Todays plan

Administrative issues
syllabus
Prerequisite
Middle-term and final exams
Final grade

Course overview
Chapter 1
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The instructor
Name: Mrs.TRINH THI PHAN LAN
Office: FINANCIAL AND BANKING FACULTY
Office hours: 10 to 11am (thursday)
Research domains:

Financial Risk Management

Financial Analysis
Raising Capital
Project Management.

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Why do you want to take

this course ?
First, what s your objective or why are you
taking BSA 2018

nothing better to do today ?

become a millionaire overnight?
the instructor is a nice person for a good grade?
get a stamp of approval to get a job ?
learn finance for fun ?
simply a required course ?
learn finance to be more successful?

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My objective in this
course
I want everyone in the room to be able to:
- understand the concepts / issues

feel comfortable talking about finance and answering

finance questions.
gain a set of tools that will help you look at the world in
a slightly different way.

What is standing in the way of those

objectives?
Over-confidence
Under-confidence

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My objective in this
course
The truth is that by the end of the
course, the final distribution of grades
does not depend on past experience
students who listen, review the issues, and ask
thoughtful questions do well
students who are over confident, think they
know everything, or try to memorize the
course (typically) do worse

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Two ways of learning

Positive

Can be a fun, since it is an opportunity to

improve your future career, open your mind and
broaden your vision.
Look at each difficulty as an opportunity to
learn new things.
Good performance.

Negative

Can be boring, since it is regarded as a burden,

a task.
Look at each difficulty as a torture or pain
Bad performance.
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Textbook
Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, by
Ross, Westerfield, Jordan (7th edition)
Foundation of Financial Management by
B. Block and Hirr (8th edition)

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Prerequisite
You are required to take :
-Principle of Microeconomics,
Economic Statistics
It is the university policy that all the
students in this course must satisfy
this requirement and there is no
exception.

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Homework and cases

To help you understand the concepts taught
in class, and prepare the mid-term and the
final exams, there is a homework set
assigned for each covered chapter, which is
not graded, but it is the best way to learn.
In addition, I will discuss some cases in
lectures to apply the concepts you have
learned in this course to solve problems in
the real financial world.

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The quiz, mid-term and

the final exam
The quiz and mid-term will be in class
(closed book).
There are no makeup or in-advance
exams.
The final exam is cumulative, based
on all the covered materials.

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Final grade
Your overall course grade will be based
on your performance in the mid-term and
the final exams as follows:

Class attendance
Quiz
Project
Mid-term exam:
final exam:
total

5%
5%
10%
10%
60%
100%

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