Teaching

Awards

1. Awarded Charles Hardwick College of Business 2023 - 2024 Undergraduate Teaching Award

2. Nominated for Charles Hardwick College of Business 2023 - 2024 Graduate Teaching Award

3. Nominated for Charles Hardwick College of Business 2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Teaching Award

4. Awarded College of Business 2019 - 2020 Outstanding Doctoral Teaching Award

5. Awarded College of Business 2018 - 2019 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award

Graduate Level:

1. Fixed Income Securities (FIN 5545)

- Spring 2024, 1 Section, 57 Students, Individual Overall Rating: 4.91/5.00
- Spring 2023: 1 Section, 52 Students, Individual Overall Rating: 5.00/5.00
- Spring 2022: 1 Section, 59 Students, Individual Overall Rating: 4.91/5.00
- This course describes important fixed income securities and markets, and develops tools for valuing fixed income securities and managing interest rate risk. The course covers traditional bonds and term structure concepts as well as fixed income derivatives and interest rate modeling.

2. Financial Modeling for Investment Banking & Corporate Finance (FIN 5935-01)

- Summer 2024, 1 Section, 50 Students, Individual Overall Rating: 5.00/5.00
- The course provides students with a thorough understanding of corporate finance principles as well a practical application of financial modeling analyses commonly performed by investment banks and commercial bank financial analysts. The topics include financial statement analyses, ratio analyses, forecasting, benchmark valuation using comparable company and comparable transaction analyses, discounted cash flow analyses, initial public offerings, private equity placement, capital structure decisions, leveraged buyouts, and merger & acquisition analyses.

3. Equity Valuation (FIN 5935-02)

- Fall 2024, 1 Section, 67 Students, Individual Overall Rating: 4.84/5.00
- This course is designed to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of both theoretical principles and practical applications in equity valuation. Topics covered include various valuation methodologies such as dividend discount models, cash flow models, and multiples-based valuation approaches.

4. Doctoral Boot Camp for Incoming Doctoral Students (Ph.D.) (FIN 5935)

- Summer 2018, Summer 2019, Summer 2020, Summer 2021, Summer 2022, Summer 2023
- This course gives new Ph.D students a preview of their future as a doctoral student and finance academic, reviews various databases and other research-related resources, and gives an introduction to statistical software and basic programming techniques.

Undergraduate Level:

4. Problems in Financial Management (FIN4424)

5. Perspectives on Free Enterprise (GEB4455)

6. Financial Modeling and Forecasting with Computers (FIN 4453)

- Summer 2021: 1 Section, Hybrid - Online and In-Person, 38 Students, Individual Overall Rating 4.84/5.00
- Summer 2020: 1 Section, All-online, 32 Students, Individual Overall Rating 4.84/5.00
- Summer 2019: 1 Section, 39 Students, Individual Overall Rating 5.00/5.00
- Summer 2018: 1 Section, 20 Students, Individual Overall Rating 5.00/5.00
- This course is an introduction to financial modeling, financial forecasting, and financial problem solving in a computer-based environment using Microsoft Excel. The course is aimed at understanding a financial relationship and building that relationship into a model using Excel. The course is very quantitatively oriented. Concepts and models will be introduced, demonstrated, and reviewed in class. However, in order to understand financial relationships and model those relationships appropriately, significant work outside the classroom is required.

7. Bloomberg Training for Graduate and Undergraduate Students

- Fall 2018 - Present
- This course introduces students to the Bloomberg Terminals, instructs them on how to become Bloomberg Certified, and demonstrates how the terminals can supplement their in-class lectures with real-world examples.

Graduate Level:

1. Business Conditions Analysis (MBA) (MAN 5716)

- Fall 2018 - Summer 2021
- This course provides an overview of the macroeconomic environment. It emphasizes the external variables to the firm that significantly influence overall performance. This would include economic growth, inflation, value of the dollar, performance of different sectors of the economy, consumer and business confidence, stock market performance, labor costs, business failures and the performance of the world economy. It would also include political and government factors such as war, terrorism, labor strikes, government policies, regulatory environment, and the policies of world organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the International Monetary Fund.

Undergraduate Level:

2. Financial Management of the Firm (FIN 3403)

- Fall 2016 - Summer 2021
- This course is designed to introduce students to the organization and practices of corporate finance. Students are expected to become familiar with time value of money considerations, investment, financing, and dividend decisions, the history of markets, and security valuation. Upon completion of this course students should be able to approach financial analysis and decision making from the perspective of the financial manager of the firm..