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Greece Will Default in May Without Another Bailout or Change in Terms

MishTalk

Cash flow analysis shows Greece is in serious trouble again in spite of having a current account surplus. Greece Bailout Cash Flow Even this game is in trouble now as Greek Cash Flow Charts show. The total payments due in 2014 are €31.6bn. I use the words "will default" imprecisely. It didn’t.

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Imagination Sets In

MishTalk

Annual Update Between the end of 2007 and end of 2014, pension plan assets rose from $3.29 S&P 500 2007-12-31 to 2014-12-31 In the same timeframe, the S&P 500 rose from 1489.36 Mike "Mish" Shedlock Mike "Mish" Shedlock is a registered investment advisor representative for SitkaPacific Capital Management. trillion to $3.71

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3 Things Driving Entrepreneurial Growth in Africa

Harvard Business

In 2014 we described what Western investors want from African entrepreneurs. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size. It has managed to combine international standards with African tastes. Another reason is that investors are myopically infatuated with snazzy technology.

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The End-of-Quarter Sales Rush Costs Companies Money

Harvard Business

companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016). But sales managers also have to take some blame. InsideSales Labs, a division of our company, InsideSales.com, recently conducted research analysis on 9.8 million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S.

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2016 ECS Value Creators Report: Building Endurance

BCG

The number of ECS deals was half the 2014 level, even though overall M&A activity was at a postrecession high, and the industry’s median multiple trailed that of the S&P 500. Japanese companies’ average annual TSR of 14% in the five-year period from 2011 through 2015 is generated by extremely strong margin increases and cash flows.

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A Refresher on Marketing ROI

Harvard Business

trillion in 2014. While MROI is not usually public information, managers can use published financial statement data to estimate MROI for a competitor. “In principle, managers should try to estimate the full cost of the marketing activity, including creative development, media spend, and customer-facing staff time.”

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

Harvard Business

“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?

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