FINAN 450 Principles of Finance is the Kansas State introduction to finance: discounted cash flow, the risk and return trade-off, asset pricing models, and valuation of financial and real assets, applied to a firm's investment and financing decisions.
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Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
Three credits, offered fall, spring, and summer. The catalog describes the basic principles of finance, including discounted cash flow analysis, the risk-return tradeoff, asset pricing models, and financial and real asset valuation, applied to investment and financing decisions and performance analysis. ACCTG 231 is the prerequisite, with a statistics and an economics course as corequisites.
Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
The catalog names asset pricing models, which is the part of an intro course that feels most abstract. We tie them back to discounted cash flow so the model has a reason to exist.
Finance questions hide the unknown in a paragraph. We practice finding what is being asked, drawing the timeline, and matching the rate to the payment period before any math.
Most lost points come from picking the wrong setup, not from arithmetic. We sort problems by type so the first move is obvious on exam day.
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.
No. Send me the exam and I will mark where the points went. Most are lost on setups and wording, which are fixable before the next exam or the final. I can't promise a grade, but there is almost always a clear pattern.
I could not find a published calculator policy for the course, so check your syllabus. Some finance courses require a financial calculator and others allow only a scientific one, and we practice on the model you will bring.
FINAN 450 is the Principles of Finance course in the Kansas State catalog. Check your degree requirements for your own major, and bring the course to me either way.
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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