Worst teacher ever, he's a little scary also. do not take him, trust me.

Very hard final. We had 1:15 to do 35 questions.

he has no clue what he is talking about, final is Hard!!!!

I hate this teacher. Took him in the Summer 03. Not helpful at all! Hard time understanding his lectures and when someone asks him a question, he'd put them down.

If you like to gamble take this class, if you like teaching yourself finance, take this class, If you like taking your tests in different formats every time, take this class. Good luck and may god be with you!!!!

This guy sucks!!!!! Tests are very hard, class is boring. good luck passing!!!!

He is the worst teacher ever. He makes a tough class misreable. He cant teach if his life depended on it. Avoid at all costs.

This class was an astronomical waste of time. He lectures on topics that were covered in every class leading up to this so called capstone. Learned nothing from him, his class, or my pathetic group. Read the book titled "Valuation" that he sug

DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS!

he is one of the worst professors and can't teach. don't take him cause he is terrible

HORRIBLE PROFESSOR, worthless and stupid. But I still recommend him because you are guaranteed a B-C grade as long as you show up to class, turn in the strategy papers (EASY), and ask the presenters some decent questions. Don't let yourself get intimidated when he clowns you in front of the class. He does this to make himself feel better.

Worst in SDSU ever!!! Avoid at all cost!!! He is the meanest person I have ever known. The class grade is largely subjective to his opinion other than T/F, multiful choices. He knows nothing about Fin 423. What he did was trying to repeat Fin 325. HE IS A xxxxxxx!!!!!

HORRIBLE AND MEANEST AND WORTHLESS!!!!

What the **** have you done to students? Pull their grades down at the last semester... You know want, you are still a looser teaching in the classroom. We would be soon in real finance business!!!!

Awful! The only good thing about this class was the textbook, which I actually learned from. Nothing from him!! First midterm was okay, second hard, final was take home but half the information wasn't covered in class or in the book! Waste of time. Treats you like an idiot if you ask any questions. Not recommended at all!

What a waste of time. You don't learn anything because even after you've made a fool of yourself in your presentation, he doesn't show the right way to solve the case. It's because he himself doesn't know how. Office hours are a complete waste of time. Advice: get into a good group or your life will be a living nightmare for 16 weeks

This guy is not fit to teach this class. Shows up late every time and barely pays attention during presentations. All I gotta say is, pick your group very carefully!

S T R E S S, S T R E S S, S T R E S S, S T R E S S.... all you do is stress and you still won't get a good grade.

He is terrible. Can't teach. Doesn't Listen. Worst ever. Unfortunately, i think he is the only one who teaches it, so GOOD LUCK.

I'd rather take Frank Ryan's Fin 325 class 50 times over again than spend one more semester with this incompetent buffoon

Hardest teacher I have ever taken. He may know a lot about finance but has no clue how to teach or write tests. You know its bad when over 90% of the class fails the final. Do you best to avoid taking him.

This was by far the hardest and biggest waste of time class I have ever taken. I have never received a C in my life before and I got a D- in this class. Haddad doesn't teach this class, he tells you it's your job to figure it out on your own. Take any other teacher over Haddad. He is the most awful proffesor I have taken!

Terrible teacher. Hard to understand. Not helpful in answering questions. He doesn't grade or collect hw, but expects you to do it, and if he thinks you didn't, he won't answer questions. Lectures were all over the place, no PP or notes. NO examples in class, basically had to teach yourself before every exam. HUGE curve bc entire class failed.

Unfair and only knows the teaching world and academia, does not know real world knowledge of the subject. You will work your butt off the entire semester and those who don't work in your group end up getting a better grade than you. There is nothing real world about this class, as in the real world, you get rewarded for your hard work. AVOID!

Basically, attendance is mandatory because he does randomly takes attendance. We had 3 tests this semester. The first one is super easy if you know how to use your financial calculator. Google how to. 2nd exam was hard. Thought people cheated so the last exam was cumulative. Worst exam in my life. Avoid taking him if possible.

Literally worst professor ever. Has no idea what he's doing.. Shocked he's allowed to teach.

Absolutely horrible. Like the rest of the finance classes, prepare to learn nothing and kiss your GPA goodbye. Shows up late if he even shows up at all, doesn't lecture, talks in riddles, mumbles. A bunch of humiliating group presentations which are graded more so on delivery rather than content. Says he wants to help, but doesn't help at all.

rambling lectures, gets mad if you ask for homework help in class, grades brutally. the textbook will get you through, just immerse yourself in it 100% and do all the homework before the tests. good curve at least....

His teaching style is not structured. He doesn't use PPTs. He rambles about topics that don't relate to finance. He gives "homework" problems but they aren't for a grade. The answer key is helpful, but you just teach yourself the material. Grade is composed of 3 exams. Rude & argumentative. Doesn't communicate well. Not helpful to his students.

