ACC 7020 Financial Essentials for Accountants sample papers, module by module

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ACC-7020 teaches corporate finance from the controller’s seat, where the job is to measure value, price capital and test the forecasts behind every investment. The samples here follow one composite packaging company through all four modules, from free cash flow to a hedged euro payable and a Mexican plant.

Send the exact assignment or rubric from your classroom and a custom sample written to it lands in 24 to 48 hours, the first one free. ACC-7020 is TESU’s Financial Essentials for Accountants course. It covers the controller’s role in corporate finance: free cash flow, value creation and agency conflicts, bond and stock valuation and the cost of capital, capital budgeting with risk analysis, and the opportunities and risks of global operations. Searches like "acc 7020 module 3 assignment example", "ACC7020 sample paper", and "ACC-7020 module samples" land on this page.

What ACC-7020 is really about

Ehrhardt and Brigham’s Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach is the text, and the course runs four modules. Module 1 introduces financial management and value creation, with free cash flow, EVA and agency conflicts, and Module 2 covers capitalization: bond valuation and interest rate risk, the cost of each source of capital and capital structure.

Module 3 evaluates projects with NPV, IRR and MIRR and analyzes their risk with sensitivity and scenarios, and Module 4 covers exchange rates, parity relationships, hedging and international capital budgeting. The final project analyzes Starbucks to decide whether an investor should buy its shares to fund a capital expansion.

What ACC-7020’s assessments ask for

Four written assignments count 30 percent, with the first, second and fourth worth 27 percent together and the third 3 percent, alongside eight discussions worth 30 percent, two live sessions worth 10 percent and the Starbucks final project worth 30 percent.

Where students lose points in ACC-7020

Points slip away on mechanics and judgment: annual periods used for semiannual bonds, pretax debt costs, book weights in the WACC, sunk costs or interest in project cash flows, a single NPV without risk analysis and exchange rates inverted or discounted at a domestic rate.

The ACC-7020 drawers

Module 1

ACC-7020 Module 1 assignment example

Written assignment: a controller at a composite Bridgewater packaging company converts the income statement into $97.5 million of free cash flow, finds a 9.8 percent return on invested capital against an 8.5 percent cost of capital, values the firm at about $2.24 billion and redesigns an EPS-based bonus that rewards buybacks over investment. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 2

ACC-7020 Module 2 assignment example

Written assignment: a composite Bridgewater packaging company prices its 5.5 percent bonds at $934.27 to yield 6.4 percent, tests their sensitivity to a one-point rate change, estimates equity cost by CAPM and dividend growth, builds an 8.52 percent WACC and weighs raising debt from 35 to 45 percent of capital. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 3

ACC-7020 Module 3 assignment example

Written assignment: a composite Bridgewater packaging company evaluates a $52 million recyclable fiber line, builds five years of incremental cash flows with working capital and after-tax salvage, finds an $11.85 million NPV at a 10 percent risk-adjusted rate, and tests it with break-even sales and a three-scenario analysis. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 4

ACC-7020 Module 4 assignment example

Written assignment: a composite Bridgewater packaging company hedges a €18 million German equipment payable, comparing a forward at $1.0936, a money market hedge and a call option across three exchange rate outcomes, then values a Monterrey plant's peso cash flows in dollars using purchasing power parity and a country risk premium. Full sample paper, read it free.

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How these samples are written

ACC-7020 samples carry one composite company through every module, so the cost of capital set in Module 2 becomes the hurdle in Module 3 and the base rate in Module 4, and each result is tested for sensitivity rather than reported as a single number.

ACC-7020 questions, answered

What textbook does ACC-7020 use?

Ehrhardt and Brigham’s Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach, eighth edition, from Cengage.

What is the ACC-7020 final project?

An analysis of Starbucks to decide whether to buy its shares to fund a capital expansion, worth 30 percent of the grade.

Is there a prerequisite for ACC-7020?

TESU advises completing ACC-7010, Auditing and Accounting Information Systems, first.