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

Harvard Business

Even if you don’t need to know a lot about finance to do your day-to-day job, the more conversant you are on the subject, the better off you’ll be, according to Richard Ruback, a professor at Harvard Business School and the coauthor of the HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business. It just takes effort,” he says.

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Banks – Industry Overview

Tom Spencer

The cheapest form of funding is deposits (particularly retail and small business deposits). Translated into plain English, asset sensitive means margins expand when the Federal Funds rate increases, as the interest income from assets on the balance sheet increase faster than liabilities. Funding and the Loan Mix.

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