Advanced Financial Management

BUSI 460 tutoring for Liberty students.

BUSI 460 Advanced Financial Management is the senior-level finance course at Liberty, and it asks for more than calculation. You analyze a company's financial structure and recommend what to do. I took it, earned an A, and tutored Liberty finance students afterward.

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.

The course

BUSI 460 · Advanced Financial Management

Three credit hours, offered residential and online, for those concentrating in finance. The catalog describes a framework for analyzing the financial structure of organizations, identifying problem or opportunity areas, investigating alternative solutions, and recommending carefully reasoned solutions.

Before you take it

Prerequisites and status

ACCT 301 and BUSI 320, and the catalog lists senior status as a registration restriction.

What stands out

Recommend, don't just compute

The description ends on recommending reasoned solutions. That means your explanation matters as much as your numbers, and many students lose points by stopping at the number.

Brush up on the foundations

Advanced work stands on valuation and cost of capital. These guides cover both, and the WACC calculator lets you test a structure change.

Topics

What we cover.

Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.

  • Financial structure of an organization
  • Spotting problems and opportunities
  • Weighing alternative solutions
  • Writing a reasoned recommendation
  • Capital budgeting and cost of capital
  • Exam and case prep
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Where students get stuck.

The written recommendation

A right number with a weak argument gets partial credit. We practice moving from analysis to a clear recommendation, in the order a grader expects to read it.

Reading a company's structure

Debt, equity, and the mix between them tell a story. We practice reading that story from the statements, then testing what changes if the mix changes.

Everything from BUSI 320, again

BUSI 460 assumes the foundations are solid. If valuation or cost of capital is shaky, we repair it first so the advanced work has something to stand on.

I took this course

I earned an A in Advanced Financial Management at Liberty and graduated summa cum laude in finance. I then tutored Liberty students in corporate finance for three years. I don't predict exams, but I know how to structure the analysis and the written recommendation this course rewards.

How a session works

Diagnosis first. Then the fix.

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 03

    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.

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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.

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Questions

Before you book.

What do I need before BUSI 460?

ACCT 301 and BUSI 320, plus senior status, according to the catalog.

Is this a calculation course?

Partly. The catalog also stresses identifying problems and recommending reasoned solutions, so expect to explain as well as compute.

Is BUSI 460 offered online?

The catalog lists it as offered residential and online. Sessions with me are on Zoom.

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.

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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.

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