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Breaking Down Case Interview Frameworks – M&A (Mergers and Acquisitions)

Management Consulted

Welcome back to the last in our series on breaking down case interview frameworks. Check out our breakdowns on Profitability , Market Sizing , and Market Study to become a complete expert on any kind of framework you’ll need in your case interview. This comes down to 4 key areas: – The Market.

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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

Sales and trading is another key area of investment banking that involves matching buyers and sellers of securities or buying and selling securities out of the bank’s own account in order to make a market. How would you value a company with negative historical cash flow? How do you calculate the cost of equity?

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Mergers & Acquisitions: Valuation

Tom Spencer

Building on information provided in Management Consulting: A Guide to the Profession , I highlight three approaches that a consultant can use when performing a valuation: Balance sheet valuation; Market based valuation; and. Valuation of discounted expected future cash flows.

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Is It Time to Consider a Fixed Fee for Your Consulting Services?

Successful Independent Consulting

You know you’re going to have to interview each of the division heads and other functional leaders, but you can leverage the interview questions from the last assessment you did. Plus, you’ve developed a good system for interpreting interview data.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. They just went through, at great expense, the interviewing and hiring of a new “class” of undergraduate consultants. Commerce has ground to a halt. Today, not so much.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

During one of my internships I worked on a due diligence project, which involved conducting market research to help a PE firm decide whether to acquire a major stake in a joint venture owned by one of the largest telecom companies in Asia. Financial due diligence involves a lot of financial modelling ( DCF , LBO , NAV ) and deal structuring.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

Let’s say a company is looking to relocate to a new market. They may hire a consultant to advise on ideas for gaining market share. They may mix separate issues or expect that their previous strategies will work in a new market. In this case, you may determine that gaining market share will be your client’s biggest challenge.