The Complete Investment Banking

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Medium of instructions English
Mode of learning Self study
Mode of Delivery Video and Text Based

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The syllabus

Welcome! Course Introduction

  • What does the course cover?
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The ascendance of investment banking services

  • The importance of history, name, tradition and reputation
  • Early origins of investment banking services
  • What is the difference between commercial and investment banking?
  • Why do universal banks have a competitive advantage?
  • Intrinsic conflicts of interest and the role of Chinese walls
  • Quiz #1
  • Historical M&A waves
  • Three of the most important IPOs in history

The four main areas of investment banking activity

  • Capital markets - raising equity and debt capital
  • Advisory – M&A and Restructuring services
  • Trading and Brokerage – trading with financial securities
  • Asset management – the ability to use money to make more money
  • Quiz #2

Strategies pursued by investment banks

  • Strategies pursued by investment banks
  • Relationship vs transaction-based banking
  • The accidental investment banker - Book recommendation

Capital Markets - Equity capital markets

  • Why would a company want to go public?
  • Who are the investors in an IPO?
  • Coming up with a share price
  • What does an IPO timetable look like?
  • The IPO syndicate – members and responsibilities
  • The pricing process
  • Fee distribution among investment banks
  • Allocating shares to investors – who gets what
  • Taking a long and short position with respect to a security (definition)
  • Post-IPO stabilization: Applying the Greenshoe option
  • Greenshoe explained – Practical example
  • Other ways to place equity capital – SEOs and private placements
  • Facebook's IPO - Case study
  • Course Challenge #1 - IPO
  • Quiz #3

Capital Markets - Debt capital markets

  • The four different types of bonds
  • Why issue a bond?
  • The mechanics of a bond offering. Process description
  • A particular type of bonds - Junk bonds
  • What is securitization and why can it be useful?
  • Securitization - explained
  • Asset-backed securities: An example of securitization
  • Loan syndication – a preferred instrument for most banks nowadays
  • Project finance
  • Course challenge #2 - Debt offerings
  • Quiz #4

Advisory services - Mergers & acquisitions

  • Why acquire another company?
  • Describing the typical deal lifecycles and buyer companies
  • The three types of M&A processes
  • A detailed description of an M&A process
  • Valuation of target companies
  • Payment Options in M&A deals
  • Financial vs. Corporate buyers
  • Course challenge #3 - M&A
  • Quiz #5

Advisory services - Restructuring

  • Restructuring services – why and when
  • The different types of Restructuring
  • Course Challenge #4 - Restructuring
  • Quiz #6

Trading and Brokerage

  • How investment banks profit from Trading and Brokerage
  • The different types of financial securities traded by investment banks
  • Quiz #7

Asset Mangement

  • Why hire Investment banks as asset managers?
  • A risk-return comparison of different investments
  • Private equity funds
  • Quiz #8

A step-by-step guide to Company Valuation

  • Why value a company?
  • How much is a company worth for an investor?
  • The two variables that drive a firm’s value
  • The mechanism of Unlevered cash flow calculation
  • Introducing a discount factor – Weighted average cost of capital
  • Calculating a firm's cost of debt
  • Calculating a firm’s cost of equity
  • How to find the beta for an unlisted firm?
  • Estimating a company’s future cash flows
  • The two stages of a DCF model
  • Discounting cash flows and terminal value
  • Calculating enterprise and equity value

Financial modeling fundamentals

  • What is a financial model?
  • Why use a financial model?
  • Inefficient financial modeling practices
  • Efficient financial modeling practices
  • Different types of financial models we can build
  • The right level of detail we should use when building a 5 or 10-year model
  • The right way to approach the forecasting exercise
  • Building complete financial models
  • Forecasting P&L items
  • Forecasting Balance sheet items (1/2)
  • Forecasting Balance sheet items (2/2)

DCF Valuation - Introduction

  • How to value a company - Introduction
  • The stages of a complete DCF Valuation
  • Let's go through the structure of the DCF model we will create in Excel
  • A glimpse at the company we are valuing - Cheeseco

