BUS 411 — Fixed Income Security Analysis and Valuation

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Course materials and lecture notes for BUS 411: Fixed Income Security Analysis and Valuation.

Overview

This repository contains:

• Lecture notes (.qmd format) in lecture_notes/
• Assignments, problem sets, labs, and exams (placeholders for future content)
• A Quarto website that builds into docs/ for GitHub Pages

Prerequisites

• Quarto (recommended: latest stable version)

Preview Locally

To preview the course website locally:

quarto preview

This starts a local server; the site will open in your browser and auto-refresh on changes.

Render the Website

To render the full website:

quarto render

Output is written to the docs/ directory. For GitHub Pages, configure your repository to serve the site from the docs/ folder (Settings → Pages → Source: Deploy from a branch → Branch: main, folder: /docs).

Render Individual Lecture Notes to PDF

From the project root:

quarto render lecture_notes/lec1.qmd

This produces both HTML and PDF outputs. PDF output requires a LaTeX distribution (e.g., TinyTeX or full TeX Live).

Structure

• lecture_notes/ — Lecture content (.qmd files)
• slides/ — Presentation slides
• assignments/ — Assignment landing page and materials
• problem_sets/ — Problem sets
• labs/ — Lab exercises
• exams/ — Exam materials
• assets/ — Images, figures, PDFs, and data files
• docs/ — Rendered website output (for GitHub Pages)