BUSI 320 · Finance Principles
Corporate structure, stocks, earnings, dividends, reorganization and failure, plus budgeting and corporate projections. You need ACCT 211 and ACCT 212 first, and it opens the rest of the finance sequence.
It clicked in class. Until the midterm.
Finance tutoring for Liberty students.
I earned my finance degree at Liberty, summa cum laude, and I took the courses you're sitting in now. I earned an A in each of them, and I spent three years tutoring Liberty students in corporate finance. Residential or online, the material is the same, and so are the places students get stuck.
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.
BUSI 420 · Investments
A survey of corporate and financial securities, security markets, and investment and portfolio analysis. BUSI 320 comes first.
BUSI 460 · Advanced Financial Management
A framework for analyzing the financial structure of organizations and recommending solutions. It's built for finance concentrators and requires ACCT 301, BUSI 320, and senior status.
BUSI 320 Finance Principles: course page →
Topics
What we cover.
Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
- Corporate structure, earnings, and dividends
- Budgeting and corporate projections
- Time value of money on a financial calculator
- Stocks, bonds, and security markets
- Investment and portfolio analysis
- Analyzing a company's financial structure
- Exam prep for every finance course
Liberty
Where students get stuck.
Online and on your own schedule
Many Liberty finance students are working adults taking the course online, with no one to ask when a problem stops making sense. A scheduled one-on-one session fixes that, and we work from your own lectures and assignments.
Word problems with extra numbers
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.
Knowing which formula to reach for
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.
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.
My exam didn't go well. Is it too late to fix it?
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.
Which calculator can I use in BUSI 320?
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.
Is this course taken by students outside finance?
BUSI 320 is part of the business coursework at Liberty, and BUSI 420 and 460 are the deeper finance courses that follow it. Your degree plan shows which apply to you. Check your degree requirements for your own major, and bring the course to me either way.
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 Liberty University. Course names are used only to describe the material we cover.