The Financial Analyst Program is a flagship offering of Beta Insights Professional Academy. It is a comprehensive online program designed by industry professionals with the motive of transferring their knowledge and experience to young graduates (MBA, BBA, B.Com, M.Com, MMS, CA, CFA, etc) and professionals keeping the changing requirements of the industries in mind.
This program includes real-time industry-based projects (which can also be represented as an internship) with live-mentoring sessions enabling students and professionals to become industry-ready with skills in Financial Modeling and Equity Research.
We cannot ignore the fact that there is a considerable gap between classroom education and what the industry is looking for. Industry trends inspire our training, projects, and modules under this program. We train and mentor students so that they can become significant stakeholders and be able to contribute to their personal development and collectively to the nation’s development.
– Financial Analysts’ work starts with understanding the financial statements/financial scenario.
– Understanding financial statements includes understanding the business drivers, the business environment, and identifying different line items.
– Analyzing the company becomes easy when one starts understanding the people running the company and their management challenges and successes.
– One must understand and visualize the relationship and flow between the Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement.
– In the end, a proficient analyst not only identifies the event but also decodes the cause-and-effect of the particular event.
– Excel is one of the tools used by financial analysts extensively.
– Several areas where Excel is used aggressively are Equity Research, Investment Banking, Private Equity, and profiles like Financial Modeling, Business Valuation, Financial Planning & Analysis, Forecasting, Budgeting, and many more.
– In this module, you will learn functions and formulas to make everyday life easier.
– Utilize keyboard shortcuts to save time and be more efficient.
– Develop better analysis and presentation using tables, bars, graphs, and charts.
– Excel (Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced) will serve as a foundation for your career in FINANCE.
– Industry, Business, and Environment analysis helps in identifying the factors that are affecting and influencing any businesses or ventures.
– This module will develop cause-and-effect reasoning in a broader sense and will also help to develop the connection between external and internal factors.
– This module is designed in a way that will lead to problem-identification and solving skills.
– To execute any project related to Equity Research, Business Valuation, Fund Raising, and many more, the first step is always to understand the business and its environment.
– By acknowledging all the factors, analysts can arrive at a more accurate conclusion.
– This module will also introduce you to the concepts, types, uses, and importance of strategy.
– You will learn and explore different models to explore Internal, External, Micro, Macro, Competitive Advantage, and Strategies.
– You will also learn how to do systematic end-to-end industry research and how to draft the same in a report.
– Base concepts are always the building blocks of complex concepts.
– This module will revisit a few of the key finance concepts necessary to help you with further modules, valuation, and projects (internship).
– In this module, you will explore these topics through applications rather than only theoretical understanding.
– You will also understand and practice various forecasting techniques which will be helpful in financial modeling.
– Financial Modeling is a process of expressing a certain set of numbers logically and coherently. These numbers are interconnected by Excel-based formulas and functions to generate the desired output.
– Financial modeling can be used to address various problem statements. A few of the major ones include building a dynamic 3-Statement Model, Forecasting Business Cash Flow, Capital Budgeting, Performance Analysis, and Determine Business/Project/Product Feasibility.
– In this module, you will discover the concept and thought process behind building a better financial model. You will also look at different financial models.
– Build dynamic 3-statement models. Learn how to connect and structure a multi-year 3-statement model.
– Building financial models from scratch, and with the help of basic information.
– Learn financial modeling with the help of real business cases ranging from Beginner level, Intermediate level, and Advanced level.
– 4+ financial model cases with templates, including industry-specific financial modeling.
– Build scenario and sensitivity analysis to enhance the robustness of the financial model.
– Valuation is always a tricky subject. The concept of valuation is a combination of art and science, as has been said many times before.
– Science takes care of the quantitative portion, which can explain the numbers. Art, on the other hand, deals with the qualitative side of things, such as analysis, forecasting, and assumptions. These cannot be easily justified unless backed up by research and reasoning.
– In this Module our focus will be to develop the cognitive capacity to think in the most accurate manner, to arrive at a better and more logical valuation.
