AMITY BUSINESS SCHOOL

PLACEMENT
PREPARATION [FINANCE]
Batch 2025

Dr. Lakhwinder Kaur Dhillon

Associate Professor &
Head Department of Accounts and Finance
Amity Business School
Amity University, Noida
Interview Panel ask Questions from four areas:
(i) From your Resume
(ii) Your Summer Internship
(iii) Basic Knowledge about functional areas [Finance for Finance
specialisation students]
(iv) Newspaper Headlines or any hot area of discussion going on.
Refer to Finshot [[Link] for articles on hot areas on
daily basis]
(v) Read Editorial Section of Newspaper
Part A: Key Focus Area
Professional Getup & Attitude
Time Management
Creative Thinking
Quantitative Aptitude
Proposal Writing
Public Speaking
Presentation Building
Advance Excel
Data Interpretation
Independent Learning
Self-Motivation
Open for Learning
Humble & Positive Attitude
Patience Listener
Basic knowledge about core courses

Part B: Basic Requirement

✓ Kindly scan the Company’s web site and read in and out about the company.
✓ Know in and out about your Summer Internship Project
✓ Whatever is mentioned in the Resume be double sure about that, maximum questions
come from Resume contents.
✓ Know your courses names completely that you are reading in the current semester and
have read in previous semesters.
✓ Know how to introduce yourself in a very confident manner.
✓ Do not speak anything about the company unless and until it is asked for.
✓ If the interviewer tries to speak about negative things, do not get involved and say I
beg to differ. Always get involved with positive conversations.
✓ If question related to politics is asked, kindly do not talk about political party, rather
speaks from the point of policy initiatives, growth, and development.
✓ Always be aware about your weakness and Strength.
✓ Have clarity on your Role Model
✓ Do read Newspaper and be aware about Recent headlines or Buzz news.
✓ Read Sector Wise Performance report in last few Quarters [Manufacturing & Service
sector specially]

Part C: General Questions

1. At this age how much, you know about yourself.
2. What defines you Best?
3. Do you remember any Incident where you outperformed despite all ODDS?
4. How you motivate your team for performance?
5. Are you self-motivated? What keeps you motivated despite all ODDS?
6. Do you think you have leadership skills?
7. Have you ever been in a Leadership role? Elaborate
8. Given a situation in which you are leading a team how will convince your team to
work in extreme conditions (late hours, remote area etc.)
9. Can you share an instance where you motivated your team, and they performed
exceptionally well?
10. Any, not so good event of your past and how you coped up in negative situation.
11. Any failure? Lesson learnt from that failure.
12. Where you see yourself after 10 years?
13. Why should we take you?
14. In a situation of choice between ethical issue and huge profits from a project, what
will be your take?
15. What is your contribution towards society?
16. What is meaning of Unicorn Company? Can you name few unicorns?
17. What are your achievements till now?
18. If one of your clients is very demanding, how would you deal with such clients?
19. If your job is very demanding, then how will you manage your time?
20. Are you open for working in shifts as your client may be in some different time zone?
21. Are you aware about SDG Goals?
22. What is your take on Inclusivity?
23. What you know about OPEC, OECD?
24. What is net Zero? When will India attain net zero target?
25. Graphical Representation of data
26. Types of charts
27. Types of data and What is time series data?
28. Can you give meaning of backward integration and forward integration [Give
Example]
29. If you are required to start your own venture, how would you raise funds for your
business?
30. CSR activities knowledge [See few big companies’ website for their CSR activities]
31. What is work life balance?
 32. Are you open for night shift [Please understand that you will be posted in India
initially and your client may be in US, UK or any other country, so some time to
check that availability they ask such questions and not to make you work in night
shifts]

