Minggu, 19 Maret 2006

Almost Fourth Dimension For Class: My Business Upwards For The Saltation Semester!

If yous take away maintain been reading my spider web log for awhile, yous should live familiar amongst the routine at the start of every semester. If I am education that semester, I listing the classes that I volition live teaching, depict them briefly together with offering ways inwards which yous tin follow the classes online, if yous are thence inclined. This semester is shaping upward to live a busy one, amongst an MBA Corporate Finance course of report leading the list, followed past times an undergraduate Valuation course of report together with closing amongst a novel online valuation certificate course of report that volition live offered past times the Stern School of Business.

Corporate Finance
The most of import course of report that I learn is corporate finance, non valuation. Put simply, this course of report (or at to the lowest degree the version that I subscribe to) is well-nigh the showtime fiscal principles that regulation how to run a business, pocket-size or large, individual or populace together with inwards whatsoever market. That sounds similar an ambitious agenda but it makes for a fascinating class, where nosotros suspension downward everything that a work organization does into iii categories: investing, financing together with dividend decisions. At the run a endangerment of summarizing the entire course of report into a unmarried picture, these are the questions that corporate finance tries to answer:

For a work organization to live successful, it has to notice a singular objective together with thence brand investment, financing together with dividend decisions that advance that objective. We start the course of report past times debating what that objective should live together with thence movement into the investment principle, showtime looking at how best to guess the hurdle rates (the threshold for a skilful investment) inwards a work organization together with thence then at measurement the returns on prospective or actual investments. We follow upward past times discussing whether at that topographic point is a correct mix of debt together with equity to role inwards funding a work organization equally good equally the correct type of financing (long term or brusk term, floating or fixed, right away or convertible, currency) for that business. We complete amongst a word of how much cash should live returned to investors inwards a work organization inwards the shape of dividends or buybacks, why a work organization may prefer i shape of cash render over some other together with how much cash (balance) is likewise much cash. We halt the course of report past times bringing all of these principles together inwards the value of a business, setting upward for my adjacent course of report (Valuation).

The showtime session volition live on Jan 30, 2017, together with nosotros volition run across every Mon together with Midweek from 10.30-12 until May 8. While yous take away maintain to live enrolled inwards the course of report equally a Stern MBA to attend the course of report physically, yous are welcome to follow the course of report online inwards i of iii forums. In each of these forums, I volition post recorded webcasts of the lectures piece of cake on Mondays together with Wednesdays, amongst links lecture notes together with other material. I volition also post the quizzes together with exams that I volition live giving inwards course of report online, amongst grading templates that yous tin role to flat yourself.
  1. My website: The master copy platform for my course of report is on the webpage for the class on my website. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 one-page listing of the webcasts together with other materials tin live institute at this link. You tin spotter the streaming videos or download them together with also the slides together with other links for each class. You tin indulge your voyeuristic instincts past times reading the emails I ship to the course of report at this link.
  2. Apple iTunes U: If yous prefer a to a greater extent than polished together with device-friendly platform together with yous ain an Apple device (iPhone or iPad), yous should download the iTunes U app from the shop together with i time yous take away maintain it installed, endeavor entering the code " EXC-JJS-XEA", together with the course of report should exhibit upward on your shelf. (If it does not, try this link instead.) As I post the lectures together with other fabric on the site, yous should acquire a notification (if yous want) well-nigh the posting. If yous take away maintain an Android device, yous take away maintain to download the Tunesviewer app to live able to access iTunes U classes. 
  3. YouTube: If yous desire a to a greater extent than minimalist laid up, amongst express demands on broadband, yous tin role YouTube together with banking concern tally out the playlist for the class. Again, equally classes acquire posted, yous should consider them exhibit on the playlist.
Valuation 
This is a course of report that I learn almost every semester to the MBAs together with this semester, I volition live education it to undergraduates. That said, I learn just the same course of report to both together with this course of report follows the same construction equally my MBA classes. It is a course of report well-nigh attaching a release to an property or work organization together with nosotros volition await at both intrinsic valuation together with pricing of both populace together with individual firms. 

