About the Authors
Matan Feldman is Founder and CEO of Wall Street Prep, a provider of step-by-step self-study courses and customized university and corporate training seminars in financial accounting, corporate finance, financial modeling, valuation modeling, and M&A modeling. Before Wall Street Prep, he has worked as an Equity Research Associate at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and as a Financial Analyst in the M&A group at Chase Manhattan Bank. He received an MA in Economics with Honors from Boston University.
Arkady Libman is the Managing Director of Wall Street Prep. Before Wall Street Prep, he has worked as an Equity Research Associate at Friedman Billings Ramsey & Co. and as an Investment Banking Analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co. Arkady completed coursework at the London School of Economics and graduated with Honors from Bowdoin College with a BA in Economics.
Established by investment bankers, Wall Street Prep is a global full-service financial training firm, providing self-study programs as well as instructor-led training and e-learning services to investment banks, financial institutions, Fortune 1000 companies, and academic institutions.
Self-Study Programs Available Online (www.wallstreetprep.com)
Crash Course in Reading and Analyzing Financial Reports
Learn to navigate through and make sense of the most ubiquitous financial reports, such as the 10-K, 10-Q, 8-K, S-4, S-1, and many others.
Learn to recognize patterns in the structure of the various financial reports to improve efficiency on the job.
Taught using clear, easy-to-follow materials that bridge academic concepts with real-life applications and filled with exercises that test and reinforce covered concepts.
Crash Course in Finance
Understand various methodologies used to analyze capital projects.
Learn to derive the value of stocks and bonds.
Understand the cost of debt, the cost of equity, and the weighted average cost of capital.
Crash Course in Excel for Finance
Learn Excel Basics—menu commands, data manipulation, and formatting.
Gain Excel proficiency—calculations, functions, formulas, and Excel best practices.
Understand advanced Excel features—data tables and macros.
Step-by-Step Financial Modeling
Simulate on-the-job financial modeling using our tutorial materials and Excel model templates.
Build, understand, analyze, and interpret complex financial earnings models.
Step-by-step instructions on building projections of financial statements.
Step-by-Step Advanced Valuation Modeling
Learn Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) modeling, Leveraged Buyout (LBO) analysis, M&A analysis, comparable company analysis (“Comps”), and comparable transaction analysis.
Step-by-step instruction on building, understanding, analyzing, and interpreting applications of traditional valuation methodologies the way it is done in the finance industry.