Complete Financial Analyst Training & Investing Course
Succeed as a Financial Analyst &Investor by Award Winning MBA Prof who worked @Goldman, in Hedge Funds & Venture Capital
What you’ll learn
- 22+ hour complete financial analyst course!
- #1 Best Selling Investing Course on Udemy!
- How to pick stocks.
- Become an expert in Excel for financial analysts (no prior Excel knowledge is required).
- How to manage a portfolio.
- How an IPO works.
- How to build financial models.
- How to get hired and promoted as a financial analyst.
- How risk management works.
- How to use technical analysis.
- How to value companies.
- Use and create Excel based templates developed by Chris to help you create financial statements from scratch (meaning income statements, balance sheets, cash flow statements and more).
- Use and create Excel based templates developed by Chris to help you value companies using several different valuation methodologies, including P/E, P/R and Discounted Cash Flow (DCF).
- Use and create Excel based templates developed by Chris to help you manage a portfolio.
- How Monetary Policy works.
- How Fiscal Policy works.
- How interest rates are changed and why this is crucial to understand for successful financial analysts.
- How to pitch long and short ideas to portfolio managers.
- How to find great venture capital investment ideas.
- How to come up with mutual fund investment ideas (longs – meaning buys) using an easy to understand top down and bottoms up research process.
- How to come up with hedge fund investment ideas (longs and shorts) using an easy to understand top down and bottoms up research process.
- Identify crucial catalysts (timed events) in order to know when the optimal time is to buy or short a stock.
- Understand how investment banks (the ‘Sell Side’) can help you be more successful in a hedge fund or mutual fund career.
- Analyze and understand an income statement (even if you have no experience with income statements).
- Analyze and understand a balance sheet (even if you have no experience with balance sheets).
- Analyze and understand a cash flow statement (even if you have no experience with cash flow statements).
- Understand and use modeling best practices so you can create financial models.
- Know where to get data in order to build a financial model (in depth understanding of identifying and using/navigating the best free websites and sources to build your financial model)!
- Create a financial model (projecting the future) for an income statement.
- Other valuation methodologies, including EV/Sales, EV/EBITDA, P/B, EV/FCF, etc.
- Create a financial model (projecting the future) for a balance sheet.
- Create a financial model (projecting the future) for a cash flow statement.
- Understand valuation best practices so you can create target prices based on your financial models.
- How to use Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) and how to create the Weighted Average Cost of Capital and Terminal values in order to pick target prices.
- How to use P/E in order to pick target prices.
- How to use P/R in order to pick target prices.
- Come up with a target price based on an average of several different valuation methodologies.
- Learn about 14 different Financial Analyst jobs and how they overlap and work together (including Investment Banking, Venture Capital, Private Equity, Private Wealth Management etc.).
- Investment Banking: Understand from a high level perspective what an Investment Bank is as well as what the role/job is of an Investment Banking Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Venture Capital: Understand from a high level perspective what a Venture Capital firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Venture Capital Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Private Equity: Understand from a high level perspective what a Private Equity firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Private Equity Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Private Wealth Management: Understand from a high level perspective what a Private Wealth Management firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Private Wealth Management Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Sell Side Research Analyst: Understand from a high level perspective what a Sell Side Research Analyst’s firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Sell Side Research Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Sales Trader: Understand from a high level perspective what a Sales Trader’s firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Sales Trader Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Buy Side Trader: Understand from a high level perspective what a Buy Side Trader’s firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Buy Side Trader Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Mutual Fund: Understand from a high level perspective what a Mutual Fund is as well as what the role/job is of a Mutual Fund Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Sell Side Trader: Understand from a high level perspective what a Sell Side Trader’s firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Sell Side Trader Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Large Non Finance Company: Understand from a high level perspective what a Large Non Finance Company firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Large Non Finance Company Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Equity Capital Markets: Understand from a high level perspective what an Equity Capital Markets’ firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Equity Capital Markets Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Hedge Fund: Understand from a high level perspective what a Hedge Fund is as well as what the role/job is of a Hedge Fund Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Equity Sales: Understand from a high level perspective what an Equity Sales’ firm is as well as what the role/job is of an Equity Sales Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Tech / Artificial Intelligence: Understand from a high level perspective what a Tech / Artificial Intelligence’s firm is as well as what the role/job is of a Tech / Artificial Intelligence Financial Analyst, including the pros and cons.
- Learn what finance role you are most passionate about pursuing.
Requirements
- Anyone can take this course (no prior knowledge of finance or Excel is required)! I recommend having the latest version of Excel if you want to complete all of the Excel exercises (the Windows and Mac versions of Excel both work with all downloadable files in this course).
Description
This course is taught by Chris Haroun who also went through the Goldman Sachs financial analyst training program as well as the new hire training programs of other top finance companies. Chris has also started his own hedge fund and venture capital firms and is an award winning MBA school professor. He teaches based on real life practical experience.
Do you have what it takes to complete this 22+ hour comprehensive finance training program? I’ll see you on the other side.
This course is based on my real life practical experience starting hedge funds, venture capital firms, working on Wall Street, starting finance companies and much more.
Who this course is for
- Anyone that wants to be a financial analyst at any type of finance firm for any type of finance role (including investment banking, venture capital, equity research, hedge funds, mutual funds, trading, private equity, equity capital markets, private wealth management and many other roles.. we discuss 14 finance roles in this comprehensive course).
- Anyone interested in becoming a better investor, stock picker, portfolio manager, analyst and much more.
