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.