Crunch the numbers

Meaning

To perform the necessary calculations or analyze financial data to reach a conclusion. It sounds more intense and business-like than simply doing math.

Professional, industrious

Used in a sentence

• Let me crunch the numbers and I will get back to you with a budget estimate.
• We need to crunch the numbers before we decide if we can afford the new house.
• After we crunched the numbers, it turned out the project was not profitable.