Part D: Area Specific Questions

[Revise Tools for analysing Financial Statement of the company i.e., Ratio analysis, Cash
Flow statement etc. Revise the Financial Management concepts Like Wealth maximisation,
Time Value of Money, Leverage Analysis, Capital Budgeting and working capital
management, Cost of Capital & Dividend Models]
1. Walk me through a P&L statement/Balance sheet/Cash flow statement.
2. What is operating Profit?
3. What is COGS?
4. What is EBITDA?
5. Net sales realization meaning and calculation.
6. WACC/Cost of Capital
7. FCF formula
8. How is FCF and FCFE different
9. Cost of equity calculation (CAPM Model)
10. NPV vs. IRR
11. What is Beta/systematic risk
12. Life cycle of a company/product
13. Terminal value formula = FCF*(1+g)/ (WACC – g)
14. What should be the g (growth rate) of a company?
15. Why is debt important for a company?
16. What is financial risk?
17. What is Business Risk?
18. When is multiple-based valuation used?
19. P/E vs P/B [Price Earning vs Price to Book]
20. Working capital- meaning calculation.
21. What are liquid assets?
22. Dividend – treatment (financing)
23. Can FCF be negative - when and why.
24. What is net debt – treatment in FCF?
25. Ratios – debt to equity (ideal), Current ratio, interest coverage ratio, DSCR,
proprietary Ratio
26. What are above the line items and below the line items?
27. What is operating Income?
28. Meaning of Amortization
29. Difference between Revenue, Incomes, and gains
30. What is fictitious asset?
31. What are preliminary expenses?
32. Treatment of Preliminary Expenses written off
33. Name some non-operating expenses.
34. What is CFAT?
35. What is goodwill? Treatment – impaired or depreciated, or amortized.
36. Fixed asset schedule (add capex and minus dep) – treatment.
37. Inventory turnover ratio (cogs or sales)
38. Prepaid expense/deferred revenue
39. How to apply some of the above questions in excel.
40. India’s expected growth Rate
41. Can you talk about major financial development since Independence?
42. Green Bonds
43. What are the benefits of using debt in the capital structure?
44. Are you aware about some innovative sources of funding a start up?
45. What id Peer to Peer Lending?
46. Vendor Financing?
47. Crowd funding, Bootstrapping, Venture Capital, seed capital
48. Difference between Banking and NBFC?
49. National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI)
50. What is Fintech?
51. What are Neo Banks?
52. UPI P2M transaction
53. PSP Bank
54. Meaning of Merchant Discount rate
55. Insurance Penetration in India
56. Why FDI flow to India has increased during the pandemic?
57. What are contingent Liabilities, how the provisions for such liabilities are created?
58. Difference between Stock split & Bonus shares? What happens to the additional paid-
up capital when Stock split occurs?
59. Devaluation vs Depreciation (difference)
60. What are Hedge funds?
61. What are mutual Funds?
62. What is a pension fund and how does it work?
63. Name some Regulators of India and US
64. Methods of Valuation
65. SORT analysis, PESTLE analysis
66. Porter’s 5 Force Model
67. Bond Valuation
68. Duration and Immunization
69. What comes under foot notes?
70. Sector wise FDI, at least know where 100% and where it is restricted.
71. Leverage buyouts
72. Restructuring, Merger and Acquisition basics
73. What are the risks associated with freight cost in an emerging market?
74. What are derivatives?
75. Meaning of Forwards, options, Futures, and swaps
76. American Options, European Options, Exotic Options, call, put.
77. What is strike price? Bid and Ask
78. What is Margin trading?
79. What is Mark to Market?
 80. Which option strategy has unlimited profit potential?
81. What symbol is used in a flowchart to represent a decision?
82. Some most commonly used types of flowcharts?
83. Meaning of Frontier economy
84. Meaning of Gig Economy
85. How you check the Liquidity, Profitability, Solvency of a firm?
86. What is Bank reconciliation statement?
87. What is ROI?
88. What is SML and how is it different from CML?
89. What is breakeven point?
90. Capital adequacy ratio.
91. CRR, SLR, Repo Rate and Reverse Repo Rate, Bank Rate
92. Monetary Policy and Fiscal Policy
93. Fiscal consolidation, Quantitative Easing, Tapper Tantrum
94. What is P/E ratio? How to calculate it
95. What is crowding in?
96. What is crowding out and why is it bad?
97. What do you mean by credit worthiness of a company?
98. What do you mean by bond stripping?
99. What is Brand Equity?
100. Green shoe option
101. What is strategic drift in business?
102. What is factoring?
103. Meaning of Line of credit, cash credit facility and Overdraft facility.
104. Purchase Order Financing
105. Forecasting techniques in Business analytics
106. Interpretation of Mean, Variance, Standard Deviation, correlation, Regression
