Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Many pro services firms still use fragmented systems or analog methods like spreadsheets to manage projects.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

Based on these insights, we now propose a new blueprint for financial reporting of digital companies. Investors, therefore, look not just for reported revenues but for drivers behind the revenues, especially because digital companies’ operating activities often differ from their revenue-generating activities.

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Financial Report Company Metrics 28

MishTalk

OCTOBER 30, 2014

In his latest Global Strategy Report , Albert Edwards at Societe Generale discusses " earnings season " which he calls " cheating season ". Despite the soothing Q3 headline earnings reports as US companies ‘game’ the system, all is not well once you look into the ‘MUC’ (Manipulated Underperforms Conservative).

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Company Cash Flow Sales Report 70

Progressus

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Professional services is an expansive space spanning several industries – consulting firms, software publishers, IT service providers, even manufacturers and distributors that offer post-sale services — each with its own set of challenges, regulations, and opportunities.

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Industry SMB Software Talent 52

MishTalk

MAY 27, 2014

Bank of Japan Confident Reuters reports Bank of Japan, more confident about recovery, quietly eyes stimulus exit. But with inflation now past the half-way mark and signs that the economy has weathered last month''s sales tax increase, Japanese central bankers are already thinking about the next chapter.

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Banking Marketing Cash Flow Policies 70

Martinka Consulting

JUNE 18, 2021

Experience is important and it’s why we say a good buyer should be able to lead and manage, to some degree, people, processes, money, and enthusiasm. You must use free cash flow to truly calculate ROI. Owner Dependency – What makes a great business is having reliable management.

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Asamby Consulting

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You manage expectations well right from the start. Work with contractors To get over that initial cash-flow issue, it can make sense to rely on contractors instead of employees. Managing client experience at scale What made you successful when you were still alone has only partly to do with the actual deliverables of your work.

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How To Cash Flow Talent Training 52

MishTalk

MAY 14, 2014

Reports of the pending collapse of China property bubble have circulated for years, including some on this blog. Retail sales also grew more slowly than expected in April, and the furniture market stalled as fewer families moved into new homes. To date, each slowdown was soon followed by another boom to still higher prices.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Owners of small businesses can set their own hours, make their own management decisions, and take pride in the ownership of their work. Some large sample surveys report that MBAs nationwide have an average starting salary of about $100K. This leaves us only with the cash flows that occur between the purchase and the eventual sale.

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Small Business Cash Flow Consulting Banking 28

Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

When weather conditions are on average adverse over days, weeks, or entire seasons, shortfalls in sales cause reduced cash flows and can lead to financial distress and business failure. last year triggered shortfalls in sales, store closures, and job cuts. These disruptions add up. alone, or 3.5% or any combination).

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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

You may think it sexy to make something but if you’re a sales type with no manufacturing experience it’s probably a road to disaster. For example, a client of mine had, over three years, four expense items I determined were owner compensation (officer salary, owner salary, management wage, and shareholder wages).

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Financial Education 40

Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Rising vacancy rates and plummeting rents are increasingly common in Chinese malls and department stores, despite official data showing a sharp rebound in retail sales that helped the world's second-largest economy beat expectations in the third quarter. But it won't be reported that way. Malaysia-based Parkson (3368.HK),

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Free Agent CFO

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Just Reporting and Then Walking Away – That’s the Real Problem. Instead, they should be saying to quit walking away after the job of reporting financial or non-financial data based on the past. Reporting and walking away–that’s the problem. Bookkeepers report and walk away. And cash flow?

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Balance Sheet Cash Flow Financial Report 45

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 28, 2016

And if you’re the acquirer, you can benefit in only one of four ways: You buy an asset on the cheap (that’s what portfolio managers do), but it requires being smarter than the market in pricing the asset. No one, including AT&T itself, argues that the company can better manage Time Warner’s assets.

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Wireless Video Media Cash Flow 28

Harvard Business

OCTOBER 21, 2016

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. McKinsey reports that the value at stake from sustainability concerns can be as a high as 70% of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. “You’re not managing specific business decisions, you’re trying to understand and internalize how the models work” and the assumptions they make. What if revenue was higher?

Finance 28

Finance Balance Sheet How To Metrics 28

MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. For example, Culpepper reports Chicago general obligation bond deals have been used by the city as a means to avoid servicing short-term debt. First let''s go over Culpepper''s background.

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Financial Engineering Finance Government 28

MishTalk

DECEMBER 16, 2015

China: I don't think China is growing as fast as it reports to be. It's an extraordinarily badly managed you know entity. ZELL: I don't think China is growing as fast as it reports to be. I mean in the last few months all the banks have redone their reserve reports. Number three there's an existing cash flow.

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Real Estate Energy Tools Government 28