Financial Modeling

Catalog description

The purpose of this course is to provide the student with the needed tools to understand and learn how to create financial models for real world publicly traded companies, that can be used for investment banking purposes as well as value investing purposes. The skills that will be acquired integrate knowledge from the fields of Corporate Finance, Accounting, Corporate law, Securities Law, Derivatives, and other disciplines. Moreover, throughout the crouse students will learn how to use Excel and VBA to create these models in such a way that will make students ready to competently produce and use them. This course is focused exclusively on modeling the financial statements of publicly-traded companies with a view to using those models in investment banking, equity research, and credit analysis research.