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Audit & Assurance

High-quality audits are critical to protecting your firm’s reputation and minimizing client risk. Validate assumptions and strengthen every audit with industry intelligence you can trust.

  • Benchmark your client’s financials against industry averages to validate assumptions and uncover anomalies
  • Identify potential risks faster by analyzing trends, red flags and outliers through independent, industry-level comparisons
  • Understand recent industry performance and future outlooks to assess business viability and strengthen audit findings

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Navigating Productivity Trends: Strategies for Business Efficiency in the US, UK and Australia

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Explore strategies for boosting business efficiency in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia amid evolving productivity trends and economic shifts.

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Advisory & Consulting

Client-centric advisory starts with trusted industry knowledge. Whether your focus is deal advisory, strategy or risk consulting, you can make confident recommendations and showcase your expertise with financial benchmarks, historical data and performance forecasts.

  • Identify risks and external pressures to shape tailored recommendations and proactive client guidance
  • Strengthen proposals and strategic plans with benchmarks, forecasts and market context
  • Uncover cross-selling opportunities and support growth by monitoring industry shifts and client needs

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Business Valuation

Business valuations demand credible, defensible data—especially when timelines are tight, and assumptions must hold up to scrutiny. With standardized industry research, historical trends and robust financial benchmarks, you can deliver streamlined, rock-solid valuations.

  • Save hours of research with consistent data that supports key valuation model factors
  • Benchmark company performance against industry averages to support fair market value estimates
  • Access archived reports and market outlooks to strengthen historical context and defend assumptions in reports or testimony

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Clevere M&A-Strategien: Mit Branchenwissen die richtigen Übernahmeziele finden

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Branchenanalysen sind der Schlüssel für erfolgreiche Fusionen und Übernahmen. Sie helfen, Synergiepotenziale zu erkennen und das passende Übernahmeziel zu finden.

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Smarter M&A: How Industry Research Helps Executives Identify Profitable Acquisition Targets

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Gain insight into how industry research supports smarter M&A strategies, reduces uncertainty, and drives business expansion in 2025.

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Mergers & Acquisitions in 2023: A Global Recap

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Sales & Marketing

Understanding your target market's needs and challenges is critical to crafting tailored messaging and proposals. IBISWorld provides the industry intelligence you need to reach and resonate with your audience.

  • Target high-potential industries with data that reveals growth trends, risks and client needs
  • Strengthen marketing campaigns with insights that align with client challenges and business goals
  • Enhance sales conversations and proposals with credible, independent industry intelligence

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Products for accurate decisions

Industry Research Reports

Find and win new business, speak your clients’ language and become their trusted advisor.

  • Strengthen advice and simplify valuations with insights into industry data and dynamics
  • Compile going concern assessments, audit plans and management letters faster
  • Develop targeted strategies, marketing campaigns and proposals that win new business
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Risk Ratings Reports

Forward-looking risk scores, updated monthly, help you quantify risk and anticipate upcoming challenges.

  • Quantify non-financial threats to your clients’ businesses
  • Compare client forecasts to industry data for risk mitigation
  • Evaluate risks before accepting engagements or conducting audits
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Industry Financial Ratios

Benchmark your client against company and industry performance.

  • Identify problem areas or find strengths to leverage for future growth
  • Simplify transfer pricing analysis
  • Bring confidence and credibility to valuation processes
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Segment Benchmarking

Benchmark your clients against similar-sized businesses for a clearer understanding of their performance.

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ESG Risk Assessments

Get a clear picture of the ESG risk environment for industries across Europe and Australia to meet mandatory reporting standards and evaluate your clients’ exposure to ESG risks.

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Industry Archives

We archive historical industry data and insights so you can assess conditions at the time of your previous transactions.

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