Thursday, July 19, 2012

Library Hours in Ramadan!

This is to inform all users that the university library will maintain the following hours during the holy month of Ramadan:

Sunday to Thursday: 9:00AM to 7:00PM
Saturday: 10:00AM to 4:00PM
Friday: Closed.

Change in Office Hours!

I am changing my office hours for Ramadan. As the semester ends within Ramadan, this change will be effective till the last day of classes.

New Office Hours:

ST 12 pm to 2 pm &
MW 11 am to 1 pm

Sorry for any inconveniences this may have caused you. Of course, you may make an appointment to see me at some other time.

Changed Class Timings for Ramadan!


Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Recruitment by Prime Bank Ltd.

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) of North South University (NSU) cordially invites you to attend a presentation on “Campus Recruitment of Prime Bank Ltd”. The presentation is going to be held on Wednesday, 18th July 2012 at 11:00 am, venue- OAT 801.

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

INDIAN EDUCATION SYSTEM: SURPRISING OUTCOMES!

  • The smartest students pass with 1st Class and get admissions to medical and engineering colleges.
  • The 2nd Class students get MBAs and LLB's to manage the First Class students.
  • The 3rd Class students enter politics and rule both 1st and 2nd Class students.
  • The Failures join the underworld and control politicians and businesses.
  • And best of all..Those who did not attend any school, become Swamis and everybody follows them.
 I don't think, we, Bangladeshis are much different from them!
 

Monday, July 16, 2012

FIN254 Project Update!

Those of you who are done with the Data Entry part may proceed to the next level - Data Analysis. Please follow the 3 steps mentioned below.

1.       Select rows 61 and 153 of the excel template;
2.       Click the right button of your mouse; and
3.       Select “Unhide” from the menu or just press the letter ‘u’ in your keyboard.
Following images may help you follow the steps if you are still not clear what to do.




After you unhide the hidden rows, you would see the required ratio and other measures given to you. You then use basic formulas to calculate those measures using the dataset you prepared for the data entry task.

For example, in cell B66 [Column B and row 66] you calculate Current Ratio [= Current Assets / Current Liabilities] for 2011 by inserting this formula: “=B14/B18”(without the quotation marks) where B14 cell refers to Current Assets and B18 indicates Current Liabilities. After successful entry of a formula (or all the formulas) in 2011, you may select and drag along up to whatever year your dataset supports. Walla! All the formulas will be calculated automatically.

You may follow similar strategy for the Yearly Changes/Growths (%) measures as well. For example, for the cell B106 (yearly changes in cash ratio), please type “=(B65-C65)/C65”(without the quotation marks) to calculate yearly changes for 2011.

After you are done calculating all the formulas, now is the time for you to prepare a report using Microsoft word. You need to submit a short report (2 to 5 pages long) on your findings. You may talk about liquidity, solvency, asset management, profitability, market situation of your companies highlighting strengths and weaknesses. You may also talk about important trend or improvement/decline in certain areas in recent years looking at the yearly changes.

Final Report Submission Guidelines

You need to submit both soft-copy (through email attachments of the word report file and all excel files to both of my email addresses) and hard-copy of the word report along with the “Data Entry and Analysis” worksheet as attachments. Along with the hard copy you must submit all the annual reports or financial statements used for your data entry. If you do this by 29th of July, 2012 you will get 6 points instead of regular 4 points. For each day of delay you would lose half a point (that is, 0.5). Use appropriate subject in your email, for example, “Report by [your name and id number]”.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any questions.

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Change in Office Hours!

From now on, my ST office hours will be from 9:30 am to 11:30 am instead of 10 am to 12 pm.

Sorry for any inconveniences caused.

Internship at ROBI

Robi (an axiata company) is looking for some students who are willing to work as interns for its corporate office. Students are highly encouraged to apply for the position. Interested candidates are requested to submit their CV (soft-copy) to internship.cpds@gmail.com by 11th July, 2012. Minimum cpga of 3.0 is required to apply for the position.

Thanks.

Monday, July 9, 2012

Additional Responsibility!

I have been offered the position of Assistant Proctor recently. I ask for your support and cooperation in this regard. If you see any violation of student code of conduct and any unethical activity happening around the campus, please let me know. If the issue is sensitive and you don't want to disclose your identity, you may provide anonymous comments.

You may download the Student Code of Conduct from here.

Thanks.