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Our Mission

Our mission is to serve as a medium for students to become acquainted with finance practitioners and their activities, what industry expects from new graduates and how students can best prepare themselves to become successful professionals in today's job market.  The purpose of our mission is to ensure that members:

bullet Obtain valuable career information
bullet Develop professional insights and attitudes
bullet Gain experience in problem solving and decision making
bullet Increase professional and faculty contacts
bullet Advance social and interpersonal skills
bullet Expand competence in skill areas beyond those needed to obtain a college degree
 

 

 

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Educational Resources

Online Courses:Course on Investment Decisions by Ignacio Velez-Pareja (in Spanish) | Master List of Online Courses in Finance | NYIF Online | Taurus Elearning |

Finance Textbook & Case Publishers: List of finance editors and books by publisher | Addison-Wesley | Blackwell | Butterworth Heinemann Publishers | Dryden | Harvard Business School Publishing | Irwin/McGraw Hill | Limelight Publishing | Prentice-Hall | Professional Education Organization International | Salomon Center (NYU) | Wiley

Textbooks and Cases on the Web: AmosWorld | An Introduction to Futures Markets by Steve Figlewski| An Introduction to Investment Theory by Will Goetzmann. Also check out his Cases in Investment Management | Austin Hedging Case (Ian Giddy) |Caseplace|CaseNet | Cases on Technology & Investments (Columbia) | Decisiones de inversion by Ignacio Velez-Pareja | Decisions under Risk and Uncertainty (in Spanish) by Ignacio Velez-Pareja | Derivatives: A PowerPlus Picture Book by Mark Rubinstein | European Case Clearing House | Financial Analysis | Global Corporate Finance by Kim and Kim | ICM Online - Financial Markets and Practice Website | Introduction to Options | Le Serpent (Ian Giddy) | Orange County Case Study (Phillipe Jorion) | Principles of Finance by Steve Wyatt | Quantitative Models of Bond Pricing by David Backus | Sam Vaknin's home page (articles about economies in transition) |Tavakoli Structured Finance, Inc | VentureLine |

Electronic Learning Materials: Advanced Corporate FinanceBMS Simulations (includes banking and intro finance games) | Capital Markets OA101 | Click and Learn Regression | Expo | Financial Learning System | Learning Insights (cool investment banking / corporate finance cd-rom products) | Flannery and Flood's ProBanker | Option Tutorial | Principles of Finance: An Interactive Approach by Steve Wyatt | RiskMetrics Group's Online Risk Management Courses | Stossel in the Classroom | Tradersbrain.com | ValueCalc 2.0 | World Game of Economics

Finance Related Spreadsheets & Java Applets:  BigCharts | Campbell Harvey's Mean-Variance Optimizer |Craig Holden |FinCalc - A Financial Calculator by Swissonline | Goetzmann's Notes on the APT | Jim Angel's Net Stock Valuation Calculator | Mutual Fund Cost Calculator | Peter Carr's Stock Market Applet | Robert's Online Option Pricer | Save Diversification from the CAPM Controversy (Craig Holden's interactive optimizer) | Stock Sense Valuation and Risk/return Applets | VentureLine | Why is the sky dark at night? |

Market Simulations: Iowa Electronic Markets | Nasdaq HeadTrader | SpecTrader+ | Stock-Trak

Online Learning Efforts: 101 Things You Can Do The First Three Weeks of Class | Craig Holden's Views of What Works in Finance Teaching | AcademicNet | ILS | Interactive Finance Demo | Notes on the Use of the Web in Finance Instruction (by Pamela Peterson, FSU) | Project Gutenberg | Toward an Electronic Classroom by Richard MacMinn | UOL | Vinod Kothari's page on leasingVirtual Teaching in Higher Education

Other: Advanced Degree Opportunities in Finance | A Commodity Trading World | CUES | Euromoney Training - Americas | Financial Instruments (by the Turin Group) | FT New York Institute of Finance | Knowledge @Wharton: Finance and Investment | Online Financial Calculators | Research-finance.com | Retirement Planning Guide | Videos Available for Courses | Video clips and pictures |

 

 

 

 

     
Why does a slight tax increase cost you two hundred dollars and a substantial tax cut save you thirty cents? -- Peg Bracken