I liked that the simulation was very practical and closely reflected the type of work carried out in investment banking. It was especially useful to work through several stages of an M&A process, from building a company profile and financial projections to trading comparables and strategic analysis.

The fact it allows me to have my first immersion immersion into the world of Investment Banking, showed me the type of tasks I'd have to work on day-to-day as an Investment Banker, and contained example answers after each task that helped me have a better understanding of what my current weak points and what I can do to refine them.

The four tasks map onto a real deal workflow - profile, projections, comps, then synthesis - and each one hands over real filings rather than a pre-digested summary. Having to pull the enterprise value build out of an actual 10-Q, and then having to source the comps yourself, is much closer to the job than a fill-in-the-blanks exercise.