...SYLLABUS CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE, REAL ESTATE, AND INSURANCE 8/3/2012 PAGE 1 Course Title Investment I Course Number Finance 352, Class No. 12837 Semester Fall 2012 Instructor Danny S. Litt Meeting Times Friday, 11:00am-1:45pm Meeting Dates August 31, 2012 – December 14, 2012 Final Exam December 14, 2012, 10:15am – 12:15pm Class Location Juniper Hall, Room JH 1121 Office Juniper Hall, Room 4110 Phone Number 818-677-2459 – Department Office (leave message) Office Hours Friday at 10:00am E-mail address danny.litt@csun.edu (reference class) COURSE DESCRIPTION This is an introductory course on the fundamentals of investment analysis and management. Survey of investments including corporate and government securities, real property and financial intermediaries. Survey of investment theory emphasizing security analysis, valuation and portfolio management. PREREQUISITES Finance 303; cannot be taken concurrently COURSE GOALS AND OBJECTIVES This course provides the student with the information and skills needed to analyze investments and portfolio management. The intent of the course is to provide students with a basic understanding of different alternatives in investments, how to value those investments, and how those investments fit together within an investment portfolio. TOPICS INCLUDE Corporate and government securities Risk-return tradeoff Institutional aspects of security markets Fundamental and technical analysis ...
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...Finance 3101: Financial Management Syllabus (Spring 2013) Section: 101 Time/Room: TR 12:30 P.M. – 1:50 P.M. / 208 Ambler Learning Ctr. Course Coordinator: Dr. Howard Keen (“DRK”) Course Instructor: James Dooley Office Hours: By Appointment E-mail Address: jsdooley@verizon.net Office Telephone: 215-498-0157 Prerequisites |Economics 1101 (C051) and 1102 (C052); Accounting 2102 (0002) or 2521. Statistics 2101 (C021) or 2103. Any exception to the foregoing prerequisites can | |only be approved by the Department Chair. | | | | | | | |Course Description | | | | | This course provides a survey of the financial problems associated with the life cycle of a business firm. Topics include: financial analysis and planning, capital budgeting, cost of capital, and the sources and uses of business funds. While the emphasis is on decision making within a corporate environment, the tools taught in this course are just as relevant to other forms of business organization and to personal financial management. Course Objectives ...
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...[pic] Australian School of Business School of Banking and Finance FINS 5516 International Corporate Finance Course Outline Session 1, 2010 1. Course Staff 3 1.1 Communication with Staff 3 2. Information about the course 3 2.1 Teaching Times and Locations 3 2.2 Units of Credit 3 2.3 Parallel Teaching in the Course 3 2.4 Relationship of This Course to Other Course Offerings 3 3. Course Aims and Learning Outcomes 3 3.1 Course Aims 3 3.2 Student Learning Outcomes 4 3.3 Approach to Learning and Teaching 5 3.4 Teaching Strategies 5 4. Continual Course evaluation and Improvement 5 5. Learning Assessment 5 5.1 Formal Requirements 5 5.2 Assessment Details 5 5.3 Assignment Format 6 5.4 Assignment Submission Procedure 6 5.5 Late Submission 6 5.6 Special Consideration and Supplementary Examinations 6 6. Academic Honesty and Plagiarism 7 7. Student responsibilities and conduct 7 7.1 Workload 8 7.2 Attendance 8 7.3 General Conduct and Behaviour 8 7.4 Keeping Informed 8 8. Student Resources 9 8.1 Course Resources 9 8.2 Other Resources, Support and Information 9 9. Course Schedule 12 1. Course Staff A/PROF. DONGHUI LI Office: ASB 342 Email: donghui@unsw.edu.au Tel: 9385 5873 1.1 Communication with Staff Consultation Hours: Friday 9:00 –11:00 Outside these times, meetings are by prior appointment only. E-mail the staff in question and arrange a mutually convenient time. Teaching staff will only respond to...
