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The deal walkthrough, and the story questions around it
The highest-leverage question in a finance loop is "walk me through a deal" and the default answer is a chronology. This rebuilds it as an argument with a five-part structure, does the same for "tell me about yourself" and "why this firm", handles the case where you have no deal experience, and works through the follow-ups that check whether you understood the transaction or just staffed it.
What you'll be able to do
- Restructure a deal walkthrough from a chronology into an argument with a valuation crux
- Answer "tell me about yourself" and "why this firm" specifically enough to be falsifiable
- Substitute a defensible company view when you have no transaction experience
- Handle the follow-ups that test whether you understood the deal, including the ones about what went wrong
Before this: which-desk-are-you-interviewing-for
The rest of this lesson is in the app
The highest-leverage question in a finance loop is "walk me through a deal" and the default answer is a chronology. This rebuilds it as an argument with a five-part structure, does the same for "tell me about yourself" and "why this firm", handles the case where you have no deal experience, and works through the follow-ups that check whether you understood the transaction or just staffed it. This walkthrough runs about 24 minutes, with runnable code you can edit and re-run as you read.
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