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Welcome! Quantify is an eight-week fintech course offered by Forge (formerly HackCville), where you'll learn about the process of how to work with financial data and use it to analyze companies. This section of the course will meet in person Sundays 5:00-6:15 at the Forge Clubhouse (9 Elliewood Ave).

In this course, you'll learn how to create financial models, like DCFs and Comparative Company Analyses, for a given company or industry based on their financial reports. You'll also learn how to analyze a company's previous stock data, create visualizations and glean insights about future price trajectories.

Through case studies of companies and hands-on work with Excel and Python, you'll learn the process of the data driven aspect of analyzing a company and communicate your findings through pitches.

Course Details

All weeks will comprise of (1) a lesson delivered through workshops (75 min) as well as practice (2) supplemental practice to be completed during labs (60 min), (3) cumulative projects that apply your skills to a pitch for a specific company.

Course Materials

All course material (slides, pdfs, notebooks, datasets, etc.) will live on this website.

Schedule

• Week 1: Welcome to Finance!

  • Discuss course logistics and expectations

  • Learn about financial statements

  • Begin to analyze a company

  • Lab: Intro to Fundamental Analysis

Contact

Feel free to contact the team at [email protected] with any questions about content or request permission to use material.

Contributors

Content developed by Khushi Chawla at Forge, Spring 2022. All content rights belong to Khushi Chawla unless otherwise stated.

Shoutout to Christian Jung, Jake Mondschein, and the Forge team for their feedback and support.