Corporate Finance

By William Cao. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar and Swastik Patel. Overview/Introduction As you may know, a dividend, in short, is a company distributing cash to its shareholders for a certain amount of time. Though companies are not...

By Soham Aher. Edited by Swastik Patel.  Introduction Working capital management refers to a company’s efforts to ensure it has adequate resources for day-to-day running expenditures while maintaining resources invested in a profitable manner.  Goals of Working...

By Sterling Xie. Edited by Swastik Patel Overview Stock and asset trading and purchases (high finance) are often seen as a largely logical game or system, but what many don’t realize is the reality of the game....

By Sterling Xie. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Women have made landmark strides in breaking through gender barriers in the financial world and especially on Wall Street. Starting in the 1960s, women gradually became more and more...

By Aniket Bose. Edited By Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview A mortgage broker is an agent that brings mortgage lenders and people seeking a mortgage together, but they do not use any of their funds to originate the mortgage....

By Dheeraj Veludandi. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Introduction The salary that investment banking(IB) offers is one of the only reasons people take up this career path. But, IB is also notorious for the stress levels that are...

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar Overview Discounted cash flow (DCF) is a valuation method used to estimate the value of an investment based upon its cash flows in the future. DCF analysts attempt to figure...

By Aniket Bose. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview An initial public offering (IPO) refers to the process of providing shares of a private corporation to the public through issuing new stocks. The issuing of these public shares...

By Hrishikesh Menon. Edited by Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Market capitalization, or market cap for short, is the total dollar amount of a company’s outstanding shares. There are 3 main types of market cap (large, mid, and small)....

By Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Hedge funds are partnerships between investors and fund managers to facilitate large investment deals. The fund manager seeks to maximize their client’s returns and eliminate as much risk as possible. As a general...

By Arjun Chandrasekar. Overview Mutual funds are a popular form of investing, consisting of a portfolio of stocks, bonds, ETFs, and other assets. This diversified portfolio gives investors access to generally low-priced trades for higher returns. Mutual...

By Arjun Chandrasekar. Summary VC, or Venture Capital, is a variation or better known as a subset of private equity that provides financial support to startups and small businesses in which they see potential in. VC can...