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Fall 2009
6334 Accounting & Finance for Lawyers - SIMONS- 16640

Professor(s): Spencer Simons (FACULTY)

Credits: 3

Course Areas: Business and Commercial Law 

Time: 9:00a-10:30a  MW Location: BLB 209 

Course Outline: The course teaches the basics every lawyer should know about accounting and finance in order to communicate, negotiate, and counsel effectively regarding business matters: the accounting process; the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow; financial statement analysis; auditing; time value of money; interest; credit; securities; risk; valuation; derivatives; financial decision rules; and financial markets and regulation. The course presumes no prior knowledge of accounting or finance. Exercises and brief business case studies will be assigned to develop comfort with calculations and concepts. No special mathematical knowledge is required, just basic arithmetic and algebra.

Course Syllabus: Syllabus

Course Notes:   Accounting and Finance for Lawyers is an introductory course intended for students with little previous exposure to the subjects. Prerequisite: On the first day of class students will sign a statement that they have not taken more than one semester of accounting & not more than one semester of finance at the undergraduate or graduate level.

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First Day Assignments: The first day assignment is pages 1-30 of the textbook.

Final Exam Schedule: 12/09 9am-noon  117 TU2  111 TU2  

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Book Requirements:

• (8/5/2009 1:41:50 PM) Title: Introductory Accounting, Finance, and Auditing for Lawyers
  Author: Lawrence A. Cunningham
  Edition: 4th Year: 2004 ISBN: 978-0314151650 Publisher: West
   Paperback book.