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FOR 2022 Financial Analysis for Natural Resources

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  Date   Topic Assignment Due KEY Reading
01.10 Lecture 01 Class intro, time value of money, opportunity costs     Section 1
  01.15   No class - CSREES reporting      
01.17 Lecture 02 Simple and compound interest      
01.22 Lecture 03 Time line and financial conventions      
01.24 Lecture 04 Single payment equations: present and future value      
  01.29   No class - CSREES reporting      
01.31 Lecture 05 Using the single payment equation in a spreadsheet     Section 2
02.05 Lecture 06 Terminating series of annual payments: present and future value      
02.07 Lecture 07 Terminating series of periodic payments: present and future value      
02.12 Lecture 08 Perpetual series of annual and period payments      
02.14 Lecture 09 Sinking fund and capital recovery      
02.19 Lecture 10 Choosing the correct financial equation      
  02.21 Lecture 11 Back to spreadsheets - entering more complex formulas      
  02.26 Lecture 12 Review for mid-term exam      
  02.28 Lecture 13 Mid-term exam      
03.04 Lecture 14 Payback period      
03.06 Lecture 15 Rate of return      
  03.11   Spring Break      
  03.13   Spring Break      
03.18 Lecture 16 Interpreting financial narratives (again!)      
03.20 Lecture 17 Benefit / cost ratio      
03.25 Lecture 18 Equal annual equivalent (EAE)      
03.27 Lecture 19 Soil expectation value (SEV)      
  Lecture 20 Marginal Analysis      
  Lecture 21 More on marginal analysis      
  Lecture 22 Inflation, real and nominal prices and price indices      
  Lecture 23 Sunk and opportunity costs      
  Lecture 24 Sensitivity Analysis      
  Lecture 25 Risk and expected values      
  Lecture 26 Review for final exam      
             
             

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOR 4684 Natural Resource Economics and Management.

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  Date   Topic
08.27 Lecture 01 Introduction, economic thought, unique aspects of forest economics
  08.27 Lab 01 Pre-test
09.01 Lecture 02 Demand

Handout 01

 Basic demand and elasticity concepts
09.08 Lecture 03 Supply and production economics

Handout 02 Aggregating individual firm supply curves to market supply curves
09.10 Lecture 04 Supply and demand interactions and market failures
09.15 Lecture 05 Market failures and government interventions
09.17 Lecture 06 Short-run timber supply and demand
09.22 Lecture 07 Long-run timber supply and demand
09.24 Lecture 08 Valuation and appraisal
09.29 Lecture 09 Non-market valuation
10.06 Lecture 10 Wildlife and Water Economics
10.08 Lecture 11 Taxation Principles and Theory
10.13 Lecture 12 US and Arkansas Wood Economy
10.15 Lecture 13 Management concepts and growth and yield
10.15 Lab 06 Taxation Laboratory
10.20 Lecture 14 Rotation determination for a single tree and a group of trees
10.22 Lecture 15 Determining reserve growing stock levels
10.27 Lecture 16 Even-aged rotation determination for stands
10.29 Lecture 17 Normal forest model
11.03 Lecture 18 Determination of sustainable harvests
11.03 Lecture 19 Forest planning concepts
11.10 Lecture 20  Harvest Scheduling Concepts
11.12 Lecture 21 Defining the objective function
11.17 Lecture 22 Defining constraints and solving the harvest scheduling model
  11.19 Lecture 23 Adding constraints to the harvest scheduling model
  11.24 Lecture 24 Using modern growth and yield models in harvest scheduling
       
Final Exam at time and location to be determined (see syllabus)