Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) Strategy Report

BAT can be divided into two parts basically - Aptitude part & Finance Part.

• Aptitude Part - Aptitude part is basically only around 20% of the entire test, but can be very tough for someone who has never practiced these types of questions. Generally, these questions are asked in GRE/GMAT exams & vary from Data interpretation, Reasoning & Analytical part. Practicing such questions for BAT is of great importance as this can directly impact your result & can make the difference between top group & average group of candidates.
• Finance Part - Entire test's main focus is on the Finance part with questions coming from various domains. If you have prepared for CFA Level 1 which is very similar to BAT, then you are in a good position to tackle this section. Also, if you have already rich knowledge of Finance (a background of finance) then also you are in a good position to tackle this part, then entire focus shifts to the Aptitude part which turns into a make or break issue.

 Here is the course link of the BAT Exam Prep Course - http://www.wiziq.com/course/7526-bloomberg-assessment-test-bat-exam-prep

After you register for course, please focus on these points:

1. There is a section on the Chart of the Day; you can view the recordings for the same to excel in that section. You can practice at your end by searching "Bloomberg Chart of the Day" on the internet. 
2. CFA L1 course is very similar to the BAT course & your preparation for the same would help you with BAT as well.
3. A good focus is given on the Bloomberg Terminal part which forms a considerable chunk of the BAT exam. This course will take you through the intricacies of Bloomberg Terminal in detail.
4. News related to finance is also of great importance & this course focus on the same in detail.
5. Formal Studies in Finance certainly helps & this course complements your strength of finance with special focus on Aptitude. Thus, giving you that Extra Edge!  

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Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT) Exam Prep Course:

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Bloomberg Terminal for BAT test Prep Online Class

Bloomberg Terminal for BAT test Prep Online Class

Bloomberg Terminal is a computer system that allows investors to access the Bloomberg data service. It provides real-time financial data, news feeds, messages along with the felicitation of trades.

Bloomberg charges around $24,000 a year for a single terminal subscription.

Bloomberg is currently the market leader in Providing financial data service with 315,000 subscribers.

Institutional investors are the typical customers of Bloomberg Terminal.

Bloomberg Terminal is compatible with the Excel program, thus becomes an important tool for those who work in financial sector.

Bloomberg also offers access to its users of the services from online & through mobile devices which is termed as "Bloomberg Anywhere" service.

Bloomberg Terminal Keyboard:

(Source: Wikipedia)

Function Keys on Bloomberg Terminal's Keyboard are substituted with market sector keys. Some of them are shown here:

1. GOVT - government securities (US treasury and non-US)
2. CORP - corporate debt
3. MTGE - mortgage securities
4. M-Mkt - money market
5. MUNI - municipal debt
6. PFD - preferred shares
7. EQUITY - equity shares
8. COMDTY - commodity markets
9. INDEX - indexes
10. CURNCY - currency markets

In our Wiziq Course on BAT, we will discuss various capabilities of Bloomberg Terminal. Some of them are as follows:

• News: Bloomberg Terminal offers real-time news updates from varied sources. One has to just type - "NEWS" in the search bar for accessing the most recent financial & non-financial news headlines from around the world.

News Feed Interface (Source: Investopedia)

• Equities: Bloomberg allows following facilities:

1. To Search by name, exchange, country, etc. of the publicly traded equity shares.
2. Equity menu allows users to view historical pricing on a stock.
3. Compare equities side by side.
4. Allowing screeners to screen for stocks using a multitude of metrics.

Along with many more functions........ 

Equity Menu (Source: Investopedia)

• Fixed Income: Bloomberg allows users to search for real-time data on fixed income securities. This includes corporate debt, municipal bonds & government bonds.
• Derivatives: Users can find real-time values for securities. Bloomberg also allows users to value hard-to-price derivatives.

Derivatives, using Historical Volatility (Source:Investopedia)

          Also, it offers Swap Manger Tool which is a highly customized Swap pricing utility which allows users to input the parameters of a swap agreement & come up with an estimate for the value of that swap.

Swap Manager Tool (Source: Investopedia)

• Foreign Exchange: Users can view real-time rates of dozens of currencies.

These are just some of the features of Bloomberg Terminal that are discussed here. More such feature are discussed on the Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT) prep course on Wiziq.

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Methodology: Go to link and answer the questions below each link.

