Finance and Financial Management Commons^™

Research Project In Finance: Jnj Johnson And Johnson Corporation, Tsend Togtokhsuren

Student Scholarship

Johnson and Johnson ($JNJ) is a Multinational Corporation that was founded in 1886. It currently operates in the medical devices, pharmaceuticals, and consumer packaged goods industries. The company is a part of the DOW jones industrial average. The corporation has over 250 subsidiaries and brands that serve to improve everyday life through their products. JNJ’s credo is “ We believe our first responsibility is to the doctors, nurses and patients, to mothers and fathers and all others who use our products and services” as well as stating “ We are responsible for our employees, the men and women who work …

Incorporating Social Velocity In The Value-Momentum Model, Sean Fiedler

Business: Student Scholarship & Creative Works

Fama-French’s Three-Factor Model stands as one of the overarching financial models in investing. This model details the risk and return attributed to stocks, based on capitalization, book value, and market return. Since then, a number of financial theorists have proposed amendments to the model, finding other factors with correlation to stock returns. One in particular was momentum, proposed by Mark Carhart to enhance the model further. From this Four-Factor Model, the question remains whether or not more factors can be added to better explain excess return.

The goal of this study is to find a correlation between Social Velocity ranking …

Thinking Finance - The Comic Book, Dimitrios V. Siskos

Publications

Thinking financially results in the best possible outcome and establishes a secure foundation for the future as an independent man. In contrast, thinking emotionally leads to short-sighted financial decisions and usually, deep regrets. However, thinking financially is not pleasant for the people around us. This comic book presents a guy, whose dream is to become an accountant. When he finally succeeds in this, he realizes that thinking financially may be effective for his boss but it is irritating for everyone else, even for his family.

Closing Pandora’S Box: Reducing Student Confusion With A Process Costing Simulation, Marie Kelly, Nikki Shoemaker

Faculty Publications

This paper describes a classroom Process Costing simulation that can be used in both introductory managerial accounting and cost accounting courses in order to help students better understand the principles of process costing and how to apply these principles to a problem. In groups, students work to manufacture candy necklaces for a set amount of time. After the manufacturing time has ended, students work together to determine equivalent units of production, cost per equivalent unit, and total costs for the period. Subsequently, a final class discussion provides opportunities for differences between groups to be discussed and any additional questions to …

Strategic Financial Management, Fina-475, Roberto Stein

UNL Faculty Course Portfolios

Strategic Financial Management is the new, case-based capstone course of the Finance Major at the UNL College of Business. Introduced in the Fall 2016 Term, it has since been revised and is being continually updated, to better achieve the its academic goals. In this portfolio, I describe the course’s overall structure, goals and main components. I then detail a number of changes made for the Spring 2018 version of the course, and proceed to analyze data pertaining to the outcomes observed from these changes. Finally, I outline potential strategies and further changes that might be implemented in future iterations of …