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Case interview · Problem framing

The CFO of a multi-entity manufacturer tells you the monthly close takes fifteen days and nobody trusts the numbers. You have four weeks to diagnose it. How do you structure the assessment?

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I'd frame it as three questions: where does the time go, why don't people trust the output, and what structurally causes both.…

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Concepts behind this questionProfitability trees and MECE decomposition
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