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Corporate Finance Interview Questions PDF
Corporate Finance Interview Questions PDF
1-What are Financial Statements of a company and what do they tell about a company?
5-A company buys an asset; walk me through the impact on the 3 financial statements
16-Tell me how you would go about valuing a privately held _______ company?
17-What types of information would you look for to value a foreign company?
18-Why might a technology company be more highly valued in the market (P/E) than a steel
company stock?
19-How does the yield curve work? What does it mean when it is upward sloping?
20-What is securitization?
21-What do you think is going to happen with interest rates over the next 6 months?
22-Who would you say is the most influential government official vis a vis the company?
23-What is disintermediation?
24-How does compounding work? Would I Be better off with 10% annually or semi? What about 8%
semi annually vs. 10% annually?
25-Where is the US trade deficit?
27-What is convexity?
29-What is the biggest debt market (by product) in the US? Rank top 5 markets.
32-What is unique about the US treasury Market vis a vis the rest of the debt market?
35-How many basis points is a yield bong going to trade off treasuries?
37-If you worked for the finance division of our company, how would you decide whether or not to
invest in a project?
48-What are the two most basics financial statements prepared by the companies?
57-Can you please explain the difference between share capital & reserves and surpluses?
97-Define Finance?
103-What are the two basic problems financial manager faces nowadays?
124-Tell me about yourself (ie where do you start, what do you cover personal v. professional)?
135-Have some basic idea of regulatory changes in the industry and what the Federal Reserve has
been doing.
136-Know the major players in the market: Treasury Secretary, Chairman of the Fed, CEOs of the
largest banks, etc.
137-Know the banking/finance structure and different functionalities of the firms. (You can find this
info online.)
139-If ten couples want to meet each other, how many handshakes will occur?
140-How many cigarettes are produced annually in the U.S.? In the world?
144-How many burger buns are sold in the United States every year?
146-How much change would you find on the floor of a mall in downtown San Francisco?
147-If you toss a fair coin 12 times, what is the expected product of number of heads and number of
tails? (It is not 36.)
148-There's a 10x10x10 cube made of 1,000 1x1x1 cubes. If you eliminate the outer layer of cubes,
how many do you have left? You are trapped in a dark cave with three indistinguishable exits on the
walls. One of the exits takes you 3 hours to travel and takes you outside. One of the other exits takes
1 hour to travel and the other takes 2 hours, but both drop you back in the original cave through the
ceiling, which is unreachable from the floor of the cave. You have no way of marking which exits you
have attempted. What is the expected time it takes for you to get outside?
149-Describe a project where you had multiple options, how you assessed the situation, and how
you decided to pursue the specific option/course of action.
150-Give an example of a time you had to use data analysis or quantitative skills.