Financial Management
(FIN350)
Administrative Issues and Course Overview
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Today’s plan
Administrative issues: syllabus
Course overview
Chapter 1
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prerequisites
You are required to take (ACCT 101,
ECON 101, DS 110, 212; ISYS 263 or pass
computer information systems proficiency
test. )
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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.
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In-Class-Work
There will be 4 in-class projects.
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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.
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Quizzes and Final
Please bring your SFSU ID or a driver
license to class, as well as scantrons.
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Grading
Your total points will be based on the
following:
Class performance
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Quizzes (drop 1 lowest)
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Final
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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
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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.
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Communicate with the
instructor
Teaching Style: Lectures and problem
solving
I APPRECIATE any constructive
suggestions (in person or email) that
would improve the course.
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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)
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Course Overview
Finance: what is it?
Corporate Finance
Corporations
Money and capital markets
Financial Markets:
Banks, Stock Exchanges
Investments
Investors
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