Links to check terminal images used in the classes:

http://i.investopedia.com/inv/articles/site/Bloombergadvanced1.gif

http://i.investopedia.com/inv/articles/site/Bloombergadvanced7.gif

http://bizlib247.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/commodities.gif

http://www.bu.edu/library/files/2011/05/Apple-Bloomberg-Company-Ratio1.gif

http://www.fullermoney.com/content/2011-11-03/ABD_NAV.gif

http://i.investopedia.com/inv/articles/site/Bloombergadvanced18.gif

http://www.bloomberg.com/professional/files/2012/08/Bloomberg-Charts.jpg

http://people.stern.nyu.edu/adamodar/New_Home_Page/Bloombergdescr_files/image079.png

http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/economics/images/bloomberg/CGB0347a_edited-1.jpg

http://i.investopedia.com/inv/articles/site/Bloombergadvanced15.gif

http://i.investopedia.com/inv/articles/site/BloomBond3.gif

http://deadlyclear.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/bt-loan-located.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_UltIXMCtoCY/TO-UJjaRGzI/AAAAAAAACr0/czCUHZL2jOU/s1600/sg2010111735569.gif.

BAT TEST PREP - BLOOMBERG TERMINAL

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Chart of The Day - Bloomberg Assessment Test/Bloomberg Aptitude Test Prep Course

Chart of The Day provided by Bloomberg plays a very important role in the Bloomberg Assessment Test (BAT), as it is conducted by the same institute.

Bloomberg Assessment Test consists of 8 sections, out of which there is a section called "Chart & Graph Analysis" forming 12% of weightage in the actual exam. This section assesses a test taker's ability to interpret & use information found in charts & graphs. It requires complete understanding of any chart or a graph provided in the question.

Thus, given it's high weightage, we have made Chart of the Day (COD) an important part of our entire course on Bloomberg Assessment Test.

One of the PowerPoint Presentations from the course, is shown below:

BLOOMBERG CHART OF THE DAY - IMPORTANT TERMS

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Following Charts are covered in the slide:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-10-19/mcdonald-s-post-black-monday-advance-leads-dow-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-03/aging-americans-may-weigh-on-entitlement-cuts-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-20/china-growth-sets-vancouver-home-prices-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-28/bitcoin-s-gains-may-fuel-central-bank-concerns-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-30/beijing-air-akin-to-living-in-smoking-lounge-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-04-10/apple-to-top-spain-greece-portugal-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-07/apple-may-be-unable-to-meet-its-sales-forecast-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-21/commodity-catch-up-with-stocks-seen-as-elusive-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-26/u-k-energy-policy-weighs-on-green-investment-chart-of-the-day.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-19/brics-demand-for-u-s-exports-set-to-beat-eu-chart-of-the-day.html

Link to the course - http://www.wiziq.com/course/7526-bloomberg-assessment-test-bat-exam-prep

For More Details Contact - Arpit (arpit@qcfinance.in)

Bloomberg Aptitude Test Prep Online Course

Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) Prep Online Course (20 hours course)

Strategically built course to crack the BAT exam.

Note: Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) was earlier known as Bloomberg Assessment Test.

Link to the course

http://www.wiziq.com/course/7526-bloomberg-assessment-test-bat-exam-prep

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For One on One Course:

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Course highlights:

• One on One classes available.
• Demo class can be scheduled as per convenience.
• Helps to crack BAT Exam that helps you to land a top Interview.
• Not just BAT, this course also helps in your preparation for other exams like CFA & FRM.
• Get Knowledge about latest news & get much needed knowledge of various fields/topics of finance.
• Get access to live, recorded, doubt clearing classes along with materials & tests to crack BAT.
• Increased focus on aptitude part according to new BAT.

Language of Instruction - English. 

COURSE STRUCTURE

Class No.	Topic	Duration
1	Strategy to take Bloomberg Assessment test	(1 hr)
2 & 3	FRA/Corporate/Equity Valuations/Ratios	(4 hrs)
4	Investment Banking	(2 hrs)
5	Bloomberg terminal	(1 hr)
6 & 7	Bond/Fixed Income Market/Derivatives	(4 hrs)
8	Economics revision/Federal Reserve	(2 hrs)
9	Interpreting Market News	(2 hrs)
10	Analytical Reasoning	(2 hrs)
11	Revision/Extra session	(2 hrs)

Areas of focus:

1. Sensitization on derivative, quant, fixed income, portfolio, VAR modeling.
2. Introduction to all features of Bloomberg Terminal.
3. Provide introduction about all profiles in Finance.
4. Right mix of data analytical, ethics & finance concepts.
5. Examples with real data to enhance your IQ (US Municipal Bonds).
6. Under the applicability and use on Bloomberg or Reuters websites (Introduction to tickers, RIC).
7. Real life examples & real cases which are currently hot in the market.
8. New Interpretation, terminologies & basic IQ for the subject covered.
9. Along with financial aspects, increased focus on Aptitude section according to new BAT. 
10. Investment Banking questions (synergy, leverage buyout and IPO not covered with much details in CFA).
11. News Interpretation of Bond Markets (names of US based bonds, in general credit risk is a famous area to understand yields and spreads).
12. Practical questions on financial markets.

