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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Professional Services Firms

Progressus

These metrics provide the foundation for more outcome-oriented engagements, leveraging real-time data to secure contracts, monitor progress, and demonstrate the value of client investments. Which Metrics Are Essential for Professional Services Firms?

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Unlocking Business Profit Potential

Business Consulting Agency

In this article, we’ll outline the essential steps to increase profits with the help of consulting services and emphasize the pivotal role of business consulting agencies in achieving financial success. Review income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow to identify areas that impact profitability.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

On August 26, 2019 the WSJ had an article about how CEO pay is often much higher than disclosed (due to stock appreciation and clauses that escalate compensation). I’m working on a potential deal where the owner (and his advisors) setup five companies, two operating, one management, one for real estate, and one for equipment.

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We Can’t Study Short-Termism Without the Right Metrics

Harvard Business

While a laudable effort in principle, measuring a company’s tendency to make myopic operating and investing decisions is fiendishly complex. But the other indicators probably pick up legitimate differences in how companies in the sample operate, as opposed to whether they are myopic.

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Why We Need to Update Financial Reporting for the Digital Era

Harvard Business

In our recent HBR article , we argued that financial statements fail to capture the value created by modern digital companies. Business students are taught to value a company based on the discounted amounts of future cash flows or earnings. Analysts increasingly rely on non-GAAP metrics.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

An interesting title of an article about how the author helps his company’s clients, isn’t it? Buying another company, assimilating it into your operation, and showing that the combined profits are greater than the two individual companies’ profits demonstrates to potential buyers that this can be done.

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Reclaiming the Idea of Shareholder Value

Harvard Business

Countries that operate under common law, including the United States and the United Kingdom, lean in this direction. Countries that operate under civil law, including France, Germany, and Japan, tend to be in this camp. Properly understood, maximizing shareholder value means allocating resources so as to maximize long-term cash flow.