Principles of Applied Economics (or) What Tools Do I Need to Run a Business?

I. INTRODUCTION (e.g. interdisciplinary/toolkit approach to business decision-making, under extreme uncertainty)

II. BASELINE TOOLS
A. Financial Statement Preparation & Analysis (integrated profit & loss, balance sheet, statement of changes in retained earnings, statement of changes in net worth, sources and uses, statement of changes in cash flow, using a pc-based parameter-drive model)
B. Breakeven Analysis (e.g. tabular, graphical and algebraic presentation of cost/volume/profit relationships)
C. Supply/Demand Analysis (e.g. development, both from a theoretical and comparative statics perspective)
D. Forecasting: Applications of Supply/Demand Analysis 1. Univariate Regression
E. Cash Flow: Required Funds Analysis (or, How Much Money Do I Need to Start My Business?)
F. Cash Flow: Forecasting (or, How Much Money Do I Need to Operate My Business?)
G. Capital Budgeting Analysis

III. ADVANCED TOOLS (FORTHCOMING)
A. Yield Curve Analysis (e.g. who, what, where, why, how are interest rates determined?)
B. Bond Pricing (e.g. time value of money? relationship between price/yield)
C. Equity Pricing (e.g. how do I read the Wall Street Journal?)
D. Marginal Utility Analysis (e.g. how do we make choices?)
E. Optimization Theory and Application (how do we manage uncertainty?)
F. Derivatives (futures, options, options-on-futures, swaps, hedge funds

IV. CASE STUDIES (e.g. the lab in action)
A. US Healthcare: Supply/Demand Dynamics
B. European Debt Crisis
C. China: Awakening Giant
D. Wall Street Bailout, or, Why is US Housing in the Tank
E. Sequestration: January 1, 2013 Cliffhanger
F. Apple vs. Google vs, Facebook: The New Technology?
G. US Immigration Policy: Cheap Labor, Millions of Lost Taxes

V. CONCLUSION

VI. BIBLIOGRAPHY