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This course was initially developed by John Petroff in the 1980's as a study guide for students in financial analysis at Manhattan College. The text of the chapters went through several revisions over the fifteen years that John Petroff taught this course. Examples taken from the Russian context were added in the late 1990's when John Petroff was a visiting professor at Moscow Government University (MGU).

John Petroff, a native of Paris, France, is a retired professor of finance and economics. He holds a diploma from HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes, Paris, France), a MBA with concentration in accounting and finance from NYU, and a Ph.D. in economics/international business from NYU. He has taught at several universities in the United States (such as SUNY, in particular), as well as in Switzerland, Russia and Kazakhstan. Prior to that he had a successful professional career in banking, retailing and accounting.

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