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10 Online Finance Courses You Can Pursue During The Lockdown

We are currently in a state of lockdown. So are other states, countries, etc. With the coronavirus influenced pandemic, schools and colleges seem to have shut their doors. As an MBA aspirant or student, you must be intimately familiar with the repercussions of this lockdown. Your b-school GD-WAT-PIs, summer internships and jobs are all indefinitely delayed in many cases. While the situation looks bleak, there’s also a silver lining. You have the ability to utilise this time to learn a new skill or fine-tune your old ones. So how do you do that? One option is taking an online course. To help you along, today we list down a few online finance courses that you can pursue to use your time more productively. From personal finance to financial modeling, find a little something for your expertise level here. So read on!

Upasna Doshi31 Mar 2020

How I Got A Job Offer From Goldman Sachs, Ft. Maharshi Chhaya, IIM Shillong

Do you aspire to get into a top company like Goldman Sachs? What do you think it takes to get there? You not only have to clear the selection process but once you're there, you have to prove your mettle. In this video, we spoke to Maharshi Chhaya, a student of IIM Shillong, who not only got placed in Goldman Sachs for his summer internship but also got a PPO at the end of it. What did Maharshi do during his internship that got him the coveted offer? Watch the video to find out!

Team InsideIIM18 Mar 2020

IIM Shillong Interview Experience Ft. Anvita Gupta, CA

What does it take to get into IIM Shillong? How can you prepare for the questions your interviewers might ask? In this video, we spoke to Anvita Gupta, a Chartered Accountant from Lucknow who recognised early on that she had an inclination for numbers and finance. She decided she wanted to do an MBA in Finance, and so began preparing for CAT with the aim of getting into an IIM. She utilized her strengths to drive her interview in her favour, ultimately converting her IIM Shillong call.

Team InsideIIM12 Mar 2020

Risk & Return Explained | Learning IRL By ABGLP

Interested in a finance career? Whether you aspire to become an investment banker, a consultant or play the markets game, you need to have really strong basics. A grounding in accounting and finance basics is a pre-requisite for most of the coveted finance jobs out there after all. If you're a CA, CFA (candidate too) or a commerce student, you probably know this stuff. But for the rest of us mere mortals, far removed from the world of finance jargon, these concepts are like Greek & Latin. So today, we take a few minutes to deconstruct a basic finance concept for you. Check out this explanation on how the concepts of Risk & Return work and brush up on your basics today!

InsideIIM Career Services07 Mar 2020

A Day In The Life of A Banker-Fixed Income, Currencies, Commodities - Anchit Desai, Bank of America

In this 2nd part of his talk, Anchit Desai, Director - Fixed Income and FX Sales, Bank of America (also an IIT Bombay and IIM Ahmedabad alumnus) takes us through just what it is that he does. From managing sales for fixed income, currencies and commodities, to touching upon the famous market crash of 2010 to explaining why trading actually happens in banks, Anchit tells us all. If you want to know the difference between what an equities department and FICC departments do at banks, or what it takes to succeed in a finance role, this is a must-watch for you. Meanwhile, would you like to attend a Konversations Cafe event? Well, we have good news! Konversations Cafe is coming to Delhi on 14th March! To register, click here.

Team InsideIIM04 Mar 2020

The Rules Of Financial Planning Deconstructed | Learning IRL By ABGLP

If finance is your dream domain, and you see yourself as a future consultant, banker or investor, you need to first start small. You need to keep in mind world economy, politics, popular trade trends, et al. in order to successfully build a career in the world of finance. Take the Coronavirus for example. It has dealt a blow to international trade as well global companies operating out of China. International trends have a pesky way of affecting the smallest individual. Which means, in order to truly understand the concepts of finance, you need to know the basic tenets of personal finance and investments too. Which is why, in this month's version of Aliensplained, aliens Flub and Perp talk about an important concept that you must know during summer internship interviews (and life!), the concept of financial planning. In association with ABGLP, as a part of the Learning #IRL series, we bring you a fresh concept comic strip - Aliensplained.

Team InsideIIM22 Feb 2020

MBA Is An Experience; Not Just A Degree - Amit Grover, IIM Indore, IIT Delhi

From corporate finance and angel investments to entrepreneurship. From getting checks signed for budding startups to starting up oneself. Sounds poetic right? But that’s just what Amit Grover, IIM Indore and IIT Delhi Alum, Founder of AHA Taxis did. In this video, he answers various questions from how an MBA adds value to your career to how angel investors work and the logic behind investment decisions. If you want to know how a successful entrepreneur thinks and what it takes to excel in a career, this is a must watch.

Team InsideIIM20 Feb 2020

Important Finance Concepts You Must Know For Your MBA Interviews

After clearing the GD-WAT round, comes the personal interview round. If you ace that, nothing can stop you from scoring a seat in your dream b-school. And because Personal Interview is the ultimate ‘make it or break it’ round you will have to study extra hard, especially, for if you are opting for MBA with Finance specialisation. How do you prepare yourself for a finance interview? Do you know what finance is? Are there any concepts that you might need to learn? And how do you answer ‘Why finance’ questions? Read this article to get all the answers.

Poonam Das17 Feb 2020