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Do You Know What Your Company’s Data Is Worth?

Harvard Business

For example, at the end of its 2015 fiscal year, Apple’s balance sheet stated tangible assets of $290 billion as a contribution to its annual revenues, with approximately $141 billion worth of intangible assets — a combination of intellectual capital, brand equity, and (investor and consumer) goodwill.

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What is a Healthy Company?

Markovitz Consulting

In 2019, the organization announced that corporations should be governed to benefit all stakeholders— customers, employees, suppliers, communities and shareholders. Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations. What makes for a healthy company?

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

MishTalk

The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund. Chicago’s property tax revenues do not go into its general operating fund. The judgment won’t be paid off until 2019 at the earliest; by then, the total cost will have grown to $53 million. It is not a balance sheet test, but a cash flow test.

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The Cantillon Effect

Tom Spencer

In 2020, the Fed has galloped over the precipice, increasing its balance sheet by around $2.8 As a case in point, from 1975 to 2019 the average annual increase in Harvard tuition was 5.1% Central banks pursue “inflation at any cost” in order to oil the wheels of the credit markets. trillion over the last 5 months.

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