I have never heard so many bad things by so many people for one teacher and boy are they right. Worst professor I have ever had. Doesn't explain anything tests insanely hard and has way too much fun making students lives miserable... Think he got fired and

Horrible professor. Does not know what teaching is or how to communicate to students. Talks down to students and lectures are very boring and hard to follow. Highly recommend taking anyone else even a graduate student would be a better choice.!!!!!!!!!!!!

If the class average is an F, maybe you should reassess the curve.

Tom is somewhat of a funny and entertaining guy but a terrible teacher. he refuses to help you understand the material and his test are made to trick you.

No homework, no projects, but 4 tough tests. Studying hard will not do the job. He's not that friendly if you go talk to him. Even if you understand the material and can do the homework (which doesn't count for anything), he will ask trick questions and do everything he can to fool you. Very tough for an introductory finance class.

Very dismissive when asking questions. Typically after any question a sarcastic remark is made. The atmosphere he creates discourages questions. Tests are not set up to the lectures he is teaching. Detailed notes won't aid you. High drop out rate, if you are here to learn in his lectures, you won't. Please spend your money somewhere else.

This was a horrendous class to take. Not only did the professor not teach the course correctly, he also makes sarcastic remarks all class. What is even more unbelievable is that the class average is a F. The class average is literally from 50-60%. There has only been a couple of students who have scored an A on his tests. Would not recommend at all

You absolutely have to study for the midterms and final because the class is only based on the tests. 100% of your class grade will be determined by your tests and there are only 4 each semester so each test is 25% of your grade. If you mess up on a single test, don't expect any extra credit or big curve. Tom only curves based on the highest score.

After taking the final today, I've realized that the majority of this class will be failing. If the professor doesn't curve, there is no way any students will pass this class with an A or B. Good luck to any future students taking this course.

RUN!!!

Miserable! Extremely difficult class. Lectures are confusing, Tom is condescending, calls students out in class, and then is not very helpful when asking for outside help. Grades are only based on four exams that are very difficult. Reading the book, going to class, completing the homework, and studying a lot is the best plan of attack.

please run. this guy will ruin you... please please don't take his class. and no... it does not get any better, don't stick it out. He just doesn't care.

If I had the choice to take another class from Tom or eat broken glass shards I would eat the glass shards.

Probably one of the worst faculty members in the College of Business. Guy shows up from Idaho, starts teaching a mandatory FIN for all Business undergrads and does a TERRIBLE job. Literally the worst professor I have ever taken at UNR. He has 4 exams, all of which you WILL fail. The class average was a 51% in my section. A high B was a 100% score.

If you can, DO NOT TAKE THIS CLASS. the teacher means well and is a very nice guy but his powerpoint slides are absolutely useless when it comes to the actual test, which is the only grade in the class ( 4 tests 25% each ). There is literally no point to go to class because none of the material matches the test... RUN

so angry

Great guy, terrible teacher.

If I had the choice of jumping into a pool of sharks or taking this class again, I'd jump in the pool of sharks. 100% of your grade is based on four exams: half MC, half FRQ. Do all the "recommended" homework and more to do well. Study as much as possible for this class by reading the book and realize that he can turn anything into a FRQ problem.

He never cared about his students complaining about his hard tests (which are 100% of your grade) until a year later when he decided to add hw. Average grade was a high D/lowC and blames our study habits for low scores. I advise to write everything down in class but even then he only teaches the easy stuff and expects us to self-learn the hard ones

Worst teacher I've ever had. Test are super hard. Does not give extra credit no matter the circumstances. Lectures don't correlate with hmw/test. Good guy but awful teacher. Take this class somewhere else

His tests are literally impossible. I had the exams from previous semesters to study from and that did not help one bit. He has tenure and doesn't care at all about the success of his students. Incredibly disappointing that UNR doesn't fix this problem. If you can't find one positive interview below, vote thumbs up.

Tom is a great guy, but get ready to teach yourself how to do everything off the homework on mylab. He spends 45 minutes of the class lecturing off powerpoint and then spends ten to fifteen minutes on a easy example problem that is nowhere near as difficult as the homework on mylab. To top it off, he will then trick you on the test. AVOID.

At first you may find Tom a great Finance teacher, he is nice, funny and tries to get to know his students. Sadly he does not post his lectures, he often will only do one (easy) example in class, and his tests are monstrously difficult. Furthermore, he does not post study guides. Very difficult and stressful.

Worst teacher and class I've ever had as a student at UNR, I don't understand how the university can only offer this class through one professor. Tom is a terrible teacher and could care less if everyone fails his class. He curves only so that everyone passes with a D. The fact that we are forced to take this course with this professor is insanity.

The worst teacher I have EVER had. If I could rate him a 0 I would.

Well lets see if I can do this. Tom is an amazingly nice gentleman. He wants to be a great teacher, but comes up about 99 yards short. The homework do dates are completely random and have nothing to do with the powerpoints. You will teach yourself ever piece of material in the class. If you want to work, and not take student loans, avoid this class

Liesz made me hate finance & left me frustrated. He acts friendly, but everything he does is always at the detriment of the student's chance of doing well in the course. Changes homework due dates (never in the students' favor), doesn't update syllabus, quizzes/hw doesn't prepare you for exams, exam formula sheets are cryptic, humiliates students.

