Plan of Action : "Fire In the Belly"

As enumerated in my previous post the forum will take actions to rectify some of it. At the end of day it should be remembered though that Forum is just a Forum, it on its own can not make or break an Individual. You make this forum. A forum will not work without its dedicated participants.

As decided by forum members following is the Plan of Activities: 

1. Lectures : 
1. Gajju will be teaching Corporate Finance this Trimester. (Recd. Text: Brealey Myers Principles of Corporate Finance. I personally recommend the International Edition the 9th edition will cost about Rs 3000/- so look for 7th Edition on the streets of ABC.)
2. I would be teaching two subjects Macroeconomics and Financial Reporting and Analysis.(Recd Text: Economics by Samuelson and Xerox notes for FRA that you need to order to RAHUL.)
3. All lectures follow IIMA pattern. So do collect your books at the earliest.
2. Presentations: 
1. HBR Articles: HBR articles will have to be presented in the form of presentations. The Articles will be given on an Individual Basis. Aim is to learn current Happening in Business that are re-defining the world of Business. (Jeff Immelt G.E. CEO used HBR to spell out GE strategy for next 2 Decades). Time allocated one Night.
2. Case Studies: Case Studies Involve Presentations of Case Solutions by 1-2 Team members. Depending on Size of the case time would be allocated. But understand that we would progressively move towards 'One Case Study A Day'. ( This does not involve cases taken by Gajju in CF and by me in FRA and Macroeconomics)
3. Assignments: 

1. CF  and FRA Assignment: You need to select Five companies. At max four of them can be Indian or India listed (meaning Rediff that is listed on NASDAQ will be counted as Indian). And one needs to be an International Company.  Some guidelines : Do not select Any Financial firms or Firms that have huge financial operations (so do not select GE). Do not select loss making companies. Do not select unlisted companies. And lastly the companies must have a theme  for eg. Cars is not a theme Locomotion is (so you can choose companies like TATA Motors, Apollo Tyres, Boeing, Container Corporation of India, Great Eastern Shipping Corporation). For those with perverted minds like mine you can select SIN also (Phillip Morris(Malboro), Anheuser Busch(Bud-wiser), United Spirits(Mc Dowells), Playboy Entertainments(well Playboy), General Dynamics (Predator Drones... Weapons). Just Be ready with the companies we will let you know what to do with them.
2. Macroeconomics: A country will be allocated in a group of 2-3 you need to make a presentation with following thing in mind. I have a USD $ 10 Billion Fund for investing in various economies of the world. Your task is to approach us Me and Gajju and suggest us : 
1. To Stay Away from the country. ( if its pakistan... But I really do not know... someone can identify opportunities here also). 
2. To invest in the Country: If so then which sector? Which companies or a Group of Companies (do not worry I am not looking at Company valuations just Country and Sector Attractiveness)?  How Much? Whats are the Risk Factors.
3. To Stay Neutral.  
4. Forum Lectures and Programs :  As you may have been aware we plan to make Budget Discussion a Big event for FINANCE Forum and others. This is one of the event we are targeting at and while going forward we do believe this to become Finance Forums Flagship event, we would also be looking at leveraging forums contacts along with the Alumni base that we have to organize structured lecture on various topics like GST, M&A scenarios, PE funds etc. We welcome topics (topics have to be a structured framework or agenda for a day long or even smaller.) and other suggestions on these. 
5. Alumni Support : We would be looking at approaching Alumni for mentor-ship Program**  

Way forward:
We plan to accomplish this in 4 days per week.

1. Lectures: 2 Days per Week 3 hrs Each day after the college. (the Days would be decided after we get our Time Tables)
2. Presentations: 2 Days per week. Amount of time would be decided after acertaining forum strength as the Aim is to have more frequent presentation practice.

Please do suggest your views on these.

** Conditions applied