The Mortgage Fallout: The Banker’s Perspective
by Christine Ghio
In addition to causing much angst among real estate professionals and those looking to sell their homes, the recent mortgage fallout has greatly affected the nation’s top banks. In response, bankers have turned to the nation’s accountants and have urged the Securities Exchange Commission to reconsider various regulations surrounding asset valuation. This podcast will take a closer look at the bankers’ criticism of current valuation requirements as laid out by FASB and alternative strategies for valuation and risk/liquidity management. acct-305-podcast-project-2.m4v
April 15th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
3.5 Stars
Overall, I thought this was a really good presentation. First of all, I think this was a great topic to choose. The mortgage fallout is an extremely relevant topic not just for accounting majors but for everyone since this is an economic issue that is affecting our entire country. I thought the introduction to the presentation was effective at giving an overview of what was to be presented as well as grabbing the viewer’s attention. I thought there was good voice control and quality throughout the entire presentation although I would have liked a bit more break between topics/sections. While I thought the images in the slideshow matched up well with the audio content, I do feel as though the pictures could have been more interesting. I know this is a difficult topic to find graphics for but they were just a little bit boring. Also, no sources were listed for the content of this podcast. Overall though, I thought the podcast had a good flow, quality content and was well delivered.
April 19th, 2008 at 11:02 pm
“3 stars”
Christine Ghio’s podcast on the recent Mortgage Fallout was presented in a highly professional and succinct manner. I thought she gave a very good introduction to her topic of choice and was able to grab my attention with the facts and figures. Another positive was that even though the delivery of her speech was fast paced, she was very comprehensible and coherent. Although the audio was clear, I would have enjoyed this presentation all the more had her tone been more conversational. A good way to further increase the effectiveness of the podcast would be to make use of some background music. Greater use of relevant yet imaginative pictures that would hold the viewers’ interest could make this production more appealing. On the whole, in my opinion, this was a concise, informative and logically structured representation of the mortgage crisis and the alternative approaches available for evaluation of risk and liquidity in the future.