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Apply what you've learned to case studies modeled on real finance interviews.
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You're reviewing a diversified company's segment footnote disclosure. Walk me through how you'd assess whether management's corporate cost allocation across segments is distorting each segment's true profitability, identify which segment might be quietly loss-making once allocations are stripped out, and explain what other footnote-level quality tells you'd look for before trusting the reported segment margins.
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AdvancedYou're reviewing a company's defined benefit pension plan. Walk me through how the plan's obligation and assets roll forward for the year, what funded status that leaves the company with, how the pension expense recognized in the income statement is calculated using the corridor method, and how you'd adjust the company's leverage and WACC to reflect the plan's net liability.
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AdvancedAs an M&A analyst, you are tasked with walking through the purchase accounting for an acquisition — calculating the fair value step-ups, the deferred tax liability they create, the resulting goodwill, the incremental amortization burden, and the deferred revenue haircut's impact on post-close revenue.
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