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2.  FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Practice Quiz  FIN 571 Week 1 Individual Assignment Business Structures  FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 1  FIN 571 Week 1 DQ 2  FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Business Structure Advice  FIN 571 Week 2 Learning Team Reflection  FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Practice Quiz  FIN 571 Week 2 Individual Assignment Ratio Analysis Problems  FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 1  FIN 571 Week 2 DQ 2  FIN 571 Week 3 Individual Practice Quiz

3.  Multiple Choice Question 51  Which of the following is considered a hybrid organizational form?  partnership  limited liability partnership  sole proprietorship  corporation  Multiple Choice Question 59  Which of the following is a principal within the agency relationship?  the board of directors  a company engineer  the CEO of the firm

4.  Multiple Choice Question 42  Which of the following business organizational forms subjects the owner(s) to unlimited liability?  a) sole proprietorship  b) partnership  c) corporation  d) a and b  Multiple Choice Question 44  Which of the following business organizational forms is easiest to raise capital?  a) sole proprietorship  b) partnership  c) corporation  d) a and b

5.  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. I am not sure exactly how it will be financed and whether or not I want to take on partners. I am interested and willing to learn the intricacies of my options to determine how to best proceed with my plan.  Please advise on what my options are, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and possible tax consequences for each scenario?  Respectfully,  John Owner

6.  Ratio Analysis Problems  Ratio Analysis  (Individual Assignment)  You may use excel or word.doc format for this assignment.  Please post your homework as a word.doc or excel file in the class discussion section below by the due date.  1. Analysis of cost of goods sold problem.  1992 1993 1994  Gross Profit Margin 60% 55% 51%

7.  Multiple Choice Question 53  Which one of the following statements about trend analysis is NOT correct?  It allows management to examine each ratio over time and determine whether the trend is good or bad for the firm.  This benchmark is based on a firm's historical performance.  The Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) System is used to identify benchmark firms.  All of these are true statements.

8.  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.  Write a 350- to 700-word summary of your discussion.  Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

9.  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, and then interpret those results against company historical data as well as industry benchmarks:  Compare the financial ratios with each of the preceding three (3) years (e.g. 2014 with 2013; 2013 with 2012; and 2012 with 2011).

10.  Multiple Choice Question 32  The operating cycle  ends not with the finished goods being sold to customers and the cash collected on the sales; but when you take into account the time taken by the firm to pay for its purchases.  To measure operating cycle we need another measure called the days' payables outstanding.  begins when the firm receives the raw materials it purchased that would be used to produce the goods that the firm manufactures.

11.  Watch the "Concept Review Video: Working Capital Management" video located in theWileyPLUS Assignment: Week 3 Videos Activity.  Discuss strategies these business owners used to manage their working capital.  Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.  Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

12.  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, concise, and easy to read. Be sure to double check the calculations in your pro forma statements. Make assumptions that support each line item increase or decrease for your forecasted statements.

13.  Multiple Choice Question 66  Present value: Tommie Harris is considering an investment that pays 6.5 percent annually. How much must he invest today such that he will have $25,000 in seven years? (Round to the nearest dollar.)  Multiple Choice Question 61  PV of multiple cash flows: Jack Stuart has loaned money to his brother at an interest rate of 5.75 percent. He expects to receive $625, $650, $700, and $800 at the end of the next four years as complete repayment of the loan with interest. How much did he loan out to his brother? (Round to the nearest dollar.)

14.  Watch the "Concept Review Video: Stock Valuation" video located in the WileyPLUS Assignment: Week 4 Videos Activity.  Discuss how markets and investors value a stock.  Write a 350-700 word summary of your discussion.  Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

15.  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.  You manufacture hunting pack systems in China for 80 dollars each, including shipping. The manufacturing costs only include variable costs. Variable costs are not calculated as a percentage of sales in this case. Sales are a function of the number of packs sold and the price per pack. Likewise, variable costs are a function of the number of packs sold and the cost to produce each pack. You sell these packs to retailers for 200 dollars each.

16.  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.  Calculate the future value of 1,535 invested today for 8 years at 6 percent.  (5 points)  What is the total present value of the following cash stream, discounted at 8 percent? (5 points)  Year Amount  1 400  2 750  3 945  4 145

17.  Multiple Choice Question 55  Genaro needs to capture a return of 40 percent for his one-year investment in a property. He believes that he can sell the property at the end of the year for $150,000 and that the property will provide him with rental income of $25,000. What is the maximum amount that Genaro should be willing to pay for the property?  Multiple Choice Question 54  The process of identifying the bundle of projects that creates the greatest total value and allocating the available capital to the projects is known as  risk analysis.  rationing.  capital rationing.

18.  Problem 5.17  Problem 5.21  Problem 6.19  Problem 6.27  Problem 7.16  Problem 8.24  Problem 9.15  Problem 5.17  Your finance text book sold 53,250 copies in its first year. The publishing company expects the sales to grow at a rate of 20 percent for the next three years, and by 10 percent in the fourth year. Calculate the total number of copies that the publisher expects to sell in year 3 and 4. (If you solve this problem with algebra round intermediate calculations to 6 decimal places, in all cases round your final answers to the nearest whole number.)

19.  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.

20.  Week 6  Homework  Complete the following problems. You should do this work in excel. A set of ungraded practice problems similar to the homework is provided in the week six material to help you do this assignment.  Please post your answers in the classroom discussion section underneath the week six assignment.  1.Net Present Value: Johnson Complex Fabrications is a metal parts manufacturing company. It has developed a new process for producing extruded aluminum tubing. The process requires $1,968,450 initial investment. It expected to have a life of five years and would produce net cash inflows for each of the next five years: year 1 $512,496; year 2 $242,637; year 3 $814,558; year 4 $887,225 and year 5 $712,642.

21.  Resources:  Harvard Business Publishing: Working Capital Simulation: Managing Growth Assignment  Ch. 1 - 21 ofFundamentals of Corporate Finance  WileyPLUS Assignments  All additional resources from each week  Review the following scenario:  Acting as the CEO of a small company, you will apply the principles of capital budgeting to invest in growth and cash flow improvement opportunities in three phases over 10 simulated years. Each opportunity has a unique financial profile and you must analyze the effects on working capital. Examples of opportunities include taking on new customers, capitalizing on supplier discounts, and reducing inventory.

22.  Multiple Choice Question 55  Planning models that are more sophisticated than the percent of sales method have  working capital accounts like inventory, accounts receivables, and accounts payables vary directly with sales.  fixed assets that do not always vary directly with sales.  all of these are true.  all variable costs change directly with sales.  Multiple Choice Question 66

23.  Problem 10.14  Briarcrest Condiments is a spice-making firm. Recently, it developed a new process for producing spices. The process requires new machinery that would cost $1,968,450. Have a life of five years, and would produce the cash flows shown in the following table.  Year Cash Flow  1 $512,496  2 -242,637  3 814,558  4 887,225  5 712,642  What is the NPV if the discount rate is 15.9 percent? (Enter negative amounts using negative sign e.g. -45.25. Round answer to 2 decimal places, e.g. 15.25.)

24.  Watch the "Corporate Finance Video: Stable Money Makers" located in the WileyPLUS Assignment: Week 6 Videos Activity.  Identify a capital improvement that could help Betty with her Alpaca business.  Write a summary of no more than 700 words explaining how the capital improvement you identified could help the business.  Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 

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