Alex Mason

Investment Banking Insights

Business EN ↓ 372 episodes

What information do you need to know as an aspiring investment banker? Join career-switcher and MBA student Alex Mason as we journey together to uncover the technical (including the famous "400 interview questions") and not-so-technical aspects of the investment banking profession. 

Author

Alex Mason

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Business

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www.buzzsprout.com

Latest episode

Jul 15, 2025

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Episodes

What Terminal Value Method Gives A Higher Valuation? 24.07.2023

What terminal value method gives a higher valuation, the Multiples Method or the Gordon Growth Method? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

What Exit Multiple When Calculating Terminal Value? 23.07.2023

What exit multiple should we use when calculating terminal value? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Growth Rate For Calculating Terminal Value? 23.07.2023

What kind of growth rate should you choose for the terminal value part of a DCF analysis? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

How Do You Calculate Terminal Value? 22.07.2023

How do you calculate terminal value? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Discount Rate When Using Levered FCF 22.07.2023

What discount rate should you use if your model uses levered free cash flow? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Levered VS Unlevered FCF In Your DCF 21.07.2023

How does using levered vs Unlevered free cash flow impact your discounted cash flow model? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Tech VS Manufacturing Company, Which Has Higher Beta? 21.07.2023

Which kind of company would have a higher beta, a technology company or a manufacturing company? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

How Do You Get Beta In The Cost Of Equity Calculation? 20.07.2023

How do you get beta in the cost of equity calculation? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

How Do You Calculate Cost Of Equity? 20.07.2023

We’ve talked about WACC, but what about the cost of equity component? What do we use for this part of the formula? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

How Do You Calculate The Discount Rate (WACC)? 19.07.2023

How do you calculate the discount rate? This is usually the WACC, or weighted average cost of capital. Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Why Do You Use 5 Or 10 Years In DCF Projections? 19.07.2023

Why do you use 5 or 10 years in DCF projections? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

What’s An Alternative Way To Get To Free Cash Flow? 18.07.2023

What’s an alternative way to get to free cash flow? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

How Do You Go From Revenue To FCF? 18.07.2023

How do you go from revenue to free cash flow? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Walk Me Through A DCF 17.07.2023

DCF = Discounted Cash Flow. Let’s go over at a high level what it is and what the different steps of the analysis are! :) Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

When Does Goodwill Increase? 17.07.2023

We know when goodwill gets impaired… but when can it increase? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

What Is Goodwill Impairment And What Causes It? 16.07.2023

What is goodwill impairment and what causes it? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Positive EBITDA But Still Bankrupt? 16.07.2023

Let’s say a company has positive EBITDA for 10 years, but still goes bankrupt. How can this happen? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Why Do Companies Report GAAP And Non-GAAP Earnings? 15.07.2023

Why do companies report both GAAP and Non-GAAP earnings? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

How Do You Know When To Capitalize Or Expense A Purchase? 15.07.2023

The concept of expensing is different from the concept of capitalizing. What's the difference and when is each method appropriate? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

How Does Cash-Based VS Accrual Accounting Affect The Financial Statements? 14.07.2023

Cash-Based accounting is different than Accrual Accounting. We know the fundamental difference between the two, but how does this play out in the financial statements? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

What's The Difference Between Accounts Receivable And Deferred Revenue? 14.07.2023

Accounts Receivable and Deferred Revenue both deal with the concept of cash, but they represent different things. What are the differences? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

If Cash Is Not Recorded As Revenue, What Happens To It? 13.07.2023

If cash is not recorded as revenue, what happens to it? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Why Would A Company Collect Cash And Not Record It As Revenue? 13.07.2023

Revenue doesn't always equal cash. What is a scenario where a business would collect cash but not record it as revenue? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

Walk Through A $100 Equity Bailout Of A Company 12.07.2023

What is a bailout? And how does it affect the three financial statements in the case of an equity bailout? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

What Happens With A Write-Down Of $100 Of Debt? 12.07.2023

It's not just assets that can be written down, but debt too. What happens to the financial statements in this scenario? Contact: investmentbankinginsights@gmail.com

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