As a new analyst, how do you master a 50 tab model for a new industry?

Gotten to work on my first full-fledged model for an industry that I’m completely not familiar with. Model is 50 tabs and contains a lot of terms that I’m not familiar with. When you encountered your first model, what was your process to be able to master it and work on it with confidence? Many thanks

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I wish things were linear. But associate that was working on it had 2-3 other deals pop up at the same time and needed someone to take the process forward for marginal model changes hence they called a new analyst to be staffed on this.

 

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