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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. Once again, it all comes down to finances. Missed out on Parts 1-3?

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Transitioning from Management Consulting to Corporate Strategy/M&A – the Interview Process

Tom Spencer

Interviews. After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. Multiple hiring team interviews (case + fit).

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Frameworks for the Case Interview (Part II: Mergers and Acquisitions Framework)

Tom Spencer

The reason that this framework is worth introducing is due to the increasing frequency of M&A cases confronting candidates in the case interview. Yes, M&A is not all about finance! There are three main valuation methods you can use to estimate the value of the company: Discounted Cash Flow , Comparable Companies , and.

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Due Diligence by Management Consulting Firms

Tom Spencer

These are outsourced by PE firms or corporate acquirers to a specialist adviser: lawyers for legal issues, accountants for auditing, and investment bankers for carrying out due diligence from a financing perspective. Table 1 – Framework for validating an M&A deal from a strategic and operational perspective.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

Since then, we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks who follow technology companies. This notion, that risk is a desirable feature, can seem like sacrilege to anyone who’s taken an introductory finance course.

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CEO Oasis: Relief for “Loneliness at the Top”

Emerson Consulting Group

For months now, Steve has been struggling over cash-flow problems with no solution in sight. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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A Blueprint for Digital Companies’ Financial Reporting

Harvard Business

In a follow up HBR article , we interviewed several chief financial officers (CFOs) of leading technology companies and senior analysts of investment banks and distilled seven key insights from those discussions. The first category should describe the amount spent on supporting current operations.