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I have studied subjects like Management Consulting, Business Strategy, and Data Analysis in trimester 1.
Management Consulting
Business Strategy
Data Analysis
Your client wants to perform a corporate restructuring and operates in the automotive sector, how do you go about it? Focus more on valuation aspects.
(was a long interview of around 55 mins)
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
C: Clarified about what he exactly meant by corporate restructuring, what was the type of restructuring, what were the types of transactions involved, what part of the value chain was the client operating in, why did the client want to restructure (these were some of the preliminary questions asked one by one).
I: The client was operating in auto-component manufacturing, the deal involved two transactions related to a de-merger and a merger (also discussed the potential reasons which could be there behind a restructuring).
C: Structured my approach in three parts starting from the preliminary company & industry analysis and benchmarking to business valuations to swap valuation & implementing the deal (information about financial metrics, financial statements, valuation model to choose from, swap ratio target, etc. were provided).
(While solving the case, also had a discussion side by side on every technical aspect, was asked about the types of techniques to value a business, discussed in detail about DCF analysis, swap ratio valuation, etc. and general awareness about auto-component
sector.)
I: (after the case) what are the different types of charging depreciation?
C: told (was grilled on the units of production method in detail) (then there was another small case on financial linkages connecting all three financial statements in which some transactions were given, and I had to prepare the three statements intertemporally.)
I: What is bottom-up beta? How do we calculate bottom-up beta for a monopoly firm having no comparable?
C: Talked about the historical trend method, future projection method, and business fundamentals method.
I: What is NPV, IRR, XIRR, MIRR? Could you give me the excel syntax?
C: Provided a detailed explanation of each.
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Synergy Consulting is a management consulting firm.
Provides consulting services to various industries
Offers expertise in strategy, operations, and technology
Has a team of experienced consultants
Works with clients to improve their business performance
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It includes financial planning, budgeting, investment decisions, and capital structure management.
Examples include mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings, and debt financing.
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Both NPV and IRR are important metrics for evaluating investments, but they serve different purposes.
NPV measures the present value of future cash flows, while IRR calculates the rate of return on an investment.
NPV is better for comparing investments with different cash flow patterns, while IRR is better for evaluating investments with similar cash flow patterns.
NPV assumes reinvestment at the cost of capital, while IR...
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It is based on the risk associated with the project and the opportunity cost of capital.
Higher risk projects will have a higher discount rate, while lower risk projects will have a lower discount rate.
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Beta measures a stock's volatility in relation to the market
Levered beta includes the effect of debt on a company's risk
Unlevered beta is the beta of a company without considering its debt
Beta is used in the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) to calculate expected returns
To calculate relevant Beta for a listed company, use regression analysis to compare the company's stock returns to the market returns.
Gather historical data on the company's stock returns and the market returns
Use regression analysis to determine the slope of the line of best fit between the two sets of data
The slope of the line represents the Beta value for the company
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Beta cannot be determined without comparable competitors.
Beta measures the volatility of a stock compared to the market.
Without comparable competitors, there is no benchmark to compare the firm's volatility.
Therefore, the value of Beta cannot be determined for a niche firm with no comparable competitors.
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Use discounted cash flow method to estimate the present value of future cash flows
Use market multiples such as price-to-earnings ratio or price-to-sales ratio to compare the company to similar companies in the market
Use asset-based valuation to estimate the value of the company's as...
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Straight-line method
Double-declining balance method
Units of production method
Sum-of-the-years-digits method
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R can be integrated with other programming languages like Python and SQL
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ROE is calculated by dividing net income by shareholders' equity.
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