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CRISIL 2021 Questionnaire

The document discusses several important topics that may be covered in a finance interview, including time value of money concepts, risk and return, capital structure, cost of funds, financial statements, and capital budgeting techniques. It also provides sample interview questions related to the candidate's background, finance fundamentals, and guesstimates.

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CRISIL 2021 Questionnaire

The document discusses several important topics that may be covered in a finance interview, including time value of money concepts, risk and return, capital structure, cost of funds, financial statements, and capital budgeting techniques. It also provides sample interview questions related to the candidate's background, finance fundamentals, and guesstimates.

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PROBABLE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

Important Topics
Time Value of Money
-Interest rates- nominal, effective
-Compounding- annual, semiannual, quarterly, continuous
-present value, annuity, annuity due
Risk and Return
-return formula
-systematic, unsystematic risk, beta, risk return relationship, risk free rate, risk
premium
-SML
-formula
Capital Structure
-NOI, NI, MM approach
-arbitrage process
-leveraging
Cost of funds
-Cost of debt, equity, pref shares, retained earnings, term loans
(redeemable/irredeemable)
-WACC
-Marginal vs Historical weights
Cash flow statement
-operating activities, investing activities, financial activities
Funds Flow Statement
-uses and sources of funds
-types of assets
-working capital
-difference b/w FFS & CFS
Financial Statement Analysis (V. IMP)
-all ratios and their significance

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-DU Pont Analysis
Capital Budgeting
-importance & features of investment decisions
-NPV, IRR, MIRR, PI, ARR,
- Capital Expenditure
-NPV vs. IRR
-NPV vs. PI
Leverages
-DOL, DFL, DCL
-EPS-EBIT analysis
-EPS at various levels of EBIT
-Breakeven points

General
1. What are your expectations from CRISIL?
2. Three strengths and three weaknesses.
3. Trickiest situation you’ve faced in life.
4. In which profile are you interested?

5. Invert this in minimum moves.

6. Questions relating to internships and projects


7. Which profile do you want to opt for?
8. How is NCFM certification of MBA (FM) students different from the same
certification done from outside?
9. What is the name of the person who gave the presentation during the pre-
placement talk?
10. What is dual degree?

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11. Why did you shift your background from science to business?
12. Best 4 things about your college.
13. 5 principles of economics.
14. Where will you be when you are 40 years old, personally and professionally?
15. Why is there a percentage dip in your marks?
16. How does your family see you as a person?
17. Who is the current RBI successor, what is the inflation rate?
18. CV scan
19. Why don’t you join your father’s business?
20. About internship.
21. How is MBA FM different from MBA general?
22. Preference of location- will the student be comfortable working in Pune etc
23. About CRISIL
24. Gap year details
25. Hobbies
26. Strengths and Weakness
27. Why have you switched from HR to analytics
28. General Awareness: About US elections 2016
29. How do the candidates commutes to college
30. How badly do you want this job? Convince me.
31. Sell me a pen.
32. Why is formal dressing important?
33. What is the world GDP?
34. What do you know about CRISIL?
35. No. of states, union territories and special state in India?

Finance related
1. What is SENSEX?
2. CAPM model, formula and the concept?
3. Weighted Average Cost of Capital
4. Leverage

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5. Scenario Testing: Demand for your product is decreasing in the market. How
will you fix it?
6. Scenario Testing: You have opened a new company, how much debt you can
issue.
7. Which is more risky debt or equity?
8. Derivatives
9. Net Present Value. Difference between NPV and IRR?
10. Financial Accounting – Meaning
11. Indian Banking System
12. Calculation of Present Value Factor
13. Credit Appraisal
14. Cost of Equity
15. All different types of ratios (like leverage ratio, CRR ratio, SLR, Repo rates).
Define them and what is the present value of it?
16. What is the formula of working capital?
17. What is SWOT ANALYSIS? Is it possible to have a SWOT analysis of a firm?
18. What is PESTEL analysis?
19. Full form and formula of WACC?
20. What is a balance sheet? Equity is on which side of Balance Sheet
21. Cost of goods sold?
22. Define futures, options, mutual funds and forwards?
23. Difference between depreciation and mortgage? How do we calculate
depreciation?
24. What are NPV, DPS, and EPS?
25. What is convertible debt?
26. What is free cash flow?
27. What is a financial statement? Define its types?
28. What is P&L account?
29. What is stock splitting?
30. What is inflation rate?
31. What is GDP?
32. What is EBITDA?

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33. Equity or debt which is the cheaper source of money?
34. What is diminishing marginal utility?
35. Difference between cardinal and ordinal utility?
36. Define return on capital employed?
37. Define return on equity employed?
38. What is gross profit and net profit? If you are investing somewhere then what
will you considers net profit or gross profit?
39. From excel: how do we use v lookup and h look up and pivot table?
40. Amortization
41. Interest coverage ratio
42. Which 3 statements should one look immediately while checking the
accounts?
43. Gross margin, net margin & return on investment.
44. Crowd funding.
45. Draw balance sheet
46. ROI & ROE
47. Commodities market
48. Mutual funds
49. Define financial management
50. You purchase a second hand taxi for ₹ 2,00,0000

● Expenses=80,000

● Income=1,00,000

● Tax rate=10%

● Draw P & L a/c and balance sheet


51. Marketing theories like BCG matrix, Porter’s five forces model etc.
52. What is bottom order?
53. Differentiate between GDP and GNP.
54. What is marketing research?
55. What is CAGR?
56. Reliance Jio’s strategy - feasible or not?
57. Porter’s five forces model

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58. BCG matrix
59. Opportunity cost
60. Maslow’s need hierarchy theory
61. Concepts of Marketing
62. SWOT Analysis. Can it be done for a particular sector (retail sector)
63. PEST Analysis. Provide a framework for analyzing a country’s environment
64. Operating Margin
65. Net Margin
66. Purchasing power parity

Guesstimates
1. How many wine bottles are sold in India in a year?
2. How many travellers will leave from Delhi today’s night?
3. Draft a questionnaire for the product you have launched.
4. What strategy to adopt to tackle reliance go as a competitor?
5. 9 balls are there with 8 balls having the same weight and one ball having
more weight than the other 8 balls. Find the possible number of ways to
identify the higher weighted ball.
6. A person have 2 business 1.oil exploration 2. Oil transmission
a. For business1. “a” is the manager & for business 2. “b” is the manager.
Business 1 is earning good profits and business 2 is giving negative returns. Now the
owner decides to launch a mobile app for advertising by taking the investment from
“a” but no return would be given to him and “b” was made in charge of the new app
business. All the three business should run. How as the owner you would manage
the situation?
7. What is the weight of the USMS building?
8. How much water can flow below the DND flyover?
9. How many paracetamol tablets are sold in Delhi in one month?
10. How many tennis balls can be kept in any room of the USMS building?
11. ōōHow many white shirts are worn by CRISIL employees on a Friday?
12. Number of pencils sold in Delhi in one day?
13. How many people are flying outside Delhi to various parts of India in a day?

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14. How many traffic signals/red lights are there in Dwarka?
15. How many white cars are there in Delhi?
16. How many people are wearing ties in USMS today?
17. How many people will get placed this year from the whole GGSIP University?
18. How many birds are there in the USS today?
19. How many red lights are there in Delhi?
20. How many ₹ 10 coins would be there on the metro station of Rajiv Chowk at 1
p.m.?
21. Number of students having Iphones in IPU.
22. How to find the weight of an elephant?
23. Number of cars in the IPU.
24. Number of microwaves in your region.

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