Business Drivers of Industries

Catalog description

Visit http://www.dangode.com/drivers/ for details. Concentrations: Management and Organizations; Accounting. Track: Management Consulting. We illustrate a streamlined and structured framework to analyze business drivers of companies from a wide range of industries, except financial services. This helps us understand their business model, drill into their financial statements, and assess competitive advantage. The analysis proceeds as follows: (1) We apply the Six-Pack Framework for a top-down and comprehensive analysis of financial statements to extract the six key inputs into valuation – Size, Growth, Margins, Asset intensity, Business risk, and Financial risk. (2) We analyze how these inputs depend upon a company’s strategy by computing the Competitive Advantage Score that assigns weights to competitive drivers and scores the company’s strength on those drivers. This broad exposure will expand your strategic horizons and enable you to foresee challenges and opportunities due to changing competition, technology, and environment. The framework and the perspective will sharpen your ability to lead value creation as an entrepreneur or executive, or to understand value creation as an investor, banker, analyst, or consultant.