还有一些也是面试中问过的问题:
1. What does negative (Operating) Working Capital mean? Is that a bad sign?
2. Let’s say a customer pays for a TV with a credit card. What would this look like under cash-based vs. accrual accounting
3. A company has had positive EBITDA for the past 10 years, but it recently went bankrupt. How could this happen?
4. Normally Goodwill remains constant on the Balance Sheet – why would it be impaired and what does Goodwill Impairment mean?
5. Walk me through how Depreciation going up by $10 would affect the statements
6. What happens when Accrued Expenses decreases by $10 (i.e. it’s now paid out in the form of cash)? Do not take into account cumulative changes from previous increases in Accrued Expenses.
7. Explain what happens on the 3 statements when a company issues $100 worth of shares to investors.
8. Explain what happens on the 3 statements when a company issues $100 worth of shares to investors
9. Let’s say we have the same scenario, but now instead of issuing $100 worth of stock to investors, the company issues $100 worth of stock to employees in the form of Stock-Based Compensation. What happens?
10. A company decides to issue $100 in Dividends – how do the 3 statements change
11. Walk me through a $100 Write-Down of Debt – as in OWED Debt, a Liability – on a company’s Balance Sheet and how it affects the 3 statements.
12. Now let’s say that at the end of year 1, the company sells the $100 of Short-Term Securities but gets a price of $110 for them instead. It also uses the proceeds to repay the $90 worth of remaining Debt.
13. Explain what a Deferred Tax Asset or Deferred Tax Liability is. How do they usually get created?
14. What are examples of non-recurring charges we need to add back to a company’s EBIT / EBITDA when analyzing its financial statements?
15. What’s the difference between capital leases and operating leases? How do they affect the statements?
16. How do Net Operating Losses (NOLs) affect a company’s 3 statements?
17. What’s the difference between Tax Benefits from Stock-Based Compensation and Excess Tax Benefits from Stock-Based Compensation? How do they impact the statements
18. If you own over 50% but less than 100% of another company, what happens on the financial statements when you record the acquisition?
19. You own 70% of a company that generates Net Income of $10. Everything above Net Income on your Income Statement has already been consolidated.
20. Walk me through how you would recognize Net Income Attributable to Noncontrolling Interests, and how it affects the 3 statements.
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