FI 302 Business Finance is the University of Alabama course on how a business raises capital and decides how to spend it. The catalog notes that students get three attempts at it, so getting it right the first or second time counts.
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Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
Three hours. The catalog describes a study of the financial objectives of the business enterprise, sources of capital, and financial management of business assets, with emphasis on a framework for making financing, investing, and dividend decisions.
AC 210 or AC 211, and EC 111 or EC 113. Accounting and an economics course come first.
Students are limited to three attempts at FI 302, not counting withdrawals. Most people never get near that, but it is a reason not to treat the first attempt casually.
Financing, investing, and dividends all begin with the same present-value move. Read the first guide below, then see how it feeds the WACC example, which is the closest thing here to a full financing decision.
Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
The catalog frames the course around financing, investing, and dividends. Students tend to learn each as a chapter instead of as one connected framework. We draw how a dollar moves through all three.
Debt, preferred, and common each have a cost and a claim on the firm. Questions mix them in one problem, so we practice sorting them quickly.
Accounting problems have one right answer. Finance problems ask you to choose and defend. Learning to show your reasoning in a sentence is a separate skill, and we practice it.
FI 302 is the business finance course in the Alabama catalog, and it sits behind AC 210 or 211 and an economics course, so it usually lands in the second or third year. Your degree audit shows how it fits your major.
Send me what you're stuck on: a problem set, slides, your last midterm, a practice exam, last week's quiz.
You walk me through a problem out loud. It usually takes a few minutes to hear where the reasoning goes sideways. We fix that piece and rebuild from there, so you know why each step works.
The real test: a fresh problem with new numbers and different wording, the way a midterm would ask it, and you solve it yourself. I don't complete assignments or hand over answers. You leave able to do the work.
I’m Chi Odogwu. I have a B.S. in Business with a finance specialization from Liberty University, earned summa cum laude in three years, and a Master’s in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis. I tutored IB students in grad school, did valuation and private equity consulting at PwC, taught MBA finance at Florida State, and spent three years as an adjunct professor teaching Business Finance.
The catalog says students are limited to three attempts at the course, excluding withdrawals. Check with your advisor if you are close to it.
AC 210 or AC 211, plus EC 111 or EC 113, per the catalog.
Yes. Dividend decisions are named in the course description, and we cover them along with financing and investing.
Tutoring on concepts and practice problems is generally fine, but policies on graded work vary by course. I don't complete graded assignments. Check your syllabus's collaboration policy, and if you're unsure, ask your professor.
Tell me your course and what isn’t clicking. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
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