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What is VBA for Excel? Here’s Everything You Need To Know

Peak Frameworks

How VBA Enhances Excel's Capabilities While Excel has built-in functions and features that cater to financial analysis, VBA extends its capabilities by allowing you to create custom functions and user interfaces. In 2015, Goldman Sachs used VBA to automate the process of updating pitch books, cutting the time spent on the task by 50%.

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Wealth Management vs. Investment Banking: Career Deathmatch

Mergers and Inquisitions

The Nature of the Work: Markets, Analysis, Sales, and Interpersonal Skills Wealth management (WM) requires broader knowledge of the financial markets since you may have to advise clients on everything from their portfolio allocations to upcoming tax changes. Think: benchmarking portfolios rather than modeling companies.

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Renewable Energy Investment Banking: How to Make Greens by Going Green

Mergers and Inquisitions

Per FTI Consulting , solar, wind, and “portfolio” (mixed asset) deals account for 60% of renewable M&A activity in the U.S.: So, even if you’re advising entire companies, you must still be familiar with asset-level modeling and valuation and how an entire portfolio works. What Do You Do as an Analyst or Associate?

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How to raise pre-seed funding

Growth Business

Pre-seed funding is there to build the foundations of your business before you move on to your subsequent funding rounds. It can give you a boost to develop early-stage versions of your product and/or build your team, as well as giving you some steer with the strategy in your firm’s infancy. “I What can I use the funding for?

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Metals & Mining Investment Banking: The Full Guide to Ground Zero for the Energy Transition

Mergers and Inquisitions

Diversified Miners – These companies have a wide global portfolio of mines, and they extract, produce, and distribute just about every metal in the two categories above. On the producer side, you can see how much they spend to build new plants, factories, and processing centers.