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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
FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New)
FIN 515 Week 1 Problem Set
FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM

Pass-a-Problem
FIN 515 Course Project 1 and

2
This Tutorial contains
Week 3 Course Project (3

Sets)
Week 6 Course Project (2

Sets)

FIN 515 Final Exam (all 3
Sets)
FIN 515 Final Exam Set 1
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
c. S corporation
d. Limited partnership
1.1) Which of the following is

not a step in the WACC
valuation method?

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
Sole proprietorship
C corporation
S corporation
Limited partnership
Question 2.2. (TCO A) A sole

proprietorship is owned by
(Points : 5)
Question 3.3. (TCO B) Which

of the following would cause
the present value of an
annuity to decrease?
1. (TCO A) In the United

States, which of the following
types of organization has the
greatest revenue in total?
(Points : 5)

FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2
Financial Analysis
FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1


(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 market value rather
than historical cost in the
valuation of assets.
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
the results but do not analyze
the results.

FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz (New)
Chapter 1
Question 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?
(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

FIN 515 Week 1 Quiz
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 comparison of
current results with the
current results of another
company
FIN 515 Week 1-7 DQs
FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 1

FIN 515 Week 1 DQ 2 Financial

Analysis
FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM Passa-Problem
FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2

Assumptions of the TVM Model
FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples

of Capital Expenditure From
Your Industry
FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital

Budgeting Terms and
Considerations
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FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 1 TVM
Pass-a-Problem
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.
FIN 515 Week 2 DQ 2

Assumptions of the TVM Model
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 Quiz
3.Calculate the future value

of $2000 in
a. five years at an interest

rate of 5% per year;
b. ten years at an interest

rate of 5% per year; and
c. five years at an interest

rate of 10% per year.
d. Why is the amount of

interest earned in part (a)
less than half the amount of
interest earned in part (b)?
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 the money
until you are 27. You are now
21. The fund is earning 7.7%
per year. How much will the
fund be worth when you are
27 and too old to enjoy it?

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FIN 515 Week 3 Course
Project 1 (3 Papers)
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
FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 1 Examples of

Capital Expenditure From Your Industry
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? Describe and provide
an approximate value of the
initial cash flow. Describe and
provide an approximate value
of the annual cash flows.

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FIN 515 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital
Budgeting Terms and Considerations
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
erosion, depreciation, and
salvage value; as well as others.
Week 3 Problem Set
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 the cost
of capital estimate to leave
the decision unchanged.

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FIN 515 Week 3 Quiz
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?
stock portfolio consists of only
two stocks. You have $15,000
in Company A and $25,000 in
Company B. Company A has an
actual return of -8% and
Company B has a return of
12%.
FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 1 Market Value of a

Stock Versus DDM Value
Market Value of a Stock

Versus DDM Value (graded)
Select a stock in which you

are interested. Calculate its
per share value using the
DDM or another method
discussed in Chapter 9.
Then find the current
market value of a share of
the stock. Compare that
two. Can you explain the
similarity or difference?

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FIN 515 Week 4 DQ 2 Differences
in YTM of Real Life Bonds
FIN 515 Week 4 Midterm
Differences in YTM of Real

Life Bonds (graded)
Question 1.
Question :
Do some research,
probably on the Web, and
find some bonds with
differing yields to maturity
(YTM). How do you explain
the difference? Both the
lecture and the textbook
discuss some factors that
may lead to this
difference.
(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?
Question 3.

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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?
FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 1 Calculating

WACC for a Real Firm
Calculating 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 may be that in
which you currently work or
it may be an industry in
which you are interested.
Calculate or find the WACC
for the two firms. How do the
WACCs compare?

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FIN 515 Week 5 DQ 2 Finding Stock Values
for Real Stocks Using Beta and the SML
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 and work
towards practical application
of the model. The textbook
provides a list of betas for a
selection of stocks
FIN 515 Week 5 problem Set
Chapter 10 (pages 345

348):
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?
b.
How much of the
return came from dividend
yield and how much came
from capital gain?

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FIN 515 Week 5 Quiz
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.
(TCO C) Your stock portfolio

consists of only two stocks.
You have $30,000
FIN 515 Week 6 Course

Project 2 (2 Different Projects)
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 from
throughout the course. The
project will also involve the
development of your own
approach to doing the work.
The project does not

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FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 1 Examples of Real
Agency Problems and How They Could Have
Been Prevented
FIN 515 Week 6 DQ 2 The Role of Financial

Managers in Ethical Corporate Governance
Examples of Real Agency

Problems and How They
Could Have Been Prevented
(graded)
The Role of Financial

Managers in Ethical
Corporate Governance
(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 problems like your
examples in the future? What
else would you advise? You
may provide examples of
agency problems
Does the financial manager

have a greater responsibility
or a lesser responsibility for
maintaining ethical
corporate governance? Why
or why not? What is or will
be your approach to ethical
corporate governance now
or in the future?

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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?
3.What are the advantages and

disadvantages of the corporate
organizational structure?
4.What is the role of the board

of directors in corporate
governance?
FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 1 Industry

Approaches to Working Capital Financing
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
policies from publicly available
information? How do the two
companies differ in their
apparent working capital
management policies? Which
policy do you think is better
and why?

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FIN 515 Week 7 DQ 2 Your Preference
for Working Capital Management Policy
Your Preference for Working

Capital Management Policy
(graded)
Chapter 26 (page 903):
1. Answer the following

questions:
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
means of financing working
capital. What would be your
recommendation to the
company for financing its
working capital needs? If the
information is publicly available,
or if you have access
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?
2.
How will a firms cash cycle
be affected if a firm begins to
take the discounts offered by its
suppliers, all else being equal?

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