerage firm of Balik and Kiefer Inc. One
of the
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial Analysis FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Financial
Analysis (graded) In this discussion, we will be
working with the variety of financial analysis
tools available to us. Let's start with the
DuPont Identity introduced in Chapter 2 of the
text. For your initial post, locate the financial
statements for two firms in one industry.
Calculate all four terms of the DuPont Identity
and present
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FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1 Accounting Versus Finance FOR
MORE CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Accounting
Versus Finance (graded) Much of the analysis
done by financial managers is based on numbers
that are different from what would seem to the
corresponding numbers presented in the financial
statements. This difference is not due to any
kind of cooking the books or other attempts to
mislead anyone. One example is the use of
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 2 (New) FOR MORE
CLASSES VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1. 1.
(TCO G) If Company A and Company B are in the
same industry and use the same production method,
and Company As asset turnover is higher than
that of Company B, then all else equal we can
conclude (Points 10)
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam Set 1 (New) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1.
Question (TCO G) If Company A and
Company B are in the same industry and use the
same production method, and Company As asset
turnover is higher than that of Company B, then
all else equal we can conclude
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FIN 515 Midterm Exam All 3 Sets FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question included in
these Midterms could be found on this link FIN
515 Midterm Exam Set 1 (New) Linkhttp//www.fin51
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ew)
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 3 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   1. (TCO A) In the
United States, which of the following types of
organization has the greatest revenue in total?
(Points 5) Sole proprietorship C
corporation S corporation
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   Question 1.1. (TCO A)
Double taxation is a drawback for which of the
following types of business organization except?
Question 2.2. (TCO A) Sole proprietorships have
all of the following advantages except Question
3.3. (TCO B) Which of the following would cause
the present value of an annuity to decrease?
Question 4.4. (TCO B) In a TVM calculation, if
incoming cash flows are positive, outgoing cash
flows must be
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FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   1. (TCO A) In the
United States, which of the following types of
organization has the greatest revenue in total?
(Points 5) a. Sole proprietorship b. C
corporation
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FIN 515 Final Exam (all 3 Sets) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Final Exam Set
1 FIN 515 Final Exam Set 2 FIN 515 Final Exam Set
3
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FIN 515 Entire Course FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   This tutorial doesnt
contain Final Exam Guide FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1
Accounting Versus Finance FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2
Financial Analysis FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz
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FIN 515 Course Project 1 and 2 FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   This Tutorial
contains Week 3 Course Project (3 Sets) Week 6
Course Project (2 Sets)
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FIN 515 Complete Project Financial Statement
Analysis (Nike) FOR MORE CLASSES
VISIT www.fin515nerd.com   FIN 515 Week 2 Project
Financial Statement Analysis (Nike) FIN 515 Week
3 Project Financial Statement Analysis (Nike) FIN
515 Week 6 Project Calculating the Weighted
Average Cost of Capital (Nike) FIN 515 Week 7
Project Capital Budgeting Analysis (Nike)
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