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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. You’ve almost made it to the end of our series! Missed out on Parts 1-3?

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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

What Investment Bankers Do There are several key roles within investment banking, including corporate finance, sales and trading, and research. This will provide you with the necessary foundation in financial concepts and analysis that will allow you to present well in the interview and hit the ground running from day one.

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Case Math

Tom Spencer

Net Present Value: The NPV of an investment is the present value of the series of expected future cash flows generated by the investment minus the cost of the initial investment. Where r = discount rate; CFt = expected cash flow in year t; CFn = expected cash flow in final year; g = long term cash flow growth rate.

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Management Consulting

CaseInterview.com

This may involve traveling to the client’s site to collect data, interview employees, and examine daily operations. It could be evaluated by tracking sales, calculating savings on operational costs, or counting new customer acquisitions. This is typically the second step in the problem-solving process.

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Business Valuation Lessons From ESOPs

Martinka Consulting

One of my roles was being on the team interviewing the critical (and very expensive) ESOP advisors. In the Discounted Future Cash Flow method profits are projected (same as the first issue) and discounted back to a present value. Using comparable sales of much larger firms will distort the value.

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The Simple Question That Can Make or Break a Startup

Harvard Business

” This one flaw harmed significantly more companies than well-known startup challenges such as cash flow (29%), competition (19%), and poor timing (13%), to name a few. They’re paying for the benefits promised in the sales copy and testimonials.

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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. Digital companies must be performing such assessments in-house to reward their sales and marketing staff.