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FIN 340 assignments ask students to measure risk and return and to put a value on a security.

Return and risk assignments compute holding period and annualized returns, arithmetic and geometric averages, standard deviation and the Sharpe ratio from price data, often for real stocks or funds.

Portfolio assignments combine two or more assets, compute covariance and correlation, chart the opportunity set or efficient frontier and identify the minimum-variance or optimal risky portfolio.

CAPM assignments estimate a stock's beta by regressing its returns on the market's, compute the required return and compare it with the expected return to judge whether the stock looks overpriced or underpriced.

Bond assignments price bonds, compute yield to maturity and yield to call, build a simple yield curve and estimate price changes with duration and convexity.

Valuation assignments apply dividend discount models, free cash flow to the firm or to equity and price multiples, then reconcile the results into a single value.

Research reports present a buy, hold or sell recommendation with a target price. Performance evaluations compare funds with Sharpe, Treynor or Jensen's alpha. The FIN 340 project usually combines several of these for one company or portfolio.

Each FIN 340 assignment begins with the data. Prices, dividends, financial statements and bond terms are pulled from public sources such as company filings and market data sites, each figure dated, and adjusted prices are used where splits or dividends would distort returns.

Risk and portfolio workbooks keep raw prices on one sheet, returns on another and statistics and charts on a third, with Excel's functions used for averages, standard deviation and covariance and one figure checked by hand.

Beta estimates use a stated period and frequency, such as five years of monthly returns against the S&P 500, with the regression output shown and interpreted.

Bond workbooks show cash flows, discount rates, price, yield and duration in a clear table, with a chart of price against yield.

Valuations list every assumption, including the growth rate, the required return and the terminal multiple, with a sentence on where each came from, and include a sensitivity table so the reader can see how the value moves.

Research reports lead with the recommendation and target price. Every FIN 340 workbook keeps its formulas live, and written work follows APA.

FIN 340 assignments are drafted by investment analysts trained in finance, many CFA charterholders or candidates, who have covered stocks for research departments, run bond portfolios and built allocation models for advisory firms.

They know the details FIN 340 graders check, such as whether geometric rather than arithmetic averages were used for multi-year returns and whether a dividend growth rate exceeds the required return, which breaks the model.

They write research notes the way the industry does: the call first, then the case for it and the risks to it.

A second analyst changes one input in every FIN 340 workbook to confirm the outputs respond correctly before the file is released.

Several have taught investments or prepared candidates for the CFA exams, so they know which steps a FIN 340 instructor expects to see written out, such as converting an annual coupon to semiannual payments before pricing a bond.

FIN 340 return calculations lose points when dividends are left out of holding period returns, when unadjusted prices distort results after a split or when arithmetic averages are used where a geometric average is required.

Portfolio work loses points when weights do not sum to one, when covariance is confused with correlation or when the efficient frontier is drawn without explaining what it shows.

CAPM work loses points when beta is estimated over an unstated period, when the risk-free rate does not match the horizon or when alpha is reported without interpretation.

Bond exercises lose points when the coupon rate is treated as the yield, when semiannual payments are ignored or when duration is used for large rate changes without noting its limits.

Valuations lose points when the growth rate is unrealistic, when the discount rate does not match the cash flow being discounted or when no sensitivity is shown.

Research reports lose points when the recommendation is vague or unsupported. FIN 340 instructors also deduct for market data with no date or source.

A FIN 340 return and risk exercise usually takes a day. Portfolio workbooks take one to two days, beta and CAPM estimates about a day, bond exercises a day, valuations two to three days, research reports two to three days and the stock or portfolio project three to five days, depending on its parts.

The size of a FIN 340 order rests mainly on the number of tickers involved, the years of price history needed and the page count of any report. A single-stock dividend discount model is quicker than a three-method valuation with peer multiples, a sensitivity table and a full research report.

Along with the FIN 340 prompt and rubric, send the textbook edition, any assigned company or fund tickers and the date range your instructor wants for data.

When the beta estimate, valuation and research report for the same company are ordered together, one data sheet feeds all three, so every FIN 340 figure agrees.