Make-Up Notice!

As per decision of the Registrar's Office, all undergraduate classes of 04 December 2012 (Tuesday) are suspended. Makeup classes will be held on 06 December 2012 (Thursday).

Official Notice!

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 60 through 152 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 B65 [Column B and row 65] you calculate Current Ratio [= Current Assets / Current Liabilities] for 2011 by inserting this formula: “=B13/B17”(without the quotation marks) where B13 cell refers to Current Assets and B17 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 B105 (yearly changes in cash ratio), please type “=(B64-C64)/C64”(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 3 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. You will receive bonus points if you do this earlier. Points will be deducted if submitted late. Do remember to 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.

Pearls of Shomman!

1.   Laughter around a FAMILY dining table is like sunshine in a home. Root of courtesy starts here.

2.  Eighty percent FRICTION of life is caused by the wrong tone of voice. Check your tongue.

3.  Your CHILDREN learn by watching you. Your grand-children learn from your children. And generation goes on.

4.  ‘LOVE’ between life-partners means –‘make each other’s life more comfortable’.

5.  If the master (employer) makes the HELPING HANDS' (domestic help) eyes wet – Blessings fly away from that house.

6.  OLD PARENTS are Gold. New members in a family are Diamond. If you get a Diamond, don’t ignore the Gold. Because to hold a Diamond, you always need a Base of Gold.

Source: http://shomman.wordpress.com/pearls-of-shomman/

Recruitment of MTO by Avery Dennison Co.

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) cordially invites you to attend a presentation of Avery Dennison Corporation (a world leading manufacturer and distributor company) regarding recruitment of MTO.

Date: 27th November, 2012; Tuesday
Venue: NAC 415
Time:  11 AM – 1:30 PM

Mr. Partha Sarker, Commercial Director and  Mr. Mosabbir Chowdhury, Head of HR of Avery Dennison is going to be present at the seminar and will collect CVs from the MBA graduates for Management Trainee program.

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Prospects of Green Banking in Bangladesh!

UGC HEQEP AIF funded "Green Banking Project" at North South University cordially invites you all to attend the first lecture of a series of lectures on the prospects of green banking in Bangladesh on Tuesday the 20th of November, 2012 at 3:00pm. The lecture will be delivered by Professor Mamun Rashid, Director of BRAC Business School and Former Country Officer of Citi N.A. He would be addressing the issue of how banks as institutions can go green. Please note the time, date and venue for the lecture.

Time: 3:00pm
Date: 20th of November 2012
Venue: OAT 801, North South University
Topic: How Banks Can Go Green
Speaker: Professor Mamun Rashid, Director BRAC Business School

Your support and presence in these lecture series will be much appreciated.

Road Show of CIMA!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) cordially invites you to attend the Road Show of CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants).

Venue: OAT 801
Date: 19th November 2012
Day: Monday
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm
 
Speaker: Mr. Bradley Emerson, Regional Director, MENASA Region

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Midterm-II Update and More!

Due to the changes made by the Registrar's Office to the Academic Calendar, I had to change the dates for the second midterms as well. Following are the changes:

ACT201.20
Midterm-II will be on the 28th of NOV (Wednesday) instead of 21st NOV in NAC517. Syllabus will remain the same. Quiz 2 will be held on the 26th of NOV (Monday) instead of 19th NOV.

BUS172.20
Midterm-II will be on the 30th of NOV (Friday) instead of 28th NOV in NAC311. Syllabus will remain the same. There will be no class on the 29th of NOV (Thursday).

FIN254.17&18
There will be no change in the Midterm-II date; it will be held on the 20th of NOV (Tuesday) as previously scheduled but on a reduced syllabus - excluding chapter 8: Stock Valuation. Data Entry and Final Report submission deadlines have been postponed to the 25th of NOV (Sunday) and the 9th of DEC (Sunday) respectively.

Thanks.

Revised Academic Calendar!

Please take a look at the revised academic calendar made available by the Registrar's Office in the following link.

Revised Calendar!

Thanks.

Be Inspired!

Following are two great speeches of inspiration, motivation, and learning. At this age, as a student, you need to go through such speeches from time to time to boost up or re-energize your hidden talent to prepare yourself for future.

President Obama’s acceptance speech!

Mitt Romney's concession speech!

I hope these speeches will bring positive consequences by making you accept more challenging tasks in future and aim higher with anticipation of greater achievements.

Blue Tie Challenge!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) cordially invites you to attend the Nestlé Corporate Road show for Blue Tie Challenge.

Date : 7th November, 2012; Wednesday
Time : 11:10 am
Venue : NAC 517

Nestlé will collect CV from the final year students of BBA as well on the road show.

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Midterm Reminder!

This is just to remind ACT201 and BUS172 students about the first midterm to be held on the 5th of November, 2012 (Monday) in NAC517 during regular class time.

Best of luck!

Education in Japan!

The department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) cordially invites you to attend the presentation and education counseling by Japanese Universities, JASSO, JUAAB and Embassy of Japan.

Date: 4 November 2012, Sunday
Time: 10 am 11:30 am
Venue: OAT 801

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Eid Greetings!

May the Blessing of ALLAH Fill your life with happiness and open all doors of success now and always.

~ EID MUBARAK ~

FIN254 Project Update!

An excel template (Template.xlsx) has been made available in the project folder. You will be using this template for each of the stocks you are assigned for individual project work. Following are some steps you would follow for each stock.

1. After downloading the file, open the file using Microsoft Excel and then rename (using save as function) it using your id, name, and DSE trading code of the stock. For example, if your id is "101-1010-030", name is "Salman Khan", and company is "Grameen Phone Limited", then you should rename the template as "1011010030_SalmanKhan_GP.xlsx".