Important points of the course:

1. Highly flexible and tailored as per needs of individual.
2. Sensitization on derivative, quant, fixed income, portfolio & VAR modeling.
3. Gives introduction to all features of Bloomberg Terminal.
4. Provide introduction about all profiles in Finance.
5. Helpful for passing FRM, CFA & other Finance certification exams.
6. Prepares for career advancement in financial analysis.
7. Helpful for MBA Finance aspirants.

COURSEWARE

Tutorials - 46        Class Recordings - 45        Tests - 61

WHAT WE OFFER

Live Classes - Scheduled for weekends ----- Doubt Clearing Classes - As per convenience ----- Free Demo Class ----- One on One Classes also available.

About the instructor:

• Got 68% score in BAT (among 90 percentile globally).
• Cleared CFA Level 1 & FRM Level 1 Exams.
• Have immense experience in online teaching (more than 2 years).

BAT Exam Structure:

Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT) consists of 8 sections with 100 questions to be answered in 2 hours.

Source: Bloomberg Institute

• News Analysis – Consists of 12 questions designed to assess the capability to use information from news articles. 
• Economics – Consists of 12 questions designed to assess the application of Economic Concepts. 
• Math Skills – Consists of 14 questions designed to assess the broad-spectrum math skills, with an emphasis on finance related math. 
• Analytical Reasoning – Consists of 12 questions designed to assess the problem solving ability. 
• Financial Statement Analysis – Consists of 12 questions designed to assess the basic understanding of financial statements.
• Investment Banking – Consists of 12 questions designed to assess how one applies the fundamental principles of financing & strategic advisory performed by an Investment Banking. 
• Global Markets – Consists of 14 questions designed to assess familiarity with a broad range of concepts, current events, and trends in the global financial markets that are presented in the media.
• Chart & Graph Analysis - Consists of 12 questions designed to assess your ability to interpret & use information found in charts & graphs.

Strategy To Crack BAT: Leave no weakness: Importance of balance --- Have it all ready for the exam --- Play time bound game --- Explore public files.

Quant & Verbal:

• Logical Reasoning
• Quant
• Verbal
• Strategy for geometry, probability, reading comprehension, critical reasoning, table formation.
• 1 set of questions.

About Bloomberg Terminal:

• B-terminal (ticker) data from Bloomberg
• Reuter RIC.
• Importing on excel.
• Shortcuts.
• Basic idea about terminals like Factset, capital IQ, etc.

News Analysis:

• News of Financial Markets.
• Chart of the day.
• Importance of Federal Reserve and market direction.
• Reading bloomberg.com & Reuter.com.

Advanced Equity Valuation:

• Sector to understand: Oil & Energy vs. Technology vs. Healthcare etc.
• Adjustments & apple-apple comparison of intra sector Companies.
• FCFE & FCFF for valuation.
• Making Projection: Element by Element.
• Intuitive understanding of formula EV/EBITDA.
• Computing CFO from various methods.
• Equity CFA L2.

Investment Banking:

• EV/EBITDA
• Transaction vs. Trading multiple
• Rating effect on spreads
• Share buy back
• Monte Carlo
• Effect of P/E on acquisition
• Synergy
• Google buying Motorola (specials on patents)
• IPO (Facebook)
• Corporate Finance CFA L2

CFA Level2:

• Equity (transaction vs. trading multiples).
• Corporate Finance: corporate action.
• Financial Reporting Analysis: Consolidation.
• International economics.
• Cash flow calculations.
• Mistakes improvement.

Link To Class Recordings:

http://www.wiziq.com/online-class/1366891-introductory-class-on-bat

Links to Tutorials:

http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/589913-New-BAT-Core-File
http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/490396-Economics-for-BAT-One-Pager
http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/517589-BLOOMBERG-CHART-OF-THE-DAY-IMPORTANT-TERMS
http://www.wiziq.com/tutorial/517361-BAT-TEST-PREP-BLOOMBERG-TERMINAL

Links To Tests:

http://www.wiziq.com/online-tests/45096-equity-for-cfa-bat
http://www.wiziq.com/online-tests/45097-quant-for-bat-cfa
http://www.wiziq.com/online-tests/44638-profit-loss-for-gmat-gre-bat
http://www.wiziq.com/online-tests/45087-economics-for-bat-cfa-part-ii

Playlist:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_-KSXJS5pxMzB6qMOBlJDaWy30xYxDuc

Bloomberg Aptitude Test

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Bloomberg Aptitude Test (BAT)

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These Trainings are provided on request by our clients & are customized according to their individual needs.

The course structure & timings for these training are highly flexible, classes are scheduled as per the convenience of our clients.

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