Reddit reviews Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions: University Edition

I dont think there is any single tutorial can provide all the guidance of Step 1-5.

(1) Need to understand webscraping.

https://blog.hartleybrody.com/guide-to-web-scraping/

(2) Need to operate with docx/pdf/excel, as well as basic NLP for information extraction.

Python with Docs: https://automatetheboringstuff.com/chapter13/

NLP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfoudtpBV68&list=PL4LJlvG_SDpxQAwZYtwfXcQr7kGnl9W93

(3) This one is very tricky, but typically a combination of webscraping/data extraction if you are not working in institution and not buying data from vendor

(4) Financial Modeling and Valuation, here are two introductory texts:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Investment-Banking-University-Second-Acquisitions/dp/1118472209

https://www.bookdepository.com/Investment-Valuation-Aswath-Damodaran/9781118130735

(5) Well, if you know how to do (1) to (4), (5) should be now a piece of cake

No, don't pay for WSJ if you already have the FT. Honestly, if you're more interested in the Alphaville section and markets - perhaps you're more suited to a capital markets or even S&T role than M&A advisory.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Investment-Banking-Valuation-Leveraged-Acquisitions/dp/1118472209/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1372779058&sr=8-1&keywords=Investment+banking+pearl

This book is a classic. If you learn it from cover to cover you're pretty set. The WSO guide is also very helpful as well as the Vault guides. These are much easier to understand for a newcomer and focus on interview questions. The pdfs of these should be online for free on some random website. Do some googling. Your investment society at uni may have paid for membership as well. But don't wait for uni to start back again.

Investopedia is not sufficient. M&I (and WSO) is good to read to understand the level of knowledge expected of people being interviewed. If you're technically proficient - it will be a big plus.