FINC 301 · Survey of Financial Management
Three credit hours. The catalog describes a survey of financial management principles covering the investment, financing, and asset management functions of the firm.
Survey of Financial Management
FINC 301 tutoring for Tennessee students.
FINC 301 Survey of Financial Management is the Haslam College of Business course on the investment, financing, and asset management functions of the firm. It comes with a long list of prerequisite courses that all need a C or better.
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.
Tracking courses
The catalog asks for a C or better in all the tracking courses, which include accounting, economics, communication, writing, management, math, and statistics. Registration is restricted to Haslam College of Business majors.
A survey
The word survey matters: the course covers a lot of ground quickly, so the difficulty is breadth, not any one topic.
Start with the foundations
The valuation and cost-of-capital basics below are the base for all three functions.
Topics
What we cover.
Bring your slides, problem sets, and your last midterm. We work from your actual course.
- Principles of financial management
- Investment decisions
- Financing decisions
- Asset management
- Time value of money
- Exam prep
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Where students get stuck.
Breadth over depth
A survey course moves fast across investment, financing, and asset management. We organize the topics into one map so you can place each new idea on it.
A C in everything first
Because so many tracking courses need a C or better, you arrive with strong habits but maybe a gap from a few terms ago. We refresh the math and accounting you need.
Three functions of the firm
Investment, financing, and asset management are the catalog's three functions. Exams ask which one a situation belongs to, so we practice sorting them.
Who takes FINC 301
FINC 301 is restricted to majors in the Haslam College of Business, so it's a business-student course at Tennessee. Your degree plan shows how it fits your major.
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.
- 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.
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.
What grade do I need in the prerequisites?
The catalog asks for a C or better in all the tracking courses.
Who can register for FINC 301?
The catalog restricts registration to majors in the Haslam College of Business.
Is it a calculation course or a concept course?
A survey, so both. Expect to explain what each function of the firm does as well as compute.
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.
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