Insights for lecturers teaching finance and business
This is a collection of articles and resources for university lecturers, program directors, and academic staff teaching finance and business.
The focus throughout is experiential learning and simulation based learning: how to make sessions more interactive, how to bring realistic practice into a lecture or seminar, and how to use simulations to teach concepts that are hard to convey through theory alone. Experiential learning is widely regarded as the strongest way to build applied capability, and it is increasingly expected in business education - both by students and by accreditation bodies. Finsimco is endorsed by AACSB and AMBA for connecting theory to practice; you can see here what accreditors say about our simulations.
Latest articles and resources
A selection of recent articles for business school lecturers:
- How to Teach Corporate Finance with Simulations - using a live simulation to make core corporate finance concepts concrete and applied.
- Gamified Learning Tools for Finance Education - how competition, stakes, and feedback drive engagement in finance teaching.
- Finance Simulations for MBA Programs - fitting experiential learning into the demands of an MBA cohort.
- Best Finance Simulations for Business Schools - what to look for when choosing a simulation for your course.
- How to Use a Corporate Finance Simulation to Explain Capital Budgeting to Students - a worked approach to teaching capital budgeting through practice.
- How to Use a Debt Restructuring Simulation to Teach Financial Turnaround Strategies - bringing distressed-company decision-making into the classroom.
- How to Use a Startup Funding Simulation to Explore Startup Financing in the Classroom - teaching early-stage financing through an investor negotiation.
What these articles cover
Across the collection, the articles address the questions lecturers raise most often about applied teaching: how to keep students genuinely engaged when attention is hard to hold, how to move a session from listening to doing, how simulations and case-based approaches compare, and how to introduce applied activities without disrupting an existing assessment model. Many also look at how leading business schools are integrating experiential learning, and what accreditation expectations around applied learning mean in practice.
The aim is practical usefulness - ideas you can apply to your own teaching - rather than theory for its own sake.
See how simulations work in your teaching
Getting started explains how Finsimco supports teaching, setup, and delivery. For lecturers planning a first session, your first simulation walks through what happens before, during, and after. And how to operate the simulator covers the practical steps of running one in class.