Great guy, awful class. All homework and quizzes are done through MyFinanceLab, and he makes his own tests, so the homework and quizzes do not prepare you IN ANY WAY for the tests. Classes are 100% lecture on terms and concepts, no actual examples. Mult. choice on tests are vague and rarely cover things discussed in class. Worst class I've ever had

Have you ever seen the movie get out? His class is like that movie, get out or you wont survive. Terrible teacher, boring lectures, and bad jokes. His tests are designed to make you fail. There is nothing good to say about this guy.

I learned nothing from this class. This guy is a joke. Dude needs to retire teaching it really isn't for him. You know when you look at someone and your like " how did you get this job?" He sorta makes you wonder that.

If Jeffery Tambor played Michael Scott in The Office and Michael Scott was a professor instead of an office manager, this is what the class would be like. You basically teach yourself the math portion of the class. The multiple choice part of the tests are meant to trick you. Awful professor.

Man the Finance department must be really desperate for 301 professors at this point! This guy is a straight joke he is an awful professor. And if you ever need to ask him a question make sure to stay at least 5 feet back he smells really bad!

Do yourself a favor and DO NOT TAKE THIS PROFESSOR!!! His lectures are completely different from the homework and his exams are the too. Be ready to teach yourself all of the math portions because he won't teach you. If you do not have a finance calculator you're basically done since he won't teach with any other calculator.

Very difficult. The fact that he is the only FIN-301 teacher is concerning. He puts nothing on webcampus, and heavily relies on lecture notes. I just got out of an exam where I studied for 8+ hours. And I have never seen most of the questions before. Not in the text, lecture notes, or HW/Quiz. Be ready, you will teach yourself this class.

Worst professor Ive ever had. Class is almost impossible to pass. No study guides, cheat sheets given are not helpful AT ALL. You pretty much have to teach yourself everything. If youre terrible at math like me, hold off for the summer professor. Ill be lucky if I pass with a D.

I studied every day for this class and still failed. He teaches you almost nothing but expects for you to understand everything on the tests. Would go through homework problems, previous tests and notes and still did poorly on every single exam. Nearly impossible to pass.

You would think after all the out cry from your students "bud" that you would start to listen instead of continuing in a way that's hurting your students and not helping them. I think something happened to this guy, maybe the university didn't 10 year him and now he is taking it out on his students. Guy needs to take a hike.

This is one of the worst teachers ever. He spends the entire class going over pointless powerpoint slides where you sit there wondering how it is relevant. The one day a month we do a real problem he gives it to you and says do it while offering zero help. It will be good when he retires and new students don't have to experience him.

Maybe it's my problem? But this class is so hard. And you have to be ready to write down about 500 words every class because he doesn't post PowerPoint online, so you'll have to copy down every single slide, he will give u time to do so. I think he uses too much PowerPoints, it'll be better if he can do more examples and do exam previews.

1. I was behind ever since the class where he taught us how to use the calculator. 2. He goes concepts a bit too fast, he's already 100 light yrs away after I finally figures out how to understand that concept. 3. Tough grader, no mercy. 4. No txtbook, cuz you have to copy his ppt which is about 500 words each class! 5. No exam study guide.

I missed a test and was allowed to do a paper as a retake. He glanced at a physical copy and said it was obviously plagiarized because it's too good. I urged to him to put it through plagiarism detection, revealing it was 90% unique. He then said it seemed plagiarized because it's too poor. Never graded it, left the 0 grade, failed me on the final.

Seriously, don't take this guy if you can. His multiple choice questions on his tests are meant to trick you. Expects you to know the material immediately after one or two practice problems. You would think that a 'D' average AFTER a curve would help change his teaching style, but it clearly hasn't.

Avoid this class if possible, I was sitting in graduation with my cap and gown, not knowing if I was going to graduate because of Fin 301. I studied countless hours for exams and failed all of them. I passed by a miracle and lighting a candle everyday. Take a different instructor if possible, if not prepare to struggle and add Fin 301 to your cart.

Most likely the worst professor you will ever have. He does not post a study guide for exams, he does not post slides online to help study for exams and quizzes. He fails to prepare his students, so in response he students better prepare to fail. He is uncomfortably awkward, and seems like a nice guy, but do not take this course! BE WARE!

He doesn't allow you to use a notecard on any of the 3 exams. He doesn't post any study guides or powerpoint slides. He doesn't show you how to actually do the problems from the exams in class. You will have better luck just reading the book and never going class. If you take Tom, and you're not already a financial analyst, be ready to fail...

This was the worst class I have ever taken at this school. The professor, Tom, might have known something about Finance, but he did not convey that to the class. Once classes got moved online about halfway through the semester, he stopped doing lectures and stopped teaching altogether, save for one online lecture. We were left to figure it all out

If you don't have to take him, don't. He does not post lectures online (only started to when we went online) and does not explain how to complete our weekly homeworks or exam problems, which are hard. No study guides, no notecard for exams, plus I'm sorry but this guy can not teach. I attended every lecture, studied, and struggled for a C.

Worst professor at UNR. Doesnt explain how to do anything and embarrasses you if you try to ask. Seems nice but is condescending. Exams are problem heavy which he does not explain how to do. Lectures are long and he will sometimes test you on random things he says in class. Who does that?! no study guides, notecards, or test curves either.