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Investment Banking 101: Understanding the Industry

Tom Spencer

Research is another important function within investment banking, and involves analyzing financial data and trends to provide insights and recommendations to clients. Prepare for the interview process – Investment banks typically have a rigorous interview process, and it’s important to be well-prepared.

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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. In terms of the interview process it followed the following steps: HR interview (fit).

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How Companies Can Use Investors to Their Advantage

Harvard Business

Immediately after joining Nikon, he decided to interview some of them. Thanks to the analysis, Nikon could identify and then interview past investors to understand the reasons they had purchased and then sold their Nikon shares. What he heard was uncomfortable.

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There’s No Wrinkle in Time for the Time-based CFO

Free Agent CFO

Susan is constantly studying trends, interviewing key resources, and can tell you every single key number on the financials which are delivered on the last day of the month at 11:59 p.m. And cash flow? Free cash flow is predictable and also tracks consistently with earnings. But Bill loves it.

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Fed Balance Sheet vs. Stock Market; Will QE Cause Inflation?

MishTalk

Trend Analysis. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. EW Trends and Charts. So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows.

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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 level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

trillion muni market had puzzled at the true identity of Bond Girl, Hector Negroni, co-founder of New York-based investing firm Fundamental Credit Opportunities, said in a telephone interview. “ Because most governments value predictable payments over trying to handicap interest rate trends and basis risk. Buyers and traders in the $3.7