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What is napkin test?

Whether the entire recommendation can be distilled to its essential logic, briefly and clearly, on one page. If it needs a forty-page memo to be intelligible, it has not been synthesized.

Where you will use it: this term comes up in the Real Estate Finance course, and the full course glossary collects every term in one place.

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From the free Real Estate Finance course by Devon Coombs, CPA, MBA.