Award-Winning Finance Tutors
serving South Bend, IN

I am an author of two Personal Finance books Women and Money and The Value Book and a historical book, Indiana Avenue Life and Musical Journey from 1915 to 2015.

Time value of money, present and future value calculations, annuity pricing — finance leans heavily on the kind of quantitative reasoning Irene has taught for years. She unpacks the math behind financial formulas so students understand what each variable actually does, rather than blindly plugging numbers into a calculator.

Time value of money, net present value, risk-return tradeoffs — finance is applied economics, and that's exactly where Nadine's strengths converge. She tackles problems like bond pricing and capital budgeting by first making sure students understand the underlying economic intuition before diving into formulas. Her Macalester economics training keeps sessions grounded in real-world reasoning rather than rote calculation.

Time value of money, net present value, and portfolio risk calculations are ultimately math problems dressed in business language. Romeo's mathematics degree and PhD-track training give him the quantitative fluency to break down discounted cash flow models and amortization schedules so the numbers actually make sense. He connects each formula to the financial decision it's designed to answer.

Elliot is heading into financial markets after graduating from UChicago's economics program, so concepts like time value of money, portfolio theory, and capital structure aren't abstract textbook topics for him — they're the tools of his upcoming career. He unpacks financial models step by step, connecting the math to real market behavior.

Maria approaches finance through the quantitative lens her Applied Mathematics background provides, breaking down concepts like time value of money, DCF analysis, and risk-return tradeoffs with real numerical rigor. She's particularly effective at walking through the math behind valuation models that trip up students who came to finance from a non-quantitative path.

A PhD in management gives Andrew a strong grasp of financial concepts like time value of money, capital budgeting, and risk-return tradeoffs. He breaks down quantitative problems step by step while connecting them to the broader business decisions they inform.

Conor earned his finance degree alongside his math degree at the University of Pittsburgh, so he tackles topics like discounted cash flow, portfolio theory, and capital structure with real mathematical fluency. He connects the formulas to the logic behind them, which makes valuation models and risk analysis click instead of feeling like rote plug-and-chug.

Time value of money, discounted cash flow, and portfolio risk calculations all sit at the intersection of math and real-world decision-making — exactly where Xihao's training lives. His graduate-level statistics background means he can unpack the quantitative models behind corporate finance and investment analysis, not just walk through formulas.

Having earned his B.A. in Finance from UGA, Jon studied the core curriculum — financial statement analysis, corporate valuation, and capital markets — firsthand rather than picking it up secondarily through adjacent fields. He teaches budgeting frameworks and ratio analysis by connecting each concept back to the accounting and statistics coursework that underpins them, giving students a clearer picture of how the pieces fit together.

Andrew teaches finance as an adjunct professor, which means he's constantly explaining time value of money, capital budgeting, and risk-return tradeoffs to students encountering them for the first time. His engineering background adds a quantitative rigor that's especially useful when students hit DCF models or weighted average cost of capital calculations. Rated 4.8 by students.

Time value of money, discounted cash flow, and capital structure decisions are concepts Idara uses in her actual career — she's spent years in the finance industry after completing her MS in Management Science & Engineering at Stanford. She unpacks formulas like NPV and IRR by connecting them to real investment decisions, making the math feel purposeful instead of arbitrary.

Holding an MBA in Finance, Darien digs into the mechanics behind concepts like time value of money, capital budgeting, and portfolio risk rather than just walking through formulas. He connects each topic to real decision-making — why a company chooses debt over equity, or how discount rates change an investment's attractiveness. Students walk away understanding the reasoning that drives financial models, not just the spreadsheet outputs.