Regulatory and Oversight of Corporate Financial Reporting Review the website for the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) (http://www.sec.gov/). Write a paper of no more than 600 words describing the mission of the SEC and how it accomplishes its mission. Briefly describe at least 2 laws that govern the securities industry. Include the following within the 2 you select: SEC Act of 1933 SEC Act of 1934 […]

fin 534 week 8 DQ 1•    * 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.•    […]

Career Opportunities Go to:  http://www.bls.gov/ooh/Management/Financial-managers.htm Write a 2 page paper.  In your paper include the following: Discuss positions that are available for people with a knowledge of finance?   Provide 3 examples of occupations that also use finance.  Give a brief description of each. What is the entry-level education for the examples you provided? What was the median pay in 2010 for the examples that you […]

Can someone please reword this essay for me thanks.       Business Decision Making Project Part III       Auto insurance fraud comes in many forms and is committed by many different types of individuals.  In order for the industry to gather data on insurance fraud, we must make some inferences.  By using data collected from a sample population, the insurance industry can […]

A manager is trying to decide whether to purchase a certain part or to have it produced internally. Internal production could use either of two processes. One would entail a variable cost of $17 per unit and an annual fixed cost of $200,000; the other would entail a variable cost of $14 per unit and an annual fixed cost of $240,000. Three vendors are willing […]

1. Community Hospital has annual net patient revenues of $150 million. At the present time, payments received by the hospital are not deposited for six days on average. The hospital is exploring a lockbox arrangement that promises to cut the six days to one day. If these funds released by the lockbox arrangement can be invested at 8 percent, what will the annual savings be? […]

strategies Building your own portfolio (Strategy 1). Selling short an Index Fund (Strategy 2)   Your Final Stock Market Report should include background information for all investments. It must include: company name, trading symbol, location, mission, product/service line, competitors, revenues, earnings information, and stock exchange traded on, any current activities that you think may make your selected companies a good or bad investment in the future. In […]

Compute the cost of capital for the firm for the following: 1. A bond that has a $1,000.00 Par value (face value) and a contract or coupon interest rate of 10.7%.The bonds have a current market value of $1.126 and will mature in 10 years.The firms’ marginal tax rate is 34% 2. A new common stock issue that paid a $1.81 dividend last year.The firms […]

FIN 5535 Project: Currency Hedge,   Due date: 8/10/2015 (end of week 7)    The sample period for this project is from 6/30/2015 to 7/31/2015. At the start of the sample period, your company receives 2,500,000 Euros, which you plan to convert into US dollars at the end of sample period for tax reasons.  Since EUR/USD exchange rate changes every day, the US dollar value […]

  7-21 Compute Bond Price Compute the price of a 3.8 percent coupon bond with 15 years left to maturity and a market interest rate of 6.8 percent. (Assume interest payments are semiannual.) Is this a discount or premium bond? (LG7-4)       7-27 Yield to Maturity A 5.65 percent coupon bond with 18 years left to maturity is offered for sale at $1,035.25. […]