Week 1 – Creating Marketing Strategies to Match the Behavior of Your Customers The first week of class and it is going to be an interesting session. This is the course they warn you about in the program due to the amount of work that is due, and there is a lot of work. I …

Week 5 – Capital Budgeting and Cash Flow Analysis Our last week of class and the professor kindly is allowing us to finish the weekend with our exams. Usually we have until Friday of the fifth week and it makes it very difficult, but thankfully two extra days means I can catch up on Saturday. …

Week 4 – Fixed Income Securities and Common Stock Securities – Valuations We learned how to value bonds and common stocks and I learned a lot about bonds especially. It’s always been an unknown for me, but now I can calculate the value based on interest rates and how yields work. The latter always confused …

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 …