Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! This article is designed to give you some immediate traction while still setting you up for long-term success. Go through your network and proactively reach out with a free article or other value.

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Progressus

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The Power of Unity Firms need real-time insights into the entire business – finance, project accounting, sales, everything – otherwise multiple versions of the truth will start showing up in budgets, estimates, and forecasts. Are project operations, sales, customer service, etc. directly integrated with core financials?

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Record number of small business sales in 2018! PriceWaterhouseCoopers – Two-thirds of companies with sales of $5,000,000 to $50,000,000 will change hands in the next 10 years (2011). Magazine – 65-75% of small companies in the US – some 10 million – likely hang up a “for sale” sign in the next 10 years (2015). Easy money.

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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. Have a 100-day plan.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 28, 2016

Also, as we explained in an earlier article , we believe that being an established CEO of a small firm involves much less angst than being a senior member of a consulting, investment banking, or private equity firm. million EBITDA company for 4x paying $6 million and using 50% debt financing.

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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. The Board Had No Finance Committee. in 2013 to 3.7 in early 2018, according to Moody’s.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." Who Is Kristi Culpepper? You should be.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. Digital companies must be performing such assessments in-house to reward their sales and marketing staff.

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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. grocery market were almost $800 billion, only 1.2%

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

In the transactional economy, the most important measures are new customer acquisition and sales. For sales, the moment of transaction is the start, not the finish line. For finance, short-term revenue gains do not justify poor treatment of members. Identify the right metrics. Membership is a mindset.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The Brady-Ryan plan is based on a “destination-based cash flow tax” (DBCFT) that is also mistakenly labeled a “border-adjustment tax” and has five critical features: A reduced rate, down to 20%. That plan has dominated tax reform dialogue for the last six months, and unfortunately so.

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