Any tips or news on this Houlihan Lokey TAS technical exam? Its for FDD, but I’ve heard it’s a general exam several groups will get for interviews, but have seen variance in the amount of time given, commonly 70min but anywhere from 60-90. Have seen wildly different things being tested on, generally a 3 statement model, some sort of npv model, enterprise value, pro formas, but also a lot of interest and depreciation schedules or even wacc? Can anyone chime in on this?

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Could I dm you offline about how the technical exam went. I have one coming up as well for HL.

Was there any difference in what was mentioned for the FDD exam?

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