Q1 What is the title of the finance student competition you may consider competing? Hint: You may Google search something like “student competitions in finance”.
National Investment Banking Competition
Q2 Describe the eligibility requirements, if any (e.g., undergraduate college student).
All members of the same team must be either all undergraduate or graduate/MBA students All members must be enrolled in the same university either full-time or part-time at the time of registration Professionals & recent graduates who graduated within 3 years of the current calendar year-end may register in a separate category Self registration is open to all students, from any university Team members within one team do not need to be in the same year of study Permission from your respective program offices is not needed to participate Participants from all areas of study are accepted; resources are provided to build a corporate finance skillset
Q3 What are the competition criteria?
teams of 2-4 to sign up early to go through the preparation material:
Competitors receive instant access to tutorials, past examples, financial models and pitchblook templates in the Competitor Portal Competitors receive +100-page case and financial model template once the case is released Teams that sign up during the regular competition fee of $160
Q4 What is the deadline for the submission?
Registrater before December 10 First Round is online in December
Q5 Why are you interested in this competition?
I was drawn to this competition because of the companies that sponosor it. The National investing banking competition is sponsored by 17 investment banks, 12 private equity firms,14 law firms and many more sponsors.
Q6 What would be a possible project you may turn in for the competition? Describe it in at least 100 words.
This competition is a case study. The competition offers courses and practice cases you can do leading up to the competition. The comeptition offers may resocres to its competitors. The investment banking courses is to master financial modeling and company valuation. I can not see what needs to be sent in to this competition unless I register.
Q7 List things that you learned in financial modeling course that could be helpful for your project in Q6. Describe it in at least 100 words.
One of the cases examples the competition gives you is a detailed spread sheet with a ton of equations. I was thinking for this competition I could take what I have learned from R studio to create detail graphs and charts for this case. Making my display as visual appealing as possible which would sperate myself from the other competition.
Q8 List things that you learned in other finance courses at PSU that could be helpful for your project in Q6. Describe it in at least 100 words.
For this competition skills I have learned in this finance class and my others will come into play. However I belive that having the practice of doing cases before will come into play here. Having the experience of understanding what a case will entail will be a great help in this competition.
Q9 Check the finance blog below and see if you see any post that may be helpful for your project in Q6. Discuss how it can be helpful in at least 100 words. Hint: The author of the blog writes articles on financial analysis using R. https://rviews.rstudio.com/categories/reproducible-finance-with-r/
Im sure one of these blogs will help durring this competiton as of right now. However because this is a national competion they do not give an early look at the case study. You will not know what your case topic is until you are registered for the competition. However these blogs are a wonderful rescores to use, especially when it comes to creating graphs.
Q10 List things that you think could be helpful but not taught/offered at PSU finance courses. Discuss how it can be helpful in at least 100 words.
I belive something useful that could be taught at PSU finance courses would be a intro course on taxes. Most college students do not understand taxes and how they work, myself being one of them. Im sure an intro to taxes course would be very benificial to any student at PSU. I would absoultey take an intro to taxes course just to get a basic understand of taxes.