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The Importance of Business Acumen for High Performance

LSA Global

We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution. Operating income. Operating Expenses. Study the Balance Sheet. With term definitions in hand, analyze your company’s balance sheet.

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

Harvard Business

Definitions for what constitutes EvD, and methodologies to calculate its value, remain in their infancy. To analyze EvD, determining the relative importance of data to an enterprise’s balance sheet, its ability to effectively compete, and its operational capabilities is a good place to start.

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China Cash Crunch Eases, For How Long? Three Things China Needs to Avoid; When can Beijing Truly move to Market-Determined Interest Rates?

MishTalk

The certificates of deposits will push banks closer to an operating environment in which rates are deregulated and are also aimed at improving the circulation of cash in the country’s interbank market. These are the big issues, hinted at by the current hiatus in China’s money markets.

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You Don’t Need to Be a Silicon Valley Startup to Have a Network-Based Strategy

Harvard Business

Note that people often get hung up on definitions of “platform” these days. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet. Operate : Deploy the platform to foster connections and the exchange of value at scale. Intellectual capital.

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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 objective of these deals was to provide budget relief for the city’s general operating fund in the short term, even if the structure means escalating debt service payments in the long term.

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Pettis Proposes Savings Glut and Income Inequality are Source of Global Imbalances; Mish vs. Pettis: I Respectfully Disagree

MishTalk

This model rests on an understanding of how distortions in the savings rates of different countries have driven the great trade and balance-sheet distortions with which we are wrestling today, just as they have in most previous global crises, including those of the 1870s, the 1930s, and the 1970s. I suggest "something else".

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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 However, while China is definitely not immune from criticism, the primary cause of America’s slow decline might be more accurately located closer to home. This inadvertently fuels asset bubbles and financial instability.

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