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Looking Beyond Short Term Financial Metrics (Nigel Lake, Part 2 of 10)

Tom Spencer

One of my colleagues at Pottinger held an iPhone in his hand in about 2003, which was four years before Apple had the iPhone, except that the iPhone said Nokia on the bottom of it. Very large organisations do this. Nokia is a very good example of a company [that was dominated by this kind of myopia]. Tom: That’s very interesting.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

There has been a structural gap in Chicago’s Corporate Fund budget since at least 2003. Although most governments are required to balance their budgets on a cash flow basis each fiscal year, a structural budget gap can arise when recurring expenditures are greater than recurring revenues. million to $102 million.

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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability

Harvard Business

The lack of access to stable, predictable cash flows is the hard-to-see source of much of today’s economic insecurity. Financial Diaries (USFD), an unprecedented study to collect detailed cash flow data for U.S. The cost of a bachelor’s degree from a public college has risen by one-third from 2003 to 2014.

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How U.S. Hospitals and Health Systems Can Reverse Their Sliding Financial Performance

Harvard Business

Yet, according to the American Hospital Association, only 8% of hospitals reported any capitated payment in 2014 (the last year reported by the AHA) down from 12% in 2003. All these problems contribute to diminished cash flows. Physician employees.

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