Business Mechanics
Master Business Analysis with a few simple frameworks to help you shortcut your first 5-10 years of learning on the job.
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Common Threads of Business
People vs. Numbers
The Business Machine
Cash Flow is THE Driver
Burn it In! + Test Your Skills!
3 Levels of Analysis - Intro
Industry-Level Analysis
Customer/Unit-Level Analysis
Company-Level Analysis
Framework Intro
Framework vs. Accounting
Burn It In!
Defining the Customers in Real Life
Revenue Build Mechanics
Volume Mechanics
Price Mechanics
Burn it In! + Test Your Skills!
Product/Service Costs in Real Life
Product/Service Cost Mechanics
Fixed/Variable Dynamics
Gross Profit Mechanics
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Selling + Overhead Cost In Real Life
Selling + Overhead Cost Mechanics
Fixed/Variable Dynamics & Operating Leverage
Selling + Overhead Wrap-Up
Burn it In! + Test Your Skills!
Net Working Capital Mechanics
Working Capital in Real Life
CapEx in Real Life
CapEx Mechanics
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Intro - Predictability
Range of Outcomes
Visibility Drivers
Good vs Bad Business
Burn It In!
Application #1: Business Analysis (Continued)
Application #2: Interpret the Numbers
Application #3: Industry Pricing Power + Trajectory
Application #4: Good vs Bad Business
Wrap-Up
Bypass 5-10 years of on-the-job buyside training in just a few hours.
No equivalent course.
Comprehensive framework to analyze any business.
No equivalent course.
Gain confidence in making assumptions in a Financial Model.
No equivalent course.
If you have some knowledge of Accounting Fundamentals, you will undoubtedly get more out of this course, but it's not required.
The framework from this course will help you to maneuver much more effectively in any Investment Banking or Private Equity interview. In particular, you will have a significant edge over other candidates if you are asked to work through business cases which are very common in Private Equity interviews and pop up in tough Investment Banking interviews.
In Private Equity, you need to break down businesses and analyze them every day. This course gives you a comprehensive framework to help you attack business analysis in a structured way and to present your findings with confidence. In Investment Banking, the best analysts operate like they are on the Buy Side before they get there. This course will allow you to break down and understand businesses like a pro, while your peers will be simply punching numbers into Excel.