PowerPoint & Pitchbook course overview

Learn the most advanced functions, tips and best practices for presentation design to be a distinguished PowerPoint user. This tutorial is designed specifically for financial analysts who need to create PowerPoint presentations, mainly in the form of pitchbooks. This is a classic skillset for Analysts who need to make world-class presentations.

This advanced PowerPoint tutorial will help you become a world-class financial analyst for careers in investment banking, private equity, corporate development, equity research and FP&A.  By watching the instructor build the pitchbook right on your screen, you can easily pause, rewatch, and repeat exercises until you've mastered them.

Contents of the PowerPoint & Pitchbook course

This Investment Banking PowerPoint crash course starts with a classic example of a "bad" presentation and quickly dives into using PowerPoint functions to improve the presentation to systematically make it "good".

This course focuses on two types of presentations: distributed presentations where the presentation is printed or distributed electronically, and live presentations where there is a speech accompanying the presentation. 

The main content covered in the pitchbook section include:

• Theme colors
• Slide master
• Gridlines and guides
• Formatting text boxes
• Formatting shapes and lines
• Inserting tables and charts from Excel
• Alignment
• Creating a timeline