The FMC® Program consists of approximately 8 hours of asynchronous videos and course materials in the Adventis portal. These are available for two years after enrollment. The videos are designed for candidates to learn financial modeling from scratch and enable enrollees to complete the FMC® Program at their own pace. Enrollees also get free access to our online exams and can take as many exams as they’d like in order to earn our certifications.

By earning our certifications, enrollees develop the skills required to efficiently build properly formatted three-statement financial models from scratch and be proficient in valuation and leveraged buyout concepts. Because getting certified requires candidates to practice building out our financial models from scratch many times, those seeking certification are forced to learn by doing, which greatly enhances retention as well as a technical understanding of financial and accounting principals.

Many enrollees take our program to prepare for internship and full-time interviews for investment banking, private equity, and other competitive fields in finance. Our certification process is highly aligned with their technical interview prep, as it helps them to internalize, rather than memorize, key concepts that are asked in interviews. The certification also provides them with strong talking points, as the certification process enables them to tell stories that demonstrate their financial acumen, work ethic, attention to detail, and resilience.

Additionally, our certifications give enrollees a strong skill set that greatly enhances their on-the-job performance in class projects, case study competitions, internships, and full-time positions.

The FMC® Program is meant for individuals from a wide range of backgrounds. Participants with a liberal arts background that have little to no accounting or finance experience can get a lot out of the FMC® Program. We take participants through each step of building out financial models so they will learn finance and accounting concepts as they progress through the program and without having to do any extra research on their own. Alternatively, if participants have a strong finance and accounting background, they can also get a lot out of the FMC® Program, as we teach them how to build best-of-class financial models quickly and efficiently.

The FMC® Program is most valuable for roles in investment banking, private equity, equity research, and related industries. However, it is also valuable for corporate finance, corporate development, transaction services, valuation services, and a slew of other industries. And it’s also valuable for general roles in business that typically requires work to be done in Microsoft Excel, but doesn’t require financial modeling work, such as accounting, consulting, and treasury.

Many undergraduate students choose to take the FMC Program while they are 1st and 2nd year students in order to properly prepare for the rigorous recruiting cycles for investment banking, private equity, and other competitive fields in finance. However, we also have many 3rd and 4th year students enroll in the program to prepare for internship and full-time recruiting and brush up on their financial modeling skills. Know that there is no single right time to enroll. Candidates come to us during various stages in their undergraduate careers with the shared goal of preparing for recruiting, building financial modeling skills, and gaining a technical understanding of financial concepts.

Many professionals take the FMC Program early in their careers in order to facilitate their transition into roles in investment banking, private equity, and other competitive fields in finance. Some earn our certifications in advance of lateral recruiting in order to stand out from the crowd, whereas others take Adventis as on-the-job training.

However, many other professionals also take Adventis because they simply want to add strong financial modeling skills to their toolset and build their abilities in their current roles in corporate finance, asset management, and a number of other fields.