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I have completed MBA in Finance specialization. Now I am preparing for interview for job, so is there anyone who will provide link to download important interview questions with answers for MBA Finance students?

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There are many companies in India that offers jobs for MBA students. MBA students will get a good job with a good salary in all over world.

As you are looking for important questions for MBA Finance students for preparation of job, so here I am providing important interview questions with their answers:

Important Interview Questions for MBA Finance:

Q: Why do capital expenditures increase assets (PP&E), while other cash outflows, like paying salary, taxes, etc., do not create any asset, and instead instantly create an expense on the income statement that reduces equity via retained earnings?
Answer: Capital expenditures are capitalized because of the timing of their estimated benefits the lemonade stand will benefit the firm for many years. The employees work, on the other hand, benefits the period in which the wages are generated only and should be expensed then. This is what differentiates an asset from an expense.

Q: Walk me through a cash flow statement.
Answer. Start with net income, go line by line through major adjustments (depreciation, changes in working capital and deferred taxes) to arrive at cash flows from operating activities.

Mention capital expenditures, asset sales, purchase of intangible assets, and purchase/sale of investment securities to arrive at cash flow from investing activities.
Mention repurchase/issuance of debt and equity and paying out dividends to arrive at cash flow from financing activities.
Adding cash flows from operations, cash flows from investments, and cash flows from financing gets you to total change of cash.
Beginning-of-period cash balance plus change in cash allows you to arrive at end-of-period cash balance.

Q: What is working capital?
Answer: Working capital is defined as current assets minus current liabilities; it tells the financial statement user how much cash is tied up in the business through items such as receivables and inventories and also how much cash is going to be needed to pay off short term obligations in the next 12 months.

Q: Is it possible for a company to show positive cash flows but be in grave trouble?
Answer: Absolutely. Two examples involve unsustainable improvements in working capital (a company is selling off inventory and delaying payables), and another example involves lack of revenues going forward in the pipeline.

Q: How is it possible for a company to show positive net income but go bankrupt?
Answer: Two examples include deterioration of working capital (i.e. increasing accounts receivable, lowering accounts payable), and financial shenanigans.

Q: I buy a piece of equipment, walk me through the impact on the 3 financial statements.
Answer: Initially, there is no impact (income statement); cash goes down, while PP&E goes up (balance sheet), and the purchase of PP&E is a cash outflow (cash flow statement)

Over the life of the asset: depreciation reduces net income (income statement); PP&E goes down by depreciation, while retained earnings go down (balance sheet); and depreciation is added back (because it is a non-cash expense that reduced net income) in the cash from operations section (cash flow statement).

Q: Why are increases in accounts receivable a cash reduction on the cash flow statement?
Answer: Since our cash flow statement starts with net income, an increase in accounts receivable is an adjustment to net income to reflect the fact that the company never actually received those funds.

Q: How is the income statement linked to the balance sheet?
Answer: Net income flows into retained earnings.

Q: What is goodwill?
Answer: Goodwill is an asset that captures excess of the purchase price over fair market value of an acquired business. Lets walk through the following example: Acquirer buys Target for $500m in cash. Target has 1 asset: PPE with book value of $100, debt of $50m, and equity of $50m = book value (A-L) of $50m.

Q: What are the ways you can value a company?
Answer: Comparable Companies/Multiples Analysis
Market Cap/Market Valuation
precedent transactions
Discounted Cash Flow (DCF)
Leveraged Buyout Model (LBO)
Liquidation Valuation

Q: Acquirer records cash decline of $500 to finance acquisition
Answer: Acquirers PP&E increases by $100m
Acquirers debt increases by $50m
Acquirer records goodwill of $450m

Q: What is a deferred tax liability and why might one be created?
Answer: Deferred tax liability is a tax expense amount reported on a companys income statement that is not actually paid to the IRS in that time period, but is expected to be paid in the future. It arises because when a company actually pays less in taxes to the IRS than they show as an expense on their income statement in a reporting period.

Differences in depreciation expense between book reporting (GAAP) and IRS reporting can lead to differences in income between the two, which ultimately leads to differences in tax expense reported in the financial statements and taxes payable to the IRS.

Q: What is a deferred tax asset and why might one be created?
Answer: Deferred tax asset arises when a company actually pays more in taxes to the IRS than they show as an expense on their income statement in a reporting period.

Q: What are four financial statements?
Answer: Income statement (rev-cogs-exp = Net Income)
Balance Sheet (Assets= Liabilities + Shareholder's equity)
Statement of Cash Flows (Beginning Cash + CF from Operations + Cash Flow from investing + CF from financing = ending cash)
Statement of Stockholders' Equity

Q: How are the three main financial statements connected?
Answer: Net income flows from Income Statement into the Cash Flow from Operations on the CF statement
Net income - dividends is added to retained earnings from the prior period's Balance Sheet to come up with retained earnings on this period's Balance Sheet
Beginning Cash on the CF Statement is cash from the prior period's Balance Sheet and Ending Cash on the CF statement is Cash on the current period's Balance Sheet