Investing in Stocks the complete course MBA ASAP

The smartest people invest heavily in their education and skill development, recognizing that their human capital is their most marketable resource.
The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.

Skills are the most valuable thing you can acquire in this lifetime because they keep compounding until the day you die.

“Whatever abilities you have can't be taken away from you,” says Warren Buffett, “The best investment by far is anything that develops yourself, and it's not taxed at all.”

While this isn’t a traditional investment tip, Buffett firmly believes that by regularly investing in knowledge and self-improvement, you yourself become an asset and can more easily access opportunities for growing your wealth.

When I bought my first stock, I knew nothing about financial statements.

Despite graduating with an engineering degree, I was financially illiterate.

I didn't even know how to find a company's Balance Sheet.

Forget analyzing the numbers.

But, I did have one thing going for me: I was passionate about building wealth.

I wanted to achieve financial freedom as soon as possible.

That burning desire caused me to study money & finance intensely.

I devoured every book, blog, and podcast I could find about investing.

That led me to learn about the investing greats like Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger, and Peter Lynch.

As I studied these investors, one thing became clear:

All of them knew how to analyze financial statements.

• Each of them could look at a company's income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statement and determine if the business was worth investing in.

• They could all look at the numbers and tell if a company had a moat.

• They all knew how to use simple ratios, such as Gross Margin, Debt to Equity, and Free Cash Flow conversion, to determine the quality of the business.

That's why, 20 years ago, I started to learn how to analyze financial statements.

I wanted to become a better investor.

• I no longer wanted to be dependent on the opinions of others to make investing decisions.

• I was tired of watching a stock I owned report earnings, fall hard, and have no idea why.

• I no longer wanted to be financially illiterate.

Slowly, over time, I learned how to find, read, and interpret financial statements.

• I learned how to analyze a company's numbers in just a few minutes.

• I discovered how to spot yellow & red flags in financial statements that told me to stay away.

• I learned how to use a few simple ratios to know if a company had a moat.

As Warren Buffett would say, I became fluent in "the language of business."

That, more than anything, has made me a better investor.

Over the last few years, I have taught a course on how to find, read, and interpret financial statements.

Teaching the course live was incredibly useful. We learned what worked and what didn't.

That feedback caused me to make countless improvements to the course.

All that effort was worth it. We've heard over and over again that students loved the course.

Jack called the course "Extremely informative."

Greg said it "EXCEEDED EXPECTATIONS and is absolutely worth the price of admission!"

James called it an "Exceptional course with great insights and a fabulous way to build a foundational understanding of financial statements."

Now that hundreds of students have battle-tested the course in the real world, we've made a big change to make it far more accessible.

I've turned my live, cohort-based course into a self-paced course.

This allows me to lower the price and ensure students can take the course in a time frame that fits their schedule.

It's the same material we teach in the live course, with the added bonus that I teach how Warren Buffett analyzes financial statements.

You'll learn how to:

• Analyze a Balance Sheet, Income Statement, and Cash Flow Statement so you can tell if a business is worth investing in

• Spot financial yellow & red flags so you can tell if a business is in trouble

• Use Warren Buffett's financial "rules of thumb" to tell if a business has a moat.

If you want to become a better investor, I know you'll love it.

Remember Warren Buffett's wise words:

"The best investment you can make is in yourself."

A comprehensive but easy-to-understand primer on investing for newcomers. — Kirkus Reviews

(About the book that is included with the course)

Investing in assets is ultimately how you build wealth.

“Money comes and goes, but if you have the education about how money works, you gain power over it and can begin building wealth.”

Develop theories about asset prices that are informed by real-world financial and economic relationships, and then rigorously test them.

Online education is an investment, not an expense.

If you want to get further than you’ve ever gone before you need to be willing to learn like never before.

personal and professional development. One habit I picked up from my rich colleagues — or perhaps I had it all along, but they incentivized it — is to constantly explore ways to gain new skills, or strengthen existing skills.

Investor’s Edge: This course sharpens your investing acumen, enabling you to make informed decisions by understanding the intricate ties between market dynamics and corporate health. It’s an approach designed for managers and those looking to become savvy investors, providing the knowledge to assess potential, risk, and reward with the insight of a seasoned financial strategist.

