Finance: Walk Me Through

Three statements, depreciation, a DCF and a red flag, each in two minutes

Explain the three statements, a DCF and a red flag aloud, in order, with the right sign.

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17.5k learnersIntermediate 8 lessons · 80 min English + हिंदी support

What you’ll learn

  • Walk through the three financial statements in under two minutes, in the right order, naming how each links to the next
  • Trace a change such as ten rupees of depreciation through all three statements with the correct tax effect and the balance sheet balancing
  • Explain a DCF in two minutes: free cash flow, WACC, terminal value, enterprise to equity value, and the two assumptions that matter most
  • Describe any company's revenue model in four sentences: who pays, for what, how often, and what drives growth
  • Spot and explain a balance-sheet red flag such as receivables growing faster than revenue, and say what you would check next
  • Explain GST and basic tax mechanics to a non-finance manager in plain English without jargon

This course is for

Commerce, MBA finance, CA and CFA candidates facing analyst interviews. You know the accounting. The problem is saying it. Finance interviews at banks, Big Four firms, FP&A teams and startups all begin with 'walk me through': the three statements, how ten rupees of depreciation flows, a DCF in two minutes, a company's revenue model, a balance sheet that looks wrong. This course turns each into a spoken structure you can deliver under interruption, then puts you in front of an AI VP who cuts in, asks for the number and checks your sign. Ends with a scored ten-minute finance interview.

Intermediate

level

You can hold a basic conversation but hesitate, translate in your head, or freeze under pressure. We fix that.

Course 8 of 12 in the Business Interviews track.

Inside every lesson

Ten minutes, five phases, one live tutor. Here is how lesson 1 — “Walk Me Through the Three Statements” — runs.

  1. 1 min

    Warm-up & goal

    Tutor greets you and states today’s goal.

  2. 2 min

    Learn the patterns

    Learn 2–3 sentence patterns and repeat them aloud.

  3. 5 min

    Live roleplay

    Live roleplay — you do most of the talking.

  4. 1.5 min

    Corrections & retry

    Two specific corrections, then one retry.

  5. 30 sec

    Wrap-up & preview

    One thing you did well and a preview of next time.

Syllabus

Lessons unlock one after another. Completed lessons show your score; you can revisit any lesson.

Your AI tutors

Same lessons, different personalities. Pick one now or switch any time.

Abhimanyu Sethi

The Deal-Desk Examiner

Lead tutorYour pick

Vice President, investment banking at a Mumbai mid-market advisory firm, late 30s, fast and numerate

Best suited for: Commerce and MBA finance graduates, CA and CFA candidates, and analysts who understand accounting on paper but ramble or lose the thread when asked to explain it aloud in two minutes

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Sunanda Krishnamoorthy

The Seasoned CHRO

Chief Human Resources Officer of a Chennai auto-components group, early 50s, composed and exacting

Best suited for: HR aspirants, MBA HR graduates, team leads and new managers who know the policy but freeze when they have to say the difficult sentence to a real person

5.0
1.7k
Ritika Bhandari

The Leadership-Round Panelist

Vice President of Operations at a Noida logistics and supply-chain company, mid 40s, direct and curious

Best suited for: Team leads, first-time managers and senior individual contributors interviewing for roles where the final round is a VP or director asking how they actually lead people

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