These exams will involve examining current issues within finance.

Specifically, students should prepare a 2,000+ word paper centering

around a recent news article (written within the last 12 months).
The articles should be news and/or current events related and not purely
informative, educational, or instructional in nature.
Students should do the following:
1.) Select an article of interest from a major, "reputable" news source, e.g.
Financial Times Wall Street Journal Bloomberg (Website or Businessweek)
The Economist Barron's Published in the past 3 months of the semester's
start date That reasonably "relates" to one or more finance topics
3.) Start and submit (ASAP!) a discussion board post in the appropriate
discussion board with the article's title stated as the Subject Line and your
name in the body of the message;
Each review should discuss, at a minimum: Why you felt the article is
relevant to one or more topics covered in class What you learned from the
article In general re Finance In general re topic, How the events/topics of
the article do (or do not) confirm with what we'd expect
one can certainly select article regarding "investments" (i.e. the study of
financial securities, their investment-related use, and the markets that they
trade in). Yet, one should be sure that the exam response covers corporate
finance-related topics.
Note: the articles you choose, and your resulting exam write-up should be
narrowly focused on one or more of the course's main themes: Time Value
of Money, Boond Valuation, Stock Valuation, Risk and Return, Cost of
Capital, Capital Budgeting, Leverage and Capital Structure, Dividend Policy,
and Financial Ratios.