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Bank Profitability: Decoding the Income Statement

Tom Spencer

How do banks make money? What is a bank really worth? Firstly, by outlining the major items on a bank’s income statement, and then by discussing key ratios that are commonly used to measure profitability and to estimate the market value for banks. Where does this money ultimately go?

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement. Let’s first look at the balance sheet. Therefore, the balance sheets of physical and digital companies present entirely different pictures.

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We Need to Approach AI Risks Like We Do Natural Disasters

Harvard Business

Managers have to figure out their higher and lower risk intelligent device vulnerabilities, add in redundant systems, and potentially set up the AI equivalent of tsunami early-warning systems. As a result, no company will be able to recover on its own.