D365: Financial Management II

Financial Management II shifts from Financial Management I's operational, working-capital focus into long-term strategic financing — how a company funds and structures itself for growth over years, not weeks.

What D365 covers

The course covers capital budgeting and long-term funding strategies, exploring an enterprise's capital structure and how equity and long-term debt finance and sustain long-term fixed-asset projects.

Decision methods including net present value (NPV), internal rate of return (IRR), and payback period are covered as techniques for identifying and structuring the optimal capital budget. Students also examine equity capital, assess financial markets, look at differences in shareholder classifications and bond types, learn how dividend policy is devised, and see how corporate investment strategy increases shareholder and corporate value together.

The D365 performance assessment

Expect a performance assessment requiring you to evaluate a long-term investment project using NPV, IRR, and payback period, recommend a capital structure (debt vs. equity mix), and address the resulting dividend policy implications.

Key topics in D365

• Capital structure: equity vs. long-term debt
• NPV, IRR, and payback period decision methods
• Equity capital and financial markets
• Shareholder classifications and bond types
• Dividend policy

Writing tips for D365

Follow the task instructions and rubric line by line

WGU performance assessments for D365 are graded against a fixed rubric — every rubric line has to be visibly addressed, usually with a labeled heading that mirrors the rubric language. Skipping a rubric point because it seems minor is the single most common reason a competent submission comes back "Not Yet Competent" for revision.

Show every calculation, not just the final answer

Finance rubrics at WGU consistently grade the work, not just the result — a correct final valuation or ratio with no visible formula or supporting numbers behind it typically won't earn full credit. Show the formula, the inputs, and the calculation explicitly for every financial figure your task requires.

Because WGU is self-paced, don't let "no deadline pressure" become no submission

There's no weekly due date forcing progress, which means procrastination costs more at WGU than at a traditional term-based school — a stalled task can quietly eat weeks of a term. Treat your own target date for each D365 assessment as a real deadline.

Why students seek help with D365

NPV and IRR can occasionally disagree about which of two projects is better (particularly with different project sizes or cash flow timing), and students who don't recognize or address this conflict — instead of picking whichever number looks more favorable — miss a key analytical point this course is testing.

How GradeEssays helps with D365

Share your investment scenario and rubric, and your writer will calculate NPV, IRR, and payback period correctly, address any conflict between the methods, and connect the capital structure and dividend policy recommendations coherently.

Prerequisites and program context

D365 requires Principles of Financial and Managerial Accounting (D196), Finance Skills for Managers (D076), Personal Finance (D363), Corporate Finance (D362), Financial Management I (D364), and Financial Statement Analysis (D366) — the most prerequisite-dense course in the Finance major.

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