Analyst Training – Valuation

This course introduces the valuation techniques used by analysts – in corporate finance, equity research, fund management, and strategy consulting – in order to value stocks and companies.

It shows how to use financial statements, and more generally business analysis, in order to generate expectations of future performance. It furthermore shows how the value of a stock or a firm in an efficient market reflects expectations of future performance.

More specifically, this course introduces a framework for business analysis and valuation using publicly available information, such as the information contained in financial statements, in order to develop an in-depth analysis of a firm and extract its fundamental value.