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Your Organization’s Reputation and Its Ability to Produce Revenue

Harmonious Workplaces

This email came several days after a vice president’s memo to the entire company that the organization risked lower-than-expected revenues and announcements in meetings regarding budget cuts. This can lead to increased productivity, innovation, and customer satisfaction. Throughout the office, you could hear the eyes roll.

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France Fesses Up: "Deficit in 2014 Much Higher than Expected", Budget Needs Revisions Yet Again

MishTalk

Spain and France Deficit Violations Both Spain and France have constantly pushed back goals to meet stated targets. For example, please consider this Reuters September 2014 headline: France Breaks 2015 Deficit-Cutting Promise. The Agreement France agreed to cut its budget deficit to 3% by 2015. of GDP this year and 3% next.

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

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .”

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10 Flaws with Mainstream Economics

Tom Spencer

Corporate finance academics argue that firms should act to maximise shareholder value, since shareholders are the owners of the firm. For example, Amazon earned only modest profits from 2004 to 2015, choosing instead to focus on increasing market share and developing new products. Factors of production. Equilibrium.

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France Tax Revenues €5.5 Billion Lower than Expected; Poll Shows 92% Do Not Believe Hollande's Tax Promises

MishTalk

In these times of fiscal discontent and protests by Brussels, the expected improvement of public accounts in France in 2014 and 2015, the government had to be reassuring about the traditional collective fiscal year-end synopsis presented on Wednesday. in 2015, without increasing the tax burden, government must cut expenses by 16 billion.

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The Impact of Carbon Taxation on Supply Chains in China

Comatch

Green finance is becoming increasingly dominant, as long-term investors see environmental risk management as a fundamental success factor in securing long-term returns. At COP21 in Paris in 2015, all participating countries agreed to work together to “ limit global warming to well below 2 degrees and aim for 1.5

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German Economy Contracts, France Stagnates, Italy in Recession; Time for a Rethink

MishTalk

The data from the currency bloc’s two largest economies came as the embattled French government said the disappointing growth meant it would miss its budget deficit this year and halved its gross domestic product forecast for 2014. French finance minister Michel Sapin said that economic growth this year would now be 0.5