Undergraduate Level Courses

Introductory and Corporate Finance

Corporate Finance

This course was taught by Brian Betker at Ohio State. Uses Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe. The course examines the fundamental decisions faced by financial managers: which of the many projects available to the firm are worth taking? How should the firm pay for these investments? What should the firm do with the proceeds from a successful investment? Also see a similar course taught by Fred Schlingeman.

Chester Allen's Course Page

Has cool solutions and an Excel spreadsheet tool to solve many types of problems.

Financial Management

Taught by Carolyn Takeda at University of Florida. Has a couple of old exams and solutions. Uses Brigham and Houston. Good page!

Financial Management of the Firm

Taught by Pamela Peterson at Florida State. Has exam material, past lecture notes and practice problems etc. Good place to look. Uses book by the author.

Business Financial Management

Taught by Aqhtar Siddique at Georgetown. Has a stock valuation project. Uses Ross, Westerfield and Jordan.

Foundations of Finance

Taught by Joel Hasbrouck at NYU using Ross, Westerfield and Jordan. Has extensive problem solutions, old exams and notes. Nice page.

Finance

Taught by Brad DeLong at UC-Berkeley. This site has an excellent set of notes which follow Brealey and Myers chapter by chapter. Highly recommended.

Honors Corporate Finance

Taught by Bernadette Minton at Ohio State. Has a variety of materials, a paper assignment and links. Uses Ross, Westerfield and Jordan.

Business Financial Management

Taught by James Jordan-Wagner at Eastern Illinois University. Uses Ross, Westerfield and Jordan. Has several assignments and a detailed and detailed syllabus with suggestions not to call the professor at home collect.

Corporate Finance

Taught at Michigan State in mega-section format by the valiant Assem Saffiedine. Site has assignments and pithy quotes on investing.

Finance and Financial Institutions

Taught at Penn State. Course has an excellent set of powerpoint slides.

Financial Management

Taught by Miranda Detzler at UMass Boston.

Corporate Finance

Taught by PV Viswanath at Pace. Has several helpful assignments, a glossary and extensive class notes.

Basic Financial Management - 6F:100

An introduction to Finance taugh by Handa and Reitz and University of Iowa, this course focuses on the basic paradigms in Finance such as Net Present Value, Capital Asset Pricing Theory and Market Efficiency. These basic paradigms are taught in the context of valuation of risky assets. The major areas of Finance covered include basics of valuation, valuation of stocks and bonds, valuation of projects, valuation of firms, risk and return, cost of capital, financial planning and forecasting, and agency theory. Uses the Iowa Electronic Market, state-of-the art learning technology and a custom text called FinText.

Financial Management

Taught by John Dobson at CalPoly. Uses Keown et. al. Financial Management text. Syllabus does a good job of warning students about pitfalls which can arise in this introductory course.

Financial Management

This course is taught by Dan Cooper at Marist College using Martin, Petty, Keown and Scott, Basic Financial Managment, Prentice-Hall. A nice syllabus and set of lecture notes are available. Cooper is obviously thinking hard about how to use the Web for finance courses. Watch this page.

Fundamentals of Business Finance

Taught by Mike Wilson at Northwest Missouri State University. Course has a variety of quizzes and uses CyberProf-an innovative course management system.

Financial Management

Taught by Dave Cary at Cal State Northridge. Covers Brigham and Houston in a disciplined and quantitative course.

Corporate Finance.

Bus-Fin 721 is taught by Tim Opler at Ohio State. A syllabus, a career assignment and instructions for using multimedia programs are available.

Finance 3104 - Corporate

Taught by John Chalmers at Virginia Tech. A good set of lecture notes is available.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Bryan Routledge at Carnegie-Mellon. Has handouts and past exams.

Business Finance.

This course taught by Richard MacMinn of the University of Texas-Austin covers the concepts and analytical techniques applicable to identifying and solving financial management problems and is based on Martin, Petty, Keown and Scott offered by Prentice-Hall. Students and revise their own homepages, access their scores on the class roster, access a formula sheet that is linked to lectures and problems, receive automated e-mail responses for assignment submissions, and more. Also check out, the second undergraduate course at UT-Austin: Corporate Finance which uses Corporate Finance by Aswath Damodaran.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Steve Rich at Baylor. A thoughtful class incorporating value management concepts, many spreadsheets and the like. You will find extensive review sheets and and a very good set of lecture notes.

