2016 Article Cash Flow Sales 
Martinka Consulting
FEBRUARY 14, 2017
A December 2, 2016 Wall Street Journal article was titled, “ Car Sales Roll Along; Aided by Discounts.*” The gist of the article was sales are up over the same month a year earlier and the average discount was 11%, versus 9.4% He knew cash flow. Or should we say he knew short-term cash flow.
Harvard Business
AUGUST 25, 2017
Ask any organization what’s happening in the sales department on the last few days of the month and the entire last week of any fiscal quarter. Sales teams are closing deals, at all costs. million sales transactions from the anonymized data of 151 U.S. companies over nine consecutive quarters (Q1 2014 through Q1 2016).
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Martinka Consulting
JUNE 3, 2017
Fast Company recently had an article titled, “ Forget Startups Just Buy a Small Business from a Retiring Entrepreneur.” Using statistics from BizBuySell.com the article stated the median price of businesses at the end of 2016 rose 8% from 2015 to $216,000. Now for the top three points in the article.
Martinka Consulting
APRIL 26, 2019
Record number of small business sales in 2018! More businesses sold after being advertised on bizbuysell.com than any other year, and 2017 was 25% higher than 2016. PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Pretty small.
Harvard Business
JULY 17, 2018
Since Immelt’s departure, GE’s stock is down another 30%, as its new CEO, John Flannery, has struggled to cope with the cash flow drain from years of problematic acquisitions, divestitures, and buybacks. Because of these dubious decisions, GE’s ratio of debt to earnings has soared from 1.5 in 2013 to 3.7
Harvard Business
DECEMBER 19, 2017
Indeed, some analysts have gone a step further, declaring that subscription boxes are in the midst of a venture capital-fueled bubble not unlike the flash-sale business craze that ended five years ago. that aggregate sales in the U.S. that aggregate sales in the U.S. Their revenues grew by over 100% in 2016.
Harvard Business
MAY 6, 2016
Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure. Facing headwinds to growth, executives delayed R&D and capital investments to hit three-year free-cash-flow goals. Eventually, the company’s share price nosedived.
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