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Welcome! FinancialModelTraining.com now has a blog and we hope to have some interesting articles and guests for you in the coming weeks and months. We have some exciting things happening here and the...
View ArticleShifting Quadrants & Mastering Personal Investment
Everyones money situation is different but one thing we all share is a desire for financial independence and not relying on our paycheck. 'Financial Independence' is certainly an achievable goal given...
View ArticleFinancialModelTraining.com attends RMIT EFMSA BBQ
FinancialModelTraining.com Founder Paul Mason and EFMSA President Ben Litwin In preparation for the workshop Paul has agreed to facilitate for the EFMSA (Economics Finance & Marketing Student...
View ArticleGetting a Graduate Job at an Australian Top 4 Bank – Paul's guide to success
Over the next week, we will release a series of blogs from Paul describing tips on how to get a job at one of Australia's Big 4 Banks. Stay posted - Paul sucessfully interviewed at several of these...
View ArticleGetting a Graduate Job at an Australian Top 4 Bank – Cover Letter, Resume and...
This Post is part of the Australian Big 4 Bank Graduate Job Guide series. Your entry point to the recruitment process. First impressions count, and about half of people who apply at this stage are...
View ArticleGetting a Graduate Job at an Australian Top 4 Bank – Psychometric Testing
This Post is part of the Australian Big 4 Bank Graduate Job Guide series. Psychometric testing is heavily emphasised by all the Big 4 Banks. Each of them will make you take three Psychometric tests:...
View ArticleGetting a Graduate Job at an Australian Top 4 Bank – Group Assessment Lab
This Post is part of the Australian Big 4 Bank Graduate Job Guide series. Each of the Big 4 Bank Graduate Recruitment programs will have a different name for this part of the process, but in essence...
View ArticleGetting a Graduate Job at an Australian Top 4 Bank – Face to Face Interview
This Post is part of the Australian Big 4 Bank Graduate Job Guide series. The Face to Face Interview is the final stage in the recruitment process, and will involve you meeting two people from the...
View ArticleCareers in Australian Finance
Following on from Paul's popular postings on Getting a Graduate Job at an Australian Big 4 Bank, we have a new series of articles covering off what different jobs in Finance involve, which companies in...
View ArticleCareers in Australian Finance - Mergers & Acquisitions
This Post is part of the Careers in Australian Finance series. What is M&A? M&A is a very popular area for graduates to seek employment straight out of a business degree at University. The...
View ArticleCareers in Australian Finance - Corporate Finance & Advisory
This Post is part of the Careers in Australian Finance series. What is Corporate Finance & Advisory? Corporate Finance and Advisory services firms provide a broad range of Financial Services to...
View ArticleCareers in Australian Finance - Accounting Advisory Services
This Post is part of the Careers in Australian Finance series. What is Accounting Advisory Services?Accounting Advisory services is a field that is handled by Accounting Firms (surprise!). However, in...
View ArticleCareers in Australian Finance - Financial Analysis
This Post is part of the Careers in Australian Finance series. What is Financial Analysis?Financial Analysis is a broad-based section of the Finance Industry. Financial Analyst roles are often focussed...
View ArticleCareers in Australian Finance - Equity Research
This Post is part of the Careers in Australian Finance series. What is Equity Research?Equity Research involves researching companies for the purposes of valuing companies and recommending the...
View ArticleCareers in Australian Finance - Private Equity & Venture Capital
This Post is part of the Careers in Australian Finance series. What is Private Equity & Venture CapitalPrivate Equity and Venture Capital Firms are very similar types of firms that focus on...
View ArticleCareers in Australian Finance - Relationship Banking
This Post is part of the Careers in Australian Finance series. What is Relationship Banking?Relationship Bankers are people who manage the relationship between Corporate and Institutional Clients and...
View ArticleRMIT Workshop slides
Last week we did a series of workshops for RMIT university covering graduate employment in Australian Finance. Here are the slides from the 3 presentations. 1. Getting a Job at a Big 4 Bank - first two...
View ArticleCalculating the Cost of Capital: Issues in Practice
This blog series is going to discuss two distinct issues related to the calculation of the Cost of Capital for a company (its WACC): Whether the WACC should vary or stay the same throughout a forecast...
View ArticleCalculating the Cost of Capital: Issues in Practice, Part 2
This post is the second part of our Calculating the cost of capital series In our Primer, Level 1 and Level 2 Financial Modeling Courses, we teach students to use a variable Cost of Capital when...
View ArticleCalculating the Cost of Capital: Issues in Practice, Part 3. DCF Excel...
This post is the final part of our Calculating the cost of capital series Is CAPM an appropriate tool for measuring the Cost of Equity, and are there any alternatives I can learn about to boost my...
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