Online Finance Course

The course is perfect for students, both undergraduate and graduate students, recruiting for Wall Street summer internships and entry-level full-time opportunities. The materials covered in the lessons mainly relate to accounting, valuation and financial modeling, which are highly relevant to investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, equity research, asset management, and corporate finance roles.

They cover key technical topics that interviewers will likely test you on. The materials are not taught in the format of technical questions and answers like some other courses (that’s what you have interview guides for), but rather taught in a logical format that helps you understand the “why” and “how” behind the technical questions so you develop a highly differentiated and strong conceptual understanding of technicals for finance job interviews. This way, you’ll be able to handle different technical questions thrown at you.

This course is very helpful for current finance professionals who need a stronger foundation on the technicals front. Maybe you’re in a non-technical heavy group within IBD or you’ve been give feedback that you need to develop a stronger technical foundation. Or maybe you’re in finance but not in IBD. In any case, this course can help you strengthen your technical capability.

The lesson materials are 100% taught from a practical standpoint. The course doesn’t teach academic theories. Only practical exercises like how it’s done at the Wall Street’s top firms. The course comes with various lesson materials like summaries and Excel models that you can download and build alongside the instructor.

Now truth be told, the courses do start from the very beginning so you might know some of the stuff in the early parts already. But we’d recommend to still go through these early lessons that you think you already know because they’ll likely change how you think about these topics and build the logical foundation for future topics.

For pre-MBA buyside candidates, especially first year analysts before hitting the desk and management consultants, this course can help you with your private equity and hedge fund recruiting processes.

First of all, this course will help you think like an investor. All the other guides and courses teach you how to think about technicals from a banker’s perspective. This course helps you think about everything from an investor’s point of view. Second, there are critical items that you need to learn to do like exactly how it’s done at the top private equity firms and hedge funds. Having looked at Internet resources and other courses (often developed by people who did not work at large-cap buyouts or HFs), we can tell you that there are plenty of things taught in other courses that raised our team’s eyebrows. Take Free Cash Flow calculations for example. It’s obviously extremely important in PE recruiting and yet our private equity practice team (composed of former investment professionals from places like KKR and TPG) is horrified by how it’s taught in other courses because they’re just completely not what we do in actual private equity. Don’t even get us started on how they teach you to think about valuation and stock analysis.

Now truth be told, the course does start from the very beginning so you probably know some of the stuff already. It’ll be tempting to skip ahead but we’d advise you to still go through the basic lessons because these are probably the most important lessons as they’ll frame how you think about things for the rest of the course.

Career changers trying to transition into finance roles will benefit tremendously from this online finance course. It starts from the very beginning and concepts are explained in simple English with people like yourself in mind! People with no prior finance or accounting education have gone through the course and raved about how the materials are taught.

The course starts with the easiest concepts that anyone can understand and then gradually build up the knowledge. You’ll grasp highly complex financial concepts and be talking about companies with sophisticated financial insights before you know it. This course is ideal for career changers looking to transition into corporate finance-related jobs, such as investment banking, private equity, hedge funds, equity research, asset management, FP&A, corporate development, etc.