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MICHAEL A. S. GUTH, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor of Financial Economics and Law
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(1) Managerial Economics. Master of Business Administration online program, Saint Leo University, Saint Leo, FL. (Aug. 2007 – present) (Oct. – Dec. 2002).  Textbook:  Brickley, James A., Smith, Clifford W., Jr.; Zimmerman, Jerold L.; Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture, 3rd Ed., (2004),  ISBN 0-07-282809-9.

Huizenga College of Business, NOVA Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida (Apr 2002 – October 2002).  Supervised 20 advanced MBA students in two simultaneous on-line courses in Managerial Economics. Course topics include managerial and employee incentives, organizational architecture, Pareto efficiency, tax incentives for independent contractors, the risk-reward system, the performance evaluation system, and economic strategies to create and capture value with the Internet.  Taught a total of three sections of this course over two academic terms for NOVA.    Textbook:  Brickley, Smith, Zimmerman, 2nd Ed. (2001).

Hawaii Pacific University (Jan. 2003 – May 2003); taught two undergraduate courses on-line using the WebCT platform. Textbook:  Mansfield et al., Managerial Economics, 5th ed.

Marylhurst College (Sept. 2004 – Nov. 2004); taught on-line MBA course using the Brickley, Smith, Zimmerman textbook Managerial Economics and Organizational Architecture, 3rd Ed. (2004).

(2)  Microeconomics.  Master of Business Administration online program, Uitica College, New York.  (Aug. 2007 – present).  Textbook:

(3)  Risk Management and Insurance.  Charter Oak State College, CT, (March 2007 – present).  Textbook:  Harrington, S.E., and G.R. Niehaus: Risk Management and Insurance, 2nd Ed., McGraw-Hill 2004. ISBN: 0072339705.

(4) Health Care Finance. Charter Oak State College, CT, (Oct. 2004 – present).  Textbook Health Finance: Basic Tools for Nonfinancial Managers, On-line undergraduate course. Baker, Judith J. and R. W. Baker, originally published by Aspen Publishers in 2000 and reprinted with © 2004 by Bartlett and Jones Publishing.

(5) Managerial Decision Analysis. Marylhurst College, OR, (Sept. 2004 – Nov. 2004).  On-line MBA graduate course. Textbook: Decision Analysis for Management Judgment, 3rd edition, Goodwin and Wright, published by John Wiley.

(6) Corporate Training. Undergraduate on-line degree program in Human Resources, Sullivan University, (Jan. 2003 – March 2003). Fundamentals of corporate staffing and recruiting, and Human Resources training.  Students are exposed to what goes on in the corporate world relative to training through articles published by the American Society for Training and Development.

(7) Accounting and Financial Management, Capella University, on-line course in the  Organizational Management Ph.D. program, Summer 2002.  Shadow/observe.  Textbook: Gallagher & Andrew, Financial Management.

(8)  Managerial Finance, Saint Leo University Center for On-Line Education, Fall 2002 term.  Supervise 31 adult-learner undergraduate students in topics including financial statement analysis, time value of money, calculation of return on equity and return on total assets, additional funds needed, capital budgeting, and project finance.  In the Fall II 2002 term, approximately one-half of the class (of 30 students) wrote on their student evaluations that I was the best professor they had ever had.   Text: Brigham & Houston, Fundamentals of Financial Management.

Hawaii Pacific University on-line (Spring 2004).  Taught this on-line course twice at the undergraduate level. Text:  Ross, Westerfield, Jordan, Essentials of Corporate Finance.

(9) Economic Environment, Tusculum College, Knoxville, Tennessee.  This advanced undergraduate course combines microeconomics and macroeconomics. This course is taught in ground-based classes over an accelerated six-week format with four-hour lectures one weekday evening per week, Sept. 11 - Oct. 16, 2002.  (15 students); Dec. 2002 – Feb. 2003 (8 students).  Students completed approximately 15 exams during the accelerated term. Text:  Mings and Marlin, The Study of Economics.  The course format has been changed to nine weeks beginning in the summer of 2003. 

(10)   Introduction to Macroeconomics.  Taught the introductory macroeconomics course on-line to undergraduate students enrolled the University College at Troy State University, Fall 2002 term, (32 students); and Spring I 2003 term, (15 students). This course is taught in the BlackBoard platform.   Text: Gottheil’s Principles of Economics.

