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Purpose:
FIN 1330
helps students to develop “start-today
strategies for a better financial tomorrow.” Topics include the
time-value of money, budgeting, consumer issues,
investment, housing, and insurance.
See the class web site at
semi-retirement.com for details.
Objectives: By the
end of the course students will have learned how to:
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Identify tools to assess their current financial
status and its relation to their goals.
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Understand the time value of money, the basis for
comparison of financial alternatives.
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Develop skills to become an informed consumer of
financial products.
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Recognize methods to create a financial plan that
is congruent with their goals.
Methods:
This course
uses interactive class sessions,
Internet research, and homework assignments to develop an understanding
of personal finance issues. In the process the students learn methods
for evaluating alternative investments, and build and refine
individualized personal financial statements. Basic computer literacy
and familiarity with the Internet are necessary.
Requirements:
Students are expected to read the assigned articles prior to class and
to be prepared to discuss them. Class participation is based on the
extent to which the student is prepared (completes the reading, prepares
questions or discussion points and completes homework assignments); and
is engaged (asks questions, joins in discussion, explores ideas, shares
experiences, etc.).
Attendance: Class punctuality
and participation are crucial, and to that end the instructor may give a
5-10 minute pop quiz at the beginning of any class, or call on students
from a randomly generated list. Late assignments will not be accepted.
We allow up to two unexcused absences without penalty.
UNO POLICIES:
Students must conduct themselves in an appropriate manner and abide by
all policies outlined in the UNO Judicial Code (http://unostudyabroad.com/forms/stuhandbook0405.pdf).
Cheating, plagiarism, and
academic misconduct will not be tolerated.
Instructor: John B. Vinturella, Ph.D. (jbv@jbv.com)
Dr.
Vinturella has over 40 years of professional experience as a
management and strategic consultant and entrepreneur, spending 15 of
those years as an academic Entrepreneur-in-Residence and Adjunct
Professor. He received a Ph.D. in 1968.
He was
also the Owner/President for 20 years of a distribution company that he
founded, then sold to a regional chain in 1998.
He
maintains an active Internet presence with web sites featuring:
entrepreneurship (jbv.com),
and (ryie.com)
personal finance (semi-retirement.com)
and a blog:
politics (nobulletin.blogspot.com).
He has
two books for sale on Amazon and at other fine booksellers:
Co-Author, "Raising
Entrepreneurial Capital" (Elsevier, 2004)
Author, "The
Entrepreneur's Fieldbook" (Prentice Hall, 1999)
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