Financial Viability and Deal Economics Questions

Assess the financial attractiveness of business scenarios and partnership deals by building simplified quantitative models and performing back of the envelope estimates. Key skills include estimating revenue from market size and share, modeling margins and costs, accounting for partnership costs in time and resources, calculating payback period, return on investment, and net present value using reasonable discount rates, and performing scenario analysis for best case base case and worst case outcomes. Candidates should demonstrate comfort with quick mental arithmetic, unit economics, sensitivity analysis, articulating key assumptions, and explaining how financial results inform strategy and decision making under uncertainty.