Week 3 – Analysis of Risk and Return We dive into risk assessment and portfolio diversification. I understand now how systematic risk can affect securities and how inflation and interest rates can affect values. I also took what I learned here as an impetus to diversify my own private stock portfolio, which is mostly relegated …

Week 2 – The Time Value of Money Oh how I love the time value of money. This time around I felt totally at east with the subject matter. I did purchase a Business Analyst calculator. I found my original calculator from 20+ years ago but the battery was dead and the screws were stripped. …

Week 1 – The Role and Objective of Financial Management This will be a survey course so there won’t be much deep diving into corporate finance but rather an overview of financial management in an organization. Interestingly enough I did this type of work for a few years and I’m going to appreciate learning more …

Week 5 – Agency and Employment Law This is the last week of the class and there is an enormous amount of work to do. Not only do I need to read two chapters and take a quiz on it, I also need to take an exam on Halloween Night, inevitable given the timing of …

Week 4 – Business Organizations We reviewed the classic business organizations and all of their legal benefits and drawbacks. I went as far to create my own LLC! Stablewatch Solutions LLC is now an established organization. I have toyed with this idea for quite a few years but wanted to get something official. I will …

Week 3 – Torts and Intellectual Property We reviewed strict liability and product liability and reviewed intellectual property also. We also took another quiz and submitted a discussion regarding strict liability also. It is a hot topic that one, whether or not strict liability is fair. In a sense, if a producer is doing everything …

Week 2 – Contracts I was looking forward to this week because contracts are something I do not like to read, mostly because I’m afraid I’ll misinterpret them. This week we reviewed contracts, how to create them, and what breaching means and the remedies for them. Beyond reading we had our first quiz and a …

Week 1 – Introduction to the Legal System First week of any course always starts off with trying to get your hands around what the expectations are and how to cope with it and working full time. This class looks like it is shaping up to require a lot of reading. I also bought the …

Week 5 – Project Management and Business Intelligence This is the most important and interesting part of the course because these are things I do and things I want to do. It’s a tough week because we do not have the weekend to finish up, the lectures, quizzes and readings all need to be done …

Week 4 – Valuing, Monitoring and Managing IT Portfolio I continue to excel on the message boards here with my experience and I am getting great feedback. So far this has been my favorite part of the class. There is also a lecture videos too and the quality is better. I continue to do well …