Houlihan Lokey Financial Analyst interview experience

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Los Angeles, CAPosted Dec 2011 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process kicked off with a phone interview that quickly turned into detailed finance.

The interviewer started with “if you were valuing a private company, what statements would you need?” and then I kept getting pulled into specifics: how the financial statements connect, what valuation methods I’d use and why, and how I’d compute metrics like NOPLAT. We also went deep into CAPM-style thinking, including explaining CAPM and then walking through WACC—what inputs go into it and where those inputs come from.

After that, my next step shifted more squarely into accounting and transaction mechanics. I ran through how a valuation would be built and what the flow looked like across

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