CPAs and all financial professionals are required to take an active, if not a leadership, role in numerous activities for their organizations. This course introduces and explores analytical tools and techniques to assist them in both routine and nonroutine situations. These include: identifying and addressing structural blockages to decision-making, data management, providing information and analysis, improving operations, model-building, designing tests, valuing and financing acquisitions and divestitures, and evaluating capital programs and other long-term investments.