START HERE / FOUNDATIONS
Finance & BFSI Basics: Learn Key Concepts and Test Your Knowledge
Learn essential finance and BFSI terms, then test what you remember.
YOU WILL Build a vocabulary you can check yourself.Learn and self-check
The Centaur learning library
Finance Career Resources
Learn the language. Follow the work. Read the numbers. Then show your thinking. Explore practical finance guides in an order that makes sense.
Explore the libraryYOUR LEARNING MAPCHOOSE AN ENTRY POINT
Start anywhere. Follow what you need next.
Explore by path or question
Choose what you need to understand.
Each guide moves from an idea to a practical use. Follow the sequence or jump straight to a specific question.
01 / 04
Learn the language
Foundations
Build the vocabulary before following a process.
GUIDE / FOUNDATIONS
Accounting Basics for Finance Operations: Debit, Credit and Records
Follow debit, credit, journals, ledgers and trial balances through simple examples.
YOU WILL Connect entries to the records they create.Study accounting basics
GUIDE / FOUNDATIONS
Financial System in India: Institutions, Markets and Operations
Understand how Indian institutions, markets and payment systems connect.
YOU WILL Place banks, markets and payments on one map.Explore the financial system
02 / 04
Follow the work
Workflows
See how records, checks and exceptions connect.
START HERE / WORKFLOWS
Reconciliation in Finance: Meaning, Process, Types and Examples
See how teams compare records, investigate breaks and document the next action.
YOU WILL Trace a difference from source record to documented next step.Follow the workflow
GUIDE / WORKFLOWS
Bank Reconciliation Process: Steps, Differences and Example
Work through timing differences, errors and a fictional bank reconciliation.
YOU WILL Use the worked figures and a blank practice worksheet.Work through the example
GUIDE / WORKFLOWS
Corporate Actions Workflow: Events, Dates and Controls
Trace issuer events from announcement through entitlements and record checks.
YOU WILL Follow an event across dates, instructions and checks.Trace corporate actions
GUIDE / WORKFLOWS
Capital Market Operations: Process, Participants and Controls
Follow market participants and the controls behind a securities transaction.
YOU WILL Map participants to operational hand-offs.Explore market operations
GUIDE / WORKFLOWS
KYC and AML Compliance Guide: Framework, Workflow and Controls
Understand customer checks, documentation, monitoring and escalation in context.
YOU WILL Separate a check, an alert and an escalation.Explore KYC and AML
03 / 04
Read the numbers
Accounting & analysis
Read the numbers and understand their limits.
START HERE / ACCOUNTING & ANALYSIS
Financial Statement Analysis: Ratios, Methods and Limits
Interpret core ratios and understand what statements cannot explain alone.
YOU WILL Read a ratio together with its limitations.Analyse statements
GUIDE / ACCOUNTING & ANALYSIS
Cost Accounting for Finance Operations: Concepts and Uses
Learn how costs are classified and allocated in a finance operations context.
YOU WILL Explain why cost treatment changes the picture.Study cost accounting
GUIDE / ACCOUNTING & ANALYSIS
Financial Accounting for Banking Operations
Connect accounting entries and statements to banking operations.
YOU WILL Follow records into useful financial statements.Connect records and statements
04 / 04
Show your thinking
Interview practice
Turn what you know into a clear explanation.
START HERE / INTERVIEW PRACTICE
Investment Banking Operations Interview Questions for Freshers
Practise trade lifecycle, settlement and exception answers with a clear structure.
YOU WILL Explain the work with evidence, control and next action.Practise interview answers
GUIDE / INTERVIEW PRACTICE
Accounting Interview Questions and Answers: A Worked Operations Case
Work through fictional entries, a trial balance and a bank break before checking your answers.
YOU WILL Test your accounting explanation against a worked case.Try the worked case