Downloadable Files

• Summary of Key Financial Indicators (MS Word)
• Additional Key Financial Indicators (MS Word)
• Glossary of Frequently Used Terms in Finance and Accounting (MS Word)
• How to Read a Financial Report (PDF)
• Basic course offering (PDF)
  For a more detailed Course Outline, please contact me.
• Financial Acumen (PowerPoint)
• Financial Acumen II (PowerPoint)
• FAQs About Business Simulation and the Beacon Simulator (MS Word)
• Beacon Simulation (PDF)

Useful Web Addresses

• www.wikipedia.org a comprehensive encyclopedia written and edited in an "open source" format.  Any reader can add or edit the material.  The Financial Times recommends it as a good source of facts and figures but says that you must be cautious about more controversial topics.
  
• www.investopedia.com a very good reference for  those interested in reviewing  important concepts and terms in finance.
  
• http://www.investorwords.com   an additional site to supplement investopedia.com
  
• www.hoovers.com   excellent reference of companies' financials.
  
• www.finance.yahoo.com
  
• http://www.tutor2u.net   great e-learning resource
• http://www.businessdictionary.com
  
  Links to financial ratio sites
• http://www.lapl.org/resources/guides/ratios.html
• http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/BUSI/bbg6.html
• http://www.valuationresources.com/Reports/SIC6020CommercialBanks.htm
  

Recommended Reading

Finance, Accounting, and Economics

Cinnamon, Robert and Brian Helweg-Larsen, If You're So Brilliant, How Come You Don't Understand Your Accountant?, Kogan Page, 2002.

Dixon, Hugo, Finance, Just in Time, Texere Publishing, 2001, 293 pp

Ferris, Kenneth R. and Barbara S. Pechoerot Petitt, Valuation:Avoiding the Winner's Curse, Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2002, 225 pp.

Hawawini, Gabriel and Claude Viallet, Finance for Executive: Managing for Value Creation, Southwestern Publishers, 2002. 606 pp.

Higgins, Robert C., Analysis for Financial Management, McGraw-Hill Irwin, 2004, 412 pp.

Keat, Paul and Young, Philip, Managerial Economics: Economic Tools for Today's Decision Makers, Prentice Hall, 2003.

Stutely, Richard, The Definitive Guide to Managing the Numbers, UK, Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2003

Taulli, Tom, The Edgar Online Guide to Decoding Financial Statements: Tips, Tools, and Techniques for Becoming a Savvy Investor. J. Ross Publishing, 2004

Tracy, John, How to Read a Financial Report, John Wiley and Sons, 2002, 161 pp.

Strategy and General Business

Bruner, Robert F., et. al., The Portable MBA, John Wiley & Sons, 3rd edition, 1998.

Christensen, Clay, The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Harvard Business School, 1997.

Christensen, Clay, et. al., Seeing What's Next:  Using the Theories of Innocation to Predict Industry Change, Harvard Business School, 2004.

Nohria, Nitin, et. al., Changing Fortunes: Remaking the Industrial Corporation, John Wiley & Sons, 2002.