Jamal Munshi's Course Server

Used a Sonoma State University. Nice example.

Financial Markets.

This course is taught by Jeffrey Mackie-Mason of the University of Michigan Department of Economics to undergraduate students. The syllabus lists a rich set of resources which you may find useful in a similar course.

Finance 350

Taught at the University of Washington. An extensive collection of slides in Acrobat format is available.

Corporate Finance

Taught by the PK Satish at Washington State University.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Steve Rich at Baylor University, this course does a very nice job of going through topics in corporate finance including capital budgeting, EVA, and time value of money. Numerous handouts and lecture notes are available for downloading in Microsoft Word.

Financial Economics

Taught at the University of Auckland using Copeland and Weston.

Introduction to Business Finance

Brian Betker's 620 honors course at Ohio State covers the basics of finance in an intensive 10 week session. Covers Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe from A to J.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Jim Elder at UVA using Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe. Has a nice set of cases and syllabus.

Corporate Financial Management

Taught by Fiona Maclachlan at Manhattan College using Weston, Besley and Brigham.

Test on the Time Value of Money

Think you understand the time value of money? Let a test put together by Richard MacMinn of the University of Texas help you figure out if you are right.

Corporate Finance

Taught by the indomitable Dan Weaver of Marquette University using Brealey & Myers.

Investments

Taught by Ken Shah at SMU. A very good course home page!

Foundations of Financial Markets

Taught by Stephen Brown at NYU using Bodie, Kane and Marcus.

Investments

Taught at Penn State by Jim Miles. Has a web assignment, homeworks, spreadsheets and an old exam.

Financial Markets

Taught by Ian Giddy at NYU. Has a variety of online teaching materials including several cases. Well worth a visit!

Financial Markets and Portfolio Management

Taught by Henry Cao at UC Berkeley. Has Lecture notes, homeworks, sample midterm and more.

Investments

Taught by the incomparable G. Andrew Karolyi at Ohio State University. Text is Bodie, Kane and Marcus, Essentials of Investments. You will find downloadable notes, a game exercise and much, MUCH more!

Investments

Taught by Brian Betker at SLU. Awesome page with links and spreadsheets.

Financial Markets

Taught by K C Chan in Hong Kong. Uses Fabozzi and Modigliani. Course has a good syllabus and rules which are specific to the Hong Kong environment (e.g. no cell phones in class)!

Equity and Capital Markets

Taught by David Nye at University of Florida. Nice set of notes...

Investments

Taught by the unsurpassed Russ Wermers of the University of Colorado. You will find a superb set of overhead slides here.

Stock Market

A very cool freshman discovery course taught by Elizabeth Oltheten at U. of Illinois. Lots of overheads, assigments etc to examine.

Investments

Taught by Shane Corwin at the University of Georgia. You'll find a good set of lecture notes in Powerpoint and several assignments.

Investments

Taught by John Erickson at Cal State - Fullerton. Uses Jones. Very good syllabus and course page!

Capital Markets

Taught by Elizabeth Oltheten at University of Illinois. Well done!

Intermediate Finance

Taught by Pinkerton at Virginia Tech. A syllabus is there.

Portfolio Practicum

This course taught to undergraduates and MBAs at SMU is where students manage over $2 million in real money in the stock and bond markets. An annual report is available.

Student Investment Management Program

The SIM course taught by Steve Buser and Tony Sanders at Ohio State allows students to manage a $10 million chunk of the university endowment. The class has consistently beat the University's professional money managers!

Portfolio Management Class at University of Kansas

An impressive and well-directed effort. Worth a look!

Henry Fund at University of Iowa

A student-managed fund with an impressive web page.

Proseminar in Financial Engineering

Taught at MIT by Alan Marcus with help from Terence Lim. Seminar provides students a unique opportunity to tackle original research problems in financial engineering that have been posed by leading industry experts from the financial community. These experts -- partners of companies, managing directors, etc, -- provide students with current problems in financial engineering that they are currently facing in their businesses, with the restriction that the problems must be as yet unsolved.

