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Balance Sheet Projection Best Practices
Oct 27, 2009, 12:14 pm By Matan Feldman, Founder, Wall Street Prep IntroductionIn a finance and investment banking interview, candidates will almost certainly be asked questions that test their understanding of the relationship between the balance sheet income statement,... Read MoreM&A Accounting in Simple English
Jul 30, 2009, 1:38 pm By Matan Feldman, CEO, Wall Street prep, Inc.------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi everyone,Acquisition accounting has always been a challenge for analyst... Read MoreLBO Analysis on a Cocktail Napkin (Solution to Exercise)
May 26, 2009, 10:57 am Below are solutions to an exercise in the blog entry / newletter email titled "LBO Analysis on a Cocktail Napkin." To read the full blog entry/newsletter email, click here.1) What is CVS’ assumed purchase price (transaction value) in the exit... Read MoreLBO Analysis on a Cocktail Napkin
May 26, 2009, 10:40 am By Matan Feldman, CEO, Wall Street prep, Inc. As many of you know, we conduct LBO Modeling boot camps across the globe. We get into relatively sophisticated modeling techniques and teach practitioners how to model out various scenarios. ... Read MoreTop 10 Investment Banking Interview Questions
Jan 9, 2009, 1:00 pm With the new semester beginning for most MBAs and undergraduates, we know that interviews are again at the forefront of many of your minds. Below we have selected 10 of the most common technical investment banking interview... Read MoreFundamentals and Finance Career Opportunities in the Fog of Recession
Dec 9, 2008, 4:59 pm By Brad Barlow, Senior Instructor Over the past few months, by far the most common questions we have received have to do with the economy as a whole, and more specifically, how it will impact the market for jobs in corporate finance. We are not in the... Read MoreFinancial Concepts: Deferred Taxes
Sep 29, 2008, 4:22 pm By: Jesse Milligan I wanted to briefly focus on deferred taxes because they seem to come up frequently in a lot of our WSP modeling and valuation seminars, and it is a topic that most people are not very comfortable with. So here goes! Which Books?... Read MoreFinancial Modeling Techniques: Index & Match
Aug 18, 2008, 3:25 pm By: Jesse MilliganToday I would like to introduce you to two useful formulas, the “Index” and “Match” functions, which can actually be combined to create an even more useful ... Read MoreFinancial Modeling Techniques: Sensitivity (what-if) Analysis
Jul 8, 2008, 4:30 pm By: Jesse MilliganA financial model is a great way to assess a business’s performance on both a historical and projected basis. It provides a way for the analyst to organize a business’s operations and analyze the results in both a time-series... Read MoreFinancial Modeling Techniques: Selecting Operating and Financing Scenarios
Jun 4, 2008, 4:10 pm By Jesse MilliganIn our last article, we discussed the importance of formatting and having a dynamic set of projections in your financial model. We would like to take the concept of a dynamic model one-step further and introduce you to an additional important... Read More« Previous Entries