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Can an Expense Be Profit?

Martinka Consulting

His primary motivation was he’s burned out and the driving force for the burn out is 2015 was not a good year financially. Sales were down from 2014 and expenses were up. His balance sheet is a mess. Last month a friend referred me to a business owner wanting to sell his company.

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Persistent Overoptimism Three Ways: Truckers, Fed Economists, Manufacturers

MishTalk

Sales of Class 8 heavy trucks are on pace for one of the best years in history - around 260,000 units in North America. A possible explanation for the SEP’s prediction of a rapid catch-up to potential GDP after 2009 is that participants overestimated the efficacy of monetary policy in the aftermath of a so-called balance-sheet recession.

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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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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business

In 2015 Trian Partners, an activist investor, bought $2.5 In 2015 the 10 largest shareholders in a typical S&P 500 company held almost half of the company’s stock.) Or they may even put the entire company up for sale. During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. of the company.

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Right on Cue: Fed's Dudley Delivers Dovish Speech

MishTalk

In relatively dovish remarks to a business audience in Newark, New Jersey, Dudley did not repeat his refrain that a rate hike could reasonably be expected to come by mid-2015. percentage point from overall 2015 growth, he added. He''s signaling the Fed will likely be able to raise interest rates in 2015.