Investment Banking Certification: Online
The Investment Banking Certificate (IBC) is a professional designation in 4 core disciplines in business and finance given by the New York Institute of Finance (NYIF). The IBC designation is an online 70-hour program comprised of on-demand, self-paced learning. You will learn directly from industry experts, market practitioners, and seasoned finance professionals about business finance, valuation, and investment banking.
The IBC program is designed at a graduate-level similar to a mini-MBA for a fraction of the cost. Individuals awarded the IBC designation enhance their career opportunities by developing the essential, desk-ready skills related to Capital Markets, Fund Management, Valuation, and Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A). Modules can be taken 100% online at your own pace and from anywhere in the world with an internet connection.
The skills developed within this program are applicable to a multitude of Analyst roles within the Investment Banking field including acquisition advisory, equity and fixed income capital markets, and risk management. IBC holders are deemed desk-ready, steeped in subject matter expertise and equipped with the practical skills in finance to deliver in the roles of their choice.
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Duration :
Duration : 6 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Financial Management
- M02: Key Financial Statements
- M03: Recording Financial Information
- M04: Budgeting for Managers
- M05: Analyzing and Benchmarking Financial Information
Duration : 7 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Financial Statements
- M02: Risk Analysis Using Ratios
- M03: The Impact of Accounting Principles
- M04: Valuation Basics
Duration : 5 Hours
- M01: Time Value of Money and Basic Valuation
- M02: Essential Statistics
- M03: Regression Analysis
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Free Cash Flow
- M02: Components of Free Cash Flow
- M03: Capital Budgeting Using Free Cash Flow
- M04: Using Free Cash Flow to Evaluate Investment Opportunities
Duration : 6 Hours
- M01: Financial Industry Overview
- M02: Career Skills
- M03: Career Tools
Duration :
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Introduction to the Securities Industry
- M02: Introduction to Equity Securities
- M03: Introduction to Debt Securities
- M04: Trading Securities in the Secondary Markets
- M05: Processing Securities Transactions
Duration : 7 Hours
- M01: Common Stock
- M02: Preferred Stocks
- M03: Equity-Linked Issues
- M04: Indexes
Duration : 3 Hours
- M01: Bonds and their Features
- M02: Fixed Income Markets
- M03: Bond Risks
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Derivatives
- M02: Futures and Forwards
- M03: Swaps
- M04: Options
Duration : 5 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Corporate Finance
- M02: The Time Value of Money
- M03: More Time Value Applications
- M04: Capital Budgeting
- M05: Factors Affecting Financial Decisions
Duration : 6 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Business Valuation
- M02: The Foundations of Free Cash Flows
- M03: The Weighted Average Cost of Capital
- M04: Terminal Value
- M05: The DCF Approach to Business Valuation
- M06: The Limitations of the DCF Approach
Duration : 5 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Corporate Credit Analysis
- M02: Industry and Company Forecasting
- M03: Financial Analysis
- M04: Qualitative (Non-financial) Analysis
- M05: Credit Rating and Credit Scoring
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Risk by Asset Class
- M02: Measuring Risk
- M03: Portfolio Risk Measurement
- M04: Operational Risk
Duration : 10 Hours
- M01: Understanding Mutual Funds
- M02: Introduction To Various Mutual Fund Products
- M03: Selecting The Right Mutual Fund
- M04: Operation Of A Mutual Fund Company
- M05: Trends In The Mutual Fund Industry
- M06: Exchange Traded Funds
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Introduction to the Hedge Fund Industry
- M02: How a Hedge Fund Works
- M03: Hedge Fund Strategies
- M04: Issues for Hedge Fund Investors
- M05: Equity Investment Vehicles
Duration : 4 Hours
- M01: Investor Profiling
- M02: Portfolio Management and Duration
- M03: Introduction to Portfolio Risk
- M04: Asset Allocation and Taxation
Duration : 14 Hours
- M01: Fixed Income Portfolio Management
- M02: Equity Portfolio Management
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Overview and Buyer Strategies
- M02: Finding a Deal
- M03: Pricing the Deal: Corporate Valuation in Developed Nations
- M04: Special Valuation Cases
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: M&A Financial Accounting and Projections
- M02: Financing the Deal
- M03: Seller's Viewpoint
- M04: Other Areas Of Interest
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Review and Documents
- M02: Documents
- M03: Legal Structures
- M04: Tax Considerations
- M05: Tax-Free Deals
- M06: Accounting Notes
- M07: Consideration
- M08: Advanced Structuring
Duration : 7 Hours
- M01: Advanced Excel Techniques
- M02: 3-Stage Valuation Model for Acquisitions and Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs)
Duration :
Duration : 5 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Corporate Finance
- M02: The Time Value of Money
- M03: More Time Value Applications
- M04: Capital Budgeting
- M05: Factors Affecting Financial Decisions
Duration : 6 Hours
- M01: Introduction to Business Valuation
- M02: The Foundations of Free Cash Flows
- M03: The Weighted Average Cost of Capital
- M04: Terminal Value
- M05: The DCF Approach to Business Valuation
- M06: The Limitations of the DCF Approach
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: M&A Financial Accounting and Projections
- M02: Financing the Deal
- M03: Seller's Viewpoint
- M04: Other Areas Of Interest
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Review and Documents
- M02: Documents
- M03: Legal Structures
- M04: Tax Considerations
- M05: Tax-Free Deals
- M06: Accounting Notes
- M07: Consideration
- M08: Advanced Structuring
Duration : 7 Hours
- M01: Common Stock
- M02: Preferred Stocks
- M03: Equity-Linked Issues
- M04: Indexes
Duration : 8 Hours
- M01: Introduction to the Hedge Fund Industry
- M02: How a Hedge Fund Works
- M03: Hedge Fund Strategies
- M04: Issues for Hedge Fund Investors
- M05: Equity Investment Vehicles
Duration : 14 Hours
- M01: Fixed Income Portfolio Management
- M02: Equity Portfolio Management
Duration : 7 Hours
- M01: Advanced Excel Techniques
- M02: 3-Stage Valuation Model for Acquisitions and Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs)