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You Can’t Pizza Party Your Way to a Great Corporate Culture

Harmonious Workplaces

Pizza parties (with dietary alternatives), happy hours, and office games like ping pong or video games can foster team bonding and employee engagement (Müceldili & Erdil, 2016). The uncertainty of the market, unstable cash flow, and the seemingly never-ending threat of recession may force companies to make tough decisions.

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Profit Leakage Calculator: Diagnose How Much Profit a Business is Losing

ConsultX

They are seeing first hand how many opportunities are being missed to improve profitability and cash flow just from existing operations alone. In 2016, ConsultX launched a Business Consulting Software, with a specific portion of the application dedicated to calculating Profit Leakage.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

Report Wednesday, October 26, 2016. Japanese companies’ average annual TSR of 14% in the five-year period from 2011 through 2015 is generated by extremely strong margin increases and cash flows. Japan and China are robust markets for ECS value creation.

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Martinka Consulting

A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” He knew cash flow. Or should we say he knew short-term cash flow. He watched his cash flow like a hawk. This reminded me of a story I tell in a couple of my talks.

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Why Life Insurers and Asset Managers Must Join Forces to Win

BCG

Article Thursday, December 15, 2016 Life insurers are feeling the squeeze. The result: investments are managed opportunistically as each faction seeks to optimize its own favored KPI quarter by quarter—whether it is cash flow, earnings, solvency, market risk exposure, rating requirements, or investment performance.

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Forget Startups – Buy a Business

Martinka Consulting

Using statistics from BizBuySell.com the article stated the median price of businesses at the end of 2016 rose 8% from 2015 to $216,000. You trade your capital for immediate cash flow, i.e. you get a paycheck on payday just like everybody else. But first, let me take issue with one of the facts mentioned.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. Cash flow is king (they don’t require full collateralization, but will take as much as they can). Ten percent buyer down payment (minimum), which frees up cash to grow the business. Pretty small.