Reviews of professor Lesley Tims

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
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.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
Leslie is overall a good prof. Finance is an extremely hard class, and she has to work through a super fast pace in her classes. Even while rushing through material, she answers questions and takes the time to explain concepts. She's a good choice if you need to take FNCE317.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lesley is such a nice person, but she is not a good teacher. She basically just reads off the slides. FNCE 317 is hard enough and the fact that the group case studies make up a huge part of your grade makes it really difficult to do well.

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Lesley is a great prof that gets ragged on purely because of the difficulty of the class. I got to know her and she truly cares about her students, if you are willing to put in the work. People need to realize that FNCE 317 is not an easy course and it is content-heavy. Put in the work and ask questions and she is more then willing to help

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
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.

Rating: 2.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Tims is very approachable, FNCE317, in general, is a hard course but I found that the class as a whole is extremely vague. Both cases had to be purchased, there was no rubric given at all for the cases, we were not able to review our case studies or midterms to see what we did wrong, and the TAs couldn't even tell us where we lost marks.

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
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

Rating: 1.0/5, difficulty: 5.0/5
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.

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Professor Tims is the best finance professor ever. Honestly I failed finance the first time I took it and she helped me figure it out. Marketing is not geared towards finance and as long as you put the work and reading in she will help you crush it.