Miranda Lam


Professional Details

Title Professor
Department Accounting and Finance
Office Classroom Building 233
Phone 978.542.6308
Email miranda.lam@salemstate.edu
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Recent and Upcoming Courses

BUS 790 Internship in Business
FIN 100 Personal Financial Planning
FIN 301 Principles of Finance
FIN 323A Financial Institutions Management
FIN 423A Entrepreneurial Finance
FIN 485 Finance Internship
FIN 720 Foundations of Finance
FIN 868 Advanced Financial Analysis

Professional Biography

Ph. D., Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. May 1996.Major: Finance. Minor: Statistics.

MBA, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan. March 1988. Major: Finance.

BBA, with Distinction, School of Travel Industry Management, University of Hawaii, at Manoa. December 1985. Major: Hotel and Restaurant Management.

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA, inactive), awarded in May 2002

Professional Interests

Research Areas: Personal financial planning, Performance evaluation, Small business finance

Pedagogical Expertise: Financial modeling, Computer assisted decision-making, Case writing

Responsibilities

FIN 100, Personal Finance

FIN 301, Principles of Finance

FIN 323A, Financial Institutions Management

FIN 423A, Entrepreneurial Finance

FIN 868, Advanced Financial Analysis

Selected Publications

Book

Lam, M. & Vega, G (2021).  Entrepreneurial Finance: Concepts and Cases, Second Edition. Routledge.

Refereed Articles  

Lam, M., Chen, L., & LeBlanc, B. P. (2020). North Church's Financial Headache. International Journal of Instructional Cases, 4(2020). http://www.ijicases.com/search/north_church_case/


Lam, M., & Daniell, R. (2020). Creative Community Space. International Journal of Instructional Cases, 4. Published. http://www.ijicases.com/product/case-download-creative-community/
 

Bandyopadhyay, J., Lam, M., & Kudrimoti, S. (2018).  The Show Must Go On – Making the Numbers Work for a Not-for-profit Community Theater Company: A Managerial Accounting and Finance Case.   IMA Educational Case Journal, 11 (1).

Lam, M., Guo, H., & McGee, P. (2016).  Accounting Toward Sweet Success: Treadwell's Ice Cream.   The CASE Journal.

Vega, G. & Lam, M. (2013).  Howling Wolf Taqueria: Feeding the Good Wolf. Case Research Journal, 34 (2).   

Guo, H., Lam, M., Wu, G., & Xiao, Z. (in press, 2012). Risk Analysis Using Regression Quantiles - Evidence from International Equity Market. The International Journal of Business and Finance Research.

Lam, M. (2008). Statistical Inference of Risk Adjusted Performance. Frontiers in Finance and Economics, 5 (1), 27-45.

Lam, M. & Saraoglu, H. (2002). A Sensible Mutual Fund Selection Model. Financial Analysts Journal, 60-72.

Lam, M. (1999). The Performance of Global Bond Mutual Funds. Journal of Banking and Finance, 23 (8), 1195-1217.

Lam, M. & Wiggins, J. (1997). The Performance of Actively Managed International Funds. Review of Quantitative Finance and Accounting, 291-313.
 

Selected Presentations

Lam, M. & Detzler, R. Lam (2018). Improving the Financial Well-beings of College Students.  The Global Interdisciplinary Conference: Green Cities Business, Engineering, Architecture, Design, & Technology, Nancy, France.

Lam, M. & Chene, D. (2018). Alternative Minimum Tax: Planning Issues and Strategies for Married Couples With Similar Incomes.  2017 Academic Research Colloquium for Financial Planning and Related Disciplines, Arlington, Virginia.

 

Personal Interests

Making, Reading, Cooking, Hiking