Boone’s finance boot camp is a public, self-paced finance fundamentals curriculum featuring 19 short instructional videos, companion notes, Excel workbooks, interactive calculator tools, and auto-graded quizzes drawn from large question banks with immediate explanatory feedback. VB—Virtual Boone, an LLM-powered teaching assistant trained on the Boot Camp materials, provides students with individualized support. The curriculum covers time value of money, bonds, financial statements, free cash flow, and NPV. The project was developed through the Montague–Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar Award.
Flex-online MBA core finance curriculum development
Selected to design and launch the eight-week core finance course for Mays Business School’s Flex-Online MBA program. Built the course around financial valuation, integrating synchronous and asynchronous instruction, applied assignments, and interactive learning tools.
FINC 612: Corporate finance -- full-time MBA
Average Evaluation: 4.7 out of 5.0.
Scheduled: Fall 2026.
Previous Offerings: Fall 2025, Fall 2024, Fall 2022, Fall 2021.
FINC 612: Corporate finance -- engineering MBA
Average Evaluation: 4.9 out of 5.0.
Scheduled: Fall 2026.
Previous Offerings: Fall 2025.
FINC 612: Finance for the professional -- flex-online MBA
Average Evaluation: 4.8 out of 5.0.
Scheduled: Spring 2027.
Previous Offerings: Spring 2026, Spring 2025.
FINC 381: Money & capital markets -- BBA
Average Evaluation: 4.8 out of 5.0.
Previous Offerings: Spring 2024, Fall 2020, Spring 2020.
FINC 341: Business finance -- BBA
Online facilitator in Summer 2022.
FINC 409: Survey of finance principles -- BBA
Online contributor in Spring 2020.
BUSI 408: Corporate finance -- BBA
Evaluation: 4.9 out of 5.0.
Summer 2017.
At the University of North Carolina.
Montague-Center for Teaching Excellence Scholar, Texas A&M University, 2025-2026
Outstanding MBA Faculty Award, Mays MBA Class of 2024, awarded December 2023
Mutual Funds, Effort, Performance, and Making Yourself Valuable. MBA 689: Special Topics. October 9, 2024.
Finance and Artificial Intelligence. FINC 612 guest lecture, September 2024.
Amazing instructor!
Professor Bowles is one of the best instructors I have come across during my time at A&M.
I love Prof. Bowles' teaching style. He is a great professor and I would take another one of his classes anytime. He genuinely cares about the students success and fosters a great learning environment.
I am graduating in a few days and have taken all my 120 hours here at TAMU and can confidently say that you were my favorite professor I've had through my 4 years here.
This has definitely been my favorite class in college. I actually feel myself understanding how current events can impact markets and my decisions.
Professor Bowles truly cares about his students, and that goes a long way for our learning environment. It was especially cool when he posted videos to encourage everyone after a difficult midterm exam.
I think that Professor Bowles did an excellent job teaching this class this semester as it was one of my favorite classes so far during my time at A&M.
This was my favorite course by far. The instructor made the class interesting and really cares about the students doing well. I would highly recommend this professor to other students.