He will not help you on what he perceives as you being expected to know on the case studies. None at all! The interrogations are for students to think of something you didn't provide in your study and make you look bad. Or, they'll pick the hardest thing and make you explain it in detail. It's your group vs the rest of the class, dog eat dog type..

Lectures are scattered and do not align with the difficulty of the homework. He's argumentative, makes concepts overly complex, and your reliance on A+ Review is probably your best shot at a decent grade. I would recommend finding another professor for this course if you can help it.

Skip class? You wont pass. Go to class, you still won't pass. Material reviewed in class doesn't help with the homework. You're required to purchase a financial calculator, but he won't show you how to use it (also does every problem by hand which takes 30mins/question). Need to leave class early? He will stop the lecture and tell you to sit down.

By far the worst professor I have had at SDSU, lectures are unorganized and make no sense, he is rude to students, the homework is extremely difficult and time consuming and will not help you on his difficult exams which he does not give you enough time to finish. There is no point in attending his terrible lectures but attendance is mandatory.

The mandatory attendance is no joke. He finds ways to randomize the check in (paper sign in/ random name calling/end-of-class sign in) to force kids to show. Lectures can help for a specific problem, but it is whatever he decides to go over and is anti any suggestions. The tests are hard, so you need to be prepared to teach yourself with the text.

The worst teacher I have ever had in my entire school career.

Easily the worst professor I've ever had. Teaches content in a way that won't apply to the way we need to approach the problems for exams, doesn't even give you the whole class period to take the exam and doesn't follow his own syllabus. If you ask him a question, he will find a way to be as demeaning as possible to the students.

Do NOT take this professor.

Just don't take this professor. In this class we have to use financial calculator for most of the question, and he didn't teach any of them. His lecture is hard to understand, because the content has no logic order. He has a lot of online homework is way more difficult. Just take another professor class if you have choice.

Haddad has a different teaching method where he doesn't teach at all and generally just ruins your life. Easily the worst professor I could have ever imagined. His homework assignments take insane amounts of time and a significant portion of the homework that you struggle to complete, never even correlates to the exam.

By far the worst professor I have ever had in my life. Not only does he struggle to help complete questions he gives us on our HW, but most of the questions he gives us don't even appear on the actual exam. I had better teachers in high school. I've had to teach myself everything about finance this semester because he fails to do so. Don't take him

If dyou are going to take this class, make sure you have at least 25 hours a week to dedicate to it. Haddad wont teach you anything so youll need to learn everything yourself . Since nobody has this kind of time, Im sure you get the point...

Mr. Haddad is a nice person but extremely scattered when it comes to teaching. He doesn't take time to know his students but rather spews gossip about his class. Although I like him as a person, I will never take him again for any course and would recommend you do the same. Nothing lined up and lectures were all over the place.

Professor Haddad is a nice person and is very intelligent. This is why he is head of the finance department. However he is not a good teacher. This will easily be the worst class you take. It was a horrible experience for about at least 300 of the students and also the professor. I would be surprised if he is teaching next semester. Dont take him.

Hw took me over200 hours for the semester on cengage. Exams are crazy hard and what he teaches doesnt correlate to the exam. Go to A+ if u have to take this prof. I barely passed the final to get the min grade. But he curved me to a C b/c the class was so hard. taught everything myself and studied with friends all the time. Thank god i didnt repeat

Avoid his class at all costs. Homework takes hours on end since he never taught the material and it never winds up being close to whats on the test. He's disrespectful in class and on top of that he doesn't teach because hes too busy telling you to read the syllabus. He tells students he'll boost their grade if they rate him highly on here so yeah.

His teaching style IS AWFUL! YOU better know Finance BEFORE going into this OR you will struggle! You've been forewarned! GOOD LUCK!

Lectures do not correlate to exam, just the homeworks. He makes his tests harder than the homework and lectures. I self-taught myself everything, basically an online class with mandatory meetings. Arrogant and argues with his students over non-finance issues. He teches assuming you always know what he's talking about. Monotone voice. Avoid.

ABORT. save yourself while you still have time

haddad knows finance really well but is not good at teaching it. His lectures dont make sense for students that have little to no background knowledge in finance. I only went to lectures because there was an extra credit sign in sheet. you will not learn anything from lectures but if you go to A plus review for the exams you will get at least a B

He hires TA's as security guards to stop students from leaving the class, provides lectures less useful than peeling bananas to prepare for exams, reports students each semester, jumps into student group chats, and idk how but he's Head of the Finance Dept. Oh! And if you like getting F's on exams, please take this guy. It's going to be FUN

It's interesting how there are positive reviews on Haddad yet I have never found a single individual in person who enjoys his course. It's always the same response from many, you end up teaching yourself the material. The beginning of the semester started out fine, but it slowly turned into meaningless lectures that provided no assistance.

