No office hours. Answer your questions by email only in less than 15 words. Essay questions in exams. All you need to do is memorize.

Nice guy, but you can tell he is just taking it easy on doing his job. Participation graded, but only goes over complex Python code in class no one understands and doesn't explain it. Tests are almost every week with essay questions given beforehand, but you teach yourself the concepts from Textbook and most aren't even in it. Don't learn anything.

Worst class I have taken at the b school. The McGraw hill homework coupled with the python notebooks in class make for a horrible combo. The exams are equally bad, for they are memorized essays. Nothing is learned, only temporarily remembered to regurgitate in a test you know the questions to ahead of time.

Only showed up to lectures for participation credit. Otherwise, I am on my computer doing other work, same as everybody else. Learned nothing from him. Not a good teacher. The class is pretty easy though as you can't be surprised on the midterms, he gives all the questions all you have to do is memorize the answers. This class is a joke

Most useless class I've taken. Every lecture goes through Google CoLab notebooks and python coding that is difficult to follow and also not taught explicitly. I didn't sign up for a coding class, I'm not interested in that. For exams, he gives you the questions before but it isn't as nice as it sounds because you have to teach yourself everything.

The whole lecture is going over Python code instead of teaching anything. Because nothing is taught, students are forced to try to teach themselves the test concepts through the textbook (though a majority of the questions cannot even be answered with the book). Exams every 2 weeks (graded harshly), despite nothing being taught in class.

Mark's structure makes the class totally useless. Too much time is spent walking through calculating certain financial computations using Python, rather than actually teaching the concepts themselves. Students are left with teaching themselves everything. Homework is assigned through McGraw-Hill and is completely unrelated to exams.

The professor seems nice, but the bane of the class is the structure. There are 5 exams and each one is two hand written essays. Lectures are done through python notebooks and are hard to pay attention to. The test questions are given ahead of time, but are impractical. No point to knowing how to write a paper on the CML if you have never used it.

Mark is a nice enough guy that seems to know his stuff. However, he doesn't really teach at all. We have guest lecturers every week to discuss a new subject. They're great, but I think we could have done more to prepare for giving actual advice to clients for our final client meeting. He isn't always super clear with directions/grading either.

This class only had one big project with weekly quizzes. This project requires you to start from scratch when you know nothing. The Prof. Fedenia didn't lecture but there were guest speakers every week that you can consulted. The quizzes are unnecessarily challenging as you were expected to read a chapter and remember small detailed points.

Class format was useful as I feel like all of the excel work we did I will actually use in my future. Quizzes every week in class were a little much but he is very clear about what is on exams and provides plenty of extra credit. Group work heavy class

Mark taught this class with a heavy emphasis on technological learning (e.g. all-computer exams/homework, lots of Excel, etc.), which is very practical but comes at the expense of drilling the theoretical concepts. There are two 2-part midterms, an investment pitch, an investment project, and a final (optional if you win the investment project).

Prof. Fedenia definitely is the boss of the class. He's very knowledgeable about the material and he talked about a lot of real life Excel applications. The semester long project could take a lot of time and the exams are not the easiest ones in B-School. I would say many students who take his class are extremely competitive.

Mark is an excellent professor. He is extremely knowledgeable and cares about his students. Finance 365 (Adv. Investment Analysis) is one of the only courses at UW that allows students to apply their financial knowledge to something relevant. 365 teaches students what it is like to be in equity research. I highly recommend you take the class.

Fedenia is a excellent prof. He only teaches in the spring so take it then to not have to do the fall profs 15 page paper. The book is very helpful and you can use it during the exam. He gives you exam prep problems. 2 Exams in three parts each. 2 Investment stock presentations (not bad). And the kicker: Win the investment project=no final.

Very knowledgable guy! Tests have re-takes and they are all online. Some questions are tricky and very detaily but all come from textbook tests. The class is fast paced and hard to keep up, but he is a good teacher to take the class with.