Interview Help - Next week as a loan processor/analyst in the mortgage banking division

Here are the basics...

Annual Payment = P / [ ( 1 - (1/(1+i)^n) ) / i

Interest rates good to assume would be around 4-5% for a strong company, that would be decent assumption for something like the DELL rumored take private. Use 4% for a home loan for someone with good credit... always use round numbers in an interview so you can calculate rough numbers faster.

Interest (lost/earned) on cash just use 1% to be safe.

Coverage ratios are usually done on FCF or EBITDA. Basically covenants are based on cash flow ratios... not much more you need than Total Debt/EBITDA or Calculating a ratio such as EBITDA or FCF/interest payment

Other ratios could be Price to book and price to tangible book.

In terms of percentages... guessing they just mean what your returns are. A good rough number is a 7cap basically pay back that investment in 7 years. In an interview I would use a 10cap though so my numbers were easy to calc... If they say something like "When would you expect to pay back on a home worth $1M" I'd say roughly 10 years because you can earn... calculate payment based on annual payment formula above.

Areas? That part i have no idea wtf they are talking about, maybe just a stupid metric like "price per square meter". All the above should cover you for a basic interview though.

Have fun.