107. What are mutually exclusive decisions?
108. Meaning of twin deficit
109. Interpretation of Beta
110. Tool for Analysing Financial Statement
111. Oil Bonds, Junk Bonds, Zero Coupon Bonds, SUSHI Bond
112. CIBIL Score meaning and Full Form
113. Meaning of Arbitrageur, Speculator and Hedger
114. Meaning of Capital Account Convertibility
115. Meaning of Disinvestment
116. What is NAV and how it is calculated?
117. Meaning of VAT and GST
118. Issues related to GST
119. Effective Interest Rate, Real Interest Rate and Nominal Interest Rate.
120. Transfer Pricing, Double Taxation
121. What is CAGR?
122. What is meant by market anomalies?
123. What is the Fama-French model and for what it is used for?
124. Difference between Stakeholders and Shareholders
125. What is CPI & WPI?
126. How many Stock exchanges are there in India?
127. Name few International Stock Exchanges
128. Technical analysis and Fundamental analysis, how and when you use them?
129. What is Rule 72?
130. What is gross margin, profit margin, EBIT margin?
131. Who is Finance Minister, RBI Governor, Chief Economic Advisor?
132. Some major economic Reforms in recent past
133. Name some Indexes of popular stock exchanges across the world.
134. How research is conducted, steps and types?
135. What is Factor analysis?
136. What are NPA’s? How is banking sector performing currently?
137. How does perceptual mapping help?
138. Methods of depreciation
139. Difference between Provisions and Reserves
140. What is deficit financing?
141. Who print currency and who decides how much to print?
142. What is inflation & what are different types of inflation?
143. What is hyperinflation?
144. What is stagflation?
145. What is GDP and how it is calculated?
146. Names of top 5 Economies of the world
147. What is Purchase Power Parity?
148. Economic Growth Rate?
149. World Bank, IMF
150. What is blue ocean strategy?
151. What is red ocean strategy?
152. How do you optimize resource utilization?
153. Are you aware about Monte-Carlo optimizations?
154. What is investment Banking?
155. Who is a custodian?
156. Difference between ADR, IDR and GDR
157. What is OTC
158. What is DESH (Development of Enterprise and Service Hub)
159. What is e-RUPI?
160. What is IIBX?
161. What is LIBOR, SOFR & MIFOR?
162. What is cloud Banking?
163. Differentiate between Cryptocurrency, Stablecoins & CBDC.
164. GDP Growth rate
165. Why according to you Indian Currency is losing/gaining its value against Dollar?
166. What is BNPL? Why is it becoming popular these days?
167. Meaning of Multi factor Authentication.
168. EMV Chip
169. Mean of Financial consolidation
170. What is open market operation?
171. Meaning of Alpha in Stock Market
172. What will be the impact of HDFC Bank merger?
173. Do you know about FLDG?
174. Biju’s Crises
175. What is De-dollarization?
176. What is Blockchain and crypto Currency?
177. What was the issue with Silicon Valley Bank
 178. What was this Hindenburg report?
179. Have you heard about Angel Taxes?
180. Can you talk about some big Scams you heard/read or know about?
181. What is e-Rupee?
182. What is carbon border tax?
183. What initiatives are required to strengthen India’s economy?
184. What is the difference between Financial Institutions and Banks?
185. What is credit multiplier?
186. Is demonetisation illegal?
187. What is Debt Trap?
188. What does Internationalisation of the rupee mean?
189. Why MRF was in news recently?
190. Can you name some rating agencies that give rating to country?
191. What is carbon Market association of India?
192. Meaning of proof of stake?
193. What is CAGR?
194. Are you aware about some accounting software? Means names.
195. Meaning of Asymmetric Information
196. What does India VIX mean?
197. Meaning of Green Economics
198. What is KPI?
199. What is NACH?
200. What is CAMELS?

Part E: Some companies Interview preparation.

1. Blackrock
It is an Asset Management company.
Know about Derivatives
Hedging techniques

2. ZS Refer to
(i) VS associate Case study round (YouTube Videos are available online)
(ii) VS associate aptitude Test (Available online)

3. E- Value Serve
(i) Team related Questions
(ii) Motivation related Questions
(iii) Creativity, problem solving, and analysis related question based on situations

4. Smart Cube: At the Smart Cube Limited they seek to hire those who think outside the
box. So, Business analysis, creativity, problem solving, analytical skills related questions.

5. Wipro
(i) Business Analysis, Creativity, problem solving
(ii) Financial Statement Analysis and the tools used
(iii) Strategic Management general Questions
(iv) Basic Finance related Question
6. EY & KPMG
Analysis of Financial Reports
Ratio Analysis
Cash Flow Interpretation

ALL THE BEST

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