It was the best course which I enrolled. I suggest everyone to give it a try once. I got to know many technical terms. Thank you Coursera for creating such great opportunities for us.

Very good knowledge of how to use the various financial securities which helps in terms of being a good investor / trader. Tutor is amazing at explaining every bit of the subject.

Great online training course, helping participants to understand foundations of financial markets and instruments, helping me to grow and gain new financial capabiliites.

Excellent course. Well structured and more importantly kept it clear, simple and to the points. Dr. Arzu has done full justice in delivering the course. Appreciate it.

Good review of simple financial material. Not an in-depth review, but a good refresher of modules that you would have seen in your MS Finance or MBA Finance.

Great course to get an introduction to the workings of the financial market. Designed in a way that makes it possible for anyone to comprehend the matter.

Short and well elaborated course! Need for further do your own research for maximum benefit!

I would like to rate 5 stars but the math is a problem, some people has no time to learn math formulas and spend so much time calculating things, maybe some alternatives like excel would fix that issue.

Thank you, for this beaultiful course <3

Some questions are written in a confusing way and assume things that are not written down. Using different words for the same concept make it confusing if it's not clarified.

The teaching staff should pay more attention to discussion forums. They appear to be abandoned.

Good for a refresher course for me

The course explains some basic concepts regarding financial markets. The discussion part is very interesting, but not so much for the calculation part.

Some of the calculations are pretty hard to perform, and it takes quite a jump from the lecture to solving the practise problems. A lot of the in-class whether-you-are-dreaming quizzes are pretty disturbing. The course can improve by adding more discussions and lessen the calculation part (or probably teach us how to use financial calculator)

Interesting topics but this is really an intro only. Initial modules are a bit more thorough than subsequent ones (there are actually formulas - mostly explained how to calculate things), but once we get to stocks trading, margins and short selling it is more and more general. Nonetheless the material is interesting and it does provide a general overview of what is what.

Good basics with not overwhelming details, yet giving an understanding of major mathematical mechanism connected with financial instruments. I was missing a more structured content and path and the mistakes in some excercises/practice quizes or their answers were disturbing - it should not be the case

Practice quizzes a little difficult relative to the materials and examples presented

I wanted to take this course as a refresher of the basics as I look to expand my overall skills in financial analysis. This course was dreadful in my opinion. There are errors throughout the course (some of which are sloppily corrected), the overall verbiage is written in a way that is hard to follow, and the professor often glances over examples rather than actually explaining what is going on. Support materials are terrible and often out of date, one even required a paid subscription to another website to read. All in all I'd suggest spending a few hours reviewing TVM, Bond pricing formulas, and equity pricing formulas. You will be much less frustrated and come out further ahead than if you take this course.

On the bright side, I can say that I did get my refresher that I wanted. Unfortunately it came because I was frustrated with the course so I was constantly looking up information that should have been explained in the course.

very inconsistent with ease at the end and difficult beginning of the course. lots of wasted time for formulas which never been used in real life and manual calculation. not university course for sure by knowledge. cheap: all articles by Dr O asking for subscription, not good. If its part of the course add it for free, tons of information in inet which is free.

sorry

If you buy a course or you pay for online education, you would expect updated, correct, and well-structured content. There are several reasons why this course get's only 1 star: - There are errors in the "calculations" which have not been corrected for 4 years (many students criticized that in the notes) - There are no slides with correctly defined formulas but the lecturer writes them down with inconsistent variables and explains everything on the go instead of giving some definitions and background information - as many students wrote in the forum, I also had to look stuff up on Investopedia. - The point before makes it very hard for beginners. I have a degree in business information systems and just had to look up some correct formulas on Investopedia as it was not correctly written by the lecturer. For people who are new to finance, this will be a hard one. They have literally no idea what the lecturer is talking about (also stated in the forum). - The voice of the lecturer is just too squeaky for me and I can't listen to that for hours

Summary: I canceled the course and took another one which was way better structured, easier to follow, and way more entertaining.

This course is horrible. I was expecting to acquire some finance basic skills before starting my first finance course in uni, but this has done little for me. I'm okay with the fact that no one is answering learners' questions on the discussion forum because there could be no obligation for Rice University to do so, but the content itself is absolute disappointment.

Despite her spectacular skills on writing in mirror, the lecturer jumps around concepts too quickly and I often have to find certain information on google, as these are not being covered in videos but will appear on quizzes, which is really frustrating and annoying. She probably thought she had explained the concepts well by using synonyms. For example, the slides say this is a conventional way, and she'll say 'so it's typical, it is what it is, right?'. Most of the time, she doesn't tell us what par values, market values and face values are. I get that this could be quite elementary, but as a student who haven't learnt anything about Finance, this course has done nothing -- Googling is probably more efficient and helpful than this cramped content. Hence the 1 star.

This was intended as a refresher. It was not worth more than the time it should take someone to read this review, sadly.

It was taught so poorly, that I am less confident than when I began, and wonder (aloud) if Rice consider this to be a marketing or a demarketing exercise.

Key concepts are introduced by a teacher not only stumbling over the introduction of the concepts leading to fundamental financial equations, but presenting erroneous formulas!

INTRODUCED! You only have the opportunity to make a first impression once.

Disheartening for a teacher by training to see the antithesis of the desired outcome as the initial model of these concepts.

Particularly given that it would have been all of about an hour to "re-shoot" the episodic confusion from the lecturer.

I proceed with Rice quite tentatively following this course, intending to cherry pick learning tasks, effectively further diminishing the value proposition of such courses.

The professor does not explain the concepts clearly, a lot of mistakes, I tried to calculate a mortgage for 2 hours with her formula and there was no clear explanation of how to do it plus a mathematical mistake. I am very disappointed.

A week in and there have already been several mistakes in the lectures. This is very discouraging, don't understand why the professor didn't they the time to redo the videos with mistakes, they are very short anyway...

A week in and there have already been several mistakes in the lectures. Very uninspiring.

not practical andcant be used in a real case

This is an excellent course. Dr Arzu O is one of the best instructors. She designed the course in a very thoughtful manner. Her explanation style is very accurate and simple. I am an active investor in equity market, but don't have strong financial base. I have taken this course to learn more about financial markets and the course content very well satisfied my expectation. Practice Quiz and Examples helped me to understand the course content in a better way and encouraged me to read more through some online material. Taking online course in Coursera also was a very positive experience. I have got mroe than what I expected from this course. 5/5 from Me.

-Tapan Shah