The following knowledge and conditions are required:
1. Financial markets and monetary policy. Mainly including some basic structures/compositions/operating mechanisms of financial markets/basic knowledge of various financial products , the theory and practical operation of the central bank's monetary policy, factors such as interest rates/inflation/unemployment/GDP.
2. Financial accounting. Mainly how to make the three major statements, especially how to make the cash flow statement, and the manipulation techniques in financial statements.
3. Corporate finance. Mainly: enterprise system, MM theory, M&A operation and pricing, corporate governance structure, financing decision-making, investment decision-making, dividend policy, company pricing, etc.
4. Security pricing utility theory, stock pricing (including MPT, CAPM, APT, etc.), bond pricing (YTM, SPOT, Duration, Convexity, interest rate term structure, etc.), derivatives pricing (futures pricing, Binary numbers, simple random process simulation, BSM pricing model, etc.).
5. Securities market. Categories of various financial products, trading mechanisms, investment banking business processes, etc.
6. International finance. Various financial products in the foreign exchange market, foreign exchange market mechanisms, BOP projects, various exchange rate systems, and exchange rate adjustment mechanisms.
7. Corporate strategy. Company strategic decision-making, industry analysis framework (PORTER'SFIVEFORCES, BCGMatrix, etc.), product analysis tools (SWOT).
8. Microeconomics. Prices, costs, production, pricing, taxes, monopolies, market types, externalities, etc.