“If you have more than 120 or 130 I.Q. points, you can afford to give the rest away. You don’t need extraordinary intelligence to succeed as an investor.”

Never invest in a company without understanding its finances.

“Investing is the intersection of economics and psychology.”

“In the short run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long run it is a weighing machine.”

“It’s not whether you’re right or wrong that’s important, but how much money you make when you’re right and how much you lose when you’re wrong.”

“In the long run, it’s not just how much money you make that will determine your future prosperity. It’s how much of that money you put to work by saving it and investing it.”

“The strongest bull markets I’ve been in are built on walls of worry.”

“The amount of damage that FOMO does to the average investor is big.”

“Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.”

“Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time.”

History reports that the people who can manage people manage the folks who can manage only things, and the ones who can manage money manage all.

For the first time, those who can educate and motivate themselves will be almost entirely free to invent their own work and realize the full benefits of their own productivity.

Work brings you money. Money buys you assets. Assets bring you wealth. Wealth buys you freedom.

Get a financial education. It’s the best investment you’ll ever make.

I take complex ideas and make them simple enough for a 5th grader to understand.

The money game isn’t hard to figure out — but ignoring it is the stupidest thing you can do. Money makes your world work. Get a financial education so wealth can start paying you interest instead of charging it.

We all start somewhere. Start your financial education asap and make it a habit to invest in it every day.

Life is a lot easier than many realize. All you need is to learn about money. Money buys back your time. And with time life gets a lot easier.

Store money in assets.

This course is in the concepts and practice of value investing – investing in companies with good underlying business and growth prospects.

Over the long term, it’s hard for a stock to earn a much better return than the business which underlies it earns.

In the long run, the value of a stock comes from the quality (growth and profitability) of the underlying business.

Investing in high-quality businesses with solid growth, high-profit margins, and a simple business model is essential. And a strategic competitive advantage and barriers to entry moat.

We don’t invest in a stock because it’s trendy but because it’s a solid, profitable, high-quality business.

Amazingly, we can invest, become owners, and participate in the most exciting, professional companies on Earth. Anyone can do it!

You can’t get wealthy by trading your time for money. Instead, learn how to make money work for you.

Money is a great servant and a terrible master.

Investing and acquiring income-producing assets is the Way to Wealth. The stock market is the place to start.

This course will show you how to evaluate companies and research investment opportunities. A stock’s price is directly related to the underlying business and prospects of the company. That is the thesis of value investing, and that is what this course is about.

We all start somewhere. Start your financial education asap and make it a habit to invest in it every day.

Let’s get going!

Today, everyone needs to go to school to prepare for a job or career, but we also need to know how to invest—and investing is not a subject taught in school.

The stock market has been the greatest wealth generator of the past century. So with that in mind, the surest way to become wealthy is to save money and invest it in the stock market.

Never invest in any company before you’ve done the homework on the company’s earnings prospects, financial condition, competitive position, plans for expansion, and so forth.

Warren Buffett’s success is based on 3 simple rules

1.Invest based on the intrinsic value of a company.

2. Be prepared to hold your position on a company forever if necessary.

3.Never invest in a company with a business you don’t understand.

• No finance background needed: This certification is a great starting point to an exciting career in finance and has been designed to teach anyone with a basic understanding of financial concepts.

  
  

I encourage you to take this course. But if you decide not to, please take another class, or read a book.

To know what you don’t know is power. To ask and learn what you don’t know is a superpower.

Investing in learning makes you better at earning.

About MBA ASAP

The path to success is the continuous pursuit of learning.

We’re MBA ASAP, our mission is to make advanced, quality business education accessible to capable students everywhere by leveraging technology at scale to deliver inexpensive online programs, courses, and books.

We know that talent is distributed globally, but opportunity is not. We believe all capable and committed students deserve the opportunity to change their lives and to impact their communities.

Education is most effective when educators, and students work together to create pathways for mutual success. Technology makes advanced learning locally available across geographies and enhances outcomes.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets — Leonardo Da Vinci

Testimonials

Muy buen entrenamiento ya que permite obtener nuevos conocimientos importantes para nuestro desarrollo laboral y profesional.

- Alejandra