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Financial Management (FIN350)

Financial Management (FIN350). TIP If you do not understand something, ask me!. Administrative Issues and Course Overview. Today’s plan. Administrative issues: syllabus Course overview Chapter 1. The instructor. My name is Donglin Li. Email: donglinli2006@yahoo.com )

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Financial Management (FIN350)

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  1. Financial Management (FIN350) TIP If you do not understand something, ask me! Administrative Issues and Course Overview

  2. Today’s plan • Administrative issues: syllabus • Course overview • Chapter 1

  3. The instructor • My name is Donglin Li. • Email:donglinli2006@yahoo.com ) • Office hours: Mon 14:00-17:00, Tu 13:00-14:00, Bus 315 • You can also email me questions. • http://online.sfsu.edu/~donglin/courses.html • Research interests: • Corporate finance: Agency cost, overinvestment • Accounting: Financial Statement Analysis, Market Anomalies • Default Prediction; Reg FD

  4. My expectation in this course • I want everyone in the room to be familiar with finance • to be familiar with key concepts / issues • to feel more comfortable talking about finance and answering finance questions.

  5. My expectation in this course • students who come to class, listen, review the problems, and think a lot , typically do well. • students who seldom show up in class usually perform poorly.

  6. Textbook • Fundamentals of Financial Management, concise 5th Edition, by Thomson and Southwestern. • This is a very popular textbook, which has been used in many programs for the intro course in finance. • Maybe tougher than other textbooks. • You will like it.

  7. Prerequisites • You are required to take (ACCT 101, ECON 101, DS 110, 212; ISYS 263 or pass computer information systems proficiency test. )

  8. Homework • Homework will not be graded. The solution will be posted on my web. • Try to do the Self-test problems at the end of each chapter in the textbook. • The best way to learn new concepts is to do a lot of problems. • I will also put lecture slides, HW solution and some multiple choice exercises on my web.

  9. In-Class-Work • There will be 4 in-class projects.

  10. 4 quizzes and final exam • The exams are closed-book. • There are no makeup or in-advance exams. • The exams are based on material covered in lectures, homework, and textbook. • Mostly multiple choice questions.

  11. Quizzes and Final • Please bring your SFSU ID or a driver license to class, as well as scantrons.

  12. Grading • Your total points will be based on the following: • Class performance 10 • Quizzes (drop 1 lowest) 51 • Final 39

  13. The curve grade • The grade that will appear on your transcript is based on the ranking of your total scores in class: • Top 10% of class A to A- • Above 65% of class B+ to B- • Above 30% of class C+ to C- • Bottom 30% of class D+ to F

  14. Academic integrity • The instructor has zero tolerance for cheating or looking at each other during the exams • In the exams, please sit as far as possible between each other.

  15. Communicate with the instructor • Teaching Style: Lectures and problem solving • I APPRECIATE any constructive suggestions (in person or email) that would improve the course.

  16. Course organization • This course is broken-down into three parts • 1: valuation of financial assets (Bonds, stocks) • 2: valuation of real assets (capital budgeting) • 3: capital structure theory (financing with debt or issuing stocks)

  17. Course OverviewFinance: what is it? Corporate Finance Money and capital markets Investments Investors Financial Markets: Banks, Stock Exchanges Corporations

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