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...FIN 675 - CORPORATE FINANCIAL STRATEGY - 3 CREDITS Instructor Details: Instructor: John Manley, Ph.D. Office: Finance House, 85 Beechmont Drive, New Rochelle, NY Phone: 914 637 2733 Fax: 914 633 2286 Email: jmanley@iona.edu Office Hours: half hour before class and by appointment Prerequisite: MBA 550 – Finance for Managers Course Objective: Upon completion of this course, the student should have an understanding of 1. governance issues of the firm [chap. 1 & lecture] 2. valuation concepts and processes [chap. 3, 5, 8, 9, 29] 3. capital budgeting estimation and decision methods [chap.6, 7] 4. debt, equity and lease financing issues [chap. 14, 20, 21] 5. risk defined and measured in a CAPM setting [chap. 10, 11] 6. variations in the calculation of cost of capital [chap. 13, 18] 7. capital structure and dividend policy decisions [chap. 15, 16, 17, 19] Suggested Other Courses: FIN 644 concerns of short-term financial planning and financing FIN 625 concerns of risk management with derivative securities FIN 620 concerns of multinational financial management Required Text: Ross, S., R. Westerfield, and J. Jaffe, Corporate Finance, current edition, Irwin. Recommended Supplemental Reading: The Wall Street Journal Barron's Value Line Investment Survey Financial Times Major Units of Instruction: Weeks Topics 1 Corporate Governance (extension...
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...| Corporate Governance2 CreditsBU.231.720.84 Days and time: Wednesdays. 9:00 am – 12:00 pmSpring 2, 2015 March 25 - May 13, 2015HE BaltimoreRoom #206 | Instructor Dr. Demir Yener Contact Information 1625 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington DC. Office: 206K. Phone Number: (202) 650-6022; E-mail Address: demir.yener@jhu.edu Office Hours Mondays 4:30 – 5:00 pm or by appointment Required Text and Learning Materials: 1) Monks, Robert A.G. and Nell Minow. Corporate Governance (5th Ed. ISBN 978-0-470-97259-5), Wiley-Blackwell, 2011 2) Yener, Demir. Corporate Governance Primer 3) Lecture notes on Corporate Governance by Dr. Yener. 4) Other cases and readings to be distributed through BlackBoard as required. (Please note: the latest edition of the textbook will be adopted if there is one available. Please check out our online bookstore for most updated textbook information http://bookstore.mbsdirect.net/jhu-carey.htm.). Please see other required and recommended readings in the class schedule. Blackboard Site A Blackboard course site is set up for this course. Each student is expected to check the site throughout the semester as Blackboard will be the primary venue for outside classroom communications between the instructors and the students. Students can access the course site at https://blackboard.jhu.edu. Support for Blackboard is available at 1-866-669-6138. Course Evaluation As a research and learning community, the Carey Business...
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...The Impact of Financial Education in High School and College On Financial Literacy and Subsequent Financial Decision Making by Lewis Mandell Kermit O. Hanson Visiting Professor of Finance and Business Economics Foster School of Business, University of Washington Senior Fellow, Initiative on Financial Security, Aspen Institute Presented at the American Economic Association Meetings San Francisco, CA January 4, 2009 The Impact of Financial Education in High School and College On Financial Literacy and Subsequent Financial Decision Making Abstract: Many consumers appear to lack the financial literacy needed to make financial decisions in their self-interest. A growing number of analysts and politicians are blaming the intersection of low levels of financial literacy with complex, financially-engineered products for the current economic meltdown and have proposed a number of solutions to this problem. These solutions range from mandatory education in personal finance to required simplification of financial products and greatly increased regulation. This paper examines evidence on the effectiveness of personal finance education on both financial literacy and financial behavior. If the problem can be solved through education, it is likely to reduce the perceived need to limit choice in the marketplace for retail financial products. If education is shown to be ineffective, the future of financial product innovation and financial engineering may be greatly limited. Supporting...
