Systems and information collecting that is. This is the latest email from my brother who works in finance banking in San Fran:
After years of agonizing, this new job has helped me realize that I can’t rely on one type of pen. I need a good note-taking pen (gel), a pen to stick in my pocket (clicker), a presentation note pen (fine tip roller), a presentation mark-up pen (red felt), a presentation mark-up pen to mark-up the mark-up (green felt), and I always prefer pencils (.7mm mechanical, #2 traditional) but they smudge. I also keep some red and blue papermates handy and have started using two different color sharpies to label old presentation drafts.
They actually have a system here they teach in training about tabbing
company filings with colored stickies:
Blue for balance sheet items
Green for the statement of cash flows
Yellow for income statement items
And red for anything related to shares