<p>sally’s exactly right. It’s obvious marketing is extremely important in P&G and it is the focus of the entire organization, thus must know finance in and out. However, it’s not to say that it’s anything like the intense ibanking or consultanting quant skills need to succeed on those fields. At P&G, while many of the basic skills are needed (financial statement analysis, accounting, AC Nielson data pulling and graphing), many of their skills are learned on the job, hence the reason why P&G also relies on their internship program to train prospective interns to hit the ground running from the get go.</p>