DCF Valuation - Forecasting of Key P&L items

  • Modeling the top line
  • Building flexible financial models in Excel
  • Modeling other items: Other revenues and Cogs
  • Modeling other items: Operating expenses and D&A
  • Modeling Other Items: Interest expenses, Extraordinary items and Taxes

DCF Valuation - Forecasting Key Balance Sheet items

  • How to forecast Balance Sheet items - the clear and practical way
  • A key concept for finance practitioners - the "Days" methodology
  • How to calculate "Days"
  • How to use "Days" to project the future development of BS items
  • Forecasting Property, plant & equipment, Other assets and Other liabilities

DCF Valuation - Creating clean output sheets

  • Excel best practices! Create a good-looking and clean output sheet in your model
  • Putting what we learned into practice - Populating the P&L sheet
  • How to create a clean output Balance Sheet in your Financial Model
  • Completing the output BS sheet for the historical period

DCF Valuation - Calculating unlevered cash flows and Net cash flow

  • Learn how to calculate Unlevered free cash flows
  • Important! Reconcile UFCF to Net cash flow
  • A very useful lesson! Cash flow calculation
  • Arriving to actual Net cash flow figures and performing a check with cash
  • A fast and effective way to modify multiple cell references in Excel

DCF Valuation - Calculating present value of cash flows in the forecast period

  • Introducing weighted average cost of capital (WACC) and perpetuity growth rate
  • Learn how to find the present value of future Cash Flows in Financial Models

DCF Valuation - Calculating Continuing value, Enterprise value and Equity value

  • Calculating Continuing value and Enterprise value of the business
  • Final steps! Calculating Equity value of the business

DCF Valuation - Aditional analysis accompanying the Financial Model

  • Sensitivity analysis for WACC and perpetuity growth
  • An application of Goal seek
  • Recap of the financial model with charts and hypothesis testing

Tesla Valuation - Complete DCF exercise

  • Organizing external inputs in a 'Drivers' sheet
  • The input data we will work with
  • Forecasting Tesla's expected deliveries
  • Comparing delivery figures with the ones of industry peers
  • Estimating an average selling price of Tesla vehicles
  • Calculating automotive revenue
  • Peer comparison: Gross profit %
  • Calculating automotive gross profit
  • Calculating automotive cost of sales
  • Forecasting 'energy' and 'services' revenue
  • Calculating 'energy' and 'services' gross profit and cost of sales
  • Forecasting operating expenses
  • Building a fixed asset roll forward: estimating Capex
  • Building a fixed asset roll forward: D&A schedule
  • Peer comparison: D&A as a percentage of revenues
  • Calculating DSO, DIO, DPO
  • Producing a clean P&L output sheet
  • Fill in the P&L output sheet
  • Calculating investments in working capital
  • Forecasting Unlevered free cash flow
  • Forecasting other assets
  • Forecasting other liabilities
  • Completing Unlevered free cash flow
  • Modeling Tesla's financing needs in the forecast period
  • Calculating Net income
  • Bridging Unlevered Free cash flow to Net cash flow
  • Balancing the Balance sheet
  • Estimating Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)
  • Performing Discounted cash flow valuation (DCF)
  • Calculating enterprise value, equity value, and price per share
  • Closing remarks

Relative valuation - triangulating DCF results with multiples

  • Why do we use multiples?
  • What types of multiples are there?
  • Finding the right comparable companies
  • The most widely used multiples
  • Best practices that ensure accurate calculation of multiples

A guide to Leveraged Buyouts

  • What is an LBO?
  • The phases of an LBO process
  • When is an LBO a feasible option?
  • Making money in an LBO
  • Who are the lenders in an LBO?

LBO Valuation - Building a Leveraged Buyout (LBO) model from scratch

  • Introduction to the model we will build
  • Establishing the maximum amount of debt that can be used in the transaction
  • Financial sponsors’ perspective
  • Forecasting financials until EBIT
  • The optimal debt structure
  • Estimating cash flows and debt payments
  • Completing the model for the period 2018-2021
  • Calculating Enterprise value and IRR
  • Performing sensitivity analysis

Interview Preparation

  • Career guide and frequently asked interview questions

Who Does What in Finance?

  • Who Does What in Finance?

Bonus Lecture

  • Bonus lecture: Next steps

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