Importance Of Financial Internsment

Personal statement

Through my internships during each university’s summer vacation, I realised although I have learnt some financial knowledge within courses and in my spare time, it is not enough for my career goal of becoming a junior quantitative analyst at an investment bank in the short term. Therefore, I would like to extend my understanding by acquiring systematic learning in Finance and

Business Economics at Alliance MBS.

In order to illustrate the preparation I have done in the past, I will demonstrate it through my quantitative analysis, financial focus and my internship experience.

To my understanding, this course requires solid quantitative skills. The average mark of my Economics degree was 72.5 in my first year and was 68.5 in my second year. I have achieved 95 in Mathematical Technique. It laid a solid foundation for my

I have tried to figure out the financial of an enterprise through ratio analysis, such as ROCE and P/E ratio in exercises. Furthermore, I have made a DCF analysis for Burberry in the University as an equity research group activity. In order to systematically learn more financial knowledge, the Foundation of Finance was taken during my first year and reached a mark of 76. I have also chosen the course of Financial Statements Analysis and Security Valuation in my third year. During my summer internship at OSRAM’s marketing intelligence team, I have also acquired some business analytical skills while analysing competitor annual reports or IPO and learnt more in depth of the income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. The internship experience also draws my attention to how firms choose to target M&A partners, and how investment is regulated etc. I found that I could actually acquire more on this topic by studying Mergers & Acquisitions: Economic & Financial Aspects at Alliance