2. There are three worksheets in this template. First worksheet is "DSE Company Profile". You would copy and paste the company profile from Dhaka Stock Exchange website (http://www.dse.com.bd/displayCompany.php?name=?) [replace "?" by your stock's DSE trading code].

3. Second worksheet is "Data Entry and Analysis". You are required to fill up the yellow colored cells only. Start with the period 2011, and then proceed to earlier periods gradually. Most of the necessary data would be found in the periodic financial statements. Some data may be found in the annual reports, or in the company profile page of DSE. Two additional excel files have been provided for your assistance. One is "MONTHLY PRICE DATA BETWEEN 1999 TO 2012.xls" to record share price at the end of each period. Another is "DIV. ARCHIVE.xls" to help you record dividend related data.

4. Third worksheet is "Remarks". Here you discuss about problems you faced in data entry and ratio analysis for the stock.

If you have any issue regarding data entry, please don't hesitate to contact me. If data entry is done, you email me (to both of my email addresses with appropriate subject) softcopy of the excel file and submit printed copy of the "Data Entry and Analysis" worksheet by 20th November, 2012 to get your 3 points for the project.

There will be a penalty for late submission. Each day of delay will cost you 5% (i.e., 0.15) of data entry points. Of course, you may submit it earlier. There will be bonus points for early submission. You will receive 10% (i.e., 0.30) of data entry points for each day. However, total bonus points will not exceed 2 points. Incomplete submission would not qualify for bonus points.

Career Seminar by Airtel!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) cordially invites you to attend a career seminar by Airtel Bangladesh Limited.

Date: 17 October 2012, Wednesday
Time: 10:30 am to 1:00 pm
Venue: OAT 801

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Career in Accountancy!

The Department of Career & Professional Development Services (CPDS) of North South University (NSU) cordially invites you to join a seminar on “Career in Accountancy”. The seminar will be conducted by ACCA Bangladesh.

Date: 16 October 2012
Day: Tuesday
Time: 10 am –1:00 pm
Venue: OAT - 801

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

Presentation on Dhanmondi Lake!

Renowned environmentalist & architect Iqbal Habib, principal of Vitti Sthapati Brindo, will be making a presentation on the design and vision of the Dhanmondi Lake and Begunbari Khal - two very important urban development projects of recent times and lifelines of Dhaka city. His presentation will touch on issues like environment, physical planning and urban design.

Architect Habib and his firm Vitti have won several local and international design awards and their significant projects include the design of the Bangabandhu Mausoleum at Tungi Para, Bangabandhu Musueum and Dhanmondi Lake Development Project, Shahid Dr. Milon Memorial at the TSC Circle, Begunbari Khal Development and several others.

Architect Habib is going to present for the first time at NSU. You are cordially invited.

Meet the Leaders!

Junior Chamber International (JCI) Bangladesh is going to conduct a seminar session on “Meet the Leaders” at North South University (NSU). JCI World President will be attending as speaker. CPDS cordially invites you to attend this seminar.

Date: 10th October 2012; Wednesday
Time: 3:00 pm
Venue: OAT 801

Your participation will be highly appreciated.

FIN254 Project!

The purpose of this project is to analyze some DSE stocks using Ratio Analysis. Each student is assigned with 2 stocks to analyze (please refer to “Assigned Stocks” file to know about yours). You will have to analyze 10 years of data. Necessary files have been uploaded in the “Project” folder. There are three important deadlines to meet for the project as mentioned below.

Important Tasks	Weeks	Deadline	Points
Data Collection	2-wks	22-OCT	3
Data Entry	4-wks	20-NOV	3
Ratio Analysis	2-wks	04-DEC	4
Total Project Points			10

What is Data Collection?

Here data collection means to collect audited financial statements (Balance Sheet or Statement of Financial Position, Income Statement or Statement of Comprehensive Income, Statement of Cash Flows, and Statement of Changes in Equity) with relevant Notes/Disclosures found in the Annual Reports for the stocks you are assigned with.

Where can we find the Data?

Primary source for the Annual Reports of the companies is the Dhaka Stock Exchange (DSE) Library. If the relevant annual reports are available in digital format, you may order a data cd. Please keep your NSU Id with you to get student discount. If digital version is not available, you may photocopy relevant pages of the Annual Reports. You may also look for the annual reports in the footpaths/sidewalks in front of the DSE building which might be cheaper than photocopying. For recent years of data, you may visit company website and download them.

Once data is collected you show me the data to get your 3 marks for the project.

What is Data Entry?

Once you have the data, means, the annual reports, you are ready to input relevant data in an excel template that I would provide you. There would be designated cells where you make the data entry as instructed.

Show me the excel file once data entry is complete to get another 3 marks for the project.

What to do for Ratio Analysis?

I will give some ratio to calculate. You would be using the excel file where you made the data entry to calculate the ratio I would give you. Once you are done calculating the ratio, you submit your excel file along with a short report to me to get your last 4 marks for the project by the deadline.

You may visit the DSE link (http://dse.com.bd/company%20listing.php) to visit your assigned stocks to get some idea about them. If you have any questions or issues, please don’t hesitate to contact me as soon as possible!

US Election and Democracy!

USAID is going to conduct a seminar session on “US Election and Democracy” at North South University. CPDS cordially invites you to attend this seminar.

Speaker: Mr. Paul  Sabatine (US embassy )
Date: 10th October, 2012; Wednesday
Time: 10:00 am to 12 pm
Venue: OAT 801

Your participation will be highly appreciated.