The University of Texas at Dallas

MBA-Project Management

TITLE: Financial Management:

COURSE NUMBER: FIN 6301 On-line Course

CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Theoretical and procedural considerations in the administration

of the finance function in the individual business firm; planning, fundraising, controlling of firm
finances, working capital management, capital budgeting and cost of capital. Corequisites:
STAT 5311 and ACCT 6305, or consent of instructor.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: (what the student who successfully and satisfactorily completes
the course should know or be able to do):

1. Understand the basics of the external environment within which financial decisions are
made.

2. Develop a fundamental understanding of the important theories and practices used in

the financial management of the firm.

3. Gain some mastery at financial analysis and the quantitative methods applicable to
financial decision making.

MEANS OF ASSESSMENT (how the student's achievement of the above academic outcomes
will be evaluated):

Take-home exam #1 1/3

Take-home exam #2 1/3
Take-home exam #3 1/3

A = 90-100; B = 80-89; C = 70-79; F= 69 or below

Dr. Jasper H. Arnold

November 16, 2007

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Contact and Other Information

Instructor's Name: Dr. Jasper H. Arnold, Director-Executive MBA Program

Instructor's Phone Number: Office: (972) 883-4235

Instructor’s E-mail Address: jarnold@utdallas.edu

Instructor’s website: www.utdallas.edu/~jarnold

Instructor's Mailing Address: The University of Texas at Dallas

P.O. 830688, SM 10
Richardson, TX 75083-0688

Instructor’s Office: School of Management Building, Executive Education Center, Room 1.909

Text: Corporate Finance, 8th edition, by Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe, McGraw-Hill/Irwin: New
York, 2008.

Miscellaneous information:

I. Special Instructions (Requirements or activities that may be unique to this course).

A hand-held calculator and Microsoft Excel are required. The time-value-of-money

functions in Microsoft Excel are required for solving some problems. Interest rate tables
to solve time-value-of-money problems are supplied in the text.

II. Learning Activities (Readings and other activities which students must
complete prior to each on-line class).

See the attached assignment sheet.

III. Course Information

The class will be delivered by on-line lectures, one or perhaps more teleconference
calls, and three, open-book, task-home exams. The on-line lecture portion will consist
of ten, weekly lectures beginning the week of Monday, January 7th and ending the
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 week of Monday, March 10th. These lectures will consist of a PowerPoint presentation
on the assigned textbook chapters and, in some classes, the instructor’s comments about
the solutions to some or all of the assigned homework problems. The instructor will post
his PowerPoint lectures on Blackboard in advance of the Monday “class” dates.
Students are encouraged to read the assigned textbook chapters and to work on the
assigned homework problems prior to listening to the on-line lectures. I will also post
the solutions manual for the textbook homework problems on Blackboard so you can
have that resource available when working the homework problems.

Conference Calls: We will hold at least one teleconference calls. Students should have
their textbook and copies of the homework problem solutions with them when they call
in.

Exams: There will be three, open-book exams given. The exam posting dates are
shown in the assignment sheet along with the exam due dates. Students should submit
their exams by SNAIL MAIL. Include a hard copy of any Excel worksheets used
to solve exam problems and E-MAIL the instructor a soft copy. Do not fax anything
to the instructor.

Submitting Exams On-time: The exam due-dates are firm dates. Exams must be
postmarked no later than Friday of the week they are due. If you are going to be late in
submitting an exam you must get advance permission from the instructor. Even if
permission is granted, submission delays of more than three days beyond the
postmark due date will result in a grade reduction. Further, regardless of permission
being granted, if there are submission delays on more than one exam, such delays will
result in grade reductions.

IV. Scholastic Dishonesty

Scholastic dishonesty includes, but is not limited to, cheating on assignments or

examinations, plagiarizing (misrepresenting as your own work any part of work
done by another), submitting the same assignment, or substantially similar
assignments to meet the requirements of more than one course without the approval
of all instructors, depriving another student of necessary course materials, or
interfering with another student's work. If in doubt about the ethics of your actions,
consult the instructor. Violations of this policy are serious matters and will be dealt
with severely.

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 Assignments and Exam Dates

Class Date-the Text Reading Assignment Homework problems to Written exams

# week of solve before on-line
Monday class*
1 Jan 7 Chapters 1 and 2 Ch 1: None
Ch. 2: 1-11
2 Jan 14 Chapters 3 and 4 Ch. 3: 1-9, 19 and 20.
Ch. 4: 1-6, 8-13, 17, 21,
23, 26, 27, 28, 33, 38, and
49.
3 Jan 21 Chapters 4 (cont’d)
4 Jan 28 Chapters 14 and 5 Ch. 14: None
Ch. 5: 1-6, 8-11, 14, 16,
17, 20, 27, 28, 31 and 32
5 Feb 4 Chapters 5 (cont’d) and 6 Ch. 6: 1, 2, 5, 7, 8, 10,
13, 14, 19, and 20.
6 Feb 11 Chapters 7 and 8 Ch. 7: 2-8, 10-13, 15, 16,
22, and 32
Ch. 8: 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 17,
18, 19 and 24
7 Feb 18 Chapters 9 and 10 Ch. 9: 1-4, 7, 9, 10, 12,
15, 17, 18, and 22
Ch. 10: 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 11-
15, and 19
8 Feb 25 Chapters 12 and 15 Ch. 12: 1-5, 11, 13, and
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Ch. 15: 1-7, 10-12, 14
and 15
9 Mar 3 Chapter 15 (cont’d) Ch 16: None
Chapter 16
10 Mar 10 Chapter 16 (cont’d) Ch 25: TBA
Chapter 25
Exam #1 covering classes
1-3 posted on Friday
(1/19) of this week
Exam #1 mailed to
instructor and postmarked
no later than Friday (2/1)
of this week
Exam #2 covering classes
4-6 posted on Friday
(2/8) of this week
Exam #2 mailed to
instructor and postmarked
no later than Friday
(2/22) of this week.
Exam #3 covering classes
7-10 posted on Friday
(3/7) of this week
Exam #3 mailed to
instructor and postmarked
no later than Friday
(3/21).

*Note: Students will not turn in their homework problem solutions. The assigned problems are for practice to
develop skill and prepare for the take home exams.