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Reese, William A., Jr.; Robins, Russell P. – Journal of Economic Education, 2017
This exercise helps instructors teach students how to perform a simple event study. The study tests to see if stocks earn abnormal returns when added to the S&P 500. Students select a random sample of stocks that were added to the index between January 2000 and July 2015. The accompanying spreadsheet calculates cumulative abnormal returns and…
Descriptors: Finance Occupations, Business Administration Education, Learning Activities, Money Management
Pinola, Mary; Knirk, Frederick G. – Instructional Innovator, 1984
Defines zero-based budgeting, compares it to traditional budgeting, and discusses five steps of a zero-base budget model: determining organization's goals and refining them into objectives; listing activities to achieve objectives in decision packages; evaluating decision packages; ranking packages by order of importance; and funding decision…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Comparative Analysis, Decision Making, Definitions
Friedman, Mark – 1996
Public financing for education and an array of other children's services has become a topic of significant interest and political concern. Elected officials and policymakers have sought to respond to public concern and dissatisfaction through a more explicit focus on results. To assist in this work of achieving and measuring important outcomes for…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Budgets, Educational Finance, Models
Cowan, Florence Kelly – 1979
The course outlines presented in this final report comprise a proposed Fort Steilacoom Community College curriculum to be used as a statewide model two-year associate degree curriculum for nursing home administrators. The eight courses described are introduction to nursing, home administration, financial management of nursing homes, nursing home…
Descriptors: Administrator Education, Administrators, Associate Degrees, Community Colleges
Beasley, Kenneth L.; And Others – 1982
Designed as a standard reference and training resource for administrators and project managers, this handbook discusses how to plan, organize, and manage sponsored projects in any organizational setting. It provides detailed, how-to-do-it information and many resources for: negotiating grants, awards, and contracts; organizing a sponsored projects…
Descriptors: Abbreviations, Administrator Guides, Check Lists, Compliance (Legal)
Loock, Joan W.; Schmitt, Bette – 2000
This document, which is intended for teachers of high school-level business education courses, contains both the academic standards for business education in Wisconsin secondary schools that were disseminated in 1998 and learning activities to enable students to meet the standards. The activities were developed for students completing grade 12 and…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Adult Education, Behavioral Objectives, Business Administration