by Saad Shah | Aug 7, 2017 | 4. Presentation Tools
Power BI is a data visualization product offered by Microsoft. It can be used for presenting financial and other key metrics of your properties to your investors, executives and property managers. I have built Power BI dashboards for property management clients with...
by Saad Shah | Jul 8, 2017 | 5. Business Processes
You plan to acquire another property management company. How will you do consolidated financial reporting for the combined companies? Here I describe the process being used at many parent property investment companies for creating consolidated financial statements. I...
by Saad Shah | Jun 12, 2017 | 2. Data Extraction
A large investment company I am working with has the strategy to build “a platform for add-on, accretive acquisitions.” This company is strategically acquiring well-managed property management companies, and incorporating them into its growing portfolio. While it is...
by Saad Shah | May 21, 2017 | 4. Presentation Tools
You property management software has a ton of pre-built reports, and almost all of them consist of rows and columns. Most of us are used to these reports, and since this is all we get, we accept them. What if you had the option to do visual data analysis of your...
by Saad Shah | Apr 24, 2017 | 5. Business Processes
Six sigma can help property management executives improve profits, employee morale and tenant satisfaction. Six sigma is a set of methods designed to improve processes. It has been successfully used at companies like Motorola, GE and Honeywell, but it is not useful...