Teaching

Awards

Awarded The Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award 2024 - 2025 

• University wide  award given to six graduate students each year

Instructor 

Graduate Level:

 Doctoral Boot Camp for Incoming Doctoral Students (Ph.D.) (FIN 5935)

• • Summer 2025

  • This course gives new Ph.D. students a preview of their future as a doctoral student and finance academic, reviews various databases and other research-related resources, and gives an introduction to statistical software and basic programming techniques.

Undergraduate Level:

Financial Modeling and Forecasting with Computers (FIN 4453)

• • Fall 2024: 1 Section 36 Students, Individual Overall Rating 5.00/5.00

  • This course is an introduction to financial modeling, financial forecasting, and financial problem solving in a computer-based environment using Microsoft Excel.  The course is aimed at understanding a financial relationship and building that relationship into a model using Excel.  The course is very quantitatively oriented.  Concepts and models will be introduced, demonstrated, and reviewed in class.  However, in order to understand financial relationships and model those relationships appropriately, significant work outside the classroom is required.

 Problems in Financial Management (FIN 4424)

• • Fall 2023: 1 Sections, 34 Students, Individual Overall Rating: 4.76/5.00

  • This course gives students an understanding of the underlying principles of finance from the decision-making perspective of financial managers. Topics include: project valuation and capital budgeting decisions, return and risk analysis, capital structure, payout policy, and corporate governance. Case studies are included.

Teaching Assistant

Undergraduate Level:

 Financial Management of the Firm (FIN 3403)

• • Fall 2021 - Present

  • This course is designed to introduce students to the organization and practices of corporate finance.  Students are expected to become familiar with time value of money considerations, investment, financing, and dividend decisions, the history of markets, and security valuation.  Upon completion of this course students should be able to approach financial analysis and decision making from the perspective of the financial manager of the firm.