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Top 5 Financial Analyst Interview Questions & Answers (Easy to Hard)
In this video, we'll walk you through the common financial analyst interview questions that we have encountered while interviewing for financial analyst roles at Tesla, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, and other top companies! This will cover important questions on the time value of money, financial statement fundamentals, financial ratios, valuation methods, and more.
We'll cover these common interview questions:
1. $10,000 today or $10,000 in the future?
2. How can a company with positive EBITDA have negative net income?
3. What are some financial ratios you would use to measure the health and risk of a company?
4. What are different methods that you could use to value a company?
5. Should the weighted average cost of capital be higher for a company with a $100M Market Cap or a $100B Market Cap?
6. Bonus: How many cups of coffee does Starbucks sell in the US each day?
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CHAPTERS:
0:00 - Introduction
0:17 - Question 1
1:17 - Question 2
2:29 - Question 3
4:05 - Question 4
5:39 - Question 5
6:29 - Bonus Question
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Komentáře

  • @nana7._.
    @nana7._. Před dnem

    so valuable, thank you!

  • @arslanmughal2024
    @arslanmughal2024 Před 15 dny

    Can I still be a financial analyst if I don't want to work on finalizing financial statements, a task typically handled by Big 4 accountants?

  • @arslanmughal2024
    @arslanmughal2024 Před 15 dny

    Can I still be a financial analyst if I don't want to work on finalizing financial statements, a task typically handled by Big 4 accountants?

  • @megapuspitap
    @megapuspitap Před 20 dny

    Hi thank you for nice video. 7 years ago I had market sizing question from a consulting company. It was exactly the same questions but the sales in my country. I did the approach you mentioned. However, the interviewer keep questioning me where do you get the population number? Where did you get 75% assumptions? What is the reason behind that 75%? And basically he keep questioning the validity behind the assumptions. So i am wondering how exactly do we need to answer it?

  • @magnumopus8202
    @magnumopus8202 Před měsícem

    This was helpful

  • @kad2ful
    @kad2ful Před měsícem

    Video was absolutely fantastic…however that last calculation included some wild assumptions😂

  • @BigDan
    @BigDan Před měsícem

    The answer to Q5 is wrong. The WACC for the larger company would be higher. Since it states that all other things remain equal, the cost of debt, cost of equity, tax and the debt of both firms remain the same. Therefore, since it is generally true that debt is cheaper than equity and the more expensive equity now carries a larger weight in the larger company, the WACC would be higher.

  • @mekhrojalimov638
    @mekhrojalimov638 Před měsícem

    He doesn’t work at Tesla at all, by compliance issue he would otherwise never talk anything about Honda

  • @filippofontana8413
    @filippofontana8413 Před měsícem

    Very nice video, I advice you to use the bottom up method rather than the top-down one when it comes to specific quests like the bonus one:)

  • @AS-dn7ds
    @AS-dn7ds Před měsícem

    Everything went over my head… im going to fail my interview 🙃🥲😭

    • @YeppersItsMe
      @YeppersItsMe Před měsícem

      How did your interview go? I have one on Thursday and this guys making me nervous! 😂

    • @taquito.duende
      @taquito.duende Před 22 dny

      @@YeppersItsMe How did your interview go?

    • @YeppersItsMe
      @YeppersItsMe Před 22 dny

      @@taquito.duende it went really well, but they ended up going with someone with more experience

  • @Romio666
    @Romio666 Před měsícem

    Which tech one is more relevant to bankers.?

  • @aaravjagga4613
    @aaravjagga4613 Před měsícem

    if you have more time you can do other things in life specially that you like

  • @daisyboisy
    @daisyboisy Před měsícem

    For Q5 should the WACC be higher for a 100 million company or a 100 billion company. I see where your answer is coming from but isn't assuming a risk comes from market cap alone lacks depth? Like for example TSLA has a huge market cap but Ford is a less risky company (according to beta at least)? I might be missing something - Love the video!

  • @chriswalter92
    @chriswalter92 Před měsícem

    Private equity sounds like a mechanism that extracts the most amount of value from a business, and transfers that wealth to the few general partners. Everyone loses - the business, the employees, the local consumers, the tax payers.... except for the general partners

    • @tahirisaid2693
      @tahirisaid2693 Před měsícem

      The people you’re claiming don’t benefit wouldn’t have benefited with or without the private equity buyout. The business was failing before private equity came in, they just more efficiently manage the end of the companies life. Most likely allowing most companies to work there longer than they would have been able to do before.

