FINN 20403 · Principles of Finance
The financial system and financial management: intermediaries and markets, interest rates, asset valuation, and how firms create value through investing and financing.
It clicked in class. Until the midterm.
Finance tutoring for Arkansas students.
FINN 20403 introduces Walton students to the whole financial system: banks and markets, how interest rates are set, how assets are valued, and how firms create value. Finance students then go deeper in FINN 36003 Corporate Finance.
Private 1-on-1 on Zoom · $250 / hour
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The courses
What we work on.
Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
FINN 36003 · Corporate Finance
The follow-on course for a company's investment and financing decisions.
Arkansas
Where students get stuck.
Interest rates
Why rates move and how that changes bond prices trips up a lot of students. We make the relationship intuitive.
Markets and valuation together
The course covers both the system and the math. Students strong in one often struggle with the other.
Value creation
Knowing when an investment adds value is the idea everything else points to. We make sure it lands.
How a session works
Diagnosis first. Then the fix.
- 01
Before we meet
Send me what you're stuck on: a problem set, slides, your last midterm, a practice exam, last week's quiz.
- 02
On Zoom
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.
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Before we finish
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.
Your tutor
Studied it. Worked in it. Now I teach it.
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.
Questions
Before you book.
Can you help me before Corporate Finance?
Yes. A review of valuation and time value of money makes FINN 36003 much easier to start.
Do you help with course numbers under the old system?
Yes. Send me your syllabus and we'll work from that, whatever the number.
Is tutoring allowed under my school's honor code?
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.
Get started
Bring the problem you’re stuck on.
Tell me your course and what isn’t clicking. I’ll tell you honestly whether I can help.
Book your first sessionOnline Finance Tutor is an independent tutoring service. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the University of Arkansas. Course names are used only to describe the material we cover.