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O*NET detailed work activityAnalyze business or financial data
AI-readyCrunch the numbers
16 jobs26 tasks
Paste a spreadsheet or table and ask AI to find trends, outliers and totals, or to write the formula you need. It's like having an analyst on call.
Part of Analyze business or financial data, under the O*NET work activity group Analyzing Data or Information. Individual tasks below can carry a different label when their own wording calls for it (21 AI-ready, 5 AI-assist, 0 stays human).
Tasks built on this activity
- Analyze credit data and financial statements to determine the degree of risk involved in extending credit or lending money.
- Analyze financial data, such as income growth, quality of management, and market share to determine expected profitability of loans.
- Analyze price proposals, financial reports, and other data and information to determine reasonable prices.
- Interpret results of financial analysis procedures.
- Analyze data gathered and develop solutions or alternative methods of proceeding.
- Analyze financial data to detect irregularities in areas such as billing trends, financial relationships, and regulatory compliance procedures.
- Apply feature selection algorithms to models predicting outcomes of interest, such as sales, attrition, and healthcare use.
- Collect historical cost data to estimate costs for current or future products.
- Analyze corporate intelligence data to identify trends, patterns, or warnings indicating threats to security of people, assets, information, or infrastructure.
- Evaluate costs and revenue of agreements to determine continued profitability.
- Conduct special studies to develop and establish standard hour and related cost data or to reduce cost.
- Match appropriations for specific programs with appropriations for broader programs, including items for emergency funds.
- Interpret data on price, yield, stability, future investment-risk trends, economic influences, and other factors affecting investment programs.
- Analyze financial or operational performance of companies facing financial difficulties to identify or recommend remedies.
- Interpret data on price, yield, stability, future investment-risk trends, economic influences, and other factors affecting investment programs.
- Measure and analyze Web site usage data to maximize search engine returns or refine customer interfaces.
- Perform cost-benefit analyses to compare operating programs, review financial requests, or explore alternative financing methods.
- Perform system lifecycle cost analysis and develop component studies.
- Analyze business operations, trends, costs, revenues, financial commitments, and obligations to project future revenues and expenses or to provide advice.
- Perform multifactor data and cost analyses that may be used in areas such as support of collective bargaining agreements.
Tasks where it is part of the work
- Prepare, examine, or analyze accounting records, financial statements, or other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedural standards.
- Evaluate business operations to identify risk areas for fraud.
- Identify key risks and mitigating factors of potential investments, such as asset types and values, legal and ownership structures, professional reputations, customer bases, or industry segments.
- Inform financial decisions by analyzing financial information to forecast business, industry, or economic conditions.
- Conduct financial analyses related to investments in green construction or green retrofitting projects.
- Inform investment decisions by analyzing financial information to forecast business, industry, or economic conditions.