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Technical: Finance
1. What is financial statements and different kinds of financial statements?
2. Importance of all three financial statements?
3. Golden rules of accounting?
4. What are accounting conventions and standards?
5. What is GAAP?
6. What is depreciation and amortisation?
7. Different methods of depreciation?
8. What is accrual and deferral?
9. What is conservatism, matching, going concern and money measurement concept?
10. What is deffered revenue expenditure?
11. What is operating income?
12. What is ebitda?
13. Why is it important?
14. Why not ebit for comparison between companies and why ebitda?
15. What are the key financial ratios?
16. What is operating leverage and financial leverage?
17. What is eps and diluted eps?
18. What is bank reconciliation statement?
19. What is BASEL?
20. What is the purpose of BASEL?
21. What is equity?
22. What is debt?
23. What is treasury bond?
24. What is treasury bills? Why treasury bond is given preference over treasury bills?
25. What is risk free rate?
26. What is industry attractiveness? What are its main components to evaluate?
27. What are fixed income secturities?
28. What are debentures?
29. What are bonds?
30. What is the difference between bonds and debenture?
31. What yield to maturity?
32. What is load?
33. What is coupan rate?
34. Why do stock market fall or rise?
35. What is capital budgeting? What are its major componenents and iots usefulness?
36. What is sensex, bse, nse, and cnx?
37. If a particular company falls , the sensex falls? What is the reason behind it?
38. What is capm model?
39. Various methods of valuation
40. How one can be used over the other and its purposes?
41. How do you value two companies?
42. Is it possible to value start ups? If so how?
43. What is risk adjusted return?
44. What is efficient frontier?
45. Who is a risk adverse investor?
46. What are the statistical measures to calculate risk?
47. What is the disadvantage of measuring risk through standard deviation?
48. Is there any alternative for it?

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49. What is ABC costing?
50. How is it different from traditional costing?
51. Does ABC costing have relevance in the real world? Give some real time examples.
52. What is zero sum game?
53. What is structured finance?
54. What is project fianance?
55. What is retail banking?
56. Why do you think retain IT solutions are necessary for retail banking?
57. Mention some companies IT solutions?
58. Who is an investor?
59. Who is speculator?
60. What is the difference between investment and speculation?
61. What is margin of safety?
62. What is dead weight loss?
63. What is the function of central and commercial bank?
64. What is balance scorecard?
65. What is dashboard?
Important: Personal Interviews
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what is the rationale behind your major and minor specialisation?

Why do you want to join our organisation? Why not our competitors?
Does your resume tell a story? If not whats the reason behind difference?
Mention why did you take pgdm, and the respective specialisation?
Include points that tells that you like to work in cross functional teams
Link your extra curricular activities with some characteristics like dynamic,

leadership skills and strategic decision making.

7. Always emphasise, the company as your dream company and never talk about
promotion and package.
8. How do you match to the role described in the JD?
The answer is just by constructing your strengths as the role in JD.
Be ready to convince the HR if he asks to give your life incidents on the strengths
possessed by you.
9. Construct your SIP to the convenience of your subject knowledge so that no difficult
questions are asked?
News Articles:

GST
FDI
Start ups
China stock bubble
Greece economic bubble
Sector wise contribution to GDP
Present value of sensex, inflation rate, dollar rate
E commerce giants

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Recent acquisition and mergers

Certain general terms on different specialistion eg: Big4 for finance, IOT for
systems, Recent customer attraction technique by restaurants for marketing,
Recent performance appraisal method adopted by any big company (Infosys-

bell curve) for HR etc.

Recent FDI measures taken by Modi!!