Finance & Business Performance

Syllabus

Dr. Amos Baranes Ph.D, CPA
The Chicago School

T.A.: Eran Gal MBA, JD

1.5. Introduction
  • Presentation for Lectures 1&5
  • Presentation for Lectures 1&5 - Enron
  • Presentation for Lectures 1&5 - Note on Growth Economics
  • Simulation - Growth Economics
  • University world news - EUROPE: Effects of financial crisis vary
  • FOREIGN students have begun to pull out of Australia, in what could be the first sign of a softening in the $14.2 billion-a-year overseas student industry
  • Credit Crisis Discussion - Citi
  • Obama's Rhetoric Is the Real 'Catastrophe' by BRADLEY R. SCHILLER
  • Fas140
  • The Taipei 101 Tower, Taiwan: The Tallest Building on Earth
  • The Roots of Unfairness: the Black Swan in Arts and Literature
  • Black Swan Debates
  • Richard Posner - How I Became a Keynesian
  • The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008
  • A Response to Mankiw’s “The Macroeconomist as Scientist and Engineer”


    • ISOX
  • Thinking Outside the SarbOx: Operational Controls for Sarbanes-Oxley 404 Compliance By: Maureen McAllister C.P.A. McAllister Consulting L.L.C.
  • A review of the BCP Implications of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act
  • Sarbanes-Oxley Act: Wikipedia
  • sarbanes-oxley
  • The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and Market Liquidity
  • Risk Shifts Following Sarbanes-Oxley: Influences of Disclosure and Governance
  • Accounts Manipulation


    • Crash?
  • The Black Swan: Quotes & Warnings that the Imbeciles Chose to Ignore
  • THE FOURTH QUADRANT: A MAP OF THE LIMITS OF STATISTICS [9.15.08] By Nassim Nicholas Taleb  Black Swan (Hebrew)
  • Taking improbable events seriously: An interview with the author of The Black Swan
  • September 29, 2008
  • Ron Paul
  • What Are the Origins of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae?
  • Fannie Mae
  • Saving and loan crisis
  • Social Security Trust Fund
  • United States public debt
  • becker-posner-blog


  • Exercise 1


    • 2. Introduction to International Corporate Finance
  • Presentation for Lectures 2
  • American Depositary Receipt (or ADR)
  • Current Libor rates
  • Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT)
  • www.xe.com  www.exchangerate.com
  • Introduction to Purchasing Power Parity
  • Big Mac Index  Audio
  • Purchasing power parity theory as a concept for evaluating price competitiveness


  • Exercise 2


    • 3. Financial cash flow vs. Accounting cash flow
  • Presentation for Lecture 3
  • Review of basic concepts in corporate finance
  • Financial Statements and Cash Flow
  • Financial Statements and Cash Flow - Excel
  • Crisis Demands New CFO Skills
  • Legal Forms - BUSINESS & HUMAN RESOURCES
  • NYSE
  • NASDAQ


    • 4. Foreign Currency - Conversion and Translation
  • Presentation for Lecture 4
  • Basic Consolidation


    • 5. Back to Introduction (Your turn to talk)


  • Document: Exercise 3  Excel: Exercise 3


    • 6. Who is the owner? Introduction To Options and Corporate Finance
  • Presentation for Lecture 6  Risk shifting in mortgage
  • options.com  CBOE.com  PHLX.com  phlx.com/products  KCBT.com  euronext.com  optionsnewsletter.com
  • About volatility
  • Black-Scholes Model at numa.com  OptionPricing calculator
  • Exercise: Equity is a Cal


  • Exercise 4


    • 7. Special Topics in options
  • Presentation for Lecture 7.1 - Extensions and Applications
  • Presentation for Lecture 7.2 - Warrants and Convertibles
  • Real Options - Theory meets practice
  • Gold Mine Exercise


  • Exercise 5


    • 8.12. XBRL
  • Beginning in January of 2008, Israeli public companies will start reporting using XBRL
  • Colorized Approach in the IFRS Era by Amos Baranes
  • XBRL International
  • IASB - XBRL
  • XML and XSLT
  • XBRL Editor
  • Deutsche Borse Demo
  • www.compsciresources.com  Examples
  • Edgar Dashboard
  • Zephyrnet.com using XBRL
  • SOAP Tutorial
  • XML for Analysis (XMLA)  MS - XMLA
  • Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)  MDX - Reference
  • Data Mining Extensions (DMX)  DMX - Reference  Data Mining - XMLA
  • Assignment
          XBRL By Veronika Yukalova, Liat Karpel and Dotan Weiss
          XBRL By Anna Kobrinskaya and Marina Nevzlina

    •       XBRL By Daniel Heyman, Ariel Irwin, Robert Karfunkel, Rafi Ryzman, Gerald Stoll       XBRL By Marissa Stuart and Ben Brewer

    9. Budgeting and Beyond Budgeting
  • Introduction to Beyond Budgeting
  • BBRT - Beyond Budgeting Roundtable
  • A report on the Better Budgeting forum from CIMA and ICAEW
  • Interview with Lennart Francke: Managing without budgets at Svenska Handelsbanken
  • BOREALIS
  • Beyond Budgeting: How Managers Can Break Free from the Annual Performance Trap
  • Beyond Budgeting By Yuval Zentler & Ganit Shter


    • 10.11. Financial analysis and multivariate analysis. Altmn and other tests of distress.
  • 10. Horizontal and Vertical analysis
  • 11. Trend analysis and multivariate analysis. Altmn and other tests of distress


    • Exams
  • Fall 2008/9: Exam  Solution



    • Glossary