Hi,

I did not know where to post this as I am new here. Please excuse me if I've posted this in a wrong forum. I have a case study question I would be extremely grateful if someone could help me out with. I'm extremely new to this stuff. It's part of a recruitment process. THANK YOU!

Hey guys, need some help for an upcoming interview.

I have a corp. strategy interview for a small and rapidly growing company. I have been informed that there will be a case study at the interview (final round). I am currently an ibanking analyst and I have never really had a case study in an interview.

I am somewhat aware of the case studies given at consulting interviews but the interview is in 3 days so obviously not a lot of time to go through Case in Point and learn all the strategies. How would you best prepare for this given the short time frame?

I'll be starting my career upon graduation with Accenture as a Systems Integration Analyst shortly, and would like to know if there are any SI/Tech case studies around that could help prepare me for future consulting engagements?

Sent a case study this morning to a 4 person group, $300MM fund.

Is there any harm in calling this afternoon to see if they have any questions? Hoping to get in front of any issues.

Got a sample PE case from a friend of mine and had a couple of questions.

The case is laid out as a majority recap financed with:

Senior bank debt,
Sponsor participating preferred with both PIK and cash annual dividends (80% common equity ownership)
Seller note

Owner in turn gets similar participating preferred with both PIK and cash dividends (20% of common).

Owner also receives an initial cash payment, and will hold the seller note.

Couple of questions here:

I am just not sure what this case study is trying to accomplish. $800MM O&G fund.

All scenarios are for a 1.5 year exit of the O&G drilling parent company. You can use cash or debt to fund any of the projects.

Part one is forecasting revenues for 2 potential projects.

Within the 1.5 year timeline project 1 has a greater IRR, p2 is still negative. The revenue streams of the two are fairly close ($185k vs $170k) at 1.5 years. Since this is O&G (drilling wells) each has a different decline curve.

Here are my issues:
1) Do I just integrate the revenue and say the one with the higher rev at exit is the best option, regardless of the negative IRR within 1.5 years?

Hi folks,

I've got a private equity case study to do but some information are bothering me.

For this case study, I've got projections of Turnover, EBITDA, EBIT and net income for the next 3 years.

I also have the projected financial debt (I guess, it's the pre-existing one, not the debt from the aquisition) and projected cash position.

What I wanted to do for my lbo model was to calculate FCF from EBIT and use all of them to repay the acquisition's debt.

However, I don't know what I'm suppose to do with the projected cash position. Should I use it and calculate the difference between each year in order to identify the cash flow of the year ?

I'm talking about these two:

http://www.streetofwalls.com/guides/hedge-fund-cas...
http://www.streetofwalls.com/guides/1130/?guide_id...

Each costs $67, which is a crap ton for ~15 pages of material that I could potentially get for free by asking people for their old case studies, but I feel like I have a long way to go in terms of HF interview prep and could make some use of it. Anyone have any opinions on this? I doubt anyone on this site has looked at these, but if you have I would greatly appreciate your review.

I have an upcoming interview for an internship with an M&A Boutique. The bank is industry focused and specializes in sell-side advisory.

I was told to be prepared to discuss a case that was provided to me. The case is a short deal memo with no financials or specific questions. I am given background information on the acquirer and target company in terms of business lines and geographic location. How should I approach preparing this case with such little information? What discussion points should I be expected to have opinions on?

Any suggestions you provide are appreciated.

Anyone have a real estate case study they wouldn't mind sharing? I have a final round pre-mba associate interview coming up at a real estate PE shop and have been told to expect a case study.

If not, any advice on typical inputs/outputs you're given in a PERE case study.

Thanks in advance.

Hi Everyone

I am also scheduled to take part in an upcoming assessment centre for GE FMP based out of EMEA. In the mail, I have been told that the assessment day would comprise of group case studies, finance/IQ quiz and a set of interviews.

Does anyone know what could be the nature of this group case studies. So far, I have only been taking part in IB related ACs therefore I have little idea of what to expect for a GE FMP case study.

In addition, considering that FMP is far more accounting oreinted than finance yet they would be conducting a finance quiz. Could anyone shed light on this as well.

Any input would be greatly appreciated.

Long time reader of this forum, first time poster.

Would greatly appreciate any insight on CIM Group and their final round pre-mba associate interviews.

Has anyone been this year? Any color on format/length of their case study, general interview process, or other feedback?

Can anyone comment about culture there? I've heard hours are longer than average and pay is below market.

Thanks in advance.

FM

Anyone who is a member willing to pdf and send me one? I don't have a login and really don't need to use the service other than for one case. The case number is #00585. Email is ilovskins12 at yahoo dot com. Thanks in advance.

Hi guys,

I have been invited to the Investment Banking Workshop at my uni, next week.
Any idea what could I expect and how I could prepare myself?

In the description they say that it will be a "live" investment banking situation.

I suspect that this will be a M&A case study. Actually, I am almost 100% sure. However, I have no experience with such case studies. Would using the preparation materials from Victor Cheng (consulting case preparation) help?

I would highly appreciate any advice on this!