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...Finance 653 Section 1, TH 1800-2040 SS 2512 Case Studies in Financial Management Sched. 14711 Fall 2003 Instructor: Dr. Hugh Hunter E-mail: hughh3@sbcglobal.net; hhunter@mail.sdsu.edu Office: SSE 3405 Office hours: T 1250-1400, 1700-1830 Note: Hours Phone: 594-6887 TH 1250-1400, 1700-1745 may change Prerequisite: BA 665. FIN 617 or some other 2nd course in corporate finance, such as FIN 325, would help. You should have available a good finance text for reference. The best is Brealey-Myers, Principles of Corporate Finance, any addition. Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, Corporate Finance is also very good. . Web Site: This site contains information pertaining to this course including announcements of assignment or schedule changes case tips, supplemental information and final exam questions. About this class: For an introduction to the case method, see the last page of this syllabus and Note To the Student: How To Study and Discuss Cases in the Bruner book, pp. xxv-xxx. Each case deals with specific finance topics. Case topics are listed along with study questions at the end of the syllabus. We will review these topics sometime before the case presentation. However, if you feel a need to review certain of these topics apart from class assignments, refer to the appropriate chapters in a corporate finance text. Most of our class time will be devoted to discussion of cases and finance topics related to the cases. It is your...
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...family will complain to you about any and every insurance situation they encounter. You will have the pleasure of dealing with people who appear to sincerely believe that members of the insurance industry have the ability to grow money on trees and get a sick and twisted pleasure out of keeping that secret from the rest of society, and denying claims for no good reason. People hate insurance companies more than they hate lawyers!!! Do not underestimate the difficulty of exams. People who majored in math routinely fail the first exam multiple times. If you are not a good test taker you are going to struggle mightily with the actuarial exams. The earlier exams are multiple choice (do not make the mistake of thinking that 'multiple choice' = 'easy') and more mathematical/financial in nature. The later exams are very different: written answer exams dealing with lots of regulations and syllabi that sometimes cover as much as 2,800 pages of reading material - with less than 6 months to prepare. That said, people pass exams all the time - more and more every year in fact. The work can be rewarding. You are helping to develop/maintain a product that will help people when they need help the most - at the worst moment(s) of their lives. You will...
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...Advanced Corporate Finance: Guidelines for In-class Presentations and Term Papers 1. Grading The information in the handouts is not very clear and does not include the case, so here some more precision about the grading rules: Everybody should do a writeup for the Wrigley Capital Structure Case. If you only do the case the final exam will count for 70% and the case writeup for 30% of the final grade. In case you want to improve your grade you should think about handing in a term paper or making an in-class presentation. If you do this the case writeup as well as the term paper or presentation will count for 25% of the final grade and the final exam will be reduced to 50%. 2. In-class Presentations The fundamentals: Approximate size: 10-15 powerpoint slides Approximate duration: 15 min Presentation date: will be assigned by me depending on the content Maximum group size: 4 class participants Presentations are optional Not everybody will be able to participate in a presentation, Purpose of the in class presentation: The presentations are intended to summarize academic research on a given issue. The presentation should not only be factually correct and complete but the topic should be well presented. The class should be able to easily understand and follow the argumentation. Grades will not only depend on the content but also on the quality of the presentation. Format: There is no predefined format, as the optimal way to present an issue depends...
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...| Analyzing the Impact of the Internet | MBA-FP6004_SandersAngela_Assessment2 | Angela Sanders 6-15-2015 | The main issues facing education today are finances and technology. In this paper, I will discuss the impact of finances on the institutions, as well as students and families. What is the role of technology in the education environment? What type of impact is this having and is it a positive one? I will answer these questions first from my findings of surveying educators, parents and students; then, I will look at the current literature. In finding out the answers, I reached out to ten individuals that are educators (3), parents (4), and students (3) to see how they view the impact of technology on education, as well as the financial impact, and the ethical implications of the changes we are seeing in education. From the information I gathered, there we’re a lot of mixed answers, but I did learn that everyone does have an opinion and is very passionate about this topic. From all three educators, I was informed that the pros to technology utilized in the classroom is that it’s another avenue for students that might require a different format of learning; it’s been beneficial. One school district has been overwhelmed with students because they do not have enough teachers, or classrooms to facilitate learning, and a millage increase was voted down that would’ve allowed them to build more classrooms. They have decided for the 2015-2016 school year to utilize...
