Marcin Dec · FinAcademy

Finance, taught properly.
From first principles to Finite Differences.

A complete curriculum built from two decades of trading-floor practice and university teaching: five levels from the time value of money to multicurve pricing and quantitative miniatures, with rigorous mathematics, interactive dashboards and graded exercises. Your progress is saved in this browser, and with a free account it follows you across devices.

Free while we build

FinAcademy is free during the founding period. Level 1 is open to everyone with no account at all, and Levels 2-5 are free with a registered account. Registering also adds synced progress, verifiable certificates for passed module tests, and a fortnightly interactive-problem newsletter.

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The curriculum

Each level assumes the ones before it. All five levels are live: fifty-six lessons, each formula illustrated by an interactive figure, from the time value of money to the order book, including research-frontier lessons built on real term-premium estimates from the author’s research.

L1 — Foundations of Finance

Money and markets, time value of money, loan mathematics, NPV & IRR, basic instruments, FX, equities and CAPM.

Beginner 15 lessons · 17 interactive figures

L2 — Managerial & Corporate Finance

Statements and ratios, working capital, valuation, capital structure, MIRR & WACC decisions.

Intermediate 8 lessons · 11 interactive figures

L3 — Financial Instruments in Practice

Money-market instruments, bonds and repo, FX, FRA/IRS/OIS/CCS, the 2007-08 crisis and benchmark reform.

Intermediate 8 lessons · 9 interactive figures

L4 — Yield Curves, Term Structure & Post-Crisis Valuation

Interpolation, bootstrapping, Nelson-Siegel-Svensson, Smith-Wilson, credit spreads, PCA/HJM/ACM, then multicurve pricing, collateral and CSA, XVA and benchmark fallbacks.

Advanced 15 lessons · 22 interactive figures

L5 — Quant Miniatures

Trees, Brownian motion and Itô, Black-Scholes hedging, numerical methods, the vol smile, strategies and exotics, VaR/ES, market microstructure.

Expert 10 lessons · 20 interactive figures

How it works

Interactive dashboards

Sliders, charts and amortization tables let you develop intuition by moving the inputs yourself instead of staring at static slides.

Graded exercises

Numeric and multiple-choice problems with instant feedback and full worked solutions. Solved exercises and completed lessons are tracked per browser.

Mock exam

When the five level tests feel comfortable, sit the whole thing at once: forty questions drawn from every exercise of all five levels, seventy minutes, marked with the worked solution and the reason each wrong option is wrong.

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