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Technical Questions
Basics of Finance and Accounting
- What are the three financial statements and how are they connected?
- What is EBITDA and how is it used?
- What is BETA and how is it used?
- What is the discount rate?
- What is CAPEX?
- What is CAPM?
- How do you project cashflow?
- Do you invest or have an opinion on the market?
- What are classified as operating, financing, investment activities etc..?
- What is EPS?
- How do you calculate the numbers of shares?
Advanced Finance
- How do you value a company?
- What do you know about this company or industry?
- What do you know about technical and fundamental analysis?
- Pitch me a stock or deal
- What are some ratios or multiples to look at?
- Where can you find the annual filings
- What is the WACC?
- What is equity cost of capital
- Equity vs. Debt
- Security and Investment Analysis
- What is IRR?
- Options Analysis
- What is ROE?
- Economic Theory
- What is Arbitrage?
Advanced Scenarios
- Walk me through a DCF
- Go Over Net Working Capital
- Depreciation Adjustments
- Market value, Enterprise value, Equity value...
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Time Value of Money
- Stock vs Debt vs Cash based Deals
- What are common Anti-Takeover tactics?
- Cash and Profit Generation
- Initial Public Offering
- LBO and Leveraged Financing
- CFA Experience
- Excel Questions
Behavioral Questions
Career Perspective
- Where do you see yourself in the long term?
- Why IB, PE, HF, S&T etc..?
- If not this job, what else would you consider?
- Why this firm in particular?
- Who are you interviewing with and where?
- What does an IB/PE/S&T etc...analyst do?
- What excites or worries you about this job?
- Looking at your resume, what is your greatest accomplishment or regret?
- Which industry group are you interested in?
Personal Development
- Walk me through your resume
- Do you have teamwork experience?
- What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- What makes you the best candidate?
- Tell me about a time you failed and what you did about it
- When do you think your learning curve will flatten?
- Tell me about your leadership experience?
- How have you succeeded in life? Intelligence, hard work, luck etc…
- How do handle pressure, time constraints, or imperative decisions?
- What do others think of you?
Academic and Extra Curriculars
- I see you go to (school name), how do you like it?
- Why did you go to (school name) and this major?
- What kind of books do you enjoy reading?
- Are you in extra curriculars or clubs in school?
- What do you like to do in your free time?
- What is your favorite class?
- What activities have you done to promote financial knowledge or financial modeling?
- Any projects or instances that showed off your skills?
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