Elite Boutique Technicals
If anyone has interviewed at an EB or just got a really hard technical question in general, drop it below.
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bump. preferably examples of tough conceptual technical questions not in guides
This question is too broad for you to get any insight to be quite honest. At some EBs I’ve interviewed at, I’ve had the easiest technicals and breezed through the interview (how does $10 of deferred liabilities flow through the 3 statements?). At others, it was conceptually the hardest experience I’ve ever had in my life, and I felt so shook that I doubted I could accurately rehearse the alphabet - I wanted to cry, and I never cry. If you pinpoint which exact EB you’re hoping to learn about, I think you’ll be more likely to get an accurate response because every bank does it differently
I wanted to cry and I never cry
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how would you answer the $10 deferred liabilities question
It's deferred revenue Current Liability increase. Follow the guides for that one. Simple answer.
There are lots of threads that already cover this topic, suggest using search function or looking in the interview section of the company database for company-specific questions
No use in memorizing questions, just study this shit to where you understand it, like really understand it, then no matter the question you will be able to answer it, and even if you don't fully get it right you will be able to speak in a way that demonstrates competence
A company uses cash to pay down it's account payable and keeps increasing its account for cash received in advance. What happens to working capital? Would you finance this company with credit?
So if cash received in advance is increasing, and you use that to pay off accounts payable, your liabities should continue to grow while you generally won't be keeping that much cash on hand (using it to pay off payables). As a result WC would grow negative?
In terms of financing the company w/ credit (I'm assuming debt?), I think if I can just use the company's cash from accounts, would not have to incur interest expense? But depends on how much cash from DR they have left over from paying off payables?
Could be very wrong here, just thought I'd take a shot.
That's how I would've answered this as well. Anyone else?
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Wouldn’t this depend on how the amount for each? one increases wc and the other decreases it, but without the amount how would you know what happens? I’m a bit confused on how to properly answer this. Question seem very vague without numbers. If the company is using all the cash from deferred revenue to pay down the ap, then it would remain the same.
for the credit question wouldn’t it be the same thing? it depends on it leverage ratio, comparable companies leverage ratio, and other?
I’m not sure if I’m completely wrong.
but yeah to echo the above if the company has enough cash inflow, can’t they just stop paying off the aps and use that as financing instead of taking debt? It would be cheaper, but doing this would increase the wc capital.
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