The hard part is already done: the expensive phase of a major undertaking is finished, and the company is now in the col
The model's full reasoning — Q1 2018 call → NOWe need answer YES or NO based on transcript. Need determine if management conveys recently finished expensive/heavy phase of major undertaking and now collecting phase early, with reported results still reflecting paying phase not collecting. Let's parse transcript. DLH Holdings. They discuss revenue growth, organic growth, acquisitions, business development, technology investments. Key: They mention acquisition in mid-2016 (Danya) brought IT capabilities. They invested in analytics. They are reshaping pipeline. They mention "we made a substantial investment commitment for this annual operating plan to upgrade our resources and capabilities" and "we took into this annual operating plan just north of a $1 million to invest and to expanding our analytics informatics capabilities". This is ongoing investment, not completed. They also mention "we continue to look at potential acquisitions" and "deal flow activity". They mention "we are encouraged by level of deal flow" but not completed. Question asks: Does management convey that company has RECENTLY FINISHED THE EXPENSIVE, UNCERTAIN, OR HEAVY PHASE OF A MAJOR UNDERTAKING — the part that consumed money, time, energy — and has now entered phase where company COLLECTS on that completed work, with reported results still mostly reflecting paying phase rather than collecting phase? Need see if management says heavy phase done. They talk about acquisition Danya in mid-2016, integration? They say "Danya brought with it a major shot in the arm of real good systems integration and IT qualifications that we started to put into our capabilities portfolio that we did not have prior to that acquisition. So there were some things we took out of our new business pipeline as a result of that and because we are relatively limited in terms of the resources we can connect to that organic component and then started to bring in the types of deals and now the type of resources that are effective at creating the right value proposition leveraging these new capabilities. So it’s been in evolution and the sales cycle of our business for major deals is generally 18 to 24 months and of course that deal closed in May, and as we started portfolio reshaping, we're starting to hit that stride in 2018." This suggests acquisition closed May 2016, integration and reshaping pipeline took time, now starting to hit stride in 2018.
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