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FINANCE AS A
SPECIALIZATION
By
Yojana Ranasaria

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Is it your cup of tea?
• At the outset let us discuss about the points which are
considered as myths.
a) Finance is a pure desk job – As a financial manager your
work is not just to prepare the financial matters and excel
sheets but it includes the interaction with all the
departments, communicating with the key stakeholders
and being the face of the organization.
b) Finance after Engineering is difficult – This case doesn’t
always hold it’s phrase. But with sheer efforts and
dedicated mind you can crack this.

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Things you need to know beforehand
• Before deciding the specialization, you need to know about the course
structure, career options, and colleges that offer the best.
• Specialization in Finance can help you in accounting, corporate
financing, investment management, banking, financial planning,
research and analytics.
• Some of the topics that will be covered in this course are
a) Corporate Finance
b) Banking & Financial Services
c) Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation
d) Financial Analytics

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Corporate Finance
• It helps in understanding the action points for the managers to
increase the value of firms to the shareholders and maximize
their returns.
• This course gives a detailed overview of the capital structure
and capital investment decisions of a corporation.
• In layman words, all companies need to raise their funds and utilize
them to productive usage. This is what Corporate Finance covers.

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Banking & Financial Services
• If a person wants to pursue his career in banking there is an
array of options.
• Banking covers commercial/retail banking, investment banking,
and allied financial services.
• Commercial/retail banking gives an understanding on how
commercial/retail banks function.
• Investment banking deals with the creation of capital,
underwriting, restructuring etc.,

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Financial StatementAnalysis & Valuation
• This course will help you to analyse the financial statements,
and gives you insight on various valuation techniques like –
income approach, market approach, and cost approach.
• It aids you in almost all the career options, let it be banking or
corporate finance.

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Financial Analytics
• Financial analytics courses help in gaining knowledge about
analytical tools to predict possible future scenarios and take the
decision based on past trends.

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Preparation for a B-school Interview
• Once you finished your basement preparation on your dream
B-school, like knowing the rank of the college, courses offered,
distinguished alumni and faculty, then you are ready for your
first question – “Why this B-school?”.
• Then comes the targeted question – “Why this specialization?”.
You need a bit advanced preparation for this question. You
need to know the distinguishable aspect of every specialization.

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From placement perspective
1. Will professional courses like CFA, FRM along with MBA help
me get a better job and pay package? – These may be a
requirement by some of the companies. Although MBA offers
variety of courses, under tight schedule it is you who needs to
know the feasibility. Regarding this, it is better take suggestions
from your faculty and alumni.
2. Is your B-school grade an important criterion for shortlisting? –
For MBA finance graduates, B-school grades are important
criterion for job interviews. Based on your campus history, you
can see the minimum score to sit in the interview.

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Conclusion
• A career in Finance will involve a lot of number crunching,
analysis, and reporting and will require interaction with all
departments.
• Finance is a very interesting field with a lot of career
opportunities to offer.
• Aspire to be the CFO/Director of your dream company and
strive towards that.

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• In this presentation, we discussed about Finance as a
specialization.
• We got through some insights regarding it.
• We also discussed about the courses that will be offered and the
career options.
• About the author, Yojana Ranasaria, is a Finance Manager
currently working in the hospitality sector and an alumnus from
IMT Ghaziabad.
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