The Wall Street Club, BITS, Pilani Learning Objectives Delivery Mode Workshop Outline

2-Days Workshop on

Advanced MS-Excel & Financial Modeling

Learning Key Functions & Utilities, Data Analysis Tools in MS-Excel Understanding Financial Statements (Balance Sheet, Income Statement and Cash Flow) Building a Financial model in MS-Excel for evaluation Overview of the Banking & Financial Services Industry and Career Options in Finance MS-Excel based cases & exercises on functional needs Building a Financial Model based on a Case Study

Discussion on a Business Model of a real-life Indian Financial Conglomerate

Session 1: MS-Excel Exploring the MS-Excel screen and effective use of Keyboard Shortcuts Excel Utilities & Tools: Cell Formatting, Custom Formats, Data Protection, Paste Special, Cell & Range Naming, Views (Freeze-Unfreeze, Group-Ungroup, New Window), Formula Checking, Function Keys: F2 (Cell Modes); F4 (Cell Referencing), F5 (Go-To Tool), F9 (Evaluating a Formula) Excel Functions Library: Mathematical (SUMIF(S), SUBTOTAL); Statistical (COUNTIF(S), AVERAGE, MAX, MIN); Logical (IF, Nested IF, AND, OR, Boolean Logic); Date (EDATE, EOMONTH); Financial (PMT, IRR and XIRR, NPV and XNPV); Lookup & Reference (CHOOSE, VLOOKUP / HLOOKUP (Dynamic VLOOKUP) MATCH, INDEX, OFFSET) Array Calculations that allow shorter formulas Data Analysis Tools like Text-to-column; Advanced Filtering, Data Validation; What-If analysis; Goal Seek, Solver utility, Data Tables for sensitivity analysis

Session 2: Corporate Finance Fundamentals Financial Statements Overview: (a) Income Statement (b) Balance Sheet (c) Cash Flow Statement Understanding the Linkage between Financial Statements Ratio Analysis: Profitability, Turnover (Efficiency), Leverage, Return, etc.

Session 3: Financial Modeling Classroom Exercise Best Practices in Financial Modeling, Preparing Income Statement, Balance Sheet & Cash Flow Statement Calculations such Historical Trends, Depreciation, Working Capital) Calculating Financial Ratios, Balancing the Model, Dealing with Circular References

Session 4: BFSI Industry Overview & Career Options in Finance Understanding the BFSI Industry Structure, i.e. Banks, NBFCs, Insurance, others Discussion on a Business Model / Structure of a real-life Indian Financial Conglomerate: o Investment Banking (including Merchant Banking)

o Institutional Sales / Broking (including Equity Research)

o Retail Broking, Asset Management, Wealth Management

Other Details

Duration: Approx. 12-14 Hour Workshop (over 2 Days) at BITS, Pilani Campus Requirements: Laptops (At least 1 for every 2 participants) to be arranged by the participants Fees: Rs. 750/- per participant

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