Introduction to Finance:
Instructor's Materials
An introductory course on finance, investments and financial markets.
by Ian H. Giddy, Stern School of Business, New York
University
The Course • Computerized
Test Questions • Trading Game • Powerpoint
Slides • Online Version • The
author • The Stern School
1. The Course
This course covers the nature and workings of financial markets and their
use by corporations, investors and others. The aim is to teach students
some skills in modern valuation techniques, including the pricing of fixed-income
securities, equities, foreign exchange and derivatives. They learn about
the principles of finance, including arbitrage, market efficiency, and
portfolio theory. In the context of corporate finance, the course introduces
the key principles of selecting real investments, financing them, and managing
financial risk. The full course outline may be found at http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~igiddy/finance.htm
.
2. Computerized Test Questions
I have developed a full set of on-line quizzes, both self-test and "real"
quizzes, for my introduction to finance course. These are designed to be
used with WebCT, a Web-based course tool which allows students to go onto
the Web any time and take the quiz and, at the instructor's discretion,
obtain feedback in the form of suggested solutions (see sample
in Adobe Acrobat format). The questions
can be automatically graded or hand-graded by the instructor. These may
be purchased for instructor use for $375 for the set. To see it in action,
send a request to materials@giddy.org
and you'll be assigned a special, temporary, password.
(A similar set is available for my International
Finance course.)
3. The stock market trading game
Each student manages a hypothetical portfolio of bonds and/or equities
during the course. The goal is to beat a passive
$500,000 portfolio of 40% bonds, 50% equities, and 10% cash. Students
apply the concepts learned in the course to select which bonds and stocks
to buy and which to sell, and to evaluate the relative performance of the
portfolio.
4. A complete set of PowerPoint slides
These lecture supplements have become an essential adjunct to my course
and have proved useful to a number of other lecturers. The package consists
of about 15 slideshows, with an average of about 40 slides per lecture
(see sample),.
In addition to the subjects covered in the textbook, they include financial
management topics such as international finance and financial risk analysis.
The slideshows are also available in .pdf (Adobe Acrobat) format, so that
they can be downloaded from the Web by students.
The set is available for $500 from the author.
(A similar set is available for my International
Finance course.)
5. Online Version of the Course
An on-line version of the course
may be offered in tandem with the class version. If you're interested,
contact the instructor.
Most materials will be made available for download from a special
Website upon receipt of payment in US funds.
Requests for materials should be made to materials@giddy.org.
Payment should be in the form of a check made out to "Ian H. Giddy" and
sent to:
Ian H. Giddy
52 Riverside Drive
New York, NY 10024
USA
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• Contact Ian Giddy at ian.giddy@nyu.edu