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Financial Modeling & Valuation Challenges
Financial Modeling & Valuation challenges put you inside the work of pricing companies, deals, and assets. You'll develop skills in Financial Statement Reading, Time Value of Money, Three-Statement Modeling, and DCF, then test what you build with sensitivity & scenario analysis.
From there you'll handle the harder edges — LBO modeling, M&A accretion/dilution, precedent transactions, and private equity waterfall modeling — running due diligence and comparable companies analysis the way deal teams actually do, and stretching into structured deal modeling and derivatives pricing. Each challenge you solve earns a verified credential you can share with recruiters.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Value a Business Software Scale-Up for Its Series B Round
Working only from the company financial fact pack and the public market-data reference provided to you, value the company three different ways and reconcile the results. First, …
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Venture Capital Method
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capital Adequacy for a Neobank Expansion
Your task is to develop a capital adequacy assessment for Nubank's expansion into Vietnam. You will estimate credit risk for a new consumer loan portfolio using the standardized…
- Basel Iii
- Capital Adequacy
- Risk Weighted Assets
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field-Valuing a Paris Subscription Cosmetics Scale-Up
Investigate using ONLY the supplied materials and the public sources listed in them. First, read the company data pack (case-file) to extract historical revenue, margins, subscr…
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Valuation of a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up for Series A
Your team will act as a boutique valuation advisory. You must gather comparable public SaaS companies (e.g., from the Cloud ERP or data integration space) and calculate relevant…
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
- Financial Modeling
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Design a Bundled Pricing Business Case for an Industrial IoT Vendor
Using the company facts in the company case file, the historical deal records in the deal-history dataset, and the required sections listed in the board business case template, …
- Business Case
- Financial Modeling
- Pricing Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Macroeconomic Forecast for a Renewable Energy Investment Firm
You are a junior strategist at GreenCap. Using historical data (10+ years) from Eurostat and the Bank of Spain, develop a VAR or similar model to forecast GDP growth, electricit…
- Multivariate Time Series
- Var Modeling
- Scenario Analysis
Forecasting for Decision Making - StrategyIntermediateNew
Going Concern and Evidence Strategy for a UK Retailer
Individually, prepare an audit evidence strategy memorandum addressing Cotswold Home's going concern assessment for the year ending 31 March. Critically evaluate management's 18…
- Going Concern Assessment
- Audit Evidence Evaluation
- Sensitivity Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
ESG Integration in a Mining Company's Valuation
Your task is to forecast CopperCorp's residual income for 5 years, incorporating adjustments for potential carbon taxes, water remediation costs, and reputational risks that cou…
- Residual Income Valuation
- ESG Integration
- Scenario Analysis
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Tax-Efficient Legal Form for a Nairobi D2C Cosmetics Startup
Students will receive financial projections for GlowUp Naturals (KES 50 million revenue, KES 35 million expenses, projected growth to KES 200 million in 3 years). They must calc…
- Income Tax Calculation
- Corporate Tax
- Trade Tax
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a Multi-Criteria Vendor Selection Tool for an AI Consulting Firm
You will design a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, a structured way to score options against weighted criteria) tool that accepts 6-10 vendor options, 6-12 weighted crite…
- Mcda
- Decision Support Systems
- Streamlit
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StrategyIntermediateNewAdvise CloudFlow on Ireland's Fiscal Stimulus Strategy
Using the stimulus package brief (stimulus-brief), CloudFlow's financial baseline (cloudflow-financials), and the official public sources for the research-and-development tax cr…
- Fiscal Policy Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Tax Incentive Evaluation
Open coursework- StrategyBeginnerNew
Simulation-Based Customer Success Staffing Plan for Flowly
Using the historical ticket log, the growth-scenarios brief, and the current-operations and service-level specification provided to you, build a discrete-event simulation of Flo…
- Simulation
- Capacity Planning
- Scenario Analysis
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
AI Make-or-Buy Analysis for a Climate-Tech Series-B
You receive: the company's headcount and ML capability map, vendor RFP responses from 3 vendors per category, and 18-month strategic context. For each model category, build a ma…
- Ai Strategy
- Make Or Buy Analysis
- Vendor Evaluation
AI for Business and AI Product Management - StrategyBeginnerNew
Investigate GlowToronto's Pricing to Rebuild Margins
Develop a pricing strategy for GlowToronto's core product line of serums and moisturizers. Begin by analysing the provided GlowToronto transaction dataset to understand how disc…
- Pricing Strategy
- Customer Segmentation
- Competitive Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Hedging Currency Risk for a German Exporter
You are a junior financial analyst at Mittelstand GmbH. The company has a firm order of €10 million from a US client, payable in USD in 6 months, and a £5 million order from a U…
- Currency Hedging
- Derivatives Pricing
- Risk Management
Financial Markets and Institutions - DesignIntermediateNew
Circular Economy Business Model for a Fashion Rental Platform
Propose a circular business model for Rent-a-Robe that includes a take-back program, repair service, and resale marketplace. Your deliverable is a 5-slide pitch deck outlining t…
- Circular Economy
- Business Model Innovation
- Financial Modeling
Sustainability and Sustainable Business - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Valuing a Toronto D2C Cosmetics Scale-Up
Your task is to build a financial model projecting GlowUp's cash flows for 5 years, estimate terminal value, and derive an equity value per share. You must also select a peer gr…
- Financial Modeling
- DCF Valuation
- Comparable Company Analysis
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Optimizing Last-Mile Delivery for a Lisbon Grocery Startup
Your task is to build a linear programming model (or heuristic) to assign orders to vehicles and sequence deliveries. Success means reducing average route length by at least 15%…
- Linear Programming
- Python
- Route Optimization
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Hedge Fund Strategy for a Family Office Investing in Private Debt
Your task is to produce a comprehensive investment memo that recommends a specific private debt hedge fund strategy for the family office. Include a comparative analysis of the …
- Private Debt
- Hedge Fund Structures
- Due Diligence
Hedge Funds and Alternative Investments - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Hedging Currency Risk for a German Solar Exporter
Your task is to quantify Solara's net exposure in each currency, recommend a hedging mix (e.g., 70% forwards, 30% options) with rationale, calculate the cost of the strategy usi…
- Currency Hedging
- Financial Modeling
- Risk Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Evaluate and Launch TaskFlow's Developer Platform Strategy
Using the four materials provided (the TaskFlow company dossier, the competitor ecosystem landscape brief, the financial and customer baseline dataset, and the developer demand …
- Platform Business Models
- API Economy
- Ecosystem Governance
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Optimize Capital Structure for an Austin Cosmetics Startup
Using the company financial profile and the comparable-companies dataset provided to you, model how different debt-to-equity mixes change the firm's weighted average cost of cap…
- Capital Structure Analysis
- Wacc Calculation
- Modigliani Miller
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Price American Options with a Deep Hedging Notebook
Simulate price paths for a single underlying (geometric Brownian motion is fine as a baseline; bonus for stochastic volatility). Implement Longstaff-Schwartz Monte Carlo as the …
- Deep Learning
- Stochastic Modeling
- Derivatives Pricing
AI and Quantitative Finance - ResearchSeniorNew
Foresight-Driven Innovation for a Renewable Energy Co-op
You are a foresight analyst for WindFolk. Develop three alternative futures for the Danish energy market in 2030 (e.g., 'Green Grid', 'Tech Fragmentation', 'Policy Stagnation').…
- Scenario Planning
- Financial Modeling
- Decision Analysis
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