This paper discusses using a particular Excel assignment in a Corporate Finance course at the undergraduate and graduate level. Excel worksheets allow students to more readily see interactions between concepts, and a finance major who is sufficiently skilled in Excel has an advantage entering...

What impact does a finance education have on the behaviors of individuals? Experiments of an investment game are conducted. In it, a wealth-creating investment decision is made. The recipient selects how much to return. This experiment is used to assess the willingness to make trusting and...

The application of options pricing theory to value irreversible investment decisions has witnessed a marked increase over the last decade. For instructional and simplified applications, the Black-Scholes model is commonly demonstrated due to its tractability and acceptance in the finance...

The recent global financial crisis made the need for companies to have an easy access to credit greater than ever before. Consequently, the importance of the laws surrounding secured transactions has been considerably increased since many companies seek financial assistance from financial...

The seeds for the 2007-09 financial collapse were sewn over many years and nurtured by ill-advised governmental housing policy, the presence of pervasive fraud both large and small and the widespread failure of personal integrity. A chronology of bad choices made by individuals and the...

Data Table and Chart tools in Microsoft Excel provide data visualization. Incorporating Data Table and Chart into finance teaching not only helps students understand finance concepts intuitively and more efficiently, but also sharpens students' Excel skills and thus makes them more marketable in...

In this paper, we examine the performance of students who repeat an introductory finance course, and compare this performance to that of students who take this course for the first time. We find that students who completed the course in the past with a failing or passing grade show a...

This paper talks about impact of COVID-19 induced triple crisis (supply chain, demand chain and labor disruption) on India's Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises, which is one of the key driver of Indian Economy. MSME's are the backbone of the economy employing more than 11.10 crore workers in...

Mainstream finance textbooks present valuation formulas of annuities, perpetuities, stocks, and bonds, but the texts seldom explain the story behind them, leaving students in the dark about why these formulas work. The aim of this paper is to illuminate the black box of these formulas, thus...

The academic finance profession has the potential to be uniquely purposeful due to four characteristics – the freedom to take risks and work on what we’re passionate about, the loyalty to our profession rather than just our institution, the collaborative nature of the creation and...