URGENT: What is first year analyst expected to know by end of year1??
What are the main things a first year analyst should know or get to know? only cash flow model?valuation? Appreciate your thoughts
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Perhaps because I’m in an m&a group but by the end of my first I could build out a dcf/lbo/merger model from scratch and all my peers as well.
Granted formatting could use some help and its not the most complex model but that isnt too hard after 1 year of working
Like without any resources or refresher? That's a little exaggerating because I'm an Associate and there's no way I could build any of those three without looking at templates. I get the overall goals and things we're trying to accomplish with them but not the nitty gritty.
Understand a model built from scratch isn’t going to be perfect but if you did any sort of buy-side recruiting building an 3-hr LBO you can build most of it from scratch although of course well need tweaking once its done/being built.
Will admit merger models its nice to have prior templates/resources and not as straightforward (for myself) than LBOs/dcfs
Everything.
You should be able to get Tim Cook on the phone and close a deal in 30 minutes.
following... ^ What should an industry coverage group analyst expect to know by the end of year 1?
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