FINC-UB 2 · Foundations of Finance
Time value of money, portfolio selection, the CAPM, equity valuation, arbitrage pricing, fixed income, and derivatives.
It clicked in class. Until the midterm.
Finance tutoring for NYU Stern students.
Foundations of Finance is a rigorous, quantitative course, and it's required of every Stern finance concentrator. It covers a lot of ground quickly, with Excel-based problem sets along the way.
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.
FINC-UB 7 · Corporate Finance
The follow-on course that takes those valuation tools into a company's investment and financing decisions.
COR1-GB 2311 · Foundations of Finance
Asset valuation within modern portfolio theory: present value, option value, diversification, and arbitrage.
NYU Stern
Where students get stuck.
Portfolio theory
Mean-variance math and efficient portfolios arrive early and set up everything after. We make sure the intuition is there before the algebra.
Fixed income
Yields, term structure, and duration are where many Foundations students first fall behind.
Arbitrage and derivatives
Option pricing by arbitrage feels like a trick until you see why it has to work. We walk through it until it does.
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 with the Excel problem sets?
Yes, with the concepts behind them and with setting up the spreadsheet. The work you submit is yours.
Do you help Stern MBA students too?
Yes. We can work on COR1-GB 2311, core corporate finance, or finance electives.
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 NYU Stern. Course names are used only to describe the material we cover.