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A merger model combines two companies under a stated offer: consideration mix, funding, purchase price accounting, combined statements, and synergies. Build order, walk-through, and Kimberly-Clark's filed Kenvue consideration and preliminary PPA.
Sum-of-the-parts valuation values each business segment on its own, then bridges to equity. When to use it, how to build it, conglomerate discount, and Walgreens' filed Centerview and Morgan Stanley ranges.
Accretion dilution analysis tests whether an acquisition raises or lowers the buyer's earnings per share. The inputs, the calculation, the P/E shortcut, breakeven synergies, and Kimberly-Clark's filed pro forma EPS for Kenvue.
Precedent transaction analysis values a company from the multiples buyers paid for similar companies. Screening, data sources, multiples, the control premium, and two banks' filed tables from the Walgreens take-private.
A pitch book is the presentation an investment bank uses to win a mandate. Types, the pages in order, the valuation pages, who builds each part, and real bank decks filed with the SEC.
Corporate finance runs a company's own money; investment banks advise companies on deals for a fee. The jobs inside each, 2026 posted pay, recruiting, hours, and how people move between them.
Investment banks are paid per deal; asset managers are paid a percentage of the money they run. How the jobs, recruiting, pay, hours, and career paths compare, with 2026 postings, MBA reports, and 10-K filings.
What an investment banking associate does, how the job differs from analyst and vice president, posted 2026 pay at five banks, the MBA and lateral routes in, licenses, and interviews.
How students and career changers get into investment banking: the five routes in, the dated 2028 recruiting calendar, what banks screen for, networking, interviews, and the SIE exam.
Corporate bankers manage a company's loans and cash; investment bankers advise on deals. How the work, revenue, recruiting, pay, hours, and exits compare, with 2026 bank postings and JPMorgan's 10-K.
Investment banking and consulting now start at almost the same base pay. How the work, fees, recruiting, interviews, bonuses, hours, and exits to private equity compare, with 2026 data.
Venture capital is equity money that funds put into young, fast-growing private companies. How a VC fund works, the stages, deal terms, fees and carry, returns, and who provides it.