PS. It is hosted by a top BB (GS, MS), and I will have another one soon, hosted by another BB, however, lower ranked (Citi, DB, BAML) and also one by an elite boutique

I'm a consulting noob whose just starting to get serious about studying for case interviews. In order to get a good foundation, I've memorized pretty much all of the CIP frameworks along with Victor Cheng's Business Situation framework.

I figured I would use Cheng's Business Situation framework as a back up when I couldn't really put my finger on what type of case it is, but I'm often confused which aspect to start with out of the 3C's and 1P. (Customer, Product, Competition, Company)

I know a lot of people say that you should look at cases and come up with your own frameworks and such, but frankly I'm just having a really hard time doing so. As a result, I have a really difficult time solving cases that deviate (even slightly sometimes) from the frameworks I've studied.

I have been reading Buffett's newsletters as well as Pershing Square's presentations whenever I can get my hands on them. (I have linked to them below for your perusal as well). I also try to read Greenlight's quarterly investor letter as well. Who else do y'all follow and are there any other presentations I should read?

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/letters/letters.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/26531910/Pershing-Square...
http://www.scribd.com/doc/88340350/Justice-Holding...

Hey guys,

I have a case study that I need to complete on a potential LBO opportunity. I was provided a CIM and was asked to come to a conclusion on whether I would invest in this company or not?

This is a fairly small MM target company that I'm looking at, so my first question is how do I come up the valuation for this target (e.g. entry multiple, etc.) so that I can even begin to come up with a capital structure.

Any insight would be helpful!

Hi - hope this is the right place to post this.

I am looking for books on how to value SME's (something with case studies). On doing an Amazon search, there are many books out there, but most seem focused on valuation theory. I am looking for something more along the following lines:

- SME valuation with case studies (eg fast food chains, engineering firms, management rights for engineering companies)
- Something that will get me to think about how different businesses run / think about the key valuation points
- In general, something practical!

I haven't come across anything, but am sure some books exist!

Thanks!
Beenay

I will be interviewing soon at CRU International for the research analyst position. They do not have many reviews on glassdoors and I cannot find any reviews about the company on google.

Does anyone know anything about the interview process for this company or the case study? Has anyone worked here?

Here is their website:
http://www.crugroup.com/

Any information would help. Thanks

Hey guys,

So I have an MBB first round interview coming up in the next two weeks. I scoured the forums and came to find that the two most often cited resources to use were Case In Point and caseinterview.com

I personally started with the latter and found it quite useful. I know that many people have sworn by Case In Point and would say it may be the only material you need but while working through both I was stuck in what approach to take to cracking the cases. Specifically CIP has some 12 suggested frameworks while Victor Cheung only has 4, and in fact uses mainly 2 80% of the time.

I have a final round interview with a boutique strategy consulting firm in two weeks. I've never had a case study interview before, and wanted to ask what the more experienced members of this forum would recommend to prepare and get the offer, given the timeframe I am look at?

I purchased Case in Point as it was inexpensive, however, I am not sure how beneficial it will be to memorize as much as possible. I've also read about Look Over My Shoulder, though it is a more expensive option.

I don't really know anyone in strategy consulting unfortunately, so I don't have anyone I can turn to for specific advice or to practice a case interview with.

All,

I have done a search on WSO but have not found extensive discussion on this topic. Does anyone have any experience / example that can share? I know this may depend on the fund strategy so let's assume this is for a distressed / credit fund. Anything specific I should be aware of?

Thanks a lot in advance for your help.

Hi all,

I am being called in for a second round interview at a relative large (over $2bn AUM) PWM firm for a Senior Analyst interview. I have been told that I will be given a case study to do in-person. I wanted to know what to expect from this case study test? Anyone given one of these?

Thanks for your help.

Hi all,

I am being called in for a second round interview at a relative large (over $2bn AUM) PWM firm for a Senior Analyst interview. I have been told that I will be given a case study to do in-person. I wanted to know what to expect from this case study test? Anyone given one of these?

Thanks for your help.

Hello all,

I have a final round interview with a PE firm coming up, and I've been told all that it consists of is a 2 hour case study. I will be given 1 hour to review the materials provided (not sure if it'll be a CIM, 10k, etc.), followed by a 1 hour discussion. I've also been told that the discussion will be primarily qualitative in nature, and the only technical aspect may be to calculate debt paydown and IRR.

Can anyone give me some pointers on a) what to expect, and b) how i can hit this out of the park? Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

PPP

Hi, this is my case study question, I seek your advice in how I should go about in answering it well. Thank you very much!! :)

"You are an independent businessperson meeting with a group of bankers. You have submitted a business loan application to the Bank and have been called to explain your intended business venture.

Your task is to convince the Bank to grant the loan."

I'm being shortlisted for the final interview for GE FMP where it'll be a case study presentation. What will i be expecting from the case study? What kind of question? Any example?

Thanks very much!

Hi!

I am a student at the University of Padua,
I was wondering if any of you have access to capital IQ
I am doing a case analysis on EGPW and I would really need
some report from Capital IQ. Can someone help me?

thanks in advance

Antonio

PS my mail is antonymoro at gmail.com