Category: Excel

Background The end of chapter exercises provide hands-on practice for the concep

Background
The end of chapter exercises provide hands-on practice for the concep

Background
The end of chapter exercises provide hands-on practice for the concepts learned in this module.
Instructions
At the end of each chapter in the textbook there is a section titled “Application Exercises.”
Complete two exercises for each module (two exercises from any of the chapters assigned for that module) using Excel and/or Access as appropriate per exercise.
Grading
This assignment is worth 5 points and due on Sunday. For more specifics on how this will be graded, refer to the rubric below.
Rubric Name: Application Exercises Rubric
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CriteriaHighly DevelopedDeveloped
Emerging
Initial
Criterion Score
Explanation
1.25 points
Completed exercises with a detailed explanation/reasoning for answers.
0.5 points
Complete exercises with some explanation(s).
0.375 points
Explanation is unclear.
0.25 points
Misses key points.
Score of Explanation,
/ 1.25
Use of Visuals
0.75 points
Clear table/report or chart/graph with some detail.
0.3 points
Clear table/report or chart/graph.
0.225 points
Inappropriate or unclear table/report and/or chart/graph.
0.15 points
Table/report not complete and/or chart/graph not attempted.
Score of Use of Visuals,
/ 0.75
Mechanics
1.25 points
Good effort and obvious attempt at completing all exercise steps correctly.
0.5 points
Good effort and some attempt at completing exercise steps.
0.375 points
Some effort completing exercise steps, some formulas attempted.
0.25 points
Some steps completed, but text in place of actual exercise formulas/answers.
Score of Mechanics,
/ 1.25
Demonstrated Knowledge
1.25 points
Demonstrates complete understanding for the use of the applications to solve problems and answers all questions.
0.5 points
Shows some understanding for the applications and answers most questions.
0.375 points
Shows some understanding for the applications and answers most questions.
0.25 points
Evidence of understanding is not clearly demonstrated and answers are incomplete.
Score of Demonstrated Knowledge,
/ 1.25
Requirements
0.5 points
Goes beyond the requirements of the applications’ problems.
0.2 points
Meets the requirements of the applications’ problems.
0.15 points
Hardly meets the requirements of the applications’ problems.
0.1 points
Does not meet the requirements of the applications’ problems
Sample here: Sample Access 1

1 Collect the daily stock prices over the past year from Yahoo! Finance for SPY,

1 Collect the daily stock prices over the past year from Yahoo! Finance for SPY,

1 Collect the daily stock prices over the past year from Yahoo! Finance for SPY, which is the symbol for the exchange traded fund that attempts to mimic the S&P 500 index, which is often used as the proxy for the market portfolio, and two other stocks of your choice that have been publicly traded firms for at least one year. Follow the guidelines in the “Obtain Historical Returns from Yahoo” document
2 Use the Excel file I posted called M5 Project to calculate the same statistics. See the formulas in the cells as a guide.
Better yet, try to match your return cells with my return cells so that everything automatically populates
Follow the Obtain Historical Returns from yahoo file to see what I mean by this
Discuss your findings. This should include:
A discussion of the main statistics, such as
the expected return for each stock,
the standard deviation for each stock, the expected return of the portfolio of the two stocks you selected using the various percentages allocated to each (50%-50%, 75%-25%, 25%-75%) provided in the sheet,
the standard deviation for each portfolio of the two stocks you selected using the various percentages allocated to each (50%-50%, 75%-25%, 25%-75%),
the beta of each stock,
the beta of a portfolio of the two stocks using the percentages allocated to each (50%-50%, 75%-25%, 25%-75%).
Be sure to discuss some of the key concepts too (e.g., point out the standard deviation of the portfolio is less than the weighted average of the standard deviations of the stocks in the portfolio)
Compute the coefficient of variation for the three different allocationsWhich of the three (i.e., the 50-50%, 75-25%, or 25-75%) offers the best risk-return profile?
Submit your modified Excel file when you have completed the project by 11:59 PM ET Sunday.
Note: Do not choose ABC and AMAT as your stocks. I used those in a practice example!