UISES

Investment simulation project at hte University of Illinois. UISES 3.0 trades some 10,000 stocks listed on the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange, and NASDAQ. During the Beta Test Market, Limit, and Stop Orders are accumulated throughout the day and executed at closing prices. Subsequent versions of UISES will feature international currencies and global equity markets, options, futures, bonds, and mortgage backed securities. Professors may choose to activate any or all of the instruments available.

Investment Analysis

Taught by P.K. Satish at Washington State University who has a cult-like following on the Internet. This course covers investment decisions in the stock market but does not yet carry notes or spreadsheets. Currently P.K. is working in the world of banking in London.

Advanced Topics

Commercial Bank Management

Taught by Richard Rosen at Indiana using Saunders. Many materials are available.

Money and Banking

Taught by Fiona Maclachlan at Manhattan College using Mishkin.

Money and Banking

Taught by Leora Klapper at NYU. Find exams, links, lecture notes and more.

Fixed Income Analysis

Taught by Erik Sirri at Babson College (currently on leave at the SEC). This course explores the most important of the fixed income markets from the perspective of the institutional investor. The course first considers the market for risk-free Treasury securities, including fixed-income pricing conventions and the determinants of the term structure of interest rates. We then discuss the foreign exchange market, non-dollar bonds, and the linkages between international fixed- and floating-rate bond markets. The course will also consider the mortgage and CMO markets, municipal bonds, and junk bonds.

Bonds and Interest Rate Derivatives

Taught by Tom George of the University of Iowa. The course includes supplementary notes and historical data. Password protected.

Financial Engineering

Taught by Brian Betker at St. Louis University. A Course Syllabus is also available.

Options

Taught using Option Tutor by O'Brien and Srivastava. Home page is set up by Jim Wiggins of Michigan State and has numerous assignments, exams and quizes. Very useful... Also see the related graduate course.

Interest Rates and Financial Markets

Taught by PK Satish at Washington State University, this course introduces students to interest rate risk in the financial market and techniques for managing this risk.

Personal Finance

Can be taken for credit over the web from the University of Massachussets.

Computer Applications for Financial Modeling

Taught by Ray Steel at Michigan State University. Students learn how to apply Excel to solve analysis problems in corporate and international finance.

Computer Applications of Financial Modeling

Taught at MSU by a duo. Lots to look at here!

Financial Modeling

Taught by Miranda Detzler at UMass-Boston. Has several exercises.

International Finance

Taught by Darrell Lee at Ohio State. You will find lecture notes on a variety of topics and a syllabus.

International Financial Management

Taught by Ian Giddy at NYU. Has a number of online cases.

International Finance

Taught at Cal State San Marcos by Edmond Kwan. Uses Madura. A Syllabus is available.

International Finance

Taught at University of Washington by Debra Glassman.

International Business Finance

Taught by Dennis O'Connor at CalState Fullerton. Uses Madura as well. A very detailed syllabus is available.

Financial Institutions Management

Taught by Shane Corwin at Ohio State. You will find an extensive set of lecture notes.

Financial Institutions

Taught by Jim Becher at Penn State. You will find a strong set of lecture outlines.

Insurance Planning and Alternatives for Business.

This course is taught by Norma Nielson at the College of Business of Oregon State University to undergraduates. The Web page supporting the course is very well done and includes an online syllabus, schedule, cases and textbook (Head and Horn, Essentials of the Risk Management Process).

Risk Management

This course is taught by Craig Merrill at Brigham Young University. Cases and spreadsheets provided to students over the Web.

WWWFinance

This course is taught by Campbell Harvey at Duke. Topics covered include historical asset performance, bond valuation, option valuation, futures and international corporate finance. A great set of lecture notes is available along with the course syllabus.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Aswath Damodaran at NYU. This is a very good online course with extensive assignments, problems, notes and spreadsheets. Also check out related courses on equity instruments and investments.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Owen Lamont at the University of Chicago. Has homework assignments and spreadsheets. Also see a similar course taught by Luigi Zingales.

