First Night/Meeting Assignments for Spring 2008
| Course No./Title | Instructor | Assignment |
| ACCT 701 Financial Accounting | Crabb,Kelvie | |
| ACCT 702 Managerial Accounting | Srivastava,Rajendra | Wednesday, January 23: Read Chapters 1, 2 & 3 of the Textbook and complete the following exercises and cases to turn in on January 23: Ex 1-1, 2, Ex 2-1, 2, 5, 7, 9, Ex 3-1, 3, 4, 5, and Case 3-27. |
| ACCT 705 Financial Statement Presentation and Analysis II | Ettredge,Michael | |
| ACCT 722 Current Issues in Financial Reporting | Ettredge,Michael | |
| ACCT 741 Fraud Examination and Forensic Accounting | Mason,Paul | |
| ACCT 742 Advanced Auditing | Srivastava,Rajendra | Thursday, January 17: Read Chapters I-IV (pages 7-23) of The Economic Role of the Audit in Free and Regulated Markets by W. Wallace, and be prepared to discuss the following Review Questions: II-1; III-1, 2; IV-1, 4; V-1, 2. You can obtain a copy of this reading material from the Blackboard site of the course at KU. |
| BE 701 Managerial Economics | Houston,Douglas | In Brickley, Smith, Zimmerman text, read Chapter 1 and consider the review questions at the chapter end and read in Chapter 2 (up to page 35). Consider Review Questions 10-12 in chapter 2. No need to write anything out.
Scan on the course website (in course docs) the reading "Tripwires of the Mind".
Scan "Who pays for your coffee?” chapter 1 in Harford’s The Undercover Economist.
Note that the first night of class is January 28, not January 21. |
| BE 702 Global Economic Environment of Business | Houston,Douglas | Connect to website for Aplia: http://www.aplia.com. Insert course key: M3Y6-PUY7-JFKK where requested. You can then acquire all course materials, see all course assignments, and begin. |
| BLAW 701 Introduction to the Legal Environment of Business | Whitman,Douglas | |
| BLAW 703 Legal Aspects of Business Organizations | Levin,Murray | |
| DSCI 701 Statistical Decision Making | Hillmer,Steve | no assignment |
| DSCI 702 Operations Management | Howard,John | |
| DSCI 702 Operations Management | Kocabasoglu,Canan | See Blackboard |
| DSCI 705 Introduction to Supply Chain Management | Kocabasoglu,Canan | |
| ENTR 895 Business Consulting P | Meyer Jr,Wallace | |
| ENTR 895 Entrpnshp&Disruptve I | Nichols III,Jesse | |
| ENTR 895 New Ventur Creatns/Bu | Meyer Jr,Wallace | |
| FIN 415 Corporate Finance | Beedles,William | Scan Chapters 1 – 3 of Principles of Corporate Finance, eighth edition, by Brealey, Myers, and Allen. We will spend no class time on these chapters since you learned this material thoroughly in FIN 310. (As a check of your memory, what is the yield to maturity if you pay $877 for bond with an 8% coupon that has 10 years left to maturity?) However, your looking them over might be a helpful review. From Chapter 4, study Sections 4.1 – 4.4; scan 4.5. |
| FIN 450 Applied Portfolio Management | Shenoy, Catherine | First Day Assignment |
| FIN 701 Financial Management | Beedles,William | Scan Chapter 1 of Essentials of Corporate Finance, fifth edition, by Ross, Westerfield, and Jordan. If you’ve recently studied financial accounting, all you probably need to do is scan Chapters 2 and 3. If you’re rusty on financial accounting, you will probably profit if you read Sections 2.1-2.2 of Chapter 2; scan 2.3-2.4. Read 3.1; study 3.2-3.3; scan 3.4; read 3.5. Be certain you understand the DuPont Identity. |
| FIN 705 Investment Theory | Hirschey,Mark | Syllabus First Day Assignment |
| FIN 706 Investment Analysis | Hirschey,Mark | First Day Assignment |
| FIN 710 Analysis of Financial Intermediaries | DeYoung,Robert | |
| FIN 725 Business Valuation | Welch,Kelly | |
| FIN 730 Applied Portfolio Management | Shenoy,Catherine | First Day Assignment |
| FIN 895 Alternatve Investmnt Strat | Banks,Todd | |
| FIN 895 Mergers and Acquisitions | Parker,Geoffrey | Welcome Message Syllabus Case Study Outline |
| IST 701 Managerial Information Systems | Marakas,George | |
| IST 701 Managerial Information Systems | Ilie,Virginia | |
| IST 704 Database Management | Ilie,Virginia | |
| IST 706 Systems Analysis and Design | Lee,Younghwa | |
| IST 708 Strategic Information Systems Planning | Chen,Andrew | |
| IST 709 Business Computer Networking | Chen,Andrew | |
| IST 712 Information Security | Freix,Greg | See Blackboard |
| IST 730 IT Project Management | Freix,Greg | See Blackboard |
| IBUS 701 International Business | Karney,Dennis | |
| IBUS 895 Business in China | Chi, Tailan | |
| MGMT 701 Organizational Behavior | Campion,Sara | |
| MGMT 702 Human Resources Management | Guthrie,James | |
| MGMT 704 Strategic Management | Baysinger,Barry | |
| MGMT 705 Managing in a Global Environment | Karney,Dennis | |
| MGMT 707 Professional Development Skills II | Liggett,Steve | |
| MGMT 720 Comparative and Cross Cultural Management | Schomaker,Margaret | |
| MGMT 725 Management of Technology I: Technology and Strategy | Jindra,Thomas | |
| MGMT 726 Management of Technology II: Technology and Operations | Jindra,Thomas | |
| MGMT 727 Strategy Implementation | Baysinger,Barry | |
| MGMT 736 Managing People: Applications and Skills | Perry Jr.,Emmett | |
| MGMT 748 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution | Whitman,Douglas | |
| MGMT 807 Ethical Decision Making in Business | May,Douglas | Text: Trevino, L. K. & Nelson, K. A. (2007). Managing Business Ethics: Straight Talk about How to Do it Right (4th Edition). John Wiley & Sons. Please read Chapters 1 (Introducing Straight Talk about Business Ethics) and Chapter 2 (Why be Ethical?) in the text. I am looking forward to a semester full of great discussions about ethical issues that have touched your lives in your organizations and those you have seen in the news. |
| MGMT 814 Behavioral Research Methods | Schwoerer,Catherine | |
| MGMT 895 Corporate Strategy | Barker,Vincent | |
| MGMT 895 Life Science Business | Fredrick,Thomas | |
| MKTG 701 Marketing Management | Jurden,Frank | |
| MKTG 703 Consumer Behavior | Zhao,Guangzhi | |
| MKTG 713 Customer Relationship Management | Lemieux,James |