A Project for the Introductory Financial Management Course Designed to Involve Students with Online Financial Information and Analytical Tools

Authors

James B. Pettijohn
Gay A. Ragan
Kent P. Ragan

Abstract

Finance-related websites have proliferated, and students have become more Internet-savvy with increasing usage of the World Wide Web. Furthermore, finance professionals regularly use such finance-related websites (Association for Financial Professionals 2002). Given these facts, in this paper we demonstrate efficient and effective ways to use a semester-long, yet manageable, Internet-based research project designed to involve students with online financial information, data, and analytical tools, while reinforcing topics encountered in the typical introductory financial management course. We also suggest how to use pedagogically-sound practices to systematically alter the complexity of the project, and use a scoring guide to simplify grading.

Recommended Citation

Pettijohn, James B.; Ragan, Gay A.; and Ragan, Kent P. (2003) "A Project for the Introductory Financial Management Course Designed to Involve Students with Online Financial Information and Analytical Tools," Journal of Economics and Finance Education: Vol. 2: Iss. 1, Article 1.
Available at: https://scholarship.rollins.edu/jefe/vol2/iss1/1