Don’t miss out on the opportunity to enroll in two NEW SBP courses, starting THIS WEEK!!

x430.82 – Industry Studies: Finance – The Basics of Investing: Learn the Warren Buffet Way

Instructor: Todd Lowenstein

This class discusses Warren Buffett’s patient, contrarian, and long term successful approach to investing. Important concepts to be covered will include explaining a company’s underlying intrinsic value, barriers to entry and economic moats, compounding machines, margin of safety, risk adjusted returns, staying within your circle of competence, the investor psychology cycle, avoiding common investment traps, why the balance sheet and cash flow statements are more important than the income statement, characteristics of an attractive industry – Michael Porter’s five forces framework, finding hidden assets, the importance of developing variant views from the consensus, why risk is permanent impairment not volatility, the importance of an investment thesis and checklist, and creating an awareness of the pitfalls of behavioral finance to minimize your own mistakes and capitalize on others’ mistakes.

Class meetings: Thursdays: January 31, February 7, February 14 5:00—8:00pm

ECON X430.01  Introduction to Accounting Information Systems

This introductory course teaches the fundamentals of spreadsheets and data manipulation. Topics include:

• Basic formulas and functions
• Time-saving features (such as cell references and automatic filling)
• Debugging common errors
• Using dates and times in a spreadsheet
• Statistical formulas and functions
• Determining when a spreadsheet is not powerful enough for your computing needs
• Creating charts and tables
• Organizing data into a spreadsheet from non-spreadsheet sources
• Financial formulas

Class meetings: Friday February 1 & 8 – 12:00 – 4:30pm