Mustawd
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And people get confused with real financial forecasting and forecasting with make believe marketing gibberish with not one accurate or real datum. Finance and marketing are polar opposites
Wtf are you talking about? Financial models regularly use sales forecast data that is specifically provided by the sales as well as the operations team (in tandem a lot of times because operations will be able to say if and when a product can be shipped).
Google what a dcf model is (discounted cash flow model). One of the biggest inputs is sales forecasts, which is 100% provided by the sales team. As someone who had worked with a fair share of FP&A teams, I cam confidently say that if you're making a midel without the input of various teams (tax, sales, operations, dacilities, etc) then you're doing it wrong. Of course I mean in hpuse forecasts. Sell side as well as buy side have to make best estimates based on a variety of inputs and the analyst's own intuition.