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List of probable interview question for placement

1. Why should we select you? Give 10 reasons.


2. What do you understand by large/mid/small cap?
3. Sensex has 30 companies, Nifty has 50 companies. Yet Sensex is around 38000 and Nifty
is around 11500. Why this huge difference between Sensex and Nifty?
4. In the recent monetary policy, the MPC increased the repo- rate? What is your opinion
and how do you see the repo rate going ahead in terms of increase /decrease?
5. Your MD wants to invest Rs. 1000 crores in a new manufacturing plant. He asks you to
assess it financially. How will you go about it?
6. What are the cash flows you will consider in assessing a capex project?
7. What is the difference between Project IRR and Equity IRR? Concept and Cashflows.
8. What is free cash flow to firm and free cash flow to equity?
9. Do you see any link between the cash flow statement and the current ratio?
10. Name 6 key ratios you would look at before buying the shares of a company.
11. What other documents/reports would you look at before investing in a company?
12. If a company is inflating its profits by inflating its sales, how can you possibly find this
out?
13. What are the three components of a cash flow statement?
14. What are Ind- AS? Name a few.
15. Can you give your views on why private sector capital investment in India is not picking
up?
16. Which measure of inflation does RBI follow ?
17. Both standard deviation and beta are measures of risk. What is the difference?
18. What is LIBOR?
19. What are the steps the Govt/ RBI have taken to resolve the problem of NPAs?
20. Why does a country need to have forex reserves? How much forex reserves does India
have? Is it adequate?
21. India has always run a Current Account Deficit. Yet it has forex reserves of USD $400
billion approximately. How is this possible?
22. What is the main qualitative difference between India’s and China’s forex reserves?
23. What is the quantum of India’s external debt?
24. How do you calculate cost of capital?
25. What is a bond? What is the difference between bond and debenture?
26. Why do bond prices fluctuate?
27. What is difference between monetary policy and fiscal policy?
28. What do you understand by the term “twin deficits” and “twin balance sheet problem”?
29. What is the key difference between project finance and conventional finance?
30. What is arbitrage?
31. What is capital gearing?
32. What is the difference between operating leverage and financial leverage
33. A highly hypothetical situation. Two listed companies A and B, in the same industry are
identical in all respects including their financials. A has a P/E ratio of 15. B has a P/E
ratio of 12. Will you buy share of A or B?
34. What is the difference between money market and capital market?
35. Given a choice, would you prefer to be a Fundamental Analyst or a Technical Analyst?
Why?
36. So you want to be a security analyst. What is security analysis?
37. What is Portfolio Management?
38. Why is correlation important in portfolio management?
39. What do you know about Warren Buffet and his investment style?
40. What is Capital Adequacy Ratio?
41. What is market risk?
42. What is mark to market/ fair value?
43. How is the value of a company determined?
44. What is the impact of foreign exchange changes on companies and the economy?
45. Do you think it is a good time to invest in stock markets?
46. Many countries in Europe experienced negative interest rates. What do you understand
by negative interest rates? How can interest rates be negative?
47. Amazon and many other companies do not make profits. Why is it that they are so highly
valued.
48. What do you understand by “buyback”? Why do companies resort to buyback? Name a
few companies which have recently resorted to buyback.
49. Do you think Imran Khan becoming prime minister of Pakistan will be good for India?
50. Recently Kotak Bank issued preference shares. Why? Did it serve the purpose.

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