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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says. Experiment with the numbers on your organization’s balance sheet by going through a series of “what if?”

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

MishTalk

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. From 2010 to 2014, Chicago’s general obligation bond deals included over $235 million of capitalized interest, simply as a means for the city to avoid servicing its debt in the short term. First let''s go over Culpepper''s background.

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Research Shows That Smaller M&A Deals Work Out Better

Harvard Business

Walter Thompson Company for $566 million in 1987 and Ogilvy for $864 million in 1989 — big acquisitions that stretched the company’s balance sheet. You meet the bar on this lever if you are among the top 20% in your industry in your ratio of capital spending to sales. Strong capital expenditure.

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Right on Cue: Fed's Dudley Delivers Dovish Speech

MishTalk

Examples of such indicators include retail sales, the ISM manufacturing index, manufacturing production and orders, and single-family housing starts. Another significant shock is the nearly 15 percent appreciation of the exchange value of the dollar since mid-2014. Now, with prices dramatically lower, U.S.

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Reflections on 2013; What's Important, What's Not? What's Ahead?

MishTalk

Had I suggested in 2007 that the Fed balance sheet expansion of $75 billion a month would have been considered "tightening" people would have thought I was nuts. Expect more on this in 2014. For example, Meet "Baxter" the Robot Out to Get Your Minimum-Wage, No Benefits, Part-Time Job. Here we are. It is a critical issue.