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Reflection Toolkit: Strategies For Facilitating Reflection In The Classroom, Meghmala Tarafdar, Elizabeth Digiorgio, Alison Cimino, Sebastian Murolo, Miseon Kim, Ilse Schrynemakers Nov 2019

Reflection Toolkit: Strategies For Facilitating Reflection In The Classroom, Meghmala Tarafdar, Elizabeth Digiorgio, Alison Cimino, Sebastian Murolo, Miseon Kim, Ilse Schrynemakers

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This Reflection Toolkit, compiled by the faculty inquiry group (FIG), includes classroom strategies for integrating reflection into one's existing syllabi. The lesson plans highlight how to encourage effective student reflections.The toolkit includes best practices to facilitate reflection in classes across the disciplines in the context of a variety of student-centered activities (including group-work, online learning, and interactive modules).


Time Value Of Money: An Introduction, Alexander Núñez-Torres Oct 2019

Time Value Of Money: An Introduction, Alexander Núñez-Torres

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This lecture introduces the time value of money concept. It discusses the present value of a cash flow and how to discount it, the future value of a cash flow and how to compound it. Finally, it discusses three rules for valuing cash flows.


Introduction To Financial Statement Analysis, Alexander Núñez-Torres Oct 2019

Introduction To Financial Statement Analysis, Alexander Núñez-Torres

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This lecture discusses why the disclosure of financial information through financial statements is critical to investors. The function of the balance sheet, income statement, cash flows and statement of stockholder’s equity will be discussed. It discusses financial statement analyses through ratios and financial reporting in finance.


Corporate Finance And Financial Management, Alexander Núñez-Torres Oct 2019

Corporate Finance And Financial Management, Alexander Núñez-Torres

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This lecture discusses the importance of financial information in both individuals personal and business lives. It includes description of the important features of the four main types of firms. Then, discusses the three main types of decisions a financial manager makes. Finally, it discusses the tax implications for the different corporate entities.


Fundamentals Of Stock Valuation, Alexander Núñez-Torres Oct 2019

Fundamentals Of Stock Valuation, Alexander Núñez-Torres

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This lecture describes the basics of common stock, preferred stock, and stock quotes; describes a tradeoff between dividends and growth in stock valuation. Finally, discusses how to value a stock as the present value of the company’s total payout.


Valuing Cash Flows Streams, Alexander Núñez-Torres Oct 2019

Valuing Cash Flows Streams, Alexander Núñez-Torres

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This lecture discusses how to value a series of cash flows such as perpetuities, annuities, growing perpetuities and growing annuities. Additionally, it discusses how to solve for variables other than present value or future value of cash flows.


Risk And Return, Alexander Núñez-Torres Oct 2019

Risk And Return, Alexander Núñez-Torres

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What is risk? What is return? How are these two related? This lecture discusses the variables that determine the risk and return of stocks. Additionally, it describes the historical tradeoff between risk and return. Finally, it discusses diversification in stock portfolios.


Bonds, Alexander Núñez-Torres Oct 2019

Bonds, Alexander Núñez-Torres

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This lecture is about bonds. A bond is a debt investment in which an investor loans money to an entity (typically corporate or governmental) which borrows the funds for a defined period of time at a variable or fixed interest rate. It discusses the bond terminology, how to compute the price and yield of the different types of bonds. Additionally, it describes why bond prices change over time and how credit risk affects a corporate bond.


How To Make Investment Decisions, Alexander Núñez-Torres Oct 2019

How To Make Investment Decisions, Alexander Núñez-Torres

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This lecture is about making investment decisions. It discusses the net present value (NPV) rules, IRR and other alternative decision rules. Additionally, it discusses how to choose between projects, either mutually exclusive projects, projects with different lives or limited resources.


Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Fin 4093 (Corporate Credit Risk), Michele Costello Aug 2019

Zero Textbook Cost Syllabus For Fin 4093 (Corporate Credit Risk), Michele Costello

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The course will provide students with an overview of key concepts in corporate credit risk through the lens of a commercial banking risk analyst. Students will be assigned a company to follow throughout the semester and will be required to use the tools of the course to build their own credit rating analysis in a term paper due at the end of the semester. Topics including country risk, industry risk, market risk, business risk (financial and management), and structure risk will be explored through lectures, industry publications, and access to industry analysis and tools. Upon completion of this course, students …


Business Ethics: Perspectives On The Global Supply Chain, Andrea R. Irias Aug 2019

Business Ethics: Perspectives On The Global Supply Chain, Andrea R. Irias

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This assignment was inspired by a group discussion by faculty who teach the First Year Seminar in Business (BTF101) during the 2018-19 Rebooting the FYS Seminar. BTF101 is a two-credit course that meets for a total of 3 hours. We were tasked with ways to improve course assignments aimed at strengthening students’ Global Learning Competency and Digital Communication Ability. The topic of sweatshops abroad is a proven way to introduce a Global Learning assignment with a business related topic. In order to deepen the students’ learning on the subject, the assignment tasks students with taking on the role of …


Sample Syllabus For Teaching Online Database Modeling And Management, Joshua Moritz Jul 2019

Sample Syllabus For Teaching Online Database Modeling And Management, Joshua Moritz

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Students learn the basics of database modeling and managements as well as the analytical techniques and tools used to assess, enhance, and profit from customer-relationship management. The course reviews database technology, organization and planning including technology needs and outsourcing considerations; sampling techniques such as nth selects and frozen files; creating powerful predictor variables such as univariate and cross tabulations, ratios, time series variables, and other measures. The course also covers predicting customer actions by using multiple linear regression and correlation to model response, payment, attrition, churn, and other factors that assist in segmentation. Students also learn how to combine prospect …


Tech Entrepreneurship: An Experiential Journey, Punit Arora Jan 2019

Tech Entrepreneurship: An Experiential Journey, Punit Arora

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This course uses Lean Launchpad for creating entrepreneurial ventures that start small but can be scaled up fairly quickly. You should you take this class only IF you are interested in creating such ventures. This course provides real world, hands-on learning on what it’s like to actually start a high-tech company. This class is not about how to write a business plan. It’s not an exercise on how smart you arein a classroom, or how well you use the research library to size markets. This is a practical class – essentially a lab, not a theory or “book” …