Posts Tagged ‘ Lecture ’


1st in series of accounting lectures – appox 8 minutes: the origin of the balance sheet


Professor Kazem Oraee Managerial Accounting lecture 31 May 2010


Professor Kazem Oraee Managerial Accounting lecture 7 June 2010


Professor Kazem Oraee Managerial Accounting lecture 31 May 2010


Professor Kazem Oraee Managerial Accounting lecture 24 May 2010


3rd in a series of accounting lectures; approx 8 minutes; explaining debits and credits


Professor Kazem Oraee Managerial Accounting 19 April 2010


Financial Markets (ECON 252) Stephen Schwarzman, Co-Founder of Blackstone Group, a private equity firm, speaks about his experience in the industry. He discusses his thoughts on global finance, particularly at such an interesting and challenging point in the history of financial institutions. Although the near future might be rough for the United States and economies around the globe, capital does tend to come back and regulators are busy figuring out how best to put safeguards on the system. He also offers career advice and mentions some of the surprises he came across upon entering the world of finance. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.


Financial Markets (ECON 252) David Swensen, Yale’s Chief Investment Officer and manager of the University’s endowment, discusses the tactics and tools that Yale and other endowments use to create long-term, positive investment returns. He emphasizes the importance of asset allocation and diversification and the limited effects of market timing and security selection. Also, the extraordinary returns of hedge funds, one of the more recent phenomena of portfolio management, should be looked at closely, with an eye for survivorship and back-fill biases. Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Spring 2008.