SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

* Current Edition:  3rd edition of Maness/Zietlow STFM.
          
Click here for info or if you are a professor  => Short-Term Financial Management, 3e

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* Announcements:
   This course is available to take at Malone University during the 2011 Spring Semester
     (this course is offered in a totally web-based, or online, format) -- if you are a banker or corporate
     treasury employee at a business, government, or nonprofit organization, you may also enroll through
     Malone's Office of Distributed Learning.  This course is a partial prep for the CTP certification exam.
     NEOTMA members may be especially interested in this opportunity, given Malone's location
     (Canton, OH).

    
Treasury professionals/Bankers:  If you are interested, here is the contact information for enrollment:
    Educational questions and issues are initially handled by our Distributed Learning Program Coordinator, Ms. Sharon Purvis.
    Sharon will help resolve your issue or direct your question to the proper Malone University staff. Sharon's contact information is:
    * Email: distancelearning@malone.edu
    * Phone: (330) 471-8423 or toll free (800) 867-6267

    
Adopters: To order copies of the textbook contact Mieka: (800) 200-3908 x535at University Readers. 
     The original publisher,  Cengage/Thomson/South-Western,  may have run out of stock.


* What's Short-Term Financial Management about? (Info from textbook used in the course.)


* Syllabus - Spring 2011
     - Textbook


* Game Plan - Spring 2011

* Introduction to Corporate Treasury Mgmt Program at Malone (narrated PPT)
  
* Support Website for text from publisher South-Western (now Cengage)
       * However, please note:  for PowerPoint slides =>  see below the links for each chapter in the Unit listings as well as at the bottom of the
           page for updated and revised PPTs.

        (Right-click, then select "Save Target As," and save to your Desktop or a floppy disk;
       once downloaded, click "Open", and after your PowerPoint presentation loads,
       you may print out the slides as:  Handouts, 3 to a page, Pure Black and White):

* Supplemental Web Resources:
   Check Image Guides (Regions Bank)
   Glossary of Banking Terms (American Banker Online)
   Glossary of Investment Terms (State of Texas)

UNIT I:
   Chap. 1  - The Role of Working Capital Management
   Chap. 2  - Solvency, Liquidity, Financial Flexibility
   Chap_3 - Valuation in STFM 
     * Read article on Cash Hoarding
     * Example of EVA Calculation - Updated
 
* Study & Review Guide for Exam I  (especially focus on Items #5-#12)
                * Formulas Cover Sheet
                 * How to calculate Cash Flow From Operations
(Chap. 2, Prob. 3, part b)
EXAM 1:  Chaps 1-3 and assigned articles.
UNIT II:
   Chap_14 - The Money Market
        * Current (as of 2/09) listing of the remaining 16 primary dealers for US Treasurys
        * Info on 2009 revisions to the Money Market Mutual Fund credit facilities from Federal Reserve
        * See link to Glossary of Investment Terms above under "Supplemental Web Resources"
   Chap_15 - ST Investment Mgmt.   
   Chap_16 - ST Borrowing
   Chap_5 - Intro. to Credit Mgmt. (A/R)
    - Optional:  Read article on Investing in Secondary Market Bank Loans

* Study & Review Guide for Exam 2
EXAM 2: Chaps. 5, 6, 14, 16
UNIT III:
   Chap_8 - Payment System & Bank Relationship Mgmt. 
       * Get Excel Template here for doing HW Problem 8-4:
           => Problem 8-4 Worksheet Template
   Chap. 9 - Cash Collections
   Chap. 10 - Cash Concentration

   Chap. 11 - Cash Disbursements
   Chap. 19 - Treasury Information Management
   Chap_12 - Cash Forecasting 
      
* Study & Review Guide for Final Exam
   => Cover Sheet for Final Exam
FINAL EXAM - Chaps. 8-12

Other Chapter PowerPoints:
  Chap_04 - Inventory Management
  Chap_06 - Credit Mgmt. & Collections
  Chap_07 - Payables Management
  Chap_13 - Financial Modeling
  Chap_17 - Managing Multinational Cash Flows
  Chap_18 - Managing Financial Risk with Derivatives