Analyst

An analyst is an individual who performs analysis of a topic. The term may refer to one of the following professions:

Accounting, business and finance

• Accounting analyst, an accounting analyst evaluates and interprets public company financial statements
• Business analyst, an employee who examines the needs and concerns of clients and stakeholders to determine where potential problems and opportunities lie, known also as a Business Systems Analyst in business
• Cost analyst, an employee who analyzes business operations to determine which courses of action are most efficacious in business
• Financial analyst, an individual who analyzes securities and business equity in economics and finance
• Industry analyst, an individual who performs market research on segments of specific industries toward the identification of trends in business and finance
• Marketing analyst, a person who analyzes price, customer, competitor and economic data to help companies
• Quantitative analyst applies mathematical techniques to investment banking, especially in the fields of risk management, trading and financial derivatives

Other professions

• Chemical analyst, a person who performs chemical experiments and analyses
• Color analyst, an individual who, as against a play-by-play announcer, provides analysis and commentary in sports broadcasting
• Handwriting analyst, a person who performs a personality assessment through handwriting
• Intelligence analyst, an individual who performs intelligence analysis
• Mathematical analyst, an individual who focuses in the area of mathematical analysis
• News analyst, examines, analyses, interprets, and may comment on news received from various sources
• Psychoanalyst, a practitioner who acts to facilitate understanding of a patient's unconscious mind
• Public analyst, a qualified chemist appointed by a local authority in the United Kingdom
• Public policy analyst, an individual who analyzes the effect of public policies with respect to their goals
• Systems analyst, an individual who analyzes technical design and functional design for software development
• Web metrics analyst, an individual who examines trends and patterns in the use and expansion of the World Wide Web in webometrics

Products

It may also refer to:

• Analyst (software) (or AnalystQS), a mass spectrometry software
• Analyst (journal), a chemistry journal

See also

• The Analyst, a famous criticism by Bishop Berkeley about the study of calculus at the time
• Annalists, history-writers in ancient Rome.
• Category:Mathematical analysts