Trending Content - Private Equity Forum
Career Resources
WSO Free Modeling Series - Now Open Through
November 30, 2026
9 Free Financial Modeling Lessons
Get instant access to lessons taught by experienced private equity pros and bulge bracket investment bankers including financial statement modeling, DCF, M&A, LBO, Comps and Excel Modeling.
+Bonus: Get 27 financial modeling templates in swipe file
+Bonus: Get 27 financial modeling templates in swipe file
High Finance Applications
Guaranteed
Get at least one offer GUARANTEED
- 1:1 support
- 92% success rate
- 2,000+ mentor network
- Unlimited Live bootcamps
- AI for resume + LinkedIn
- Networking automation tools
- HireVue simulation tool
- Full course library
- Private Slack community
- 20hrs of mocks
- + much more...
Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division are all good to know. Sometimes you'll need to put things in parenthesis or use exponents too.
I gave it an SB to even the score. 99% of PE math is the four basic operators. Occasionally you'll have to google a formula (like predicting inv/ar/ap from days, or remembering how to calc CAGR, etc), but the math of it isn't particularly difficult.
I will say that it's good to have a college level understanding of statistics, if only because it helps you interpret data in an intellectually honest way.
Non modi praesentium praesentium sit numquam voluptatem. Occaecati porro amet ea eos et nostrum similique. Id ut sit et qui ut. Praesentium neque itaque at aut. Vel cum sapiente tempora eaque perferendis. Nihil et dolores dolor assumenda hic. Dolor qui corporis qui accusamus. Aut harum quis doloribus.
See All Comments - 100% Free
WSO depends on everyone being able to pitch in when they know something. Unlock with your email and get bonus: 6 financial modeling lessons free ($199 value)
or Unlock with your social account...