Looking to break into investment banking? Anxiously preparing for corporate finance interviews? Want to jump start mastering financial modeling so you can hit the ground running in your new job?

The stakes are high, because salaries for entry-level analysts and associates in banking and finance are lucrative — often $110,000 – $230,000 or more annually when combining base and bonus. That’s 2 – 5x the national household median income coming straight out of college or grad school.

Succeeding in finance requires strong analytical skills in analyzing and valuing companies. This demands a strong understanding of the mechanics and business judgment involved in modeling financial statements and discounted cash flows.

The good news is: financial modeling and discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis are highly trainable skills. The bad news is: Wall Street modeling classes can cost thousands for just a one-day class.

That’s where our training videos come in. 

Using a well-known public company as our case study — Chipotle Mexican Grill — our 3 Statement and DCF Modeling Video Training Course provides hands-on, “roll-up-your-sleeves,” step-by-step training — at lower cost than competing courses.

We teach you how to build fully integrated financial and valuation models, just like the live classes. But there’s no risk of “falling behind,” because you can learn at your own pace and watch our examples as many times as you need to master financial modeling.

Our training videos focus on critical tactical knowledge and skills, making it the perfect solution for fast learners with no prior finance experience, or experienced candidates who need a financial modeling refresher.

We will teach you how to:

• Build a fully integrated 3 statement financial model in Excel
• Build a DCF analysis using both perpetuity growth and EBITDA multiple methods
• Build detailed supporting schedules linking back to the 3 statements
• Analyze a public company 10-K filing to efficiently extract data needed for your model
• Troubleshoot your model accurately and efficiently when accounts don’t balance or reconcile
• Understand key concepts related to depreciation, amortization, goodwill, circularity, unlevered vs. levered cash flow, terminal value, weighted average cost of capital, capital asset pricing model, and enterprise vs. equity value
• Think intuitively about financial statement mechanics, analysis, and corporate valuation
• Model very efficiently using Excel shortcuts

Check out our course syllabus below and watch the first financial modeling training video here for free! We’ve now also made our second training video free as well.

We also offer DCF + LBO discount combo packages.

3-STATEMENT MODELING TUTORIAL VIDEOS (PRO PLAN)

3-statement modeling overview: building a fully integrated 3-statement model of a lemonade stand

1. Financial statement analysis: overview
2. Lemonade stand model: income statement template
3. Lemonade stand model: balance sheet and cash flow statement templates
4. Lemonade stand model: COGS
5. Lemonade stand model: building the income statement to the EBITDA line
6. Lemonade stand model: building the income statement to the EBIT line
7. Lemonade stand model: building the income statement to the net income line
8. Lemonade stand model: building the balance sheet
9. Lemonade stand model: building the cash flow statement
10. Finishing the lemonade stand model
11. Lemonade stand model: learning points recap

Plus: Finished 3-statement lemonade stand model in Google Spreadsheets

Using Excel like a boss: 

1. Number formats
2. Summary of key shortcuts
3. Excel shortcuts: demo 1
4. Excel shortcuts: demo 2
5. Excel shortcuts: demo 3
6. Excel shortcuts: demo 4
7. Excel shortcuts: demo 5

Building a fully integrated 3-statement financial model of Chipotle Mexican Grill: 

1. Overview and learning goals for this course
2. How the 3 financial statements link together
3. Building out the core statements: learning goals and steps
4. Overview of Chipotle’s 10-K
5. Building the income statement template to the EBITDA line
6. Building the rest of the income statement template
7. Building the balance sheet template
8. Building the cash flow statement template
9. Bringing in historical financials: overview
10. Bringing in historical financials to the EBITDA line
11. Bringing in the rest of the historical financials
12. Formatting historical financials on the income statement
13. Calculating historical ratios and drivers on the income statement
14. Bringing in historical financials onto the balance sheet
15. Formatting historical financials on the balance sheet
16. Forecasting ratios and drivers on the income statement
17. Forecasting the income statement to the EBITDA line
18. Working capital schedule: overview and steps
19. Building the working capital schedule template
20. Bringing in historical data into the working capital schedule
21. Calculating historical ratios and drivers on the working capital schedule
22. Forecasting ratios and drivers on the working capital schedule
23. Forecasting account balances on the working capital schedule
24. Linking the working capital schedule back to the core statements
25. Depreciation, amortization, and indefinite-life intangibles
26. Goodwill
27. Building the depreciation & amortization schedule template
28. Bringing in historical data into the depreciation & amortization schedule template
29. Forecasting the depreciation & amortization schedule
30. Linking the depreciation & amortization schedule back to the core statements
31. Other long-term items: overview and steps
32. Building the other long-term items schedule template
33. Bringing in historical data into the other long-term items schedule
34. Calculating ratios and drivers on the other long-term items schedule
35. Forecasting asset account balances on the other long-term items schedule
36. Forecasting liability account balances on the other long-term items schedule
37. Linking the other long-term items schedule back to the core statements
38. Finishing the income statement logic: overview and steps
39. Finishing the income statement logic: implementation
40. Shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule: overview and steps
41. Building the shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule template
42. Bringing in historical data into the shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule
43. Pulling 10-K data into the shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule
44. Forecasting account balances on the shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule: Part 1
45. Forecasting account balances on the shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule: Part 2
46. Forecasting account balances on the shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule: Part 3
47. Linking the shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule back to the core statements: Part 1
48. Linking the shareholders’ equity & shares outstanding schedule back to the core statements: Part 2
49. Preparing for the debt & interest schedule: overview and steps
50. Preparing for the debt & interest schedule: implementation
51. Building the debt & interest schedule: overview and steps
52. Building the debt & interest schedule template
53. Building the debt & interest schedule waterfall
54. Building the debt & interest schedule: long-term debt
55. Building the debt & interest schedule: revolving credit facility
56. Building the debt & interest schedule: calculating net interest expense
57. Linking the debt & interest schedule back to the core statements
58. Dealing with circularity in the model
59. Why doesn’t it balance? Reconciling the balance sheet: Part 1
60. Why doesn’t it balance? Reconciling the balance sheet: Part 2
61. Why doesn’t it balance? Reconciling the balance sheet: Part 3
62. Why doesn’t it balance? Reconciling the balance sheet: other tips
63. Finishing the integrated 3-statement model

