FAM 5400 Finance and Accounting for Managers sample papers, module by module

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FAM-5400 gives managers the finance and accounting they need to read statements, protect assets, plan budgets and decide how to fund growth. The samples here follow one composite laboratory glassware maker through six modules and close with the AT&T and Verizon comparison the final project requires.

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. FAM-5400 is TESU’s Finance and Accounting for Managers course. It covers interpreting financial statements, the conceptual framework, internal control and fraud risk, budgetary planning and responsibility accounting, interest rates and the time value of money, sources of funds and capital structure, break-even analysis and capital budgeting. Searches like "fam 5400 module 3 assignment example", "FAM5400 sample paper", and "FAM-5400 module samples" land on this page.

What FAM-5400 is really about

Keown, Martin and Petty’s Foundations of Finance is the text. The modules run from Fundamental Financial Statements, Financial Reporting Concepts, Fraud and Internal Control and Budgetary Planning and Responsibility Accounting to Financial Markets and Interest Rates, Capital Structure: Stocks and Bonds and Capital Budgeting.

A midterm project tests the first four modules in an academic paper, and the final project asks for a full financial analysis of AT&T and Verizon from their financial reporting packages, with common-size statements and ratios.

What FAM-5400’s assessments ask for

Eight discussions count 20 percent, seven written assignments 45 percent, the midterm project 15 percent and the final project 20 percent. The midterm runs 2,000 to 2,750 words and the final 3,000 to 4,125, and the syllabus stresses applying and analyzing over calculating.

Where students lose points in FAM-5400

Marks go on treating profit as cash, listing framework characteristics without applying them, recommending every control regardless of company size, choosing financing on EPS alone and copying AT&T and Verizon ratios from websites instead of building them from the reports.

The FAM-5400 drawers

Module 1

FAM-5400 Module 1 assignment example

Written assignment: a composite Millville laboratory glassware maker earns $2.2 million in 2025 yet ends the year with $890,000 less cash, and the paper reads its income statement, balance sheet and cash flow statement together to show that slower collections and heavier inventory, not losses, drained the cash. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 2

FAM-5400 Module 2 assignment example

Written assignment: the composite Millville glassware maker's managers face three reporting choices, when to recognize revenue on a custom distillation apparatus, whether to write down slow-moving borosilicate stock and how to disclose a lawsuit, and the paper resolves each with the framework's objective, qualitative characteristics and recognition principles. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 3

FAM-5400 Module 3 assignment example

Written assignment: the composite Millville glassware maker discovers that cash sales of scrap glass cullet were never recorded, and the paper applies the fraud triangle to the loss, assesses the scrap process against COSO's five components and recommends controls scaled to a 190-employee company. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 4

FAM-5400 Module 4 assignment example

Midterm project: the composite Millville glassware maker's 2025 statements, reporting judgments and scrap fraud are drawn together into a 2026 budget built around a cash target, with responsibility centers for production, sales and the custom shop and a performance report that separates what managers control from what they do not. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 5

FAM-5400 Module 5 assignment example

Written assignment: the composite Millville glassware maker weighs a five-year fixed equipment loan at 7.4 percent against a floating loan at a benchmark plus 2.25 percent, breaks the quoted rates into their components, reads what an inverted or upward-sloping yield curve implies and uses present value to compare the two loans under three rate paths. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 6

FAM-5400 Module 6 assignment example

Written assignment: the composite Millville glassware maker values a 6.5 percent ten-year bond at a 7.2 percent required return and its own shares with a constant-growth dividend model, then compares financing a $6 million expansion with debt or new shares through EBIT-EPS indifference, operating and financial sensitivity and capital structure theory. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Module 7

FAM-5400 Module 7 assignment example

Final project: AT&T and Verizon compared from their 2023 and 2024 annual reports, with common-size figures for revenue, operating income, depreciation and capital spending, ratios for profitability, liquidity, debt and coverage, free cash flow against dividends, the goodwill impairments behind each company's weak year and what the numbers imply for their bonds, shares and investment programs. Full sample paper, read it free.

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Using a FAM-5400 sample the right way

Send the problems from your module and a first custom sample is back free within 24-48h. Use it to see how each number is interpreted, then apply the same reasoning to your own company or case.

How these samples are written

FAM-5400 samples here keep one composite manufacturer through Modules 1 to 6 so its statements, controls, budget and financing connect, and the final project’s AT&T and Verizon figures come from their own Form 10-K filings.

FAM-5400 questions, answered

What textbook does FAM-5400 use?

Keown, Martin and Petty’s Foundations of Finance, tenth edition, from Pearson.

Which companies does the FAM-5400 final project use?

AT&T and Verizon, analyzed from their financial reporting packages with common-size statements and ratios.

Is there a midterm in FAM-5400?

Yes, a midterm project paper of 2,000 to 2,750 words on the first four modules, worth 15 percent.