MishTalk

MARCH 21, 2014

Inquiring minds are tuning into a report on the Ponzi finance setup in China. Our analysis indicates that China’s economy has arrived at that unstable state where speculative and Ponzi finance appear to dominate. Most assume China can grow at 7% a year, a notion that I have challenged on many occasions. Morgan Stanley agrees.

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Finance Cash Flow Banking Government 75

Management Consulted

JANUARY 1, 2017

These cases can be some of the scariest, because they test things like finance principles, but on the other hand, they’re really easy to recognize. All acquirers will want to increase cash flow, but the length of their investment in the company will differ, depending on the type. Once again, it all comes down to finances.

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Case Interview Interviews Intellectual Property Cash Flow 154

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Operations Consultants Operations consultants look into your company and help you make it run smoothly. Finance Consultants Finance consultants for small business help you analyze the numbers your business is producing. What can you afford: Cash Flow Cashflow is king for small business. If yes, great.

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Small Business Cash Flow Consulting ROI 52

Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 20, 2023

Business Plan : Develop a comprehensive business plan that outlines your business goals, strategies, financial projections, and marketing plans. Finances : Secure startup funding through personal savings, loans, investors, or grants. Create a financial plan that includes budgeting, cash flow projections, and funding sources.

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Cash Flow Financial Sales Analysis 52

Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. The actions of these players in the financial industry were driven by their desire to win at all costs, rather than a commitment to ethical behaviour.

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Business Consulting Agency

AUGUST 30, 2022

Financial Projections. Capital/Financing. Operational Efficiency. Cash Flow Management. Business Administration. Business Plans. Warehousing/Fulfillment. Shipping/Distribution. Import/Export. Logos/Graphic Design. Contract Negotiations. Social Media/Blogging. Licensing/Certification. Regulatory Compliance.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

BizOps / Strategy & Operations at tech firms. According to the Ivey Business Journal it has two parts: Improving the competitive strategies of operating units by capturing inter-divisional synergies; and. The financial modeling involved building a 3-statement financial model to value a business (i.e.,

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

There are many different types of due diligence such as legal, accounting, financial, and commercial due diligence amongst many others. Financial due diligence involves a lot of financial modelling ( DCF , LBO , NAV ) and deal structuring. This allows them to value the target company and determine a bid price. Image: Pexels.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2015

From this perspective, assets will be resources that are owned or controlled by an organisation, and which can be used to better operate the business. These might include things like cash, inventory, property, plant and equipment. If you are a financier, however, then your goal is a little bit different.

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Tom Spencer

JUNE 6, 2015

From this perspective, assets will be resources that are owned or controlled by an organisation, and which can be used to better operate the business. These might include things like cash, inventory, property, plant and equipment. If you are a financier, however, then your goal is a little bit different.

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Cash Flow Resources Operations Media 60

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Some of these ideas contradict traditional financial thinking whereas others seem highly controversial or pessimistic. We distilled seven key insights from those discussions.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. How can you boost your financial acumen? “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence. What the Experts Say.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

CSFs can literally be anything — whether it’s improving customer satisfaction, increasing revenue, reducing operating costs, or something specific to a particular project or deliverable – making them somewhat difficult to identify – let alone define in concrete terms. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

If you want to create the environment for high performance, you’d better understand the importance of business acumen and the financials behind the business. We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution.

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Metrics Financial 28

Tom Spencer

MAY 20, 2018

Needless to say, M&A deals are notoriously complicated financial activities, which makes candidates panic when they are prompted with an M&A case. Of course, financial experts have many detailed definitions of M&A. The framework splits an M&A case into two main chunks: Financial and Non-Financial.

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Case Interview Interviews Cash Flow Financial 68

Martinka Consulting

OCTOBER 3, 2013

It’s much better for them to buy a larger business with systems, processes and a management team instead of an owner-operator business-and they can do so easier because of the SBA program. Financing with a conventional. Financing with an SBA. These buyers want to soar, not coast. Tangible assets – $100,000.

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Cash Flow Banking Finance Government 40

MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. Who Is Kristi Culpepper?

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

They’re betting they are smarter and better managers, leaders, and operators than their corporate bosses (usually these people are better than their bosses but get trapped in the corporate labyrinth) and they’ll benefit financially and emotionally with their own business (which most do). Synergistic product line firm. Easy money.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

operating rooms, recovery floors, emergency department), and ancillary departments (e.g., Consider, for example, a surgical patient who starts in the pre-operative area, then moves to the operating room, the post-anesthesia care unit, and the inpatient floor, with occasional side trips for imaging, testing, and physical therapy.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Young firms face many existential threats related to managing internal financial and human resources and external relationships with customers, suppliers, investors and competitors. Firms applied for credit to finance recovery. Firms that were negatively affected by Sandy applied for credit at twice the rate of unaffected ones.

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Insurance Insurance Small Business Finance 28

Emerson Consulting Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

For months now, Steve has been struggling over cash-flow problems with no solution in sight. No one under him has served as the top officer of an operation as large as his, and no one outside the company comes to mind as someone he can turn to and confide in. As part of his ongoing column in Money Inc.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Financial fluctuations (“financial cycles”) that can end in banking crises such as the recent one last much longer than business cycles. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Financial cycles differ from business cycles.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

banks are going to survive the coming wave in financial technology (fintech), they’ll need to finally take digital transformation seriously. This amounts to putting a toe in the water, while keeping current operations relatively separate and pristine.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

But these claims are very rarely backed up by large-scale evidence, and often driven by a misunderstanding of how buybacks actually operate. A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.”

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Our models suggest that by 2025 global financial capital could easily surpass a quadrillion dollars, more than 10 times global GDP. So, in real terms, debt financing is essentially free.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

New research, led by a team from McKinsey Global Institute in cooperation with FCLT Global , found that companies that operate with a true long-term mindset have consistently outperformed their industry peers since 2001 across almost every financial measure that matters. The differences were dramatic. for all other companies.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

These concerns raise the following questions: how can investors – whether venture capital and private equity firms, or public-market investors – accurately assess the true underlying financial valuation of these businesses? Case Study: Blue Apron.

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MishTalk

JUNE 26, 2015

BitGold just completed a financing for C$18 million, which included some top name institutional investors. After this financing, BitGold’s two main owners are the shareholders of GoldMoney and Roy Sebag, whose understanding of gold is as deep as anyone I have ever met. So nothing really changes in that regard.

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