Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Today, community banks are being consolidated and larger banks are relying more and more on data-driven credit scoring to make small business loans—if they are making them at all. However, all these online models depend on developing accurate new predictive models of credit assessment, often using new sources of data.

Small Business 28

Small Business Data Cash Flow Banking 28

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

FCLT and McKinsey rely on readily available and machine-readable accounting data to measure myopia. However, such coarse data doesn’t capture how widely practices can vary between individual companies. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm.

Metrics 30

Metrics Study Cash Flow McKinsey 30

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

However, many investors seem to have concluded that the most successful companies with tens of billions of dollars of valuation today could never have justified their valuation at the start of their operation based on discounted cash flow. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics.

Financial 29

Financial Report Cash Flow Metrics 29

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

It is also the case that the companies generating the highest immediate cash flows, which should be overvalued on the myopia theory, historically have had the highest stock market returns , implying undervaluation rather than overvaluation. Its findings deserve much discussion, debate, and attempts at replication.

McKinsey 33

McKinsey Cash Flow Comparison Methodologies 33

Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model. Many of these metrics are disclosed in Facebook’s financial statements. However, how those metrics translate into revenues remains a mystery to external investors.

Financial 28

Financial Report Company Metrics 28

ConsultX

JULY 21, 2021

Fathom draws financial data from a business or organization’s financial accounting software, or reporting spreadsheets for measurement, benchmarking, reporting, and analysis. You’ll then be able to assess the profitability and cash flow impact this project will have on the business. How does Fathom work? Fathom Integrations.

Cash Flow 52

Cash Flow Software Financial Analysis 52

Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

Statistics – the interpretation of data according to scientific method – is a robust discipline of its own, but more importantly, contributes heavily to almost all quantitative enquiry in any field. The most simple type of statistics are descriptors about a set of data: means, medians, ranges. In theory, this includes consulting.

Cash Flow 60

Cash Flow Analysis Data Methodologies 60

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In the largest study on climate change data and corporations, 8,000 supplier companies (that sell to 75 multinationals) reported on their level of climate risk. In that year, these improvements resulted in 15,000 metric tons of CO2 emissions avoided and savings of nearly $11 million.

Study 28

Study Efficiency Productivity Operations 28

Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

And yet we have not had the comprehensive data needed to quantify the payoff from managing for the long term — until now. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. This has long seemed intuitively true to us. Who are these overachievers and how did we identify them?

Management 28

Management Metrics Financial Company 28

Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Likewise, what is the right set of metrics that company executives should use to manage their subscription businesses in order to hold themselves fully accountable to their stakeholders? Then we project those granular patterns forward as if we had such data in the first place. Case Study: Blue Apron.

Methodologies 28

Methodologies How To Metrics Sales 28

MishTalk

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The fact that profits as a share of GDP are more than 70% above their historical norm should immediately raise a question as to whether current year earnings or next year’s projected “forward earnings” should be used as a sufficient statistic for long-term cash flows and equity market valuation without any further reflection.

Cash Flow 70

Cash Flow Trends Policies Marketing 70