CFA approved Financial and Valuation Modeling course

CFA General
#1

What are your thoughts on this in comparison to the likes of Breaking Into Wall Street and Wall Street Prep? Is the content much the same or is it inferior?

https://www.udemy.com/financial-and-valuation-modeling/

#2

Bump

#3

Never heard of these guys. My recommendation: stick with Breaking Into Wall Street. It is the best value for the money.

I have used Wall Street Prep, Training the Street, and Breaking Into Wall Street at various times of my career. WSP and TTS are great if someone else is paying for your use. Otherwise, I recommend BIWS.

#4

Aren’t they both $500 for the premium package? What am I missing on the value part for BiWS

#5

Well I’ve just had to purchase BIWS Numi and I can say I am very impressed. I bought the Excel and Fundamentals course because I just want to learn how to create some plain vanilla models of my own and so far so good.

The course this thread was about turned out to be absolute garbage. The guy who takes it doesn’t have the best grasp of the english language, and the actual excel files did not match the videos for the financial modelling part of the course (which made it very confusing to follow!). Unfortunately, I will not be able to get a refund either because I didn’t encounter this issue until after I had completed the Excel tutorials first.

To those of you who are considering purchasing the course on Udemy just avoid it. Why CFA have approved this I do not know. It’s of a very poor standard and I am glad I purchased BIWS. Even the accounting fundamentals before the modelling lessons are a fantastic recap of the things I studied for CFA Level 1 and it’s much easier to remember when you actually do this stuff yourself in a more practical sense. Finally I feel I will be able to go into my next investment analyst interview prepared to fully answer how I have properly analysed and valued a company, rather than just talking about key fundamentals I have looked at! I wish I had started this course years ago - I might not have faced all those rejections :frowning:

Cheers for the advice Numi!

#6

So your recommendation would be BIWS?

#7

The good thing about the BIWS marterial is not just the information - Brian’s teaching style is also exceptional. For the money, I’d say it’s a great deal. I’ve sent quite a few students his way, both for his modleing stuff and his networking materials.

#8

There is one more option of the course Financial and valuation modeling provided by eduCBA which is CFA Approved. i had already taken this course although i was not appearing for CFA . I was highly satisfied by this course. This course has helped me to build my carrer. This course has around 20 CE credit hours. A cost effective course. The training material used in this course ia awesome. Pragmmatic approach is used throughout the course.

http://www.educorporatebridge.com/financial-modeling/financial-modeling-courses/financial-and-valuation-modeling/

#9

Would you recommend BIWS for individuals who are not trying to break into Wall St? I live in Canada and I don’t see myself going to an Ivey school any time soon but I would like to learn financial modelling.

I would like to know whether this course is specific to IB or if it can be applied in a broader, more general sense.

#10

One thing I wondered about BIWS, does the O&G module require the excel fundamentals or advanced modeling courses or could a guy just go for O&G and start from scratch?

#11

BIWS course is a good value addition compared to others . So You can go for this.

#12

You can use the products of www.edupristine.com . This is really good . You can try once.

Thanks…

#13

Shameless plug.

#14

Valuation modeling courses is the right, this is realy good course that you can study from Copalinstitute. best one for more details visit http://www.copalinstitute.com/courses/financialcourses/cfa(us)preparatoryclasses.aspx

#15

This company is also providing extremely good product offerings in Gurgaon

www.ciansacademy.com

#16

My CFA society is putting on a 3 day excel workshop and has partnered with the Marquee Group.

Does anyone have experience with something like this?

It is three 8 hour workshops.

First 2 days are financial modelling. 3rd day is data manipulation.

#17

As of the right now, what is the best financial modelling course out there? A friend of mine is looking for courses that contains trading multiples, scenario analysis, dcf etc.

Thanks in advance.

#18

I have seen this link thrown around before. I havent been able to use it yet so I can’t vouch for it. http://asimplemodel.com/

#19

Thanks :slight_smile:

Anymore suggestions?

#20

if you want a regulatory paper here are the UK ones, http://www.financialskillspartnership.org.uk/professional-qualifications-explained/