Finance Case Teaching and the Business Core Courses

Abstract

Case teaching accelerates the experience of students. In order for the acceleration to be even more effective, using the introductory financial management course as an example, the cases must include material from the business "core." This integration will provide a richer learning environment for students as it permits/requires acknowledgement and exploration of the common aspects of the core courses. In that way students will better understand the context in which business decisions are made. In addition, those important new developments that appear in finance are more efficiently transferred to students via case study. Behavioral finance is used herein as an example of how such integration may occur and the usefulness of this new emphasis as a clarifying influence upon the risk and return nature of finance, enhanced by the case method.

Keywords: Case Teaching, finance instruction

JEL Classification: A22, I22