Why did I take this course?

I enrolled at ABS in April 2022 because I believed that "The key to increasing corporate value is the improvement of the skills of the employees". I took this course because I thought it was the essence of the skills that I must acquire at ABS as it focuses on companies as the subject of analysis and deepens my learning through Fund Management Simulation (hereinafter referred to as FMS).

What I learned in class

This course called AOYAMA action learning will proceed based on two concepts: (1) Lecture(input) and (2) Presentation(output).

(1) In the lecture session, Professor Morita, Professor Yoshino, and many frontrunners gave lectures based on the latest information. For students who have completed basic subjects (accounting, finance, business strategy, marketing, economics, ethics, operations, statistics, organization behavior) and elective subjects, this course is suitable as a place for comprehensive application. This is the best curriculum.
I learned many things such as ''things I thought I knew, but I didn't know'' and ''things I should know more about,'' and learned Business Analysis (BA) more systematically.
For example, companies are required to take a stakeholder perspective. In other cases, changes in the world may require a review of the supply chain management. In this course, we can learn the clues to solving the problems that companies are facing now.

(2) In the presentation session, there are presentations based on individual work and group work. In particular, the final presentation in January was a grand finale for FMS. The 120-page PowerPoint that I completed with my diverse classmates was the result of many trial and errors late into the night, and I do not mean to be rude but, I am proud that it was the best presentation.

As mentioned above, to say the least, I learned a wide variety in this course. Everything I learned was extremely impressive. I strongly declare that my choice was a success.

How do you want to use what you learned in my work?

In March 2024, when I was writing this experience, the Nikkei Stock Average closing price exceeded the 40,000 yen, making it the highest price ever. I feel the depth of the historical turning point because I took this course.

For example, thinking, ''The stock price will rise because it's a good company'' is First-level thinking, and can hardly be called a deep-level thinking. First-level thinking is simplistic and superficial, and just about everyone can do it. On the other side, we apply financial indicators such as PBR and ROE to the target company, as well as non-financial information such as human capital, exchange rates, domestic and external demand, industry trends, and growth potential, among other things, and conduct in-depth study with a high degree of interest. This is the type of deep-level thinking you'll study in this class.

Learning and working interact each other by not only knowing financial indicators and technical terms, but also using them on a daily basis.

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." is an old Greek saying. At FMS, I analyzed companies every day. As a result, I learned that I knew nothing. That's why I feel so strongly that I’d like to know more. I believe that my motivation to learn will take my working to a higher level.