Finance Technicals and Accounting
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CFI's beginner guide to what financial modeling is: the inputs, the architecture, and the jobs it serves. Orientation before construction, and a sensible first finance video for a non-finance major.
Watching is the first half. The second half is doing it yourself while the patterns are still in your head.
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Alex Glassey · on YouTube
The most asked technical question in banking interviews, answered as one connected system rather than three separate definitions. Start the finance shelf here, then run the transaction drill in the Accounting and Modeling track.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
A five-step framework for the DCF interview answer that stays at the altitude interviewers want, with the detail held in reserve for follow-ups. Learn the shape of the answer here before you build a model yourself.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
CFI builds a complete DCF in Excel: the free cash flow forecast, WACC, terminal value, and the bridge from enterprise value to an implied share price. It is long, and it is worth building alongside in your own spreadsheet.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
rareliquid · on YouTube
A former J.P. Morgan analyst builds a full Google DCF from a blank sheet, running conservative, base, and optimistic cases side by side. The best watch on this shelf for how a practitioner actually makes and defends assumptions.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Wall Street Oasis · on YouTube
The DCF answer in Wall Street Oasis's five-step form, built for the investment banking interview rather than the classroom. Compare its altitude with the other versions on this shelf and keep the tighter one as your template.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
Terminal value, the majority of most DCFs, explained as an interview question: the two methods, when each applies, and the mistakes that follow candidates into the room. Compact and precise.
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EasyFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
WACC explained simply: what each input means, where the numbers come from, and why the discount rate is a judgment rather than a lookup. The right level of depth for the interview version of the question.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
A full oil and gas financial model built step by step, with the sector's reserve and price deck logic intact. Sector models are where generic modeling habits get tested, and this one does not simplify them away.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
Levered against unlevered IRR, explained through the interview question real estate and private equity candidates actually get. The distinction is one line of logic, and this video makes it permanent.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
The cash conversion cycle explained with formula and example: how long cash is trapped in inventory and receivables before it returns. Working capital fluency, in the form interviewers probe for.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
Class 2 of CFI's modeling course: calculating historical profitability from real statements, the foundation every forecast stands on. Build along in your own sheet rather than watching passively.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
Class 3: analyzing historical expenses and turning them into defensible projections. The judgment calls in this class are the ones modeling interviews are designed to surface.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
Class 5: depreciation and amortization inside a financial model, schedules and statement links included. Unglamorous and decisive, since D&A errors quietly poison everything downstream of them.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
Class 6: working capital in financial modeling, the schedule that separates careful modelers from formula typists. Every line connects to cash, and this class shows the connections.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
Corporate Finance Institute · on YouTube
Class 10: the debt schedule, where a model's circularity lives and where its discipline is proven. Watch it with the earlier classes fresh, since the schedule draws on all of them.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
rareliquid · on YouTube
A six-hour full course on breaking into investment banking in 2026, from a former J.P. Morgan analyst: recruiting, technicals, and the work itself. Treat it as a weekend syllabus rather than a single watch.
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EasyFinance Technicals and Accounting
Alex Glassey · on YouTube
The income statement from the top: sales, profit, and loss, in the plain order the statement itself uses. Glassey's course builds the statements line by line, and this is its front door.
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EasyFinance Technicals and Accounting
Alex Glassey · on YouTube
The cash flow statement's three sections, operations, investments, and financing, explained as one story about where cash moved. The section interviewers return to when a candidate's accounting gets vague.
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EasyFinance Technicals and Accounting
Alex Glassey · on YouTube
The balance sheet in one overview: assets, liabilities, and owner's equity, and why the three must agree. Learn it here in the statement's own terms before the transaction drill complicates it.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Alex Glassey · on YouTube
Accounts receivable inside the cash flow statement: why profit and cash part company at exactly this line. A small topic that carries the whole logic of accrual accounting with it.
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EasyFinance Technicals and Accounting
Alex Glassey · on YouTube
EBITDA and net income on the income statement: what sits between them and why bankers quote one while accountants certify the other. A short lesson that prevents a common interview stumble.
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EasyFinance Technicals and Accounting
Alex Glassey · on YouTube
The balance sheet's asset side in detail: current assets, long-term assets, and the total they build to. Classification questions sound simple until an interviewer starts moving items between lines.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
A basic paper LBO worked as an interview question: entry, debt, exit, and the return bridge on one page. The paper LBO is a private equity rite of passage, and this is its cleanest walkthrough.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
Unlevered free cash flow against cash flow from operations minus capital expenditure: the distinction a hard interview question is built on. Short, technical, and aimed at candidates past the basics.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
The investment banking interview question ninety percent of candidates miss, explained by a trainer who has watched them miss it. The question itself is not spoiled here; the explanation after it is the point.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
An advanced challenge question on three statement connections: one transaction traced through all three statements without notes. Attempt it cold before the explanation, the way an interview would force you to.
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EasyFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
The income statement basics, explained plainly by Financeable: revenue to net income with nothing skipped. A second voice on the same material as the Glassey lessons, for candidates who learn by contrast.
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EasyFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
Balance sheet basics in plain English: what a company owns, what it owes, and what is left. Pair it with the Glassey overview and the two together will hold under interview pressure.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
The sell side M&A process in plain English: teasers, bids, management meetings, and the close, in the order a deal actually runs. Process questions are free points in banking interviews, and this collects them.
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HardFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
A financial model built live in two hours, decisions narrated as they happen. The value is the order of operations: what a practitioner builds first, checks twice, and leaves flexible.
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MediumFinance Technicals and Accounting
Financeable Training · on YouTube
Beta, what it is and why it matters: the risk input inside every cost of equity calculation you will ever defend. Brief, and pitched exactly at the interview's level of follow-up.
I am Richard, your interviewer here. I run cases with you, drill your math, and tell you plainly which part of your game needs work. Ask me something, or press Hear it and I will introduce myself out loud in your device voice. The studio voice connects at launch.
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