Oct 01, 2021

Imagine you get pulled into a meeting in 30 minutes with a CFO of a 5 billion market cap company. What 3 things would you look at beforehand?

I thought of business model, management bio and key financial ratios. Is that right? Am I missing something?

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Only the point is relevant here

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100% correct on the personal items

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Anonymous Monkey

1000% the right answer. I had a one one one with one of out CFOs today and just shot the shit. Most people aren’t hardos…

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Deliveroorider

Pretty sure thats assuming the company is performing well because I don't think the CFO would be very interested in those if for example the company is in distress or he is looking to grow aggressively

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