UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is delighted to offer prospective students the opportunity to apply for a range of scholarships for the academic year 2009/2010.

To apply for the scholarship, applicants must submit an essay (300 words) on why you believe you should receive the scholarship. The closing date for submissions is May 15th 2009.

Candidates must apply for their preferred programme before submitting an application for a scholarship and must meet all of the admissions criteria prior to commencement. Candidates must also be prepared to interview.

Scholarships are valid for the following programmes:

• MBS/MSc streams
• CEMS Master in International Management
• Master in Management
• MSc in Quantitative Finance
• Master of Accounting (valid for non company sponsored students only)

UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School Scholarships 2009-2010, Ireland … read more »

Create a portfolio with this spreadsheet for Excel 97 or better. Enter your past and present stock holdings. See your gains and losses at a glance. Get on-line quotes from: CNN.com, Quicken.com, Quote.com, NASDAQ.com, PC Quote.com, Toronto (TSX), Yahoo India, Yahoo Hong Kong, Yahoo Duetschland.

Quickbooks Simple Start is an easy-to-use free accounting software download for small businesses.

Gas Mileage Calculator is a program that enables you to easily calculate your fuel consumption in Canada or the United States. As the first step, select either Miles or Kilometres as an odometer input, and either US Gallons or Metric Litres as the volume input.

You can then enter the odometer reading at the previous fill, and the odometer reading at the latest fill, or just enter the distance driven on the tank.

Then enter the total amount paid at latest fill, and the price paid per unit at latest fill, or just how many units were purchased at the latest fill.

Then the program calculates four rates at once – United States MPG, Canadian MPG, L/100Km, and Km/L.

For information about this program, visit: http://www.etron.ca/software/gmc

This program is fast, graphical, and really simple to use.

Personal Stock Streamer is a complete stock streamer and trading platform for the active US investor. With PSS, investors can track hundrds of streaming stock tickers; manage multiple accounts and portfolios; see intraday and historical charts with candle, line and OHLC types and technical analysis indicators including SMA, MACD, RSI, Money Flow, Bollinger Bands, Momentum, and many others; mark up charts with annotations; produce asset allocation charts; collaborate and share stock tips and live annotated charts in real time; create watchlists; record filled orders in a complete transaction register supporting buy, sell, dividend, dividend reinvest, share transfers, return of capital, sell short, buy to cover and split transaction types; retrieve options chains; execute live trades through US exchanges including the NYSE, AMEX, & NASDAQ; calculate unrealized gain or loss on a lot by lot, ticker and portfolio basis; produce capital gains reports; send expression based alerts to email or mobile phones; exchange data with Quicken(tm), Microsoft Money(tm) and Metastock(tm); feed live tickers into Microsoft Excel(tm) for custom analysis; create custom asset classes; drag and drop Internet bookmarks; use a currency table and converter; place a light weight stock ticker bar on the desktop; read per ticker news headlines; organize view layouts with any of several dozen data fields including symbol, price, change, high, low, volume, spread, bid, ask, 52 week high and low, P/E ratio, EPS, dividend, yield, beta, market cap, gain, and others; get quick access to online research including EDGAR and finance.yahoo.com among others; use the scripting API to develop custom indicators, reports and extensions in VBscript(tm) or JScript(tm); all for free w/ supported brokerage accounts.

Includes an interactive tutorial and 40 page users guide.