Financial Decision-Making

Taught by Tim Opler at OSU. Covers first 10 chapters or so out of Brealey and Myers. You will find web links for each chapter, self-tests, online grading and Powerpoint lectures that can be examined. An electronic grading and quiz system is also used.

Theory of Corporate Finance

Taught by Mark Stohs at Cal State Fullerton. Colorful and useful homepage with an extensive course packet.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Matt Spiegel and Richard Stanton at Berkeley using Brealey and Myers. Has a good set of assigned problems.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Joseph Reising at Cal-State Fullerton. Has a very good set of online Powerpoint slides. Does a lot of cases as well. Based on Rao's text.

Corporate Financial Strategy

Taught by Ananth Madhavan at USC using Brealey and Myers.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Neil Stoughton at UC-Irvine. Aimed at medical professionals.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Puneet Handa at U of Iowa. Has a very good set of powerpoint notes on advanced corporate finance topics.

Corporate Finance

Taught using Brealey and Myers by Bryan Routledge at Carnegie-Mellon.

Corporate Finance I

This course in finance is taught by Craig Lewis at the Owen School at Vanderbilt University. A high quality set of lecture notes is available. Exercises are good too.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Steve Rich at Baylor University. Has handouts, past quizzes and lecture notes online.

Corporate Financial Management.

This MBA case course is taught by Tim Luehrman at Harvard Business School and covers capital budgeting, capital structure, APV techniques, real options and options pricing. A course outline is available.

Financial Management 1

Taught by Will Goetzmann at Yale. This course introduces portfolio theory and the tradeoff between risk and return. It presents two asset pricing models, the Capital Asset Pricing Model and the Arbitrage Pricing Theory, and applies them to the calculation of the firm's cost of capital. Finally, it considers the logical basis for the efficient market hypothesis as the rationale for observed market prices. Uses Ross, Westerfield and Jaffe, Corporate Finance.

Principes de Finance

Taught at HEC at Lausanne in Switzerland by Didier Cossin with a variety of readings including Brealey & Myers.

Capital Markets

Taught at HEC at Lausanne in Switzerland by Rajna Gibson. Uses Brealey & Myers, Haugen, Jacquillat & Solnik, Ross, Westerfield & Jaffe, and Sharpe & Alexander.

Advanced Financial Management

Taught at the University of Oakland by Richard Kleiman using Brealey and Myers. A syllabus is available.

Finance I

Taught by Amir Yaron at Carnegie-Mellon's GSIA. Uses Brealey and Myers. A variety of course aids are availalble.

Financial Derivatives and Risk Management

Taught by Paul Spindt at Tulane University. Great page with course materials, syllabus and class notes in Netscape 2.0 frames.

Math of Financial Derivatives

Taught by Peter Carr at NYU's Courant Institute.

Capital Markets

Neat course taught by Sanjiv Das at Harvard Business School. The syllabus states: "Capital Markets is fun at HBS. This is because its a course that prepares you for being an investor, trader or economist. It develops your understanding of the instruments, institutions and markets that exist around the world. The pedagogy is abstract, conceptual, mathematical, applied and historical, all at the same time! If you want to be a money manager or trader, or just want to understand the myriad worlds of the markets, you will find this course fun."

Financial Instruments

Taught by Ming Huang at the University of Chicago. Covers the elements of derivatives and has an extensive set of lecture notes.

Debt Markets

Taught by David Backus at NYU. Course has over 160 pages of lecture notes, assignments, spreadsheets, exams and more.

Futures, Options and Derivatives

Nice page and notes. Taught by Dave Ellis at Texas A&M.

FAST 3: Option Pricing

Taught by Sanjay Srivastava at CMU. You'll find a detailed set of lecture notes and information on pricing barrier options, working in risk management and the like. Students are required to develop applications in Excel or Java. Examples of programs and how to get started are provided. This is a superb online course.

Venture Capital

Taught by Paul Gompers at Harvard Business School.

Investments

Taught by Ravi Jagannathan at University of Minnesota. Has a variety of stimulating assignments.

Security Analysis and Financial Markets

Taught by Burton Hollifield at University of British Columbia.

Principles of Investments

Taught by Tom George at the University of Iowa.

Advanced Investments.

