Dr. Pamela Coats
Office: 501 RBA
Office Hours:
Voice Mail: 644-8203 (leave a message WITH your phone number)
E-Mail Address: pcoats@garnet.acns.fsu.edu -or- pcoats@cob.fsu.edu
Homepage: http://garnet.acns.fsu.edu/~pcoats


OBJECTIVE

This seminar will help you become well-versed in using computer modeling as a tool for financial analysis, planning and decision-making. The purpose is to cope effectively with risk .


CLASS MOTTO

"Plans are worthless, but PLANNING is priceless."
-Dwight D. Eisenhower

BOOKS/READINGS

1. Materials at Target Copy. Required.

a. Financial Modeling and Forecasting PACKET (Light blue cover)

b. IFPS MANUAL (Cherry red cover)

PREREQUISITES

Required:	FIN 3244, FIN 3403, STA 3014,
	QMB 3200, ISM 3004 (or equivalent),
	ACG 2021, ACG 2071, MAC 3233.
Suggested:	ACG 3171, ACG 3311, FIN 4424.

COURSE GRADING

100-90	A, A-
89-80	B+, B, B-
79-70	C+, C, C-
69-60	D+, D, D-
Under 60	F

PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Daily Modeling Exercises/Homework (may drop 2) & Quizzes
(Homework due when class starts; no late credit).......................	20 %
IFPS Modeling Project #1..........................................................	20 %
IFPS Modeling Project #2..........................................................	25 %
IFPS Modeling Project #3..........................................................	15 %
Modeling Examination...............................................................	20 %
	100 %

Note the following three perspectives on handling risk:

"Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash."

-Gen. George Smith Patton, letter to Cadet G. S. Patton IV, 6 June 1944

"The only way to be absolutely safe is to never try anything for the first time."

-Dr. Magnus Pyke, BBC Radio, 17 March 1979.

"I never think of the future. It comes soon enough."

-Albert Einstein, in an interview December 1930.

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