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Finance

Class 5: Monday 12 October 2009
Topic: Capital budgeting and free cash flows
Due: Homework 2
Textbook: Chapter 7

Class 6: Wednesday 14 October 2009
Topic: Stock valuation
Due: “Ocean Carriers,” Harvard Business School Case, 18 April 2002
Textbook: Chapter 9 (9.1‐9.4)

Quiz 3: Via MyFinanceLab on Friday 16 October 2009

Marketing

Class 4: Market Segmentation, Targeting, and Positioning I    10/12/09
Read: Positioning Your Product.
          Market Segmentation, Target Market Selection and Product Positioning.

Class 5
DUE Market Research (Mini II)    10/14/09
Case: Delta Oil Outlets (A).
Read: Marketing Research.

Strategy

Class 2
Case: Nucor at a Cross Roads
Reading: Hill & Jones ch. 1-3

Class 3
Lecture: The Concept of Competitive Advantage
Reading: Hill & Jones ch. 1-3

Accounting

Class 4
Topic: Statement of Cash Flows -- indirect method
Text: SWSF Chapter 5 (especially pp. 193-200 on the T-Account Work Sheet Approach)
Online Powerpoint lectures: Stmt of CFs—Parts 1 & 2 (Blackboard)
Text exercises & problems: SW: 5.35 (Dickerson Mfg. used in annotated ppt lecture: Stmt of CFs-Part 2)
Case:    Chemalite B (indirect method Statement of Cash Flows)#
Due: Cash Flow Stmt: Indirect Method

Class 5
Topic: Historical Cost model versus alternative Asset Valuation Bases, Fair Value and IFRS
Text: SWSF Chapter 3 (pp. 110-115; 124-126)
Text exercises & problems: SWSF: Q 3.7, 3.23
Case: Land Securities (Harvard Business School (HBS) Case).  
Due: answer the brief survey about Land Securities before 10:00 pm October 14, 2009. 
         Land Securities Group

Statistics

Class 4
Discrete Probability Distributions – General, Binomial, Hypergeometric, Poisson; Shape, Central Tendency, Variability
Chapter 7
Due:  Team Assignment #1

Class 5
Continuous Probability Distributions & Review – Uniform, Normal, Exponential
Chapter 7
Due:  Individual Assignment #3