As this is an Introductory course that is intended to expose you to finanancial management issues, there is one more tool to have in your career arsenal (careers can only end when you cease to exist) - "Cool Math - Online Math and Financial Calculators". The next time that you are asked a financial or mathematical question, go here.
Friday, September 18, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
FYI: DIVIDEND POLICY
A lot of people have come to the realization that teens should become more exposed to finance. A really cool site that you can refer them to is "Teen Analyst". For example, the site's glossary provides a definition of "dividend policy" http://www.teenanalyst.com/glossary/d/dividendpolicy.html.
As a lot of our discussion at last evening's lecture related to topics like "mutuals", please note that this site also contains 'tabs' on:
As a lot of our discussion at last evening's lecture related to topics like "mutuals", please note that this site also contains 'tabs' on:
- Investing
- Stocks
- Bonds
- Mutual Funds
- Biz
- Credit
- Career
- College
- Economics
- Tax
CONSIDER OBTAINING "BOARD" EXPERIENCE
As part of last evening's lecture, I stated that you should consider serving on a non-profit board. Two items to read:
http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/bb/serveboard.htm - "Before You Serve On a Non-Profit Board." I find that people with unimpressive experiences on non-profit boards did not do any research before they joined. Like everything else, you have to take a look at certain things about the board (and ask the board members of the existing board questions) before you join. I typically advise people to ask for a copy of the minutes of the last board meeting. Minutes that are not current, lack committee reports, show discussion and no action are signs of what you may be jumping into.
http://www.boardnetusa.org/public/home.asp - "Boardnet USA™". Waiting for people to ask you to serve on a board is like waiting for people to ask you to apply for a job. If you do not seek what you want, then you will probably short-change yourself by missing opportunities. I recommend that you consider Boardnet™ because:
http://nonprofit.about.com/od/volunteers/bb/serveboard.htm - "Before You Serve On a Non-Profit Board." I find that people with unimpressive experiences on non-profit boards did not do any research before they joined. Like everything else, you have to take a look at certain things about the board (and ask the board members of the existing board questions) before you join. I typically advise people to ask for a copy of the minutes of the last board meeting. Minutes that are not current, lack committee reports, show discussion and no action are signs of what you may be jumping into.
http://www.boardnetusa.org/public/home.asp - "Boardnet USA™". Waiting for people to ask you to serve on a board is like waiting for people to ask you to apply for a job. If you do not seek what you want, then you will probably short-change yourself by missing opportunities. I recommend that you consider Boardnet™ because:
- Over 12,000 candidates and nonprofit boards are currently using boardnetUSA™.
- Nonprofit boards using boardnetUSA™ oversee total operating budgets in excess of $3.4 Billion.
- 8 of 10 of users would recommend boardnetUSA™ to a friend for their board connecting needs.
- 88% of users would use boardnetUSA™ again.
- 90% of board members connected through boardnetUSA™ have made financial contributions to the nonprofit they joined.
- Over 85% of users feel boardnetUSA™ connected them with a board or candidate that they would not have otherwise encountered.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Extra Credit Assignment
What do you do if not all the member(s) in your team want to participate in the extra credit assignment?
Google Finance Assignment 1 - STRA versus DV
Your team will look at STRA.
Q1. Who is STRA?
Q2. What is NASDQ and what is their relationship to STRA?
Q3. What is Dow?
Q4. What is S& P 500?
Q5. What is CECO?
Q6. What is COCO?
Q7. Wgat is BPI?
Q8. What is APOL>
Q9. what is DV?
Q10. Provide a graph of how STRA compared with DV on stock value for at least a two day period in September.
Q1. Who is STRA?
Q2. What is NASDQ and what is their relationship to STRA?
Q3. What is Dow?
Q4. What is S& P 500?
Q5. What is CECO?
Q6. What is COCO?
Q7. Wgat is BPI?
Q8. What is APOL>
Q9. what is DV?
Q10. Provide a graph of how STRA compared with DV on stock value for at least a two day period in September.
SHARE YOUR DOCUMENTS WITH YOUR TEAMMATES
From time to time members of your Teams are sending me documents that they are assigned to before they share them with the Team. This defeats the concept of "collaboration". I truly expect that each Team will develop an "internal control review" mechanism whereby someone on the Team (hopefully all of the Team members) will review the document BEFORE it is sent to me.
From the time that this is posted {yes, I notice not many of you reading or posting things on this blog}, I am no longer going to accept assignments without seeing the Revision history. It is the only way that I can insure that there is at least an "attempted collaboration".
For tomorrow evening's lecture, be prepared to provide an example of the term "INTERNAL CONTROL".
From the time that this is posted {yes, I notice not many of you reading or posting things on this blog}, I am no longer going to accept assignments without seeing the Revision history. It is the only way that I can insure that there is at least an "attempted collaboration".
For tomorrow evening's lecture, be prepared to provide an example of the term "INTERNAL CONTROL".
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
chapter 5 Essentials
In the Chapter 5 Essentials, do we choose a questions or do we do answers all the questions?
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