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Working Capital & Cash Flow Interview Questions for Finance
Working capital and cash flow are core drivers of a company’s liquidity and financial health, and they frequently come up in finance interviews. This case will test your understanding of working capital basics, the cash conversion cycle, links to free cash flow, and practical ways companies manage short-term financing needs.
Energy Sector Valuation & Interview Questions for Finance
Valuing energy and natural resources companies is very different from other industries. Commodity price swings, capital intensity, and the role of reserves make traditional models harder to apply directly. In interviews, you’ll be expected to show that you can adapt standard finance tools to the specifics of oil & gas, midstream, and renewables. This set covers the most common technical questions so you can demonstrate both solid finance fundamentals and an understanding of sector nuances.
M&A & Synergies Interview Questions for Finance
This question set explores the essentials of Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) with a strong focus on synergies, valuation implications, and deal structuring. The progression starts with a general rationale for M&A, then moves into mechanics like accretion/dilution and synergy valuation, before covering more advanced areas such as goodwill, tax attributes, cross-border deals, and earn-outs.Working through this set should take around 30–35 minutes, making it well-suited for interviews in investment banking, private equity, and corporate finance.
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Cost of Capital Interview Questions for Finance
This set of questions is designed to help you master the core concepts behind a company’s Cost of Capital. The progression takes you from the mechanics of calculating the Weighted Average Cost of Capital (WACC) to how risk factors like Beta and Size Premiums are incorporated, and finally to the implications for company valuation.In total, working through this set in an interview would take around 30 minutes. It is well-suited for interviews in corporate finance, investment banking, or private equity. Below, you’ll find model answers for each question, along with interviewer notes on what to look for in candidate responses.
Debt & Credit Analysis – Interview Questions for Finance
This question set covers the fundamentals of debt instruments, credit metrics, and risk assessment. It mixes definitions, calculations, and case-style questions to prepare you for corporate finance and investment banking interviews.
Practical LBO Interview Questions for Finance
This set of questions helps you apply key LBO concepts in practical, realistic interview scenarios. You'll explore how leveraged buyout logic is used to assess deal structures, compare financing options, and evaluate the impact of working capital changes, covenants, and dividend recapitalizations on investor returns.In total, walking through this set in an interview would take approximately 35 minutes, making up around 70% of a typical 45-minute interview. Below, you’ll find model answers for each question, along with tips for the interviewer on what to look for in candidate responses.
M&A Interview Case: Should SteelTech Buy BoltWerk?
A mid-sized European industrials company, SteelTech AG, is considering acquiring a smaller competitor, BoltWerk GmbH, to expand its product portfolio and gain market share. You are part of the M&A advisory team. The CEO asks you to do a quick assessment of whether the acquisition makes strategic and financial sense.
Working Capital Forecasting at FreshHarvest AG
You’re advising FreshHarvest AG, a fast-growing food distribution company based in Germany. They operate on tight margins, high volumes, and have recently secured several new retail partners. The CFO wants to better understand how working capital decisions and seasonal dynamics impact their free cash flow profile and ultimately their valuation.Your task is to assess how working capital evolves over the forecast period, how payment term shifts affect cash flow, and how to reflect seasonality in a dynamic forecasting model.This case will test your analytical skills, cash flow understanding, and judgment around operational finance levers.
Advanced Valuation Interview Questions for Finance
This question set helps you strengthen your valuation fundamentals by covering core techniques used in public and private company valuation, tax asset treatment, and sector-specific approaches. You'll explore how to estimate acquisition premiums, work with Net Operating Losses, and understand how valuation frameworks shift for financial institutions and resource-based companies like oil & gas firms.You should expect to spend 25–35 minutes on the full set. Use the model answers to check your understanding, refine your technical explanations, and practice communicating complex valuation topics clearly and confidently in interview settings.
DCF Analysis at CloudCore Inc.
You’re working on a DCF valuation for CloudCore Inc., a publicly traded cloud computing company. You’ve built a standard unlevered DCF model using a WACC of 10% and based on your 5-year forecast, the Enterprise Value (EV) currently comes out to $200 million.
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Intermediate Valuation Interview Questions for Finance
This question set helps you go beyond the basics of valuation by comparing key methodologies and exploring when and how to use each one effectively. You’ll review core approaches like DCF, comparables, and precedent transactions, and build on that with LBO analysis, liquidation valuation, and industry-specific multiples.You should expect to spend 30–40 minutes on the full set. Use the model answers to check your reasoning and refine your technical knowledge.
