How does data analytics and M&A go hand in hand. Can someone acquire a senior position in M&A and climb the ladder high when you don’t have a background in accounting or finance?

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within consulting, there are quite a few m&a PPDs that don't have any finance and accounting backgrounds.

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It’s possible. There are plenty of people with engineering backgrounds but obviously not in engineering roles.

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No correlation

Could you elaborate a bit please

I’m on that data team your referencing, there’s very few of us and we’re very niche, don’t worry about what we do

You can do modeling in M&A with data analytics background.. valuation, stand alone costing, one time costing, TSA costing... setting up day 1 balance sheet, etc

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