From the course: Evaluating Business Investment Decisions
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Role of the financial analyst
From the course: Evaluating Business Investment Decisions
Role of the financial analyst
- Before embarking on a business investment evaluation exercise, it's imperative that your organization possesses the right skills to undertake this work, and this includes a role known as the financial analyst. Now, financial analysts are usually seen as the heroes of the foreign exchange and equity markets, but did you also know that they server an equally vital role when it comes to shaping the day-to-day decisions that a business needs to make? This is because a capable financial analyst can quickly and comprehensively unpack the quantitative considerations of a proposed investment and also make recommendations on the likely future operating results. I'm talking here about investments such as new AI technology, company acquisitions, expanding into new service lines and the like. High-quality financial analysts can be rather difficult to come by, and this is because in this day and age they generally need to be both…
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