SHORT-TERM FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

* Current Edition:  3rd edition of Maness/Zietlow STFM.
           Click here for info or to purchase => Short-Term Financial Management, 3e

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* Announcements:
   This course is available to take at Malone College during the 2008 Spring Semester
       (1:00-1:50 p.m., MWF; MH 209).

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


* Syllabus - Spring 2008 (same one handed out in class)

* Game Plan - Spring 2008 (Course Schedule)
    Note:  Spring 2008 Final Exam is on Fri. 4/25 from 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.

* Group Membership - Spring 2008
* Support Website for text from publisher South-Western (now Cengage)
       * 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):

* Resources:
   Check Image Guides (Regions Bank)
   Glossary of Banking Terms (American Banker Online)
   Glossary of Investment Terms (State of Texas) - includes link to primary dealers listing

UNIT I:
   Chap. 1  - Introduction
   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 (Wed., 2/6).
UNIT II:
   Chap_14 - The Money Market
   Chap_15 - ST Investment Mgmt.   
   Chap_16 - ST Borrowing
   Chap_5 - Intro. to Credit Mgmt.
    - Read article on Investing in Secondary Market Bank Loans
EXAM 2: Chaps. 5, 6, 14, 16 (Wed., 3/12)
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 
      
   => Cover Sheet for Final Exam
FINAL EXAM - Chaps. 8-12 (Fri. 4/25, 1:00-3:00 p.m.)

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