Financial Management (FIN350)
Administrative Issues and Course Overview
TIP
If you do not understand
something,
ask me!
The instructor
My name is Donglin Li.
Email: donglinli2006@yahoo.com )
Office hours: MW 12-1pm F 3-5pm 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, Momentum strategies
Default Prediction; Regulation Fair Disclosure
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The class website
I will put lecture slides, in-class-work handouts,
tutorials on how to use calculators, and sample
tests on my web.
You are welcome to drop me emails from the
website, with or without your name.
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Add, drop and withdrawal
policy
The business school has the policy for
add, drop and withdrawal
In the first four weeks, you have to get
enrolled in the class, if you want
Students can withdraw only once
Please read the syllabus for detailed
information
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My expectation in this course
I want everyone in the room to better
understand finance
to be familiar with key concepts / issues
to feel more comfortable talking about finance
and answering finance questions.
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My experience 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 6th Edition, by 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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Financial Calculators
Texas Instruments BAII-Plus
(No need to buy the professional model)
HP 10B II.
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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.
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In-Class-Work
There will be 4 in-class work assignments.
The schedule of these in-class projects will
not be announced in advance, so just
come to the lectures.
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Three quizzes and final exam
The quizzes are closed-book and closed notes.
There are no make-ups.
The tests are based on material covered in
lectures, in-class-work, homework, and
textbook. Mostly multiple choice questions.
The in-class-work will be relevant for the
quizzes; The quizzes will be relevant for the
final!
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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
Class performance
Quiz of lowest score
The other two quizzes
Final exam
10 points
drop 
50
40
Total
100points
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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 15% of class
A to AAbove 65% of class
B+ to BAbove 25% of class
C+ to CBottom 25% of class
D+ to F
 The instructor reserves the right to make minor adjustment if necessary.
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Class performance
Any attempt to seek undue favor from the
instructor will negatively affect your class
performance.
The instructor cannot assign extra work to
any individual to improve her/his grade.
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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. I did catch several
cheating activities in the past.
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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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If you are trying to add…
Class is full. Cannot exceed class limit.
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