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BUS 650 Week 1 DQ 1 The Role of Financial Management in a Firm

BUS 650 Week 1 DQ 2 Short Term or Long Term View

BUS 650 Week 1 Financial Management Challenges

BUS 650 Week 2 DQ 1 Initial Investment

BUS 650 Week 2 DQ 2 Managing Earnings

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BUS 650 Week 1 DQ 1 The Role of Financial Management in a Firm

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Examine the role of management as it relates to finance in a corporation. In your post, discuss the role of management by addressing the following prompts:

Explain the various aspects of finance that management must understand. Describe why a manager needs to understand the characteristics and importance of financial markets including their liquidity, competitiveness, and efficiency.

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BUS 650 Week 1 DQ 2 Short Term or Long Term View

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After reading the first two chapters of your textbook, evaluate the following statement:

Managers should not focus on the current stock value because doing so will lead to overemphasis on short-term profits at the expense of long-term profits.

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BUS 650 Week 1 Financial Management Challenges

The following video discusses the four types of markets: perfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, and monopoly.

Video 2.1: Market Structures

Given the market structures as described in the video, find at least two articles from the ProQuest database that highlight and discuss two of the biggest challenges facing financial managers today in these varied market structures.

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BUS 650 Week 2 DQ 1 Initial Investment

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After reading Chapters 3 and 4 of your textbook, address each of the following questions:
a) Think of something you want or need for which you currently do not have the funds. It could be a vehicle, boat, horse, jewelry, property, vacation, college fund, retirement money, etc. Select something which costs somewhere between $2,000 and $50,000. Use the “Present Value Formula”,

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BUS 650 Week 2 DQ 2 Managing Earnings

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Companies often try to keep accounting earnings growing at a relatively steady pace in an effort to avoid large swings in earnings from period to period. They also try to manage earnings targets. Reflect on these practices and discuss the following in your discussion post.
Are these practices ethical?

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BUS 650 Week 2 Return on Investment Education Funding

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Develop a three to five page analysis on the projected return on investment for your college education and projected future employment. This analysis will consist of two parts.

Part 1: Describe how and why you made the decision to pursue a MBA. Include in that explanation calculations of expenses and opportunity costs related to that decision.

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BUS 650 Week 3 DQ 1 GAAP vs IFRS

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The United States uses Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) as the basis of financial reporting. The International Financial Accounting Standards (IFRS) is an alternative way to report financials. This article from Ernst and Young compares the two methods of financial reporting.
Ernst & Young’s US GAAP vs. IFRS: The Basics

http://www.ey.com/Publication/vwLUAssets/US_GAAP_v_IFRS:_The_Basics/$FILE/US%20GAAP%20v%20IFRS%20Dec%202011.pdf

After reading the article from Ernst and Young, answer the following questions:

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BUS 650 Week 3 DQ 2 Capital Rationing

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Compare and contrast the Internal Rate of Return (IRR), the Net Present Value (NPV) and Payback approaches to capital rationing. Which do you think is better? Why? Provide examples and evidence from two articles from ProQuest to support your position.

Your post should be 200-250 words in length.

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BUS 650 Week 3 Journal Capital Budgeting

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Review the following video:

Critically reflect on the importance of capital budgeting. Why is this such a heated subject in many boardrooms? How does capital budgeting promote the financial health of an organization? How will you use the financial techniques you have learned this week to promote the financial health of your organization?

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BUS 650 Week 3 Management of Working Capital Case Study “George’s Team”

View the following video:

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It appears that George is running a profitable business. George is aware you are in an MBA Managerial Finance class and comes to you for advice on his working capital practices. More specifically George asks:

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BUS 650 Week 4 Assignment Types of Risk

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View the following Video:

This video introduces the concept of business risk and risk management. It notes that business risks can generally be classified into four categories: property, market, employee, and customer.

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BUS 650 Week 4 DQ 1 Applying the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM)

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Analyze the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM). Using the course text and an article from ProQuest as references, address the following:

Explain how the CAPM assists in measuring both risk and return.

Explain how the CAPM assists in calculating the weighted average costs of capital (WACC) and its components.

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BUS 650 Week 4 DQ 2 Risk Identification and Mitigation

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Using the annual report from the company that you have selected for your Final Project, discuss the risks the company faces and the actions they take to mitigate those risks. Refer to the Management Discussion and Analysis section of the annual report for this information.
As part of your response consider whether you think the risk mitigation techniques are reasonable. Discuss what others concerns or advice you would offer if you had the opportunity.

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BUS 650 Week 5 Comparing Capital Expenditures

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Access the annual reports for your selected company for the past three years. Next, select a company that is a direct competitor and download the previous three years annual reports.

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BUS 650 Week 5 DQ 1 Factors in Capital Budgeting Decisions

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Imagine you are a representative of management in the company you have selected for your Week Six assignment and you must make a capital budgeting decision. The decision is to implement a new computer network system to decrease the time between customer order and delivery. The cost will be 10% of last year’s profits. You are charged with describing the important considerations in the decision-making process to upper management. In your response, be sure to include the following:

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BUS 650 Week 5 DQ 2 Assessing Dividend Policy

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Revisit the company you chose for your Week Six Final Project. Using the annual report and other sources such as a 10k or 10q’s, discuss the dividend policy of your company.

Answer the following questions as part of your response:

How would you describe your chosen company’s dividend policy?

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BUS 650 Week 5 Journal Capital Budgeting and Dividend Policy

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We examined two very important topics in finance this week; Capital Budgeting and Dividend Policy.

Critically reflect on the importance of selecting the right projects in which to invest capital. Do we always select those projects that have the highest return on investment? What other factors play into capital budgeting decisions?

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BUS 650 Week 6 DQ 1 Comparing Financial Ratios

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Go to MSN Money. (http://investing.money.msn.com/investments/key-ratios) and type in a ticker symbol for a company with the first letter of your last name.
Next, complete the following:
a. Select “Key Ratios” on the left menu panel.
b. There are several categories listed for ratios. Select one “Financial Condition Ratio” and one “Management Efficiency Ratio”.

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BUS 650 Week 6 DQ 2 Potential Issues in Ratio Analysis

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As your text describes, ratio analysis is a common technique in financial analysis. One of your colleagues states that a thorough ratio analysis is all that is needed in considering the financial health of a company. Although you agree that ratio analysis is a helpful guide, there may be some potential pitfalls in ratio analysis.

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BUS 650 Week 6 Final Paper Financial Analysis The LG Group

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Evaluation of Corporate Performance
The Final Project will involve applying the concepts learned in class to an analysis of a company using data from its annual report. Using the concepts from this course, you will analyze the strengths and weaknesses of the company and write a report either recommending or not recommending purchase of the company stock.
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