这就需要申请者平时多加注意这些专业知识的积累和学习,根据我的面试经历,投资银行部(IBD)常问的问题无非以上那些,常见的比如有:
1.How to value a firm?
2.What is the Balance Sheet/ Income Statement/ Statement of Cash Flows?
3.What is Free Cash Flow? / How to calculate Free Cash Flow?
4.What is CAPM?
5.How to calculate WACC/ Cost of Capital?
6.What is the difference between FIFO and LIFO?
7.Compare with P/E ratio, P/BV ratio, and P/S ratio.
8.What is the current ratio/ quick ratio/ …………?
9.What is NPV/ IRR/ …………?
10.What is the DCF Model/ DDM Model…………?
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以上只是随意列了几个投行常见的问题,不能穷尽投行所有的专业面试题目。近年来,各华尔街投资银行除了投资银行部以外,其它部门也开始逐渐进入中国开展业务,比如固定收益部(FID)、资本市场部(CMD)等,这些部门可能更侧重一些别的知识,比如:
1.Futures, Options and Other Derivatives (经典教材:John Hull)
2.Market Sense/ Financial Market (要求跟踪市场)
3.Macro-Economy Status (宏观经济状况)
4.Fixed Income Securities
这些部门可能会常问以下一些问题:
1.What is Forward/ Swap/ Future/ Call Option/ Put Option…………?
2.What are the basic principles of Black-Scholes Model?
3.What is Yield Curve/ Term Structure………..?
4.What is Duration/ Convexity…………?
5.What is the interest rate of the 10-year Treasury Notes in America at present?
6.How to value a bond?
7.What is yesterday’s DJIA/ S&P500 / Nasdaq/ …………?
8.What are the effects if FED raises basis interest rates?
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