Intermediate Valuation & DCF Interview Questions for Finance
This intermediate-level question set covers key concepts in valuation, with a particular focus on the Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) method. You'll review the main valuation approaches, then work through the full DCF process – from calculating free cash flow to understanding discount rates, terminal value, and capital structure effects.Plan for about 30–35 minutes to complete the set. Model answers are included to help you check your logic and technical knowledge.
Intermediate Accounting Interview Questions for Finance
This set of questions is designed to help you master the core concepts around the three financial statements. The difficulty ranges from beginner to advanced, progressing from foundational questions to a multi-step scenario that tests your understanding of capital expenditures, debt financing, depreciation, interest, and asset write-downs. In total, walking through this set in an interview would take approximately 20 minutes, making up around 40% of a typical 45-minute interview. Below, you’ll find model answers for each question, including tips for the interviewer on what to look for in candidate answers.
Deloitte Case: Footloose
Duraflex is a German footwear company with annual men’s footwear sales of approximately €1 b.They have always relied on the boot market for the majority of their volume. In this market they compete with three other major competitors.In the fall of 2019, Badger – one of Duraflex’s competitiors – launched a new line of aggressively priced work boots. The strong success of this line has caused Duraflex’s management to re-evaluate their position in work boots.With limited additional resources, the management must now decide if they should focus their efforts on competing with Badger in the work boot sector, or allocate their resources on further strengthening their position with casual boots. The management team approached you and asked for your advice. In order to advise them on their future work boot strategy please prepare first some insights regarding market size and competitive landscape.
Fast Food Pricing
Our client is a global fast-food restaurant that offers a wide range of breakfast and rest of day products including burgers, salads, fries, and beverages, and offers combo bundles. Over the last ~5 years in the US, our client has seen a relatively flat guest count, but a decline in profitability. They have launched severallarge national advertising campaigns focused on highlighting their "value" products which have not turned around profits the way they had hoped. The head of the US business has asked us to help him understand why gross margin is decreasing, and specifically to take a look at his menu's pricing.Is there an issue with the menu pricing structure? If so, what would you recommend to restructure the pricing?What is the overall implications to volume and gross margin with a revised pricing structure?
Nearshoring - Opportunity study and Business case
Your client is an international Corporate & Investment Bank (CIB). It is France based and has already expanded to Poland (Warsaw), Asia and Americas. Your client now wants to look into the development of the existing hub in Warsaw and is contacting you to help him assess this option. How would you help him?
McKinsey Case: Digital & Vegan Restaurant Franchise
Our client is a European venture capital firm. They are potentially interested in investing into a new restaurant franchise player from Austria, called “VegDigi”. VegDigi has just 3 corporate restaurants in Vienna and no franchisees, yet, but their business model is considered innovative for a restaurant industry, and is based on 3 pillars:Proprietary IT system – VegDigi’s team has developed their own IT system (which manages all restaurant processes – from cashier desk and employee schedules to inventory management and delivery).Innovative vegan menu – VegDigi offers fresh, whole-foods vegan menu, which differentiates itself from the rest of the fast food offering in taste and quality. VegDigi puts a lot of focus on its foods being healthy.Transparent business practices and processes – VegDigi prouds itself to be a transparent business, meaning they publish all their data and talk about their success and failures openly online.Our client has engaged us to help them to determine whether or not to make an investment into the VegDigi.
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PE Portfolio Strategy
We are a private equity firm operating primarily in the automotive industry. We would like you to figure out whether we should increase our portfolio in the sensor market or not.We would like you to do a profit/margin growth potential analysis and tell us how we can add value to this company given the other companies in our portfolio.
GamingHub
Our client, GamingHub, is a large diversified entertainment corporation that received a request to approve a $200 m capital allocation from its video game manufacturing division. The division wants to triple the capacity.The client hired us to help him decide if he should approve this capital request and have asked you what critical issues are to be looked into to decide if the division's market is attractive enough to expand.
Travel Destination
Your client is the government of a region in southern Spain. Situated in this region are the country’s main tourist locations, mostly beaches.The government is not satisfied with the revenues of the tourism sector. They have contacted our company to find a solution for this problem.
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