2026 Summer Second Half • Virtual • 7-week class
Live class: Thursdays 6:00–8:50 PM • First class: Thursday, 06/25/2026 • Course dates: 06/22/2026–08/09/2026
📄 Official, detailed syllabus (grading, policies, resources): Simple Syllabus — FIN 509 Summer II
Download the full course digital book for offline use. Everything we learned this semester is inside — a handbook you can keep and use later in your MBA + career.
Get corp-finance.zip from this site.
Extract it → you’ll see a folder named corp-finance.
Open the folder and click corp-finance.html.
corp-finance.html.
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (Ross, Westerfield, Jordan), McGraw-Hill, 2021,
ISBN 9781260772395 •
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| Component | Weight |
|---|---|
| Assignments (5) | 20% |
| Discussion Boards (3) | 15% |
| Quizzes (5) | 25% |
| Final Exam | 40% |
| Total | 100% |
Letter scale (suggested): A ≥ 90; A- 89–90; B+ 87–89; B 80–87; B- 79–80; C+ 78–79; C 70–78; F < 70. See the Simple Syllabus for full details.
FIN-509-102W: Essentials of Finance covers corporate finance, time value of money, risk & return, capital budgeting, and valuation topics. This Summer II section is a 7-week virtual course.
🎯 Join the class game: marketwatch.com/games/fin509-26sum2
🔑 Password: havefun
Tip: Start with the Trading Game Tools page for FINVIZ screeners and how-to steps — same color/system as this site.
Course dates: 06/22/2026–08/09/2026. First live class: Thursday 06/25/2026. This is a 7-week virtual class with seven Thursday class meetings: 06/25, 07/02, 07/09, 07/16, 07/23, 07/30, and 08/06. Live class meets Thursdays 6:00–8:50 pm.
No graded items due this week. Start Chapter 5 practice problems early.
Quiz 1 due Wed 07/08 11:59 pm
Homework Ch. 5 & 6 due Sun 07/12 11:59 pm
Quiz 2 due Wed 07/15 11:59 pm
Quiz 3 due Sun 07/19 11:59 pm
Homework Ch. 7 & 8 due Sun 07/19 11:59 pm
Discussion Board #1 due Sun 07/19 11:59 pm
Quiz 4 due Wed 07/22 11:59 pm
Homework Ch. 9 due Sun 07/26 11:59 pm
Quiz 5 due Wed 07/29 11:59 pm
Homework Ch. 13 due Sun 08/02 11:59 pm
Discussion Board #2 due Sun 08/02 11:59 pm
Review week — no new quiz due.
Discussion Board #3 due Sun 08/09 11:59 pm.
Final due Sun 08/09 11:59 pm
Due with Final:
All remaining homework / Excel files
Email Excel to mfoley3@ju.edu
+ any remaining discussion board posts.
ABS(FV(8%/12, 10*12, 150, 0, 1)) — type = 1.ABS(FV(8%/12, 10*12, 175, 0)) — type = 0 (or omitted).Disclaimer: All materials are independently developed and hosted on jufinance.com. Feedback and suggestions welcome.