Week 9 Overview

Week 9: Overview

Case Study Presentation & Discussion

Welcome to the ninth and final week of BUSN 5200: Basic Finance for Managers. For the past eight weeks you have been researching, analyzing, and recording your findings about your Chosen Company, and you have submitted a formal report of your results to your instructor. Now it is time to present your results to your fellow students and to discuss their assessments of the company.

Format and Procedure
The week’s activities will be divided into two phases, the case study presentation phase and the discussion phase. In the first phase you will post a summary of your case study report findings in the discussion forum. In the second phase you will read and comment on the postings of your fellow students. See the Case Study Presentation lecture topic for an outline of the presentation you will post. See the Guidelines for Case Study Comments lecture topic for suggestions on how to respond to other students’ findings.

Schedule
The following is the schedule for this final week:

  • Phase 1, posting of findings, should be completed by Wednesday.
  • Phase 2 should take place no later than Friday.  Note that Friday at 5PM is the final day and time of the course.

Objectives

This is the final week in your Finance for Managers course. Therefore, by the end of this week we hope that the Course Level Learning Outcomes outlined in the course syllabus will have been achieved. These include the following capabilities:

  • Students have a basic familiarity with the field of finance and an understanding of the financial goal of a business, and they have an appreciation for the ethical considerations inherent in financial management.
  • Students can explain basic accounting principles, are able to read and interpret the firm’s basic financial statements, and can use financial ratios to assess a firm’s health and performance.
  • Students can prepare a budget and understand its use in Financial Decision making.
  • Students can explain the time value of money concept and how it is used in decision making.
  • Students can evaluate business proposals using capital budgeting decision rules such as payback, breakeven analysis, NPV, and IRR.