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Professor
(580) 581 2805,Email- sivarama@cameron.edu
SUMMER 2007
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Business Policy - BUS 4633 |
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Applied Business Strategy – BUS
5983 Summer 2007 - Online |
Personal Information
My undergraduate degree is in chemical engineering. I did my graduate studies at Texas Tech and finished my Ph.D in Finance in 1988. I also have professional certification in Cost Accounting. I have an active research agenda in Corporate and Personal Finance and have published papers in journals such as Financial Management, Financial Review, Managerial Finance, Financial Practice and Education, and Financial Services Review.
Interesting Sites
The Internet serves as an excellent data source for information of all kinds. The data sources, or home pages, which give extensive information on business and corporations are of particular relevance to the courses I teach. Given below are some of the business and finance related websites I like.
- Yahoo - This is a good starting point for a search on business topics. Check out the Yahoo finance page (http://finance.yahoo.com)and the extensive corporate data available through this site.
- Reuters - A very good site for research about individual companies. Registration is required, but it is free. Some reports require fees.
- CBS Marketwatch - Another useful site for stock and company research.
- Bloomberg Business Online - This is an interesting business site to check out.
- The Money magazine home page - The Money magazine home page provides reports on over 400 companies. The reports are periodically updated and are called Company reports. One can access the reports by clicking on the square marked Company Reports. The reports are listed alphabetically.
- The SEC EDGAR - The Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) has an electronic filing system in place for most of the required corporate filing of information. The SEC has a home page which makes most of this information available to the public. The system, known as Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR) system is accessed through the Internet and includes most of the 10K and 10Q reports. These reports give you up to date financial information on companies. The data for any company can be searched by company names.
- CNN Interactive - CNN's Web site is a good place for general news.
- The Economist - The British newsweekly with a strong American bias and arguably the best international economic and political weekly.
- Financial Times - The British Financial Times newspaper homepage provides global business information and commentary.
- Quicken - A very useful personal finance website.
- Smart Money - Another financial periodical, which gives a lot of useful information. According to Dave, one of my students - "It offers a graphical representation of the market entitled “Map of the Market”. At a glance, you can gauge market price volatility by a color code. This is designed to allow you to compare companies within similar industries and industries against industries."
- University of Auckland Statistics Links: This is an excellent site providing links to many different data sources, especially international data sources.
- The Bank for International Settlements - The Official site of BIS, the global banking coordinating and regulatory (voluntary) organization. Provides links to the bank's research and other publications and links to the central banks of the world.
- The Central Banks of the World - The BIS links to most of the central banks of the world.
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Krishnan, Professor (Finance),
This page was last revised May 17, 2007