Designation Course Technology Requirements

Laptop computer required

This course uses Excel® worksheets provided on a CD-ROM to help solve the class activities and for use on the final exam. Students who bring laptops to class will receive the most benefit from the course material. Excel novices will find the worksheets very user-friendly and simple to navigate. Although the requirements below list an internet browser, live internet access is usually unavailable during the class; the browser is needed to view many of the CD-ROM files, which were composed in html.

Student Technology Requirements

• Laptop computer with CD-ROM drive.
• Excel® 2000 or higher version (If you have Office 2003, click here for important information.)
• Internet Explorer v. 6+ or Firefox 3.0+
• Hewlett-Packard financial calculator (HP 10bII recommended)

Optional Software

For some class activities, you might find it useful to have Microsoft PowerPoint installed on your computer. However, this is not a requirement.

Mac Users

MS Office 2008 for Macs does not support macro-enabled Excel spreadsheets. If you are running this version of Office on your Apple Mac you will not be able to use the financial analysis tools used in this course. The spreadsheets will work on Apple Macs that are running older versions of MS Office for Macs.