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Telephone: What do you know about Duff and Phelps? Why Valuations? Assessment Day: How do you calculate WACC, Cost of Equity? How do you calculate FCFF, FCFE? How would you price a call option? (think black-scholes model) Relationship between interest rates and bond prices What valuation method would you use for a company not making profits? Maths: About 15 mental maths questions and 15 Valuations and Accounting questions with no calculator.
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Valuation Analyst

Interviewed at Kroll

3.5
Dec 5, 2016

Telephone: What do you know about Duff and Phelps? Why Valuations? Assessment Day: How do you calculate WACC, Cost of Equity? How do you calculate FCFF, FCFE? How would you price a call option? (think black-scholes model) Relationship between interest rates and bond prices What valuation method would you use for a company not making profits? Maths: About 15 mental maths questions and 15 Valuations and Accounting questions with no calculator.

Why valuation? Why Kroll? What made you interested in valuation? Walk me through a DCF model? In depth questions regarding terminal value calculations and Gordan Growth model. Walk me through FCFF and FCFE, what's the main difference, Discount rate, about WACC formula and Ke (CAPM) formulas. Is there a situation where WACC is used when we take FCFE? What's Beta? How is it calculated for private companies? What does Beta indicate? The values and what risks does it incorporate? Comparing a public company and private company with many similarities but different gearing how would you calculate the Beta? What assumptions are made in DCF when taking forecasts? Why debt is considered cheaper than equity? Whether there are other reasons apart from Tax benefits?
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Valuation Trainee

Interviewed at Kroll

3.5
Mar 5, 2024

Why valuation? Why Kroll? What made you interested in valuation? Walk me through a DCF model? In depth questions regarding terminal value calculations and Gordan Growth model. Walk me through FCFF and FCFE, what's the main difference, Discount rate, about WACC formula and Ke (CAPM) formulas. Is there a situation where WACC is used when we take FCFE? What's Beta? How is it calculated for private companies? What does Beta indicate? The values and what risks does it incorporate? Comparing a public company and private company with many similarities but different gearing how would you calculate the Beta? What assumptions are made in DCF when taking forecasts? Why debt is considered cheaper than equity? Whether there are other reasons apart from Tax benefits?

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