Finance Map
ADVANCING FINANCIAL KNOWLEDGE
TESTIMONIALS
TESTIMONIALS – FINANCE MAP FOR COMPANIES
“The training yesterday was fantastic! It was so helpful and clearly explained.”
“Matthew was a great host too, very personable and engaging with the audience in the room.”
“Thank you so much for delivering the session on Tuesday – we had fantastic feedback from the trainees as always!”
“I just wanted to send a quick message to say how much I enjoyed Matthew Craston’s sessions. He explained everything so well and is such an engaging speaker.”
“The most interesting/useful parts for me were the breakdown of the company accounts and accounting ratios.” [Financial Statements class]
“This was a fantastic session, that should be included at the beginning of one’s career. The instructor was very clear, and answered questions in an easy to understand manner. I would love to do more of the sessions.”
“Having spoken to quiet a few of them yesterday, it’s clear your seminar will have a lasting impact on their thinking and work which is excellent so thank you.” [Financial Statements class]
“Really useful engaging information delivered expertly.”
“What I found most interesting was getting the perspective of how these transactions work from someone who used to arrange them.” [Leveraged Finance class]
“It was great! 10/10 for handouts. Answered all of our questions well and helped us to work out answers (not just tell us the answer).” [Financial Statements class]
“The entire course from material to execution was nothing short of excellent.”
“Gained an understanding of key ratios and numbers to look at/analyse to understand a company’s financial (as Matthew focused on the important ones only), which I found particularly helpful.” [Financial Statements class]
“I’m pleased to let you know that we received fantastic feedback from participants last week. They all marked top marks on overall thoughts of the session, content, materials and presenter.”
“Matthew’s supporting materials, which typically cover a broad range of topics on a single page (as opposed to, say, a PowerPoint presentation with 20+ slides), translate very well to a remote format.”
“It is a great course. Matthew is very knowledgeable, and great at delivering information which is accessible to an audience which has varying degrees of experience of this subject.”
“Matthew has a great delivery style. He keeps a good pace, and he managed to make the session interactive. Always willing to take questions and answers these in a great way.”
“I just wanted to send a quick note to say I found Matthew’s presentation really brilliant – it was super useful for me especially in the banking team and I thought the finance map itself was really well laid out and clear.”
“I thought it was brilliant – thanks for organising! Great slides and explanations with lots of helpful clarity and context and the added topping of a sense of humour!”
“He was hugely engaging and helped to demystify a number of concepts I have previously struggled to understand. His visual mind map is also really helpful in explaining who our clients are and what they do/how their businesses work.”
“I thought he was a great speaker. Clear, appropriate pace, patient, handled questions well. Really impressed.”
“Very experienced, very knowledgeable (notably on accounting norms) and at the same time, very accessible, clear and providing many concrete examples.” [Financial Statements class]
“Very relevant to my current matters and my practice – would have been great to have attended this training years ago!”
“Great training, he is really good at simplifying complex matters.”
“That session covered more in three hours than I think the LPC did in a year and cut through brilliantly to the information we need to know to understand the ecosystem in which we work.”
“The best quality training handouts I have seen since joining the firm.”
“He was a phenomenally engaging speaker – I don’t know of many people who could genuinely hold my attention for three hours like he did.”
“The use of handouts was also very well done. I also liked how relevant the session was to our jobs and the economy at large. The use of real-world examples helped make the session engaging.”
“This is my second course with him and again, I think he is in the top bracket of anyone who has presented training for us.” [Financial Statements class]
“Having first experienced Matthew’s comprehensive Finance Map training in 2015, it now features regularly as part of our educational programme for trainee solicitors in our London office. Previous participants were unanimous in their praise not only of the content of the course, the materials and insights provided, but also of his ability to explain in a clear and logical way some of the key concepts in finance and the more complex workings of the financial markets. Being able to provide a breadth of training is important to us and Finance Map provides an innovative and informative experience that is of immense benefit to our trainee solicitors.”
“The Leveraged Finance sessions have been really popular. We have had audiences of mixed experience and they have all welcomed the clarity of Matthew’s explanations, the accessibility of the materials and the way that he has used his experience to explain the commercial context.”
August 2022
“This was one of the very best courses I have attended. Matthew made what might have been a complex and heavy subject into a clearly explained and easily understood one – no mean feat. Having a clearer grasp of the different participants and products in the financial market will enable me to offer clients the enhanced overview that they’re looking for at a senior level.”
TESTIMONIALS – FINANCE MAP FOR INDIVIDUALS
“Thank you so much for last Friday, it was unbelievably helpful. I felt I learnt more about finance in that 2.5 hours than I had anytime previously.”
“As a person who has recently entered the finance sector post-university, the sessions were highly informative, bridged gaps I didn’t know I had and gave me a clear overview of how the industry’s components mesh together. Couldn’t recommend it with greater emphasis.”
“The tutorial was easy to understand, yet provided a comprehensive foundation to build upon. I received a job offer during my internship, and I’m certain that the confidence I gained from my tutorial and Matthew’s continued support helped.”
“He provided me with concise and detailed explanations of the complex linkages within the finance world, without which I would not have been successful in my Deutsche Bank application. Furthermore, I valued the contact after the tutorial as I could follow up on any last-minute queries I had.”
“Having done an Economics degree and qualified as a chartered accountant there was still so much about the world of finance that I hadn’t fully understood.”
“I just got offered the job! Thank you SO much for everything – I am SO SO pleased.”
“The course was vital in enabling me to talk about distressed debt and hedge funds in my final interview – topics I would otherwise have had no knowledge of beyond their titles.”
“After seeing Matthew, I decided to focus on investment management firms, and three months later I secured a position on Ruffer’s training programme.”