This MBA course in advanced investments is taught by Paul Schultz at Ohio State University. The first half of the class is devoted to options and securities that resemble options. The second half of the course covers futures, swaps, the Crash and the role of derivative securities in the Crash.

Investments

Taught by Bob Goldstein at Ohio State. A complete set of lecture notes in Powerpoint are available plus homeworks, quizes and more.

Investments

Taught by Bill Schwert. This course is an introduction to securities markets and the pricing of capital assets. Topics covered include efficient markets theory, models for portfolio selection, and asset pricing theory. Emphasis will be on the empirical evidence available on these topics. Uses Bodie, Kane and Marcus.

Security Markets and Investments

This course is taught by Andrew Karolyi at Ohio State to MBAs. The course features class speakers, case analysis and a good reading list.

Capital Budgeting

Taught by Claudio Loderer.

Tactical Global Asset Allocation

Taught by Campbell Harvey at Duke University. Includes a nice set of lecture notes and a syllabus.

International Financial Management

Taught to executive MBAs by Ian Giddy at NYU.

International Trade and Finance

Taught by Blake LeBaron at the University of Wisconsin. Has homeworks, lecture notes and a syllabus.

International Financial Management

Taught by Prof. Ian Giddy at NYU's Stern School. In this course students will learn the nature and purposes of financial management in the international context. They will gain skills in international investment and financing techniques and in exchange risk management, including accounting and taxation aspects. They will learn, through hands-on case studies and simulations, how to judge the outlook for a currency, how to measure and manage the company's exposure to exchange rate and international interest rate risks. They will discover how companies use banks, markets such as the Eurobond and currency option markets, and techniques such as currency swaps, lease financing and hybrid bond structures.

Investments with an IT Focus

Taught by Phillipe Jorion of UC-Irvine. Innovative course uses Haugen's investments text. Lots of software used here.

Corporate Finance Policy and Control

Taught by Bill Schwert at Rochester. Has a super set of cases and quizes.

Advanced Corporate

Taught by Dan Deli at Delaware. Has some very good Javascript examples and a rich set of course materials. Try it out!

Financial Decisions

Taught by Tim Thompson at Kellogg. Has excellent notes on cost of capital.

Asset Pricing

Taught by Chris Telmer at Carnegie-Mellon.

Research Methods in Finance

A well-organized web course taught by Pamela Peterson at Florida State. Lots of readings and exercises available.

Empirical Financial Economics

Taught by Stephen Brown at NYU.

Empirical Methods in Finance

Taught by Olivier Ledoit at UCLA. Has a good reading list and a variety of assignments and programs. Covers CAPM, Arch, etc.

Advanced Topics for Research in Empirical Finance

Taught by Campbell Harvey at Duke University. A number of good lectures are available.

Corporate Finance and Microstructure

Taught by Matt Spiegel at Berkeley. Has a super reading list.

Empirical Methods in Finance

Taught by Sanjai Bhagat and Russ Wermers.

Theory of Corporate Finance

Taught by Ernst Maug at Duke University.

Corporate Finance

Taught by Gordon Phillips at University of Maryland. Innovative course!

Bus-Fin 921-Econometric Methods in Finance

This course taught to Ph.D. students at Ohio State by Andrew Karolyi covers modern empirical methods in asset pricing, futures markets and a variety of nontraditional topics. A large reading list is included.

Models of Information Acquisition and Use in Finance

Taught by Bryan Routledge at Carnegie-Mellon. Has a reading list and more.

Uncertainty in Economics and Finance

Taught at the University of Texas-Austin by Richard MacMinn. Covers ideas about risk, risk-aversion and firm behavior related to risk. You will find lecture notes in PDF format as well.

Asset Pricing

Taught by Tyler Shumway at University of Michigan. Very good notes are available.

International Finance and Economics

Taught by Ken Rogoff at Princeton University.

Theoretical Asset Pricing

Taught by Charles M. Jones at Princeton. This course covers equilibrium and no-arbitrage asset pricing in discrete and continuous time. We will derive classic results in asset pricing theory, including the Capital Asset Pricing Model, Arbitrage Pricing Theory, and Black-Scholes, but the course will emphasize the current state of theory and empirical work in order to prepare you to do research in financial economics.