Thomas Edison State College on-line (Spring 2003). Text: Greg Mankiw’s Principles of Macroeconomics.

(11)  Business Law, Troy State University on-line undergraduate course; January 2003 term, (55 students).  Scheduled to repeat this course each term of 2003. Text:  Anderson’s Business Law by Twoomey, Jennings, and Fox. During the midterm exam week, a student posted the following message to the discussion board: "I've learned more in three weeks than most lawyers do in three years of law school!"

Sullivan University, (March 2003 – May 2003).  Schedule to teach this course using the text Brown, Gordon W. and Paul A. Sukys, Business Law with UCC Applications, 10th Edition.  Glencoe McGraw-Hill , New York (2000).

(12)  Capital Budgeting, On-line MBA program, Univ. of Wisconsin at Whitewater (Summer 2003).  Course topics will include net working capital requirement for a project; evaluating growth assumptions; forecasting future cash flows; calculating a firm’s cost of capital; impact of inflation, depreciation, and taxes on an investment, estimate the free cash flows from a project; calculate the terminal and salvage values of the project; net present value; internal rate of return; calculate a risk-adjusted discount rate through comparables and through the weighted-average cost of capital and adjusted present value methods; and value projects with risky cash flows by discounting the expected cash flows at the risk-adjusted discount rate.   I designed the entire course (syllabus, reading assignments, case studies, and exams).  Textbook: specially created for this course using a subset of chapters from Block and Hirt’s Foundations of Financial Management, 10th ed.

(13) Budget Analysis, Sullivan University, on-line (March 2003 – June 2003).  This course is offered as a primer for beginning human resource managers and other beginning and middle managers to provide the basic competencies needed in the development, implementation, and management of their portion of corporate budgets. The course provides a review and introduction to the basic theories and management techniques needed for everyday budgeting situations. A varied and all-inclusive introductory approach is taken to familiarize the student with such budgeting systems as zero-based-budgeting, PPBS budgeting and line item budgeting (4 qtr. hrs.). I selected a professional book used to train accountants for the CPA exam as the course textbook, and I designed this course. Text:  Modern Budgeting for Profit, Planning, and Control by Jae Shim et al

(14)  Business Policy / Business Strategy, Sullivan University, (March 2003 – May 2003). On-line undergraduate course.  Specific problems involved in the forming of consistent business policies and  maintaining an efficient organization are discussed. Actual cases are used for discussions and preparation of reports for executive decision making. The students taking this class are required to have completed business courses prerequisites in management, marketing, accounting and financial management. Text: Strategic Management, 13th ed., by Thompson and Strickland, McGraw-Hill/Irwin.

(15) Money and Banking, Troy State University – Montgomery on-line (Spring 2003), advanced economics undergraduate course.  Text: Money, Banking, and Financial Markets by Roger LeRoy Miller and David VanHoose.

(16) Insurance (and Risk Management), Troy State University – Montgomery on-line (Spring 2003), advanced finance undergraduate course.  Text: Principles of Risk Management and Insurance, 8th Ed. by George E. Rejda.

(17) Investments, Troy State University – Montgomery on-line (Spring 2003), advanced finance undergraduate course. Text:  Practical Investment Management by Robert Strong.

(18) Managerial Accounting, Northern Arizona University MBA program on-line (Summer 2003), graduate-level managerial accounting course.  Text: Garrison and Noreen.

(19) Comparative Politics, Canyon College. Taught this undergraduate course numerous times in an asynchronous environment.  Text:  Comparative Politics:  Domestic Responses to Global Challenges by Hauss.

Currently teach on-line doctoral research courses for North Central University, Arizona, in allied business areas. Also teach undergraduate Criminal Justice Administration courses. 

(20)  Juvenile Offender, North Central University, undergraduate on-line course, Summer 2004.  Text:  Juvenile Delinquency:  Theory, Practice, and Law by Siegel, Welsh, Senna.

(21)  White Collar Crime, North Central University, graduate on-line course, Summer 2004.  Learners examine the various types of white-collar crime, methods of detection, investigative techniques, and social impact. Text:    David Shichor, et al. (2001). Readings in White-Collar Crime. Waveland Press. ISBN 1577661915



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MICHAEL A. S. GUTH, Ph.D., J.D.
Professor of Financial Economics and Law
send e-mail
(E-mail is quickest method of contact).
  116 Oklahoma Ave.
  Oak Ridge, TN
  37830-8604
  Phone: (865) 483-8309