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”.
the title of the competition I may consider competing in is “Global Case Competition at Harvard”
Q2 Describe the eligibility requirements, if any (e.g., undergraduate college student).
the requirements for this competition are all participants must be undergrad students, form a team of 2-5 people for the competition and purchase a ticket entry that cost roughly 300$ and registrations end at the end of febuary.
Q3 What are the competition criteria?
A three week long case competition whereThe teams will have to perform Industry Analysis, Company Analysis, Financial Analysis & Valuation and work in a dynamic environment in which they will get first-hand experience on investment banking and private equity. At the end of the competition teams will present their findings at a grand final at Harvard University in the presence of first class business executives.
Q4 What is the deadline for the submission?
your presentation must be subitted by march 13th for initial judging then those with the best projects will be asked to present in person at harvard for the final round on april 23-24th
Q5 Why are you interested in this competition?
because the criteria of the project is what i would like to do after im done school because i was to be a financial advisor and learn how to find and interpret the financials of a company to make smart decicions to better a company
Q6 What would be a possible project you may turn in for the competition? Describe it in at least 100 words.
the project is required in a presentation format and provide data to support a logical answer to the question so i would start by recovering industy and company financial data for whatever question my team is asked to answer and compare trends in stock price and other important financials. then use this data to interpret a logical and fact based answer to the question that is being asked
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.
i could use tinyquand functions to get specific financial data for companies and be able to find the data and also create charts and tables to easily compare and contrast data from different companies and also format it to not only interpret but present in my final project that ill submit. this would be very efficient to compare multiple companies on the same platform without having to do individual reasearch on each company and create citations for every individual company.
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.
i can use information and formulas i learned in financial management to interpret the future success of a company and compare the companies success and important financial ratios to the indudry and other competing companies. i can also use knowledge from management and financial accounting classes to interpret balance sheets and income statements to make a more knowledgeable and accurate answer to the question being asked
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/
Momentum Investing with R would be helpful for my likely project to use the functions to help make an informed decision on investment opportunities and risks for companies and also compare multiple companies to make it presentable ands useful in my presentation. Daily Volumes, Holidays and BLS Reports would be another useful resourse in my reasearch to find important “Red Flags” in financial data and make those visible to compare to other companies for the presentation
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.