Dr. Richard L. Constand

Professor of Finance

Office:                Room 221 F ( College of Business )

Office Phone:      (850) 857-6290

e-Mail:                rconstand@uwf.edu

 

 

Department of Accounting and Finance

College of Business

The University of West Florida

11000 University Parkway

Pensacola, Florida 32514-5752

 

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Teaching - Fall Semester 2008

 

FIN 3244     Introduction to Financial Markets and Institutions

 

FIN 4324    Commercial Bank Management

 

GEB 5879    Accelerated MBA Business Analytics

                    (Financing Decisions, Business Valuation and Creating Shareholder Value)

 

Teaching - Summer  Semester 2008

FIN 4424     Problems in Corporate Finance

 

GEB 5874    Financing Decisions, Business Valuation and Creating Shareholder Value

 

Teaching - Past Semesters

FIN 3403     Managerial Finance

 

 

FIN 6406     MBA Managerial Finance  (Spring 2007)

This class is for the The Executive MBA Program offered by the University of West Florida

and the Transatlantik-Institut at the Universities of Applied Sciences in Ludwigshafen and Worms.

In the past, Dr. Constand has also taught courses in the areas of International Banking, Japanese Corporate Finance, and Entrepreneurial Finance.  


 

Research

 

Most of Dr. Constand's current research is focused on Japanese Corporate Finance topics although he has co-authored other articles in the Small Business Finance, Investments, and Insurance areas in the past.  Dr. Constand's publications have appeared in Financial Management, Global Finance Journal, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Risk and Insurance and other academic and practitioner publications.  


 

Consulting

 

Dr. Constand also provides financial and economic consulting services to the legal and business community in Florida and the Southeast region.   His consulting work focuses on the valuation of closely held business and business related losses for litigation purposes and the economic analysis of lost earnings in personal injury and wrongful death cases.

 


 

Other

 

Oil Price and Information Websites:

http://www.spectrumcommodities.com/education/commodity/charts/cl.html

http://www.prices-oil.org/

http://quotes.ino.com/chart/?s=NYMEX_CL.K09.E&t=f

http://www.oilngold.com/

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip.asp

http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/info/twip/twip_crude.html

http://www.321energy.com/ 

 
Financial Sites: 

        SeekingAlpha.com    (articles on market developments)

        Kitco.com                 (gold and silver market prices and information)

        Goldmau Charts        (technical analysis on gold and silver)

        Proshares.com          (ETF's commonly used for long and short positions)

          

Interesting ETF's and ETN's:

 

        DXO   http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=dxo

        OIL     http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=oil

        USO   http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=uso

        USL    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=USL

        DIG    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=dig

        DGP   http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=DGP

        GLD    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=gld

        SLV    http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=slv

 

Also look at:

TBT         short T-bonds

UNG        natural gas ETF

UGA        Gasoline ETF

GDX        gold miners index

MOO       Ag

FXI          China

TWM      ultrashort Russell 2000 index

SKF        ultrashort financial index

SRS        ultrashort real estate

SDS        ultrashort S&P 500

FAS        3X leveraged LONG financials index

FAZ        3X leveraged SHORT financials index

                                      

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