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...Operational case study exam – February 2016 Pre-seen materials – Students’ copy February 2016 Operational case study examination Pre-seen materials First Class Bakery Contents 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Introduction Products Production Customers Distribution/suppliers/recycling Employees Financial statements Information and costing systems The industry News articles ©CIMA 2015. No reproduction without prior consent Page 2 3 7 10 12 13 15 19 20 21 Page 1 Operational case study exam – February 2016 Pre-seen materials – Students’ copy Introduction First Class Bakery manufactures cakes and desserts which are packaged and sold directly to food retailers. All production is carried out on a single site in the west of Beeland, a country that has B$ as its currency. Most of the cakes manufactured are for large food retailers who sell the cakes as their own brand. First Class Bakery packages the cakes using the brand required by each retailer. Some cakes and desserts are sold to small independent food retailers under First Class Bakery’s own brand. All sales are made in Beeland, in B$. First Class Bakery was established over 30 years ago by three brothers: John, James, and Frank Mitchell. The three brothers owned and ran the business until recently when 80% of its equity shares were sold to Universal Foods, a large group quoted on Beeland’s stock market. The two older brothers John and James retired from the business...
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...Economics and Finance College of Business and Economics ECON* 2740 (Economic Statistics) Instructor: Maynard Midterm VERSION CODE: B Fall, 2015 Duration: 120 minutes Aids Allowed: One two-sided handwritten 4 by 6 inch index card formula sheet. Only simple calculators without programming and scientific functions allowed as determined by the exam proctors. No other electronic devises permitted. Answer all questions. • Multiple choice questions should be answered on the Computer Answer Sheet. All other questions must include all work on the exam. No credit without work. • Identify yourself (name and student number) on the Computer Answer Sheet by filling in the circles. • Sign your exam, initial each page, and keep your student ID out on the desk in front of you. • Use only an HB or soft pencil to completely darken the appropriate choice on the answer sheet. • With the sole exception of simple, non-programable, non-scientific calculators, use of electronic devices is not permitted. Determination of which calculators are permitted is at the sole discretion of the exam proctors. Please turn off your cell-phone and all other electronic devices, placing these together with any personal items at the front of the room. • You cannot leave the room during the exam without explicit permission from the proctor. • The total marks are provided on the back of your exam. Your grade on the exam will be based on the percentage of correct marks. • Hand in your entire exam together...
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...COURSE SYLLABUS – Spring 2011 - DS 3520 OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT Course Number and Title: Operations Management - DS 3520 (3 semester hours) Prerequisite: Junior or Senior standing and must have passed ECON 3610 (Statistics). This applies to all students regardless of their major in the University. Course Description (from current catalog): Management of the processes, resources, and technologies in the production of goods and services. This course will cover topics concerning the design, operation, and improvement of production systems. These are topics such as operations strategy, capacity planning, design and analysis of processes, quality management management systems, supply chain management, production planning and inventory management. It will also address important business issues and contexts such as sustainability, strategic partnerships and alliances, global competitiveness, quality and productivity, and lean production philosophy. Learning Objectives and Expected Learning Outcomes: The learning objectives and expected learning outcomes are: 1) To introduce the fundamental concepts of Operations Management; to provide factual knowledge, terminology, methods, and theories of the field required for the management of the transformation process by which inputs are converted into useful goods and services in a production system. Students will demonstrate the understanding of the key terminology and concepts of operations management...
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...AQA AS Business Studies Unit1 (BUSS1) Course Companion AQA AS Business Studies Unit 1 (BUSS1) Course Companion Publishers Information AQA AS Business Studies Unit 1 Course Companion 1st Edition August 2008 Author: Jim Riley © Tutor2u Limited All Rights Reserved No part of this material may be reproduced in whole or in part without the express written permission of Tutor2u Limited. This publication is not endorsed or approved by AQA. Tutor2u Limited Boston House 214 High Street Boston Spa LS23 6AD Please contact jimriley@tutor2u.net with details of any errors, omissions or suggestions for future editions. © Tutor2u Limited All Rights Reserved www.tutor2u.net AQA AS Business Studies Unit 1 (BUSS1) Course Companion Contents Introduction to AQA AS Business Unit 1 .....................................................................6 Section 1: Starting a Business ......................................................................................7 Enterprise and Entrepreneurs .......................................................................................8 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 8 Entrepreneurs ..................................................................................................................................... 9 Motives for starting a business ................................................................
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