1. Administrative Issues
About Me
Course Materials
Assignments and grading

2. About Me Instructor: Alexey Malakhov Office: WCOB 470
Tel:
Fax:
Webpage:
Office Hours: after class

3. Course Materials Lecture Notes Textbook (recommended)
Posted on the course web site
Textbook (recommended)
Essentials of Investments, 10th ed. 2016
By Bodie, Kane and Marcus, Irwin/McGraw Hill
McGraw-Hill Connect
All assignments will be on McGraw-Hill Connect
Periodicals
The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc.
Web
Yahoo Finance, Google Finance, Bloomberg, etc.

4. Grading Assignments Grading is based on 4 home assignments
1 will be dropped
Grading is based on
Final Grade:
Final Exam 40%
Midterm 30%
Assignments 30%
Attendance bonus 1%

5. Grading - Options Midterm Grade Extra Points for the Final Exam
Can be replaced with the Final Exam grade
Extra Points for the Final Exam
1 point is added to the Final Exam score for catching each of my mistakes
1 point per person per lecture max
Spelling and grammar are excluded

6. Other Important Stuff Proficiency in EXCEL and statistics
Academic Integrity:
WARNING!!!
Exams and EXCEL assignments will be hard