Student Comments

Many students have provided very encouraging comments at the end-of-term evaluations, and here is a collection of comments. Listed below are student comments for just one course.

In Winter A 2016, I taught Financial Modeling, an MBA level elective course at the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Here are some nice things my students said about this course.

1 I recommend requiring this class before Valuation because many of the challenges I had in Valuation would have been addressed by the material in this course (i.e. forecasting cash flows). Thank you, Professor Lei, for your time and dedication to this course. I really enjoyed it and you are one of the best professors I have had at Ross (certainly the best Finance one).
2 Professor Lei thoughtfully constructed the course with virtually flawless organization and accuracy for a topic that is very difficult to do that for (financial modeling - combination of art and science). I appreciated that he provided overviews of the theories behind financial models because that enabled me to truly understand all the drivers of a model.
3 Absolutely take this class if you hesitate to create financial models!
4 Nothing to be improved. Professor Lei is great.
5 I think Professor Lei does a great job of making himself available to students and is highly responsive to email questions. I also think that Professor Lei does a great job of organizing material on his class website, as well videotaping classes and review sessions to make available to students. This is excellent.
6 Professor Lei was extremely organized and provided great notes.
7 This course was excellent in allowing me to really understand how to model financials in excel. I really recommend it to all students.
8 I like the course a lot and appreciate what professor has taught us.
9 Professor Lei is really great. He can make tough knowledge easy to learn and he uses a lot of time to help us with the course.
10 Professor Lei was very prepared for each class and if extremely knowledgable about the subject matter.
11 Professor Qin devoted significant amount of time to teach this class and utilize almost all available on-line tools to make the learning experience more efficient for the students.
12 Instructor was extremely organised, and very responsive to queries by students.
13 Professor Lei is incredibly responsive to email communications. He is very reliable with that!
14 Teacher was very very open to making time outside of class. My teammate and I always appreciated how he genuinely wanted us to learn the material and do well.
15 Thank you for posting slides ahead of time, and videos after. Thank you also for choosing a good textbook to follow along with.
16 The class power point slides are excellent guidance, the professor is well prepared for the topics discussed at the class, and extra resources for further study are provided. The professor is very responsive and helpful to help students outside class even during weekend (via email).
17 Good lecture slides, quizes are helpful; website is good and really like that Professor posts the lecture videos.
18 Well organized, excellent website and prompt feedback
19 Helpful professor, good material.
20 It was a well structured class. The contents are useful.
21 It’s a great course that provides much value. It’s something I really want to learn and the course gives a great foundation.
22 The textbook is amazing. It is incredibly well laid out and easy to go through. I wish I had it in my other finance classes. Prof. Lei was very well organized and it greatly helped with the flow of the course. Also, the projects were appropriately challenging.
23 I think a lot of people came into the class with finance backgrounds and/or solid understanding of financial concepts, so the review of financial theories was unhelpful for them. They would have rather been in Excel for the entirety of the class. However, for someone like me without a finance background, I found the class extremely beneficial and am glad I took it.
24 I learned a lot in this course thanks to Professor Qin’s instruction and answers to my questions.
25 responsible and dedicated professor, a lot of takeaways
26 It’s a useful course. Very good content.
27 The material was quite useful in learning the mechanics behind what analysts actually use in their valuations. Prof. Lei manages to make a dry topic a lot more interesting.
28 I think it is good that the instructor had a video record of the lectures so that students can watch it again when they didn’t understand part of the teaching.
29 Group works helped my learning a lot.
30 Overall, the materials (lecture notes, textbook and excel files) are well-organized so I think they can be useful even after graduation.
31 I like how the projects taught new modeling techniques without being overly difficult
32 Prof. Lei is very responsible to students’ questions.
33 Qin is very organized and dedicated. He seems very knowledgeable too.
34 The professor was organized and responsive
35 great course!
36 Excel files have been helpful to learn. Course website is very organized and straightforward.
37 Good template for valuation was provided
38 Professor Lei covered all the relevant valuation methodologies
39 The professor’s explanation is well-organized and also since he divdeds excel into steps, it is easy to follow.
40 The teacher’s slides were very good, and he did a great job of giving context to the models
41 The topics covered as part of the course are well picked. The use and application of factset was helpful.
42 Great teacher!
43 Movie upload and interaction in web site were good
44 The introduction to Factset and Bloomberg was very helpful. Thank you.
45 I like the trivia questions because it helps reinforce some of the important concepts. I also appreciate the video recordings and Factset
46 The handout with all the excel shortcuts was great
47 Weekly projects and trivia seemed to be only applicable way to learn.
48 I found the trivia questions are helpful to digest the course contents and enhance learning, maybe, more questions will give students more opportunity to reflect and practice what have been taught at the class.
49 - Covers topics relevant to investment banking
50 Overall I felt the class was great for those who have limited exposure to modeling and want to learn how read and eventually build them. It also served as a good finance refresher.
51 Team exercises were very helpful.
52 The professor makes very straightforward and detailed speeches and class notes help a lot in self-sdutying.
53 The course served as a good review for concepts learned in other finance courses.
54 1) The spreadsheets used for our assignments were good, easy to understand.

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