– We will cover the Valuation framework and theoretical concepts.
– A brief discussion of different valuation methodologies and understanding the appropriate method for the scenario.
– Pros and cons of different valuation methods.
– Connect the valuation concepts with Equity Research and other Investment strategies.
– And finally, you will perform valuation with the help of all the formulas and techniques that you have learned in the previous 5 modules.
– The equity research report is the last step in the equity analysis and valuation process.
– The report includes information, analysis, and most importantly, the analyst’s opinion.
– Reports can be sell-side or buy-side reports. And each category of reports contains multiple versions of reports.
– The saying holds that “one may be knowledgeable but if they cannot convey this message to others, no one will be able to benefit from their knowledge”. In this context, Equity Research Reports provide equity analysts with the opportunity to convey their understanding of certain securities to relevant stakeholders.
– You will learn about and explore Equity Research Reports in this module.
– You will get introduced to different Equity Research templates and learn how to draft a high quality report.
– It is always advisable to learn from real-world challenges and problems. There is a great deal of knowledge about the challenges businesses face.
– Through this module, we are bringing business learnings from across the horizons, so that one can grow as an analyst.
– Case studies will develop skills such as Problem identification, Problem-solving, Teamwork, Time management, Presentation and many more.
During the 8 weeks period, you are expected to work on
Equity Research Projects
Additional/Corporate Projects
All the above mentioned points will be carried out under Valutinum Advisory.
Anyone who wants to enter, explore and learn in the world of Finance
As a student, we learn various concepts. We solve straightforward questions at the end of the chapters to practice the learned concept, but we never get to experience the real-time application of those concepts. This training help students and professionals to get deeper into those concepts and learn about real-time applications. This training gives a birds-eye view of all the concepts required to become a financial analyst. Students develop the skills and eye for detail to pursue a financial analyst career. This also helps students to get into Investment Banking and other relevant core finance roles.
Moreover, students have no experience in Business Valuation, Financial Modeling and Equity Research. The internship project requires certain outcomes based on certain templates. Training helps students to learn those templates to be able to work on projects.
Yes, the sessions are completely online.
Yes, the sessions are live only for Financial Analyst Program – Live Training & Projects.
The program will run for 8 weeks.
Each session will have a different schedule. Please refer to the Batch Dates section above. The timings have been planned in a way to help students and working professionals get over with most part of their regular schedule and join the live sessions at ease.
One must have the enthusiasm to learn. Love for finance would be a cherry on top. A little knowledge of the basics of Ms-Excel will help you understand during the Excel training session. Rest all is our job – to deliver.
Not all are equal when it comes to grasping and learning content. With our past batches we have observed that an average student must dedicate 20~24 hours during 8 weeks of the program.
Well, as the name says Beta Insights “Professional Academy”, hence as a professional courtesy we expect you to let us know before you miss a session. We record all the live sessions so that students who want to revise the session or students who missed the session can come back and (re)watch it.
The “live projects” help students to gather “knowledge” on how a company works, what are the nuances involved behind the curtain, and how to solve them. Furthermore, students get to “connect with bright minds” from all over the country and abroad. “Peer-to-peer learning” helps in “personal development” as well as helps in “building connections”. Students get to interact with the instructor in a “live session”. These are some intangible benefits to name a few. A certificate, access to free materials, “Financial Analyst Intern” on LinkedIn are some tangible benefits of this program.
The whole setup is online, there will be an instructor taking session live on the screen, all the other students will be on mute till they are not speaking, doubts are taken up and cleared instantly. All in all, it is a hybrid of one-on-one interaction. Hence, we believe that the number of students in a session doesn’t matter. But still, we limit ourselves to 50 students in a session so that the course instructor is not over-burdened.
Financial Analyst Program – Basic
– Training Certificate only.
Financial Analyst Program – Professional
– Certificate of Financial Modeling and Equity Research.
– Project (Internship) Certificate.
We provide real-time industry-based projects to graduates under our various programs with the motive of making them industry-ready. Our projects and internship are inspired by industry trends.