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Wall Street Journal: Training The Street Releases Relative Valuation Course Pack As Self-Study Product

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Fundamental Subject for Finance Professionals is Another Addition to TTS’s Growing Library

NEW YORK/PRNewswire/ — Training The Street (TTS), a leading corporate training provider for the majority of Wall Street firms and top business schools, today released their Relative Valuation Course Pack as a self-study product. Students and professionals in the financial industry can now use one of TTS’s most popular valuation courses independently on their own schedule. The new course pack supplements the material covered in live courses on the subject, giving students the ability to learn universal techniques in the valuation process freely.

The Relative Valuation package, which includes the 360 page self-study book, Excel models (templates and solutions), step-by-step guides and six months of free access to TTS’s Online Companion, is helpful for research analysts, associates and bankers that need to learn the principals of valuation. The package serves as a reference guide, showing readers where to access to the information they need to conduct relative valuation.

“We’re excited to offer this product as a self-study course, allowing our students to learn the best valuation practices in a way that accommodates their schedules. This package will give those entering a career in banking a major head start in an increasingly competitive environment,” said Billy Chu, Principal at TTS and manager of TTS Self-Study products. “In addition to individual students, our corporate clients will find this book very useful when looking for valuable pre-work assignments for their new employees.”

Some of the topics covered in the new book include:

  • Foundations of public comparables
  • Foundations of acquisition comparables
  • Normalizing and adjusting the income statement
  • Adjusting for restricted stock and restricted stock units
  • Complications such as dual share structures and foreign listed shares
  • How preferred stock, equity in affiliates, noncontrolling interest, and pensions affect valuation
  • Summarizing valuation through a Football Field or floating bar chart

For additional information, please contact Training The Street at 800.887.1320, or visit the website www.trainingthestreet.com.

About Training The Street
Training The Street (TTS) is the world’s leading provider of instructor-led courses in financial modeling and corporate valuation training to Wall Street investment banks, business schools, and top colleges. With offices in the financial hubs across the U.S., as well as an office in London and India, TTS boasts a deep field of expert instructors and extensive practical experience.  Currently, TTS is offering live training programs to interns, analysts and associates at more than 50 banks and corporate businesses, including Wall Street’s ten largest banks, as well the 20 highest ranked MBA programs in the nation.