Welcome to the study of the financial and economic environment of
the corporate sector by distance learning (DL). I look forward to
being your mentor for this course during the Fall 2006 semester.
Distance learning requires an
individual to be
highly motivated and to take the
initiative to do
independent learning! By registering for this
course you are such an individual. Kudos!
You will learn in this course how firms determine investment, financing,
and dividend policy decisions, i.e., the basic tenets of funding and operating
an enterprise, in the financial marketplace. The successful completion of this
course will give you a solid understanding of the practice and theory of financial
management, it will academically prepare you to take advance courses in finance.
Some topics to be covered in this course are: financial markets, asset valuation
models, statistical risk-return analysis, portfolio theory, capital budgeting,
financing decisions and market efficiency. These topics are very interesting
and will equip you with analytical tools that will be helpful to you throughout
your professional career. These topics may even peak your interest in the field
so that you may want to consider a career in financial management.
The contemporary field of financial management has developed into a highly
specialized area that employs the tools of other functional areas of
business administration. This course will be taught on an applied-practical
and theoretical level. Students are to expect extensive applied assignments
on a weekly basis. Students are required to have a working knowledge of
an electronic spreadsheet.
Students should have the required academic background to take this graduate
course; a basic knowledge of accounting, economics and elementary statistics
are needed. Students are advised to use their textbooks in these courses
as supplements when needed. Finally, students must be highly disciplined
and motivated; this is a demanding course, it requires good qualitative
and quantitative skills.
All the details of this course are on NJIT's WebCT server.
Once you have registered for this course go to the web page:
http://webct.njit.edu and
click on to
I am currently taking a credit course at NJIT.
You will be asked to enter your UCID and password. Then click on to
the
FIN 600 course.
The textbook we will be using for the Fall 2006 semester is
Corporate Finance: Core Principles and Applications, first edition, with
Homerwork Manager,
by Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe, and Jordon (McGraw-Hill Irwin, Inc. 2007).
ISBN-10: 0-07-322534-7; this ISBN packages the book with
Homerwork Manager.
Your first task is to learn the WebCT software interface, do this by going through
the
WebCT Tour and
Help menus.
You are to regularly log on to the WebCT course interface to learn of
the topic to study, review course content, and to get the homework assignment. This course
will be taught on a theoretical and applied level, so expect extensive homework assignments.
Again, welcome to
Fin 600-DL. Now let us begin ... click on to the syllabus icon on
the home page of the WebCT course interface.
