The University of Texas at Dallas

Executive Education

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

Participation in teleconferences: The course will involve at least one and perhaps more
telephone conference calls. Full participation in these calls is expected. You must call in at the
appointed time and remain on the call for its duration. The instructor will take roll and will
allow one absence provided that the student obtains advance permission from the instructor and
has a legitimate reason for missing the call. If a student misses two or more conference calls it
will affect the grade.

Dr. Jasper H. Arnold

May 17, 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: Fundamentals of Financial Management, 10th edition, by Brigham & Houston,

Southwestern Publishing.

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
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 of nine, weekly lectures beginning the week of Monday, June 4th and ending the week
of Monday, August 6th. These lectures will consist of a PowerPoint presentation on the
assigned textbook chapters and the instructor’s comments about the solutions to some or
all of the assigned homework problems. The instructor will post his PowerPoint lectures
and homework solutions in Blackboard well 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.

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. The only scheduled call is Monday, June 4th at 7:00 PM CT.

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 June 4 Chapters 1 and 2 Ch 1: None
Ch. 2: 2-1, 2-3, 2-6, 2-8
and 2-10
2 June 11 Chapters 3 and 4 Ch. 3: ST-2, ST-3, 3-6, 3- Exam #1 covering classes
8, 3-9, 3-20, and 3-22. 1-3 posted on Friday
Ch. 4: 4-1, 4-2, 4-4, 4-11, (6/15) of this week
and 4-14
3 June 18 Chapters 4 (cont’d) and 5 Ch. 5: 5-6, 5-7, 5-9, and
5-11
4 June 25 Chapters 6 and 7 Exam #1 mailed to
instructor and postmarked
no later than Friday
(6/29) of this week
5 July 9 Chapter 7 (cont’d) Ch. 6**: 6-1, 6-2, 6-3, 6- Exam #2 covering classes
6, 6-10, 6-11, 6-12, 6-13, 4-6 posted on Friday
6-16, and 6-20 (7/13) of this week
Ch. 7***: 7-1, 7-2, 7-3,
7-4, 7-5, 7-6, 7-8, 7-
11and 7-18.
6 July 16 Chapter 8 Ch. 8: 8-1, 8-2, 8-3 8-5,
8-6, 8-9
7 July 23 Chapters 9 and 10 Ch. 9: 9-1, 9-2, 9-3, 9-5, Exam #2 mailed to
9-8, 9-11 instructor and postmarked
Ch. 10: 10-1, 10-2, 10-3, no later than Friday
10-5, 10-6, 10-7, 10-9 (7/27) of this week.
8 July 30 Chapters 11 and 13 Ch. 11: 11-1, 11-2, 11-3, Exam #3 covering classes
11-5 7-9 posted on Friday
(8/3) of this week
9 August 6 Chapter 13 (cont’d) and Ch 13: 13-5, 13-12, 13-8,
“Theory of Capital 13-14
Structure Lecture”
Exam #3 mailed to
instructor and postmarked
no later than Friday
(8/17) of this week.

*Note: Students will not turn in their homework problem solutions.

** Work the Chapter 6 homework problems using the time value of money (TVM) tables in the back of the
text. Do not use a hand-held calculator to solve the problems in the manner the text instructs. Business people
don’t solve TVM problems that way these days. They use Microsoft Excel which you will have the
opportunity to use in this course.
*** Work problem 7-1with the tables. Work the rest of the problems with either Excel or a hand-held
calculator (not a financial calculator) as the complexity of the problem dictates.

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 Revised 5/18/07