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Overview of Spring 2012


MBA 8135
Who am I?
Changes for Spring 2012
Course Details
Contact Information
http://www2.gsu.edu/~fnccwh/pdf/813
5sylsp12.pdf
http://www2.gsu.edu/~fnccwh/pdf/813
5suppsp12.pdf
http://www2.gsu.edu/~fnccwh/pdf/813
5introsp12.pdf

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Streaming Video Control Review

 Use both Video and Audio


 Variable Quality Video used for Lectures
 Use Windows Media Player for Video
 PowerPoint Slides (with irrelevant numbers)
 Live Links,
http://www2.gsu.edu/~fnccwh/Local%20Publish/in
dex.html
 Control Features
• Pause Button
• Slide names are live links to skip ahead and back
 Audio for Problem Solving
 Uses Flash
 Should Play in most browsers

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Who am I?
 Ph.D. (1993) from Florida State University in Corporate
Finance
 Former Assistant Professor and MBA Corporate
Finance Coordinator at Georgia State
 Online Georgia State Corporate Finance since 1998
 Currently Professor of Finance at U. of West Georgia
 Finance Course Coordinator for Georgia WEBMBA
 Current Money Manager, Former Hedge Fund Manager
and Corporate Finance Consultant
 Research is mix of Corporate Finance (asymmetric
information) and Investments (mutual funds and long-
run investing)
 China for teaching and clients

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Course Description

 This course focuses on the financial management of both


publicly held and private corporations. Students are
presented with a conceptual framework for understanding
and addressing problems commonly faced by corporate
decision makers and are provided opportunities to apply
these concepts to contemporary business situations. Topics
covered include, but are not limited to: time value of
money, the relationship between risk and return including
the capital asset pricing model, the valuation and role of
debt and equity, capital budgeting/project evaluation
techniques, cost of capital, cash flow estimation, project
risk analysis, real options, company valuation, and capital
structure decisions.

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Course Components
 Ulearn/WEBCT Vista
Online Quizzes and Mid-Term (yes)
VClass (yes), Bulletin Board (some)
Email (yes)
 Social Networks Facebook and LinkedIn
(Charles Hodges)
 Cell Phone is 770-301-8648
 Chapter Outlines with Video and Audio
 2.5 hour Comprehensive Face to Face Final
Exam

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Course Details

 Class Hours: Mondays, 7:15 p.m.


 Chats @4:30-6:00 p.m.
 Quizzes @11:00 p.m.
 Ross, Westerfield, Jaffe: Corporate Finance, 9th. ed., ISBN
978-0-07-733762-9. Additional student resource material
can be found on and downloaded from the textbook’s
website: http://highered.mcgraw-
hill.com/sites/0073382337/information_center_view0/
 The Ulearn webpage includes material from many
sources, especially from Fundamental of Corporate
Finance, Eighth Edition, by Ross, Westerfield and
Jordan

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Tweeks for Spring 2012
 Continued Rebuild of Online 8135 Course
updating many videos, especially later in the
course
Trying to improve materials related to Midterm
and Final Exams.
 Ross Westerfield Jaffe 9th as textbook
Disconnect with text and problems/quizzes
You use non-covered chapters
 Out-of-Order Chapters
 VClass for Weekly Chat Sessions
 Some Web 2.0, Apple, and Secure FTP issues

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How I present material


 Rebuild of Online Course will create some errors
 Chapter Outlines with Video and Audio
 Need to Know/Don’t need to know and Learning
Objectives
 Every Chapter has overview video
 Use Videos to lecture and cover “typical” calculations
 Have “best in breed” video lectures for most topics
 Audios to solve most problem types
 Textbook
 Disconnect between text, end of chapter problems, and
testbank
 Brevity in text implies use multiple chapters
 Accommodates various learning styles
 A sample:
http://www2.gsu.edu/~fnccwh/Local%20Publish/html/rwj
_chapter_8.html

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Grading

 Grade Weights:
Quizzes (top 12 of 13) 33%
Two-Minute Feedback 2%
Mid-Term Exam 30%
Final Exam 35%
100%

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Daily Class Schedule
 1/9 Optional Face to Face Orientation, 226 Classroom South, 4:30-6:30 pm
 1/16 No class, Holiday
 1/19 Chapter 1 Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 1/23 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 4 Easy Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 1/30 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 4 Difficult Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 2/6 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 10 Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 2/13 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 11 Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 2/20 Spring Break
 2/27 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 8 Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 3/5 Optional Face to Face Help Session (TBD) (4:30-7:00 pm) and Chapter 9 Quiz Due by 11
p.m.
 3/12 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Mid-Term Exam Due by 11 p.m.
 3/19 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 5 Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 4/26 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 6 Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 4/2 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 7 Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 4/9 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Chapter 13 Quiz Due by 11 p.m.
 4/16 Chat Session (4:30-6:00 pm) and Capital Structure/Chapter 16 Due by 11 p.m.
 4/23 Optional Face to Face Help Session (4:30-7:00 pm) and Outside Readings Quiz Due by
11 p.m.
 4/28 Course Comprehensive Final Exam, Saturday, from 1:00 pm - 3:30 pm, Classroom
TBD

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Prerequisites

 Prerequisites: MBA 8000, MBA 8025; All


students, regardless of degree program,
must have completed the appropriate
prerequisites with a grade of "C-" or better.
 Corequisites: MBA 8015, MBA 8030;
Either or both of these courses can be
taken simultaneously with MBA 8135.
 CSP: 1,2,3,6,7,8.

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Grading Policy

 The finance department employs the +/- grading system.


A C- is considered a passing grade for this course and a
C- is considered passing for prerequisite purposes for
this course, as well as for all finance electives.
 In accordance with Departmental policy, for masters
level courses (MBA and FI prefixed), it is expected that
no more than 35 percent of the students in a given class
section will receive a grade of A. The majority of the
remaining students are expected to receive grades of B.
Those students demonstrating significantly lagging
performance shall earn grades of C or lower as
appropriate. This policy is amended to incorporate +/-
grades as mentioned in the paragraph above.

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Face to Face Sessions
 Optional
January 9, Optional Face-to-Face
Orientation in ??? at 4:30 pm
 March 5 (4:30 p.m. until) and April 23
(7:00 p.m. until) for Exam Help Sessions
 Required
April 28, Final Exam, Saturday, from
1:00-3:30 pm, Classroom TBD

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Contact Information

 Office: Adamson 205B, U. of West Georgia


 Office Phone, Voicemail, and Text: (770)301-
8648 (cell) or (678)839-4816 (office)
 Class Webpage: Ulearn
 E-mail: Ulearn (preferred) or
chodges@westga.edu or chodges@gsu.edu
 Other contact methods: Facebook/LinkedIn
(Charles Hodges), QQ (1662726832), Skype
(bufordshighway); Twitter and IM=no

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