As an analyst, what are the difficulties and obstacles that waste precious time and prevent you from carrying out a financial analysis and get results explanatory?

The major difficulties and obstacles an analyst might face are:

1- Limitation of available informaciton regarding income statement, balance sheet, CF, and other information like co's policies and procedures 

2-If an analyst works for an investment bank he might face a conflict of interests because the bank usually wants to issue favorable reports about their cleints to whome the bank makes underwriting.

3- Getting the fair market value of some items might be difficult in some situations.

4- Market research for benchmarking might not be properly provided

If administrative tasks are overloaded.

When quick tasks are not put of quickly.

When employees are being micromanaged.

By not having a clear social-media strategy.

When time is being wasted in reinventing the wheel.

Repeating same things over and over.

1. Wasting time in gossips 

2. No planning and prioritizing

3. Understand the Importance of the work and schedule the week or month accordingly.. Normally it is on papers not followed

1. Slowing down the implementation of marketing studies that supposedly will give many financial indicators 
2. Conditions and capabilities of the competitors changed during and after the financial analysis process of the components of revenue for the new product

Impure data, data gaps, too much of data etc