Since I provided a much longer introduction when I wrote well-nigh my Fall 2016 class, yous tin read it total at this link. The showtime session for this course of report volition live Jan 23, together with equally amongst the corporate finance class, yous tin follow the course of report online, inwards i of iii ways:
  1. My website: The master copy platform for my course of report is on the webpage for the class on my website. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 one-page listing of the webcasts together with other materials tin live institute at this link
  2. Apple iTunes U: If yous download the iTunes U app from the shop to your Apple device, yous tin come inwards the code "FHS-KWW-FPK" for the class. If yous prefer a direct link, try this one.
  3. YouTube: You tin role YouTube together with banking concern tally out the playlist for the class. As classes acquire posted, yous should consider them exhibit on the playlist.
Valuation Certificate
These postings, listing upcoming classes together with offering them online, take away maintain been a ritual of mine for to a greater extent than than 20 years together with i mutual query I acquire is whether I tin offering certification. My answer, hitherto, has been no, non exclusively because I take away maintain no means of testing or grading what yous do or providing feedback. This semester, the Stern School of Business has decided to offering an online version of my course of report equally Valuation certification class, amongst the next features:
  1. Lectures: The course of report is built approximately twenty 8 lecture sessions, each of which is well-nigh 12-20 minutes long. These sessions were recorded inwards a studio together with should much to a greater extent than professional person than the online videos that I brand together with to a greater extent than watchable than my full-length classes.
  2. Timing: The course of report is scheduled to start on Jan xxx together with acquire through mid-May, requiring that yous spotter well-nigh ii sessions a week. Each session volition come upward amongst self-test assessment, do problems, additional readings together with other fabric to supplement learnings.
  3. Synchronous sessions: Every ii weeks, I volition role WebEx for a alive Q&A session, where yous tin inquire questions well-nigh the 4 sessions from the prior ii weeks.
  4. Discussion Boards: If yous are enrolled inwards the class, yous volition live able to participate inwards word boards organized past times valuation topics, posting comments, questions or other links. Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 education assistant volition monitor the boards together with add together to the discussion, if needed.
  5. Quizzes together with Exams: Just equally inwards my regular classes, at that topographic point volition quizzes together with exams. You volition live able to accept these exams online together with I volition flat them. 
  6. Valuation Project: As inwards my regular class, each mortal inwards the certificate programme volition live both valuing together with pricing a society together with I volition supply mid-semester feedback on the valuation together with a lastly flat assessment at the halt of the semester.
There is bad word together with skilful word amongst this novel offering. The showtime slice of bad word is that it is non gratuitous together with yous take away maintain to decide, for yourself, whether the cost charged ($425) is worth the sense (and the certificate). The 2nd is that this is Stern's showtime endeavor at this type of offering; it volition take away maintain a few hiccups together with the release of students volition live capped at fifty. If yous are interested, yous tin notice out to a greater extent than well-nigh the certificate programme at this link and fifty-fifty if yous are unable to participate or acquire into the course of report this semester, it volition live offered i time again to a larger audience, afterwards inwards the year. The skilful news, if yous determine to live business office of the programme is that I volition process yous similar I process my regular in-class students. I am non certain that fifty-fifty this is skilful news, since yous volition take away heed from me well-nigh i time every 24-hour interval together with yous volition live sick together with tired of me past times May 12.

YouTube Video: Valuation Certificate Class Preview


Links
  1. Corporate Finance (MBA):  (a) My website (b) Apple iTunes U (c) YouTube Playlist
  2. Valuation (Undergraduate):  (a) My website (b) Apple iTunes U (c) YouTube Playlist
  3. Stern Valuation Certificate: Stern entry webpage

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