She honestly cannot teach. She cares a lot about her students and knows them by name but doesn't know the material she's teaching. Many errors in the powerpoints that are usually spotted by the class.

Lesley seems nice but she can't teach. She just reads off her PowerPoint slides which makes going to class less than helpful. The quizzes are nothing like the questions we do in the textbook which makes the midterm look even scarier. Also, this course is 100% test based. No assignments to help you learn properly. I hope she changes this.

She cant teach at all like seriously why is she a prof? Her PowerPoint slides have so many errors and she doesnt explain examples just writes the answer and says yea thats the answer. Most of the time shes not even sure she is right. Leave the teaching to actual profs please. Teaching myself this course its so hard! also almost no office time

She is extremely nice and caring but that doesnt help my mark much. This course is extremely difficult and you learn one chapter a lecture. Even with doing all the assigned problems, I still dont know what finance is. Her lectures arent very useful as she reads over slides and solves examples without explaining. Hope uofc changes the course

She cant teach! Worst professor Ive ever had for one of the hardest classes in University. All she does he read off her PowerPoint slides which constantly have errors. She does explain any examples properly, just gives you the answer. You need to read the textbook and do all the questions to have a chance with this course.

Terribly taught, mistakes in everything. I can't even refer back to examples because they all have errors. The midterm was full of mistakes. Get ready to fail.

this class is hard and she does not make it any easier for anyone. lesley is the worst prof i have ever had at the university and for the most difficult class.... they midterm was insanely difficult!and she was no help at all to prepare for it. The course has so much content and the texbook is really dense so you NEED good prof for this course

Very bad teacher and errors on midterm!

Extremely difficult & poorly taught as she just reads the slides which are riddled with error. CONSTANT mistakes in ALL content (slides, examples, tests, etc.), which makes it difficult to decipher into useful information. She is very nice, but you should avoid finance with her.

Lesley is a really nice prof but this is her first time teaching and the course is disastrous. Her slides provided are useless (so many errors), practice midterm released had error after error and had to release multiple revisions, even the midterm (worth 45%) had so many errors that they had to announce revisions throughout the test. Try to avoid!

Her slides, examples, and practice midterms are riddled with errors. The midterm had many typos and she didn't handle it well. She doesn't have a PHD or the real world experience she thinks she does. Scatterbrained and refuses to take responsibility for her mistakes. Doesn't listen to students at all. If I could short this professor I would.

Content provided is riddled with errors, there were at least three mistakes on the midterm, corrected during the exam and poorly handled. During class her examples are straight out of the text but have errors. I have learned more from the text and youtube than her, as she just regurgitates slides and rushes into the hardest content during class.

Incredibly unclear and reads directly off slides. Examples are not helpful unless you are totally comfortable with the content. There were multiple significant errors on the midterm which really affected multiple students' performance and only minor accommodation was provided. I would strongly advise against taking a class this hard with her.

There are a lot of people defending Lesley for her mistakes because she is new, but any competent prof should know how to spell (or at least use spell check) and should not make multiple mistakes on the midterm when it affects student performance. She is a very caring prof and very smart, but being smart doesn't mean you should teach.

Just wrote the final exam. It is a really difficult final with lots of theoretical questions and it is nothing like the practice exam at all. Hoping she will curve the final exam. Good luck.

Final was very different from the practice and any other materials. Unfair to test at such high standards while providing such an underwhelming standard of teaching. Even if you put in the hours, you'll likely still be either riding the curve (if there is one), or retaking the course. Very disappointed with this class.

Is this what we are paying for? Seriously, this class was a joke. Lesley did not prepare us at all for the midterm and certainly not the final. If every person who wrote that final all felt that they had no idea what was happening, then you didn't do a good job as a professor. If you are extremely self disciplined and get outside help, you'll do ok

I believe Finance is a very difficult course given the material. This was Lesley's first time teaching so I can give her a break. BUT the final exam was extremely unfair. The practice tests she gave us and the material to practice was nowhere close to what the final was actually like. Disappointed with how hard we worked with no reward

YUP. I know she is a nice person and she definitely tried her best since she is a new prof but does it mean we are meant to be taught by a new prof for people who are taking FNCE 317 this semester? She should have taught herself before ACTUALLY teaching a lecture and it is just so unfair for people who took FNCE this semester and suffered A LOT

Lesley is really bad and does releases practice exams that are in no way similar to the actual exam. Just cause she is new does not give her an excuse to be terrible at teaching. I think if you dedicate every waking minute to this course you can do well, otherwise you most likely will fail.

Unfortunately, she was not a very good FNCE prof. The practice exams she posts are nothing like the actual exams. She posts so many recommended textbook questions, which is very unrealistic to actually complete. I regret being a FNCE student this sem with her being the only professor. There were very little to no curves given.

Honestly this class is tough but having her as a prof will make it unbearable. Get ready to self teach and get surprised on exams by confusing questions. Overall dont recommend her as a prof maybe when she has more experience.

