Urgent Help🙏: How to incorporate quarterly earnings result to the quarterly financial model and adjust projections accordingly

Hi all,

This is my first post and I’m looking for some guidance on how to update quarterly model and incorporate new assumptions. Highly urgent and any help is much appreciated 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏!

Have a case test coming on Sunday to update a quarterly model and write a brief report! Seeking for advice on how to better prepare in this 2-day time frame…

Thanks in advance!!!

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Sounds like you don’t know how to build a model in the first place. I would start there first then focus on understanding what happened during the quarter and whether you should adjust the model projections based on what management said or financial results indicated.

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