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Getting Your Deal Done

Martinka Consulting

You may think it sexy to make something but if you’re a sales type with no manufacturing experience it’s probably a road to disaster. Have a strong balance sheet. I recently saw a business for sale and on the surface it looked great, with $1 million of earnings. I’ll know it when I see it doesn’t work.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. See More Videos > See More Videos > Tackle the balance sheet. “Take an interest in the balance sheet and then do the due diligence to understand it,” he says.

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

MishTalk

Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. For example, Culpepper reports Chicago general obligation bond deals have been used by the city as a means to avoid servicing short-term debt. First let''s go over Culpepper''s background.

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There’s No Wrinkle in Time for the Time-based CFO

Free Agent CFO

Just Reporting and Then Walking Away – That’s the Real Problem. Instead, they should be saying to quit walking away after the job of reporting financial or non-financial data based on the past. Reporting and walking away–that’s the problem. Bookkeepers report and walk away. And cash flow?