Really really hard professor! His lectures are not helpful whatsoever! He has a strong accent. Rude to students. Go to his office hours and just be cool with him. He is not that cool to speak to but he will respect you more.

I have no idea why would SDSU first decided to hire such professor, who is the most irresponsible and ridiculous professor ever. He apparently does not understand how to talk with students, and his way of teaching was autarchic. No one in my class ever like him, please resign yourself if you have any consciousness left in you!

His class is not easy, especially when his lecture doesn't help at all, he can spend 30 mins to explain 1 year equal how many months, weeks, days, but no useful information from his lecture, be ready to study on your own.

From the first day of class, you will be ready to face tons of homework, useless lectures, and very likely the darkest period of your life. There's lots of things this professor care about, such as his career and his fortune, but how students feel and learn is definitely off the list.

Extremely hard professor. The homework was difficult and his lectures in class are of no help. He has a heavy accent also. You will have to teach yourself the coursework, I used Chegg. I did NOT like him personally, he really doesn't like to help students, either doesn't care or really loves the saying "tough luck." Also never responds to emails.

DO NOT TAKE. Horrible Karen professor

If you take Haddad/Badrinath be prepared for a dramatic semester. Go to A+ review, use Chegg and try to buy/get the website A+ created called, "Finzter" it's textbook specific and helps you get a perfect score. Take hw and quizzes seriously. GRADE BREAKDOWN HW 20% Quizzes 20% #1 Midterm 20% #2 20% #3 20%

I got a 25% on the second test and I am a A/B student. This class is horrible. avoid it

terrible class, will report entire class for cheating. dont take

Stay away from this professor. The littlest things you do during the exam like, stay on a question a little longer, look at your notes for more than couple seconds, use your calculator for more than couple seconds he'll give you an F and sends your CSRR and ruins your future. he did that to more 30 than students a class 80.

What a bad class. I cant imagine why people give good grades. He gives you cases and sends you off assuming you know every concept. Once you give a 45 min presentation the next hour is about tearing down all you did wrong. DO NOT TAKE. I have a 3.8 GPA in finance classes and struggle in this class. Professor is horrible.

I cannot stress enough how terrible this class is. Literally take anyone else I am begging you. There was absolutely no direction in this class for tests, which are a significant part of your grade. When you email him, he is rude and gives one word responses. I am an A/B student with a 3.5 GPA and I'm stuck having to retake this class... STAY AWAY!

Don't take him if you have the option, his lectures are hard to understand, he's not helpful, test are nothing like what we learn and practice. Just horrible semester I learned nothing despite trying and I love finance. Not understanding, I had done all the work for an assignment and it did not save, he refused to take it 1min late

Lectures and practice are nothing like the test, the TA are not helpful, neither is him, despite trying I did not enjoy taking his class.

Dont bother watching his lectures waste of time. I read the textbook and taught myself finance for the entire semester and got a B+. Professors like Haddad need to be fired, hes having students teach themselves while he gets paid for doing nothing.

I have not once ever struggled so much with a class. The professor does not teach the class, instead your are entirely relying on what you read on the text book. It takes DAYS to complete his homework and even longer to fully understand what you are doing, then when exam time comes, the exams are quite literally nothing like the homework + quizzes.

One of the worst professors at sdsu. Does not go into depth on how to do the problems or concepts, instead had two prerecorded lectures that takes a few example questions from the book. Does not reply to emails, and has no structure for his tests. There is a reason why he has so many 1 star reviews. Do not take this class. He does not even teach.

This professor is awful, MUST attend A+ review to even have a chance at passing. Hw and quizzes are not anything like the tests, and he does not care about his students, he frequently cancels office hours and doesn't reply to emails. Had to talk to my therapist about how much this class stressed me out. DO NOT TAKE!!

I had a steady A in the class all semester. Up until the end, he found dishonesty in other sections, but punished every section by dropping the first 2 exam scores and making the last exam 60% of our grade. He handled the situation very poorly and made the course much harder than it should've been. He does not respond to emails.

I had a high and stable grade all semester, suddenly 2 weeks before the fall semester comes - he punished our entire section of the class for a couple of cheaters. Instead of compromising those students and giving them a 0, he decides not to use the 2 other exams and makes the final exam worth 60% of the grade WITHOUT a cheat sheet w/ hard math.

Professor Haddad is the laziest professor I have had at SDSU. Avoid him at all costs. Had an A- after the first two exams, but he decides to drop both and make the final worth 60% of our grade. (With no cheat sheet). Guy is unreal. Lectures and homework don't align with exams. You will have better luck with any other professor.

Do not take this professor, especially for an online class. He is crazy about the rules with exam procedure and will investigate or even report you for academic dishonesty if a rule is broken. Lectures do not really make sense, you can learn better yourself by readig the textbook.