INVESTMENT BANKING -- The Dream Begins . . . ! ! !

Investment Banking - The Dream Begins . . . ! ! ! is for the people who want to understand value. This book can help you get your arms around the many tasks and variables involved in effective valuation of a company and help you decide what kind of help you should enlist to ccomplete a deal.The book acts as the first guide to the Capital markets aspirants and as a useful resource and reference for the capital market participants who quickly wish to learn the valuation of companies or refine and fine-tune their skills and compare the companies on fundamental basis for mergers, acquisitions, private equity investments, etc. This book is also highly beneficial for investment banking trainers providing various training programmes on valuation of companies.The author has kept the book as simple as possible and has tried to explain the concepts in the plain vanilla language in such a way that one can easily apply them on their own. The book tries to fulfil an important need as a valuable training material and reliable handbook for finance professionals.

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Technical Skill Requirements of an Analyst

Part I       Investment Banking

Chapter 1      Investment Banking – An Overview

Chapter 2      IPOs and Private Equity

Part II      Finance Foundations

Chapter 3      Financial Statements DNA

Chapter 4      Income Statement

Chapter 5      Balance Sheet

Chapter 6      Cash Flows Statement

Chapter 7      Constructing the Financial Statements

Chapter 8      Accounting for Investments

Chapter 9      Sanitizing the Financials

Chapter 10    Analysing the Financial Statements

Chapter 11    Return on Capital

Chapter 12    The Time Value of Money

Part III     Valuation

Chapter 13    Valuation Overview

Chapter 14    Enterprise Value

Part IV     Valuation — Markets Approach

Overview      

Questions to Consider

Introduction to Relative Valuation

Chapter 15    Comparable Company Analysis

Chapter 16    Comparable Deal Analysis

Part V      Valuation – Income Approach

Introduction to Income Approach

Chapter 17    Discounted Cash Flows Analysis (DCF)

Part VI     Mergers and Acquisitions

Chapter 18    Mergers and Acquisitions

Part VII   Addendum

Excel Shortcuts

Key Bloomberg Functions