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Project Timeline Tutorial for Project Management

A few months ago, we were designing the course structure for “Free Facebook Valuation Modeling”. Now, this was a 28 day extensive course with numerous activities scheduled each day. We first created a schedule in the form of a list in excel. However, this looked too cluttered and messy. There was just too much going on!

Probability Examples for CFA Level I

What we have done here is put together an Excel sheet illustrating the concepts of Probability. The solutions given are Probability Examples for CFA Level I, and we have taken concepts such as Additional Rule, Bayes Theorem, Joint Probability, Variance, Covariance and Correlation.

Free CFA Course

Pristine has been in the financial trainings industry for the past 5 years now, and it has been a great and exciting journey for us. Apart from conducting classroom trainings in India and online trainings across the world, we are also offering a Free CFA Course for anyone who wants to get a primer on [...]

Fitting distribution to Scenario Analysis Data in Excel – II

This time we discuss the percentile approach - data is collected for specific percentiles/quantiles of loss severity from experts. In this tutorial we would discuss the Interval Approach. In the following illustrations, we will fit continuous distributions to scenario data collected for loss severities.

FRM Last week Preparations

I hope that all of you are well on your way revising for the FRM Part I Examination this week. With less than a week for the exam, here are some tips to keep in mind - Last week strategy Go through all the question banks in your courseware If you have any queries or [...]

CFA: One Month to Go - Preparation tips for candidates

The final days before any exam are crucial. You want to make most of the time that’s left and yet won’t like to do something really silly at this juncture. So, here are some tips for the last month of CFA preparation : - It’s important to make sure that you don’t stress yourself out before the D-day. Whatever you’re do between now and the exam in June - be it work, study, relaxation or whatever constitutes your schedule, just try not to overdo any and keep things in harmonious concord. - If you’re feel you are a bit lagging in your study schedule (most of us do), don’t get yourself over anxious. Re-prioritize things, workout an updated plan and follow it. Make a realistic commitment to study/revise and follow it strictly.

Creating a template for Income Statement

I think over the last couple of years, I would have conducted 100’s of days of workshops concepts involving excel. I love posing the following question to the participants

FRM Topic-wise time allocation chart

There is no secret formula that can help you navigate through the FRM program and pass the test, but an organized, disciplined approach will help you pass each level of the program and ultimately achieve your goal

CFA Level I LOS comparisons

Not only will the CFA syllabus be clearly identified, one can use it to keep a tab of the changes in the syllabus. Thus, if you have last year's notes, you can compare the syllabus changes and use the last year notes as well!

CFA Level I Cheat Sheet

We have compiled a list of most used formulas, a sort of a cheat sheet for all numericals that come in the examination. Click "Read More" to find instructions on how to download this cheatsheet!