How to prepare for Private Equity?

About to start associate role at a MF and looking to prep as much as possible before I start. Was in a process heavy group where we handled the model but most was from template. Anybody have any good resources they used before starting?

on a side note, how much are we expected to know going in? Have a good understanding of the basics and am proficient at XLS / PPT but worried that’s not enough

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