Certification in Investment Banking Online Live

In the ever-evolving business landscape, every professional strives to maintain a competitive edge by adapting to changes effectively. Those who possess a versatile skill set can easily navigate through the complexities brought about by market changes. Investment banking is highly advantageous, as it provides professionals with a comprehensive grasp of the finance industry, along with relevant skills, for quick career progression.

LearninGT is pleased to launch its programmeme called ‘Certificate in Investment Banking’ to empower participants with the expert knowledge and skills required to succeed in the competitive realm of investment banking. This programmeme includes essential topics, such as financial analysis, business funding, business models, etc., with hands-on training through simulations, case studies and real-life projects.

• Investment banking introduction
  • What is investment banking?
  • Investment banking vs. commercial banking
  • What do investment banks do?
  • Role of intermediaries
  • Role of underwriters

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Calculating deal values and investment bankers’ fees
• Equity capital market
  • Primary and secondary market
  • Stock exchanges and their role
  • Asset classes
  • Types of equities
  • Risks and returns

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Calculating and preparing risk-adjusted returns
• Debt capital market
  • Fixed income overview
  • Bond price
  • Types of yield and calculation
  • Coupon and accrued interest
  • Credit rating overview

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Preparing bond pricing model in Excel
  • Calculating bonds’ yield to maturity (YTM)
• Corporate actions and adjustments
  • What are corporate actions?
  • Types of corporate actions
  • Impact of corporate actions
  • Purpose of corporate actions
  • Treasury stock method (TSM) and if-converted method
  • Adjustment of corporate actions

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Corporate actions - Applications and impact on global companies
• Excel for financial modelling
  • Linking and navigating between sheets
  • Vlookup, Xlookup, index match and choose function
  • If, if-error
  • Text, date and flash-fill
  • Conditional formatting
  • Data validation
  • What-if analysis
  • Columnar chart, line chart and combo chart

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Excel templates for building financial models
• Valuation techniques
  • What is valuation?
  • Why perform valuation?
  • Types of valuation - Fundamental valuation and relative valuation

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Preparing financial model level-1
• Building a financial model and deriving value using discounted cash flow (DCF)
  • Steps involved in creating a financial model
  • Designing and structuring a model
  • Initial assumptions and data gathering
  • Projecting income statement, balance sheet and cash flow
  • Integrating financial statements

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Case study: Preparing detailed financial models for manufacturing companies
• Sensitivity and scenario analysis
  • Creating base, best and worst-case scenarios
  • Performing sensitivity analysis
  • Analysis and interpretation of results
  • Creating dynamic dashboards

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Excel templates of various scenarios
• Company profiling
  • What is company profiling?
  • Types of company profiling
  • One-pager profile
  • Two-pager profile
  • Strip profile

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Case study: Preparing detailed company profiles (for large-scale firms)
• Comparable company analysis (CCA): Trading comparable
  • What is trading comparable?
  • What is enterprise value (EV)?
  • Calculation of EV
  • Application of corporate actions
  • Application of the treasury stock method
  • Understanding and calculating last twelve months‘ (LTM) financials
  • Normalisation of line items
  • Calculating relevant multiples
  • Performing peer group comparison
  • Valuation of US-listed companies

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Preparing detailed relative valuation models of US-listed companies and industry benchmarking
• Transaction comparable
  • What is a precedent transaction?
  • Types of transactions
  • What is offer value?
  • Spreading the M&A transaction in a valuation model
  • Control control premium
  • Calculating relevant multiples

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Case study: Understanding the M&A transactions in detail using examples of global companies
• Operating and financial benchmarking
  • What is benchmarking?
  • Why perform benchmarking?
  • Steps to perform benchmarking
  • Sector-specific benchmarking of listed companies

  Hands-on exercise:

  • Case study: US apparel industry and metrics analysis
• Behavioural skills for investment bankers
  • Communication skills for deal closures
  • Presentation skills for pitching
  • Leadership skills to steer the mandate
  • Power dressing for impact
  • Why do ethics matter?
  • Professional conduct
  • Approach to ethical decision making
• Live project
  • Relative and live valuation of listed companies

Fees

programmeme fees: INR 35,000 plus taxes

Schedule

The refund policy in case of withdrawal of nomination would work as follows:-

Cancellations must be made via emails only. However desirous participants can be accommodated in the future batches of programme, without paying anything extra. It is requested that willingness to attend any future programme should be communicated at the earliest convenience.