Thursday, October 31, 2013

FIN254 Project!


The purpose of the project is to make you familiarize with standard finance journal articles and side by side to form ideas about foreign faculty members/researchers and universities making real contribution to the knowledge base related to Finance.
You will do this task in two phases. In the first phase you will download the assigned journal articles and save/organize/rename them as shown in class, in the project instruction document (the guideline), or in the sample provided to you. You will need to submit these files to me.
Then for the second phase, you will be filling out a prescribed excel data file and prepare a short report composed by MS Word. You will be required to submit printed copy of the report in word and the excel file (selected columns) as an attachment and submit the softcopy of both the files as well through email. Submission will be done in three steps using the following deadlines.
Submission Deadlines
1st Submission
12th November, 2013
Tuesday
2nd Submission
1st December, 2013
Sunday
Final Submission
15th December, 2013
Sunday

In your first submission, you submit about 50% of the downloaded journal articles. Please note that these files should be renamed and organized as indicated in this guideline and in the sample folder. In the second submission, you submit all (100%) of the journal articles assigned to you. You do that by submitting your pendrive in an envelop writing your id, name, section either in the class or in my office room. Please make sure to collect your pendrive from me both times.

In the final submission you submit printed copy of your project report along with the excel data file as an attachment. You must also email me these two files using following format.
Subject
[133] your nsu id; your name; section
TO
imran.edu@gmail.com, imran@northsouth.edu
CC
Your own email address
Make sure to include your own email address too as CC, so that you have a copy of the sent email. Before sending me the email please recheck your data and files minutely. I won’t be able to accommodate your request of accepting a modified version next time. Please wait at least one day for email acknowledgment from me as a confirmation of my receipt of your email. If you don’t receive my acknowledgment by one day then resend the email to me. Please keep checking your email frequently around that period because I may send you an email as an alert if I find significant problems in your files/work.

Please note that for early submission you will get some bonus points (0.50 for each day) up to maximum of 5 points. However, for late submission you will lose points (0.25 for each day) as well. Thank you and wish you best of luck for the project.

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Official Makeup Notice!

Following is the official makeup schedule of the recently missed classes announced by the Registrar's Office.


Classes missed on
Will be made up on
Sunday, 27 October 2013
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Monday, 28 October 2013
Saturday, 02 November 2013
Tuesday, 29 October 2013
Saturday, 16 November 2013

Special Note for BUS172 students (MW students): As announced in the class, we will start chapter 5 from 2nd of November (Saturday) and have the first midterm (NAC517 for section 16 & NAC602 for section 17) with same syllabus of chapters 1 through 4 on 4th of November (Monday). If we miss 4th November class by any chance, we will have the midterm in the next available class.

Thanks.


Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Make-up Class!

Because of the 60-hour country-wide hartal we have missed 3 classes so far. I am announcing a make-up class for one ST class (missed on 27th October, 2013) on 31st October (Thursday). Please inform all of your classmates (FIN254 and ACT201) about it.

We will wait for the Registrar's Office to announce make-up classes for the rest of the missed classes.

Thanks.


Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Eid Greetings!

May Allah accept all our sacrifices and make us worthy of His blessings. May Allah forgive us and place us in Heaven.

 

Eid Mubarak to you all.

Sunday, October 6, 2013

Academic Achievement Higher Among Active Students!

by Abu Amin Khan

We come from a society that mainly focuses on academic education. Like most other South Asians, we want our children to study all day long, hoping they would excel at school. In the process we even discourage them from taking part in other activities such as sports. It’s tragic that we practically imprison them in the study rooms. We fail to realize the benefits of physical activity.

However, a new study states that children who participate in physical activity, such as sports, perform better in school. Statistics show the more active kids have better grades. One such example is Essam Sami Laskar who attained straight As in 8 subjects in the O-levels and followed it up with straight As in his 4 A-levels examinations. In recent years he represented the Bangladesh Junior Tennis Team at national and international events at home and abroad. He was an active participant in various intramural sports in high school achieving several awards.

When asked how he balances sports and studies at the same time, he says, “I wouldn’t do anything to hamper my studies but sports is my life. Everyone needs to go out and play. There’s always time; we just need to learn how to utilize our time properly.”

Source: The Daily Star

Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Class Room Change!

Class Rooms of the following sections have been changed.

ACT201.19 from NAC213 to NAC210 and
FIN254.15 from NAC413 to NAC605

Thanks.