    • @makumbiisaac4770
      @makumbiisaac4770 Před měsícem

      @@tahirisaid2693 preach

    • @malikwingfield5264
      @malikwingfield5264 Před 28 dny

      @@tahirisaid2693Exactly! Private equity firms usually target failing businesses that they can turn around

    • @alanv3185
      @alanv3185 Před dnem

      Sounds like an incompetent private equity firm. Private equity firms make money but turning businesses around. No turnaround = no money. You cannot extract value from a business. If a private equity firm does this, they don't last at all.

  • @gamerswarehousez
    @gamerswarehousez Před měsícem

    Very useful video thanks for inside! Btw do you know if people can land a Financial Analyst job by doing online certificates from Coursera and Udemy and maybe Google Certificates? Or a Master's Degree is a must to get a job in this role?

  • @aigerimtoktabayeva8907
    @aigerimtoktabayeva8907 Před 2 měsíci

    You so cool, thank you:) Best of luck for your future, definitely it would be bright with Gods help!!!

  • @almurabitun
    @almurabitun Před 2 měsíci

    Are you AI or a real person

  • @wlkp69
    @wlkp69 Před 2 měsíci

    sounds really borings day to day

  • @MrMRforever
    @MrMRforever Před 2 měsíci

    Eye opening video

  • @chuckynorris616
    @chuckynorris616 Před 3 měsíci

    I'm sorry, did you meant to say day in the life of a wage slave in the Bay Area?

  • @aidanpeterson75
    @aidanpeterson75 Před 3 měsíci

    are u robot? fuck it looks like u don’t have a life

  • @GoldenGod69
    @GoldenGod69 Před 3 měsíci

    Im taking a basic upper-division corporate finance class at my school... I love it. Thinking of switching to a finance degree from Business/Data analytics. The finance class I am in we have covered all these questions so far

  • @frankmuller0.029
    @frankmuller0.029 Před 3 měsíci

    I think the top-down approach for the # of cups of Starbucks sold a day is too optimistic, or simplistic, as it has ignored affordability and propensity to spend on coffee. I would go bottom-up, looking at capacity and how fast it can sell. Assuming that a typical outlet is able to dish out 2 cups every 5 minutes, thus making it 2X12x15(hr/day)x5000(outlets)=1.8m cups a day. I’ll Google and share the result if I can find.the answer, I’ll provide it here. Or if anyone has the answer, please kindly share. Thanks.

    • @frankmuller0.029
      @frankmuller0.029 Před 3 měsíci

      Ok, turned out I was wrong and too conservative, as Google says "According to a USA Today Article dated 2006, they sell over 4 Million cups of coffee a day.17 Jan 2011”. So, the guy in the video was spot on!

  • @gopalkrusnajena7383
    @gopalkrusnajena7383 Před 3 měsíci

    Bro you look Asian .. aren't you ?

  • @gopalkrusnajena7383
    @gopalkrusnajena7383 Před 3 měsíci

    Bro im a student of 12th cbse commerce stream (in India) i can answer every question surprisingly 😀😊

  • @pradyumnasahu3313
    @pradyumnasahu3313 Před 3 měsíci

    Much needed video

  • @wearetogether1100
    @wearetogether1100 Před 4 měsíci

    Do you get leave on Saturday Sunday... Do you work during weekends??

  • @elenamarchenko2642
    @elenamarchenko2642 Před 4 měsíci

    Economist is there. Why not just ask Starbucks yearly operation revenue in the USA and divide into 5 us , assuming this is an average price of an average Starbucks cup?

  • @gamingvault6027
    @gamingvault6027 Před 4 měsíci

    I'm currently looking into getting into the Financial Analyst Field. It has always been a dream of mine to work for Tesla. I have always found everything numbers related easy to come to me, which is what has brought me here. Just wondering if you have any recommendations on where to start on a career with Tesla.

  • @victorblaer
    @victorblaer Před 4 měsíci

    Don't rreally agree wiith the wacc question. I suppose, yes the larger company will have lower default ratios per Damodaran datasets. But, things like cash and near cash equivalents will affect the lowering of beta more. Ceteris paribus - the larger company will have lower default ratios in the dataset of other similar companies..

  • @itsjustme684
    @itsjustme684 Před 4 měsíci

    He went straight to the point!!!

  • @jamesd1567
    @jamesd1567 Před 4 měsíci

    what college did you go to?

  • @davidc4408
    @davidc4408 Před 4 měsíci

    CBRE is a great brand

  • @memphisginger2751
    @memphisginger2751 Před 4 měsíci

    I will be forever grateful to you, you changed my entire life and I will continue to preach on your behalf for the whole world to hear you saved me from huge financial debt with just a small investment, thank you Claudia Jenkins.

