What you should know before you join a corp fin/dev gig

What are some of the core finance skill-sets and tool-kits that you must be absolutely familiar with before you join a corp fin or corp Dev. gig at a fin. services firm while already studying at a B-School? Valuation ? Modeling? What else ?

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