2024 – Strayer FIn534 all discussions week 1 11 discussion summer 2015 Strayer FIn534 all

Strayer FIn534 all discussions (week 1-11 discussion) summer 2015

Week 1 Discussion 1

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“An Overview of Financial Management” Please respond to the following:

· * From the e-Activity, examine ethical behavior within firms in relation to financial management. Provide two (2) examples of companies that have been guilty of ethics-based malfeasance related to financial management and determine why their comeuppance was deserved.

· * From the scenario, recommend two (2) actions that Trevose Fitness Center (TFC) could take in order to raise capital that will, in turn, enable it to reach its expansion goals. Defend your response. Support your recommendation with two (2) real-world examples of successful implementations of these actions.

Week 2 Discussion 1

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“Financial Statement, Cash Flow, and Taxes” Please respond to the following:

· Analyze the importance and impact of financial managers being able to understand financial statements. Provide the rationale behind your analysis.

· Imagine that you are starting a business. Determine the tax considerations that might result in you setting the business up as a proprietorship or a partnership, rather than a corporation. Provide a rationale for your decision.

Week 3 Discussion 1

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“Time Value of Money and Bond Valuation” Please respond to the following:

· Examine the concept of time value of money in relation to corporate managers. Propose two (2) methods in which time value of money can help corporate managers in general.

· Examine the pros and cons of a sinking fund from the viewpoint of both a firm and its bondholders. Determine the fundamental manner in which this knowledge could be helpful to a financial manager. Provide a rationale for your response.

Week 4 Discussion 1

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“Risk and Return” Please respond to the following:

· * From the e-Activity, determine whether stock prices are affected more by long-term or short-term performance. Provide one (1) example of the effect that supports your claim.

· * From the scenario, value a share of TFC’s stock using a growth model method and compare that value to the current trading price of a share of TFC. Determine whether the stock is undervalued or overvalued. Provide a rationale for your response.

Week 5 Discussion 1

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“Financial Options and Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC)” Please respond to the following:

· Determine two to three (2-3) methods of using stocks and options to create a risk-free hedge portfolio. Support your answer with examples of these methods being used to create a risk-free hedge portfolio.

· * From the scenario, create a unique hypothetical weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and rate of return. Recommend whether or not the company should expand, and defend your position.

Week 6 Discussion 1

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“Capital Budgeting and Risk Analysis” Please respond to the following:

· * From the e-Activity, analyze the reasons why the short-term project that you have chosen might be ranked higher under the NPV criterion if the cost of capital is high, while the long-term project might be deemed better if the cost of capital is low. Determine whether or not changes in the cost of capital could ever cause a change in the internal rate of return (IRR) ranking of two (2).

· * From the scenario, take a position for or against TFC’s decision to expand to the West Coast. Provide a rationale for your response in which you cite at least two (2) capital budgeting techniques (e.g., NPV, IRR, Payback Period, etc.) that you used to arrive at your decision.

Week 7 Discussion 1

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“Financial Planning and Agency Conflicts” Please respond to the following:

· * From the scenario, cite your forecasting conclusions that support TFC’s decision to expand to the West Coast market. Speculate as to whether or not the agency conflict discussed in the scenario could become a roadblock to your conclusions. Provide a rationale for your response.

· * From the mini case, recommend two (2) desired characteristics of a board of directors. Provide support for your response, citing the ways in which these characteristics usually lead to effective corporate governance.

Week 8 Discussion 1

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“Distributions to Shareholders” Please respond to the following:

· * From the e-Activity, contrast the differences between a stock dividend and a stock split. Imagine that you are a stockholder in a company. Determine whether you would prefer to see the company that you researched declare a 100% stock dividend or declare a 2-for-1 split. Provide support for your answer with one (1) real-world example of your preference.

· * From the scenario, examine the dividend rate that TFC is paying in order to determine if the company should receive a rate adjustment. Suggest whether TFC’s dividends should either (1) stay the same; (2) be increased; (3) or go down. Provide a rationale for your response.

· Week 9 Discussion 1

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“Working Capital Management” Please respond to the following:

· Examine the key reasons why a business may not want to hold too much or too little working capital. Provide two (2) examples that illustrate the consequences of either situation.

· * From the scenario, analyze TFC’s cash budget to determine key methods in which the budget may be optimized (e.g., by renegotiating terms and conditions on some of its payables, etc.). If you believe that there is room for improvement, recommend key strategies for TFC to use in order to optimize its cash budget. If you do not believe that this is the case, provide a rationale for your response.

Week 10 Discussion 1

“Multinational Financial Management” Please respond to the following:

· * From the e-Activity, determine key reasons why a multinational corporation might decide to borrow in a country such as Brazil, where interest rates are high, rather than in a country like Switzerland, where interest rates are low. Provide support for your rationale.

· * From the scenario, select two (2) potential international markets in which TFC may wish to do business. Compare the currency markets of the two (2) countries you have chosen with that of the U.S. dollar. Based on currency considerations only, recommend whether or not TFC should expand to the international markets that you have chosen.

Week 11 Discussion 1

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Please respond to the following:

· Rate the three (3) most important concepts that you learned in this course in order of importance (one (1) being the most important; three (3), the least). Provide a rationale for your ratings.

· Propose two (2) applications of knowledge that you have learned in this course to your current or a future position.