    • @samdiesel714
      @samdiesel714 Před 4 měsíci

      I'm surprised that you just mentioned Claudia Jenkins here. I met her at a conference in 2018 and we have been working together ever since.

    • @Roche796
      @Roche796 Před 4 měsíci

      The very first time we tried, we invested $1400 and after a week, we received $5230. That really helped us a lot to pay up our bills.

    • @tracynguyen726
      @tracynguyen726 Před 4 měsíci

      You trade with Claudia Jenkins too? Wow that woman has been a blessing to me and my family.

    • @Ketanji_Morales_Barret
      @Ketanji_Morales_Barret Před 4 měsíci

      I'm new at this, please how can I reach her?

    • @michaelconnor359
      @michaelconnor359 Před 4 měsíci

      I was skeptical at first till I decided to try. Its huge returns is awesome. I can't say much

  • @irshviralvideo
    @irshviralvideo Před 4 měsíci

    cmon dude, you work at Tesla and you are saving money on food ?? cmon stop being cheap

  • @irshviralvideo
    @irshviralvideo Před 4 měsíci

    FYI - this guy is making 7 figures with stocks and stuff !!! Avergae base for his role - 350k USD and stocks is like 500k per year

    • @WolfLegends
      @WolfLegends Před 4 měsíci

      Thats director level salary...entry level anaylst probably at 70k base

    • @irshviralvideo
      @irshviralvideo Před 4 měsíci

      @@WolfLegends err, this is tesla dude. base is min 180k in california $. Stocks have gone up a lot in last 3 years so maybe he started with a 100k a year equity grant but now that is worth at least 400k a year given the stock has 4X since. So 400+180 = 580k

  • @Bodiedbyjessfitness
    @Bodiedbyjessfitness Před 4 měsíci

    All of those were hard! Revenue Manager here, am I in over my head?!

    • @FA9082
      @FA9082 Před 4 měsíci

      Lol NONE of thee question were hard. If you think these were hard you are not cut out to work in high finance lol

    • @Bodiedbyjessfitness
      @Bodiedbyjessfitness Před 4 měsíci

      Ok….Just because I’m not ready now does not mean I won’t be ready in the future. Thats what school is for. Have some compassion and worry about what your high finance job and not my career.

  • @mattydsmith
    @mattydsmith Před 4 měsíci

    Looks like you're in the UK, not the Bay Area?

    • @davidc4408
      @davidc4408 Před 4 měsíci

      House is tiny as bay area. Looks like a small uk house.

  • @mohsinbaig9326
    @mohsinbaig9326 Před 5 měsíci

    In love with your videos 💜🌸 Keep shining! ✨

  • @tarelakentebe465
    @tarelakentebe465 Před 5 měsíci

    Great video. My day is similar, looking at moving into FP&A in the future. side note: going back to work after dinner and gym, I could never!

  • @davidbaker9943
    @davidbaker9943 Před 5 měsíci

    Great to see a day in the life of a FA like myself.

  • @breadstick7431
    @breadstick7431 Před 5 měsíci

    No one gonna talk about the fact the video says 'Bay Area' whilst he is subscequently walking around UK streets, lol

    • @davidc4408
      @davidc4408 Před 4 měsíci

      Not UK streets

    • @breadstick7431
      @breadstick7431 Před 4 měsíci

      @@davidc4408 you sir need glasses

    • @davidc4408
      @davidc4408 Před 4 měsíci

      @@breadstick7431 maybe parts are UK but other parts certainly not as can see $ sign on food court outside

  • @georgeochieng8954
    @georgeochieng8954 Před 5 měsíci

    Great stuff. Surprised by the spend approval function as part of your role.

  • @paulhan7770
    @paulhan7770 Před 5 měsíci

    I'm more impressed with your not blinking skills than your financial skills. Holy Moly.

  • @saudmir24
    @saudmir24 Před 5 měsíci

    Full day work 😐☠️

  • @Eduardo-xl8hu
    @Eduardo-xl8hu Před 5 měsíci

    Awesome video, so in theory you are a half account haf analyst

  • @nandinisharma5325
    @nandinisharma5325 Před 5 měsíci

    Hey there! I'm planning to pursue Mba in Finance in Canada, but I'm not 100% sure if I'll be able to do it. Could you please help me to make a wise, rational decision.

  • @peterthepisces
    @peterthepisces Před 5 měsíci

    Im confused isn't Tesla in Austin now?

  • @unbeatablesoul6562
    @unbeatablesoul6562 Před 6 měsíci

    Thank you very much❤

  • @sa3757
    @sa3757 Před 6 měsíci

    Besides the awesome details and explanations of the routines, I was just impressed by the video skills and effort. I need to start with learning how to make videos like that! What tools/software you used for this?