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Hi experts here I am a undergraduate student who will graduate in the coming June. Recently, after a long and tough road of hunting job, I finally find my interest and decide my long-term career goal. I discover I am interested in marketing, meanwhile dealing with business clients,...
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Possible or...
switch from corp dev to PE or HF?
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Or as a junior officer would i just be setting up latrines and stuff without learning value? Better to go combat arms for leadership xp? Would go combat all else being equal for the cool guy shit they do and to have that experience. Actual title would be quartermaster. I would want to go to...
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I'm interested in trying get a FT consulting offer out of undergrad, but I realize that landing a consulting internship isn't very easy as there so few to go around. While I've heard strategy gigs can be just as selective, because there are a lot more F500 companies than brand-name...
How to Land a Corporate Strategy Internship?
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I am an accounting major and I expect to become a CPA. I do not necessarily want to be a multi million dollar hedge fund manager or anything like that, but from what I expect to do is 200k-400k yearly salary as a CPA obtainable over the course of my career? If so how long? I would be more than...
What can a CPA expect to make?
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Hi all, I was curious if anyone knew any good books on project valuation and or real options. There's tons of stuff out there for business valuation and estimating the value of securities, but I'm also interested in learning how to value various projects that a business might...
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Hey guys, I am trying to decide between a double major in economics and either finance or accounting(Have to choose one of them). I eventually want to end up in corporate finance at a f500 company. Appreciate any...
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If I have monthly returns for 10 different mutual funds, how do I calculate the average standard deviation for all the 10 funds together? Can I use the average return of each month for all the 10 funds or should I calculate the standard deviation of each fund...
Average standard deviation
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Need some advice from finance / corporate guys. Currently a corp dev analyst, recently part of an acquisition of a SaaS technology platform. The GM of that business unit wants me to consider an operations manager position (newly created) to improve business processes, with a strong emphasis on...
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Corporate Finance Interview Questions
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Corporate Strategy - Alcoa?
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what's the difference between shareholders and investors? and whats the difference between board and management in a...
share holders vs investors
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Corporate finance positions in NYC (F500)?
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Hi all, I am currently in my 2nd rotation and will be 'interviewing' for my 3rd in the coming months. Quick question regarding job inquiries in leadership development programs. My program has an internal database which displays all offered rotations for the past 10 years. Each...
FLDP Rotation Question
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Hey guys, I've searched around this board, but was just wondering if we could get some opinions on these ranges for F500 comp.I also would be interested in approximate ranges of years to get to each level. I'm strongly considering an MBA to accelerate my career progression. FA...
F500 Salaries
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Hello, I have 3.8 years of finance experience. I started in Corporate Development right after college. Then I took a position as an FP&A Analyst. I currently have two offers: 1) FP&A for a publicly traded company. This position is similar in to what I am currently doing. This is...
Division FP&A vs. Revenue Management
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Hi, I have returns for 72 months, i.e. 6 years, and I calculated the std deviation using the 72 months of data. To annualize it, I multiplied with the sqr root of 12. But I also calculated the total return for each of the 6 years using the data, and when I calculated the std deviation for the...
Annualizing standard deviation from monthly returns
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IT Corporate Finance Related Role
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