Southern University at New Orleans College of Business and Public Administration Department of Business Entrepreneurship Principles of Finance

BADM 301 Online 3 Credit Hours

Instructor: Office: Email: Office Phone: Office Hours:

F.K. Moussa, Assistant Professor of Finance NSC Room 210, New Business School Room 105 fmoussa@suno.edu (Best way to contact me) (504) 286 - 5143 T: 9:00 AM 11:00 AM and 12:15 PM 1:15 PM W: 10:50 AM 5:50 PM Or By Appointment

Course Description: This course covers the principal of managing of finance function of business firms with emphasis on asset acquisition and management and financial structure planning and management. Prerequisites: ECON 211, ECON 222 and ECON 295, ACCT 201 Required Materials: y Fundamentals of Financial Management, Concise 7th Edition, Brigham/Houston. Published by Business Higher Education 2012, ISBN: 9780538477116 y A financial calculator. Examples include Texas Instruments BA II Plus (Strongly Recommended), Hewlett Packard 10B. Course Goals and Objectives: y Students will understand the role of time value of money in finance and be able to calculate both the future value and the present value of a stream of cash flows y Student will understand the meaning and fundamentals of risk, return and risk preferences. y Students will understand the key inputs and basic model used in the valuation process of stocks and bonds. y Students will understand the role of capital budgeting techniques in the capital budgeting process y Students will understand the key assumptions, the basic concept and the specific sources of capital associated with the cost of capital. Online Material: I will run a Blackboard web page to accompany this class. I will post all announcements, grades, and other relevant information on Blackboard.

Attendance Policy:
You are expected to discuss the questions that your class-mates posted in the discussion board. (I will monitor the discussion board)

Grades: The final course grade will be based on your performance on the quizzes using the following weights: Evaluation Quizzes Total Percentage 100% 100%

Quizzes: y Questions in the quizzes will be Objective, i.e. multiple-choice and true/false, and will be computer graded. y The quizzes are not cumulative. y There is no final exam. y The quizzes are typically presumed you have thoroughly studied the text, lecture materials and the review questions. y There will be NO make-up quizzes. Grading Policy: The following grading scale will be used in determining your final grade: 100-90 A 89-80 B 79-70 C 69-60 D Below 60 F Student Accommodations: Qualified students with disabilities will be provided reasonable and necessary academic accommodations if determined eligible by the appropriate disability services staff at their home institution. Prior to granting disability accommodations in this course, the instructor must receive written verification of a student's eligibility for specific accommodations from the disability services staff at the home institution. It is the student's responsibility to initiate contact with their home institution's disability services staff and to follow the established procedures for having the accommodation notice sent to the instructor. CBA s Plagiarism Policy: The College of Business & Public Administration (CBA) requires its students, faculty and staff to abide by SUNO s anti Plagiarism policy. Plagiarism at SUNO (see page 92-108 of the SUNO 20092011 Student Handbook) is defined as: 1. Directly quoting the words of others without using quotation marks or indented format to identify them; 2. Using sources of information (published or unpublished) without identifying them; 3. Presenting or paraphrasing information without identifying the source; or 4. Submitting reports, essays, term papers, tests, etc., of another person as if it were the work of the presenter.

Plagiarism is considered a Code Three Offense (Major Violation) and as such a faculty member has the authority to grant a failing grade in case of such academic misconduct, as well as to refer the case for disciplinary action, including the maximum sanction of expulsion. How to study for the BADM 301 online Class: 1. You read the chapter from the text book (Schedule is posted under course information) 2. You go over the power point for the chapter (posted under course documents). 3. You solve the questions and the problems in the end of the chapter (Answers are posted under course documents). 4. If you have a question you post it in the discussion board and you e-mail me and the other students that you posted a question. 5. You are expected to discuss the questions that your class-mates posted in the discussion board. (I will monitor the discussion board Quizzes: The Quizzes will be available during the week after we cover the materials. You can take the exam any time during that week. Each quiz will consist of 20 questions (plus one or two extra credit questions). The time for each quiz will be 2 hours. You have to take the quiz in one time session. You will need your financial calculator. You should save each question after you choose the answer. After you done, you click submit.