She's HORRIBLE! This course was all over the place, mistakes in the Lectures, Midterm, Final, and Practice questions! This girl fails at teaching, and the students suffer. I can't believe we pay such high tuition for such low quality teaching. The average is low, and the curve she gives (if any) is so insignificant it's like it isn't even there.

It's a hard class compounded by the fact that Lesley was teaching it for the first time. Lesley is nice in person and is very willing to help out during office hours, but this is a class you'll need to teach yourself. There were numerous errors in both her notes and during the actual exams. Be prepared to read the hell out of the textbook.

I had to take finance this semester in order to fill prereqs for continuing my degree. I felt that I was comepletely robbed of any opportunity to do good in this course with Lesley teaching it. So many mistakes in all parts of the course and no explanation on questions other than "this is the answer, see?". Disappointed for sure.

Very bad. Reads straight from notes word for word. Final had four wrong answers which screwed everyone up. Avoid.

Starting to really get fed up with these Haskayne Profs. At first I didn't mind self teaching, but it seems like finance is a field which would be useful to have an effective instructor to help understand the concepts. Unfortunately Lesley is the complete opposite of this, providing only further confusion and too fast of a pace of teaching. Avoid!

She teaching is HORROR! very very very bad. I understanding nothing of her. She is cancer of finance. Wishing I taking this course with another persons.

she talk really fast and thinks that you already know what shes doing, if you didnt read the text book you wont understand whats she saying

lectures are not clear and she taught as if we knew everything already

This class is unnecessarily harder than it needs to be. The textbook questions and workshops she does makes you think you are prepared for the exams but when the exams come they are 10x more harder than the questions she gave in class. This is a class that every business major got to do, so just solider up and good luck.

I dont know if it was because the class was online or because Lesley always teaches like this but it really seemed like she didn't care and gave up before the class even started. Her lecture videos were super short and she just read the slides. There was not even close to enough time to finish quizzes and the midterm and her workshops didnt help.

This class is really content heavy but Lesley didn't spend enough time on complicated matter. She just read from the slides and didn't explain background information, assuming we knew it already. There was not enough time to even come close to finishing the tests.

In lieu of actual lectures, you get pre-recorded videos where she reads the slides out loud. Your only real hope of getting educated is the tutorials where she won't be present. Midterm questions were twisted versions of things taught in class. Seek extra-curricular assistance if you want to pass them. Doesn't care, doesn't help, low effort prof.

Lectures are boring and they are all asynchronous. She just reads the slides and doesn't do much in the lecture. The midterm was written and extremely hard to complete in the time frame given. Overall, wouldn't take her class again.

The problems assigned in the textbook, used in tutorials and lectures are way easier than what was seen on the midterm. The midterm was full of multistep problems, difficult to complete in the given time. For a 317 class where you have students with a variety of majors, please chill. Not everyone wants to be a financial analysts.

In class, examples were all extremely vague and nothing compared to the midterm. The average for the midterm was 66%, which is terrible. The class is very challenging, and the way she teaches does not suffice.

In class, examples were all extremely vague and nothing compared to the midterm. The average for the midterm was 66%, which is terrible. The midterm was impossible to complete in the time given and was so difficult, as it was 20 written questions that needed to be scanned to a document and submitted in the 3 hours.

she goes so fast. doesn't allow time for revision. asumes everyone knows the material. grading system is tough. no boundaries given.

Taking FNCE317 with Tims is a mistake. She literally just reads the slides verbatim and never adds any further explanation. Doesn't help that her slides are confusingly worded too. She also assigned case studies with no instructions. Literally just gave us the link to the case study and said "write about it". Tests weren't too bad at least.

The worst class I've ever taken, mainly because of the cases. Not only do you have to pay for them, but you are given NO instruction on how to do them. You're also not allowed to ask TAs to review your case beforehand. If anything, the cases left me even more confused even though I was keeping on top of lectures and chapter questions.

Bruh, 2 huge assignments, and not very clear instructions. all the courses I took in the past had guidelines and questions that we had to answer. I didn't know what to do, and everyone I spoke with also had no clue what to includeintheassignment. She handed us a huge case, and told us to analyze it. THaT's it, like what do you want us to analyze?

Very inaccessible outside of class -- took 2 weeks to get an email reply. You're better off just reading the textbook and attending tutorials as she just reads off slides that are confusingly worded. Assigns cases with a lack of guidance and we have to pay for them.. At least quizzes weren't too bad

I know that FNCE is hard by itself already but I feel like she makes it harder. For example the cases has no rubric on how it is graded and you can't get any feedback after. Also the TAs are pretty much just there to do the tutorial and they can't answer anything about the case. Doing quizzes before the midterm for practice might be helpful.

Absolutely terrible, all she does is read off of the slides word for word & barely covers additional problems that students might see on exams such as the midterm or final. Makes the online exams incredibly difficult, assuming that all the students are finance majors. Assigns Harvard grade case studies with NO clear instructions.

Honestly, the worst experience, as a finance major made me second guess my concentration. The class did not need to be as hard as she delivered it to be as I found success attending different teacher lectures.