DCF MODELING TUTORIAL VIDEOS

Layering a DCF analysis on a fully integrated 3-statement financial model of Chipotle Mexican Grill: 

1. Discounted cash flow analysis: overview
2. “Free cash flow to the firm” or “free cash flow to equity”?
3. Terminal value
4. Weighted average cost of capital
5. Capital asset pricing model
6. Present value
7. Equity value
8. Building the DCF template
9. Deriving tax-affected EBIT
10. Calculating unlevered free cash flow to the firm
11. Setting up the weighted average cost of capital template
12. Calculating the component rates of weighted average cost of capital
13. Finishing the weighted average cost of capital calculation
14. Calculating terminal value: perpetuity growth method
15. Calculating terminal value: EBITDA multiple method
16. Finishing the discounted cash flow analysis

FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

Q. Will these training videos really help me succeed in my banking interviews and help me hit the ground running in my finance job? 

Nailing investment banking and corporate finance interviews and succeeding in a high-pressure finance job from Day 1 requires a strong understanding of key finance, accounting, and corporate valuation principles. Having the technical training and skills to confidently build 3-statement models and DCF valuations and critically analyze and evaluate companies is the key skill set that will distinguish you in interviews and help you excel in the job. This is why it’s critical to develop a rock-solid understanding of how to model and forecast financial statements and value companies accurately and efficiently in Excel.

That’s where our videos come in. We walk you step-by-step through the process of building fully integrated financial and valuation models. With our Pro Plan, we first start with an overview on financial statement analysis and then immediately apply those principles to building a simplified, but fully integrated, 3-statement model of a lemonade stand business. With this simplified example, we cover all the key concepts of interlinking and forecasting the 3 statements, which helps you understand the intuition and logic of how the core financial statements fit together. This provides a strong foundation for us to build a full-fledged 3-statement model using a public company 10-K in the next part of the course. We also show you how to maximize your efficiency in Excel using important shortcuts and techniques.

We then extend the knowledge from our simple 3-statement example and actually build a fully integrated financial model of Chipotle Mexican Grill, complete with detailed supporting schedules that link back into the core statements, as well as a discounted cash flow analysis that evaluates free cash flow using both the perpetuity growth method and the EBITDA multiple method. We do this step-by-step from the ground up starting from a blank Excel sheet, with no custom plugins or macros, so that everyone is on a level playing field. We also provide plenty of visual explanations of key finance concepts to augment your understanding of financial modeling, including deep-dives on depreciation, amortization, goodwill, circularity, unlevered vs. levered cash flow, terminal value, weighted average cost of capital, the capital asset pricing model, and enterprise vs. equity value. And we even provide troubleshooting tips on how to efficiently and accurately diagnose problems in your model when accounts don’t balance or reconciliations don’t tie.

These are key skills you will need to succeed in a high-stakes finance job. And we show you step-by-step exactly how to develop, strengthen, and master those skills so that you are in the best position to nail your finance interviews and hit the ground running in your new job.

Q. Is it worth it to pay $200+ for the training videos?

We feel strongly that our training videos offer tremendous value for motivated banking and finance job candidates.

Quite simply, the stakes for success or failure in your finance interviews and job performance are high. Salaries for entry-level banking analysts and associates span anywhere from $110,000 annually on the low-end to $230,000 or more annually on the high-end, when factoring in base and bonus together. That’s 2 – 5x the national household median income — all for a finance job candidate coming straight out of college or grad school. After you’ve been in the job for a few years, moreover, compensation can quickly increase to many hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.

That means your investment in yourself through purchasing our training videos will pay off hundreds of times over in your first year on the job alone, and that only goes up when you evaluate your long-term future earnings after getting your foot in the door.

So the risk of not being totally prepared, either for your interviews or for your first 100 days on the job itself, can be very costly because it could mean blowing an important chance to build a lucrative career in finance — and the large paydays that come with it.

So ask yourself, how much is it worth it to not be totally prepared for your break into the finance field, and potentially messing up a great career opportunity?

By contrast, how much is it worth it to invest in yourself by purchasing our training videos and potentially winning a lucrative banking or finance job? Think about it this way: with your new finance salary, you can earn back your investment in our training videos in just your first DAY on the job — with more than enough left over to buy your friends and family a beer to celebrate!

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