From the course: Corporate Finance: Profitability in a Financial Downturn
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Getting your numbers together
From the course: Corporate Finance: Profitability in a Financial Downturn
Getting your numbers together
- When companies do spend analysis projects they want to jump right to cutting costs, but that's not the first step. The first step is to pull all the data from your company together. This means you've got to pull together data from different accounting systems. You might have one part of the company that uses one system, you might have another that's in a different system, you've got to pull that data together. If you're lucky, the company you're working with will have everything digitally stored, but sometimes there might be paper records, and you need to pull those into your analysis as well. Finally, you've got to perform qualitative interviews to make sure that you've got all the company data together. This means you might want to interview the finance team. If there's a CFO you want to sit down with the CFO, and the CEO, if you can get with the executive team you need to confirm with them that you actually have all the…
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