Tom Spencer

MAY 18, 2015

Nigel is the author of The Long Term Starts Tomorrow , a must have book “for any manager, leader or Minister.” Tom: Do you think that short term financial metrics are part of the problem in developing long term strategy? And so, there appears to be a disparity between what companies do and what the metrics are measuring.

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Metrics Financial Cash Flow Process Improvement 60

Asamby Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Strategy Consultants Strategy consultants for small business help your company to find it's strategic positioning in the market. They support you in making fundamental decisions regarding your product, your service, your pricing or your target market. Marketing Consultants Many marketing agencies call themselves consultants these days.

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Martinka Consulting

DECEMBER 12, 2019

This means expenses for: A CEO at fair market salary. About 15 years ago I started using the term “free cash flow,” which is pretty much the same as what’s above. Not to mention no management reports, no metrics, KPIs, etc. Anticipated capital expenditures. Operating interest (a working capital line of credit).

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Cash Flow Metrics Construction Financial 40

Harvard Business

APRIL 5, 2017

Similarly, considering greater accruals (which represent the difference between reported income and operating cash flows) to measure short-term orientation has its difficulties. It assumes that a smaller proportion of cash flows in earnings indicates a myopic firm. Are all share repurchases myopic?

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Martinka Consulting

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In fact, I start out speaking engagements on buying a business by telling the audience (usually management and executive level people0 there’s a good chance it’s not for them. Good employees are hard to find and often are not in the job market. Great employees with industry knowledge and experience are in the job market even less.

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Harvard Business

MAY 6, 2016

Four hundred seventy-one companies in the S&P 500 bought back stock last year, and 372 companies expanded their dividends — actions undertaken in spite of the need to invest heavily to keep up with global market changes. The downside of this “shareholder friendly” approach is evident at many companies.

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Cash Flow Management Government Financial 28

Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

On the one hand, there are many anecdotes suggesting that pressures to manage earnings hold back investment. On the other hand, some of what is done in the name of managing for the long term may be unmonitored waste. Some companies have great ideas, great management teams, and compelling strategies.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

On June 25, 2018, Facebook lost market capitalization of more than $100 billion in just two hours of trading after it announced its quarterly performance, despite exceeding analysts’ earnings forecasts. The level and trend of a company’s top-line metric is an advance indicator of the success of its business model.

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Financial Report Company Metrics 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Today’s executives are dealing with a complex and unprecedented brew of social, environmental, market, and technological trends. These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. After all, “short-termism” does not correspond to any single quantifiable metric. We calculate that U.S.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Though I don’t believe that markets follow math, it’s striking how closely market action in recent years has followed a “log-periodic bubble” as described by Didier Sornette (see Increasingly Immediate Impulses to Buy the Dip ). I have been prepared to underperform for the fun of being proved right when markets crash.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

They argue that the market has become saturated because of the barriers to entry are low (do we really need 53 subscription box companies offering sex products?), The majority of the disclosures they provided at the time were standard top-down metrics (e.g., grocery market were almost $800 billion, only 1.2%

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