Introduction
Dave Vang, PhD, is a professor in the Department of Finance at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. He has been at St. Thomas since 1988.
Vang graduated summa cum laude from St. Cloud State University and received a PhD in economics from Iowa State University. Besides being an award-winning professor and a former department chairperson, he has performed more than 90 consulting assignments for organizations, ranging from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations. He was the CFO for a technology firm that began as a start up and eventually went public, which led him to co-author the textbook Entrepreneurial Finance: An Applied Approach, 4th edition, published by Routledge.
He has taught more than two dozen undergraduate and graduate courses across the areas of managerial finance, corporate finance, financial statement analysis, investments, derivatives, financial institutions, international finance, managerial economics, real estate and industrial engineering.