Switched from tech consulting into PE, but I’m struggling to catch up on the accounting & modeling mechanics. Any advice for how to get better? Just time and practice?

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How’d you manage to do that? I was in tech consulting as well, pivoted to IB about 7 months back.

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Congrats on the switch! Any advice on how you did it?

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