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Overcoming Data Collection Challenges in Consulting

Tom Spencer

We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. For example, instead of asking for the average payroll for each department over time, ask for a representative current salary of an employee in each department: sales, operations, finance.

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The Importance of Business Acumen for High Performance

LSA Global

It is not just the purview of finance to interpret the numbers that govern profit and loss; it behooves every employee to understand how and why the company makes money, spends money, and measures financial performance. Study the Balance Sheet. With term definitions in hand, analyze your company’s balance sheet.

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Customer intent is a treasure trove of actionable data hiding in plain sight

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By 2025, smart workflows and seamless interactions among humans and machines will be as standard as the corporate balance sheet, and most employees will use data to optimize nearly every aspect of their work, predicts McKinsey & Company.

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European Banks Dump Massive Amounts of Subordinated Debt on Investors

MishTalk

The figures follow a deal agreed by European regulators earlier this month that will bring in so-called bail-in rules for senior bondholders from 2016, two years earlier than envisaged by finance ministers in their common position agreed in June. Mezzanine debt is another example of subordinated debt. Consider asset-backed securities.

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The Globalization Backlash Is Reverberating Through Boardrooms

Harvard Business

As a practical matter, for example, these changes in the global policy regime are forcing multinational corporations to scale back and sell parts of their international operations. Meanwhile the Institute of International Finance forecasted net capital flows for emerging markets in 2015 would be negative for the first time since 1988.

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BIS Slams the Fed; Ridiculous Question of the Day: "Is The Fed Going To Attempt A Controlled Collapse?"

MishTalk

Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession. They encapsulate the self-reinforcing interactions between perceptions of value and risk, risk-taking and financing constraints which translate into financial booms and busts. Financial cycles differ from business cycles.

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Why Apple Is Getting into the Energy Business

Harvard Business

For example, a very small portion of the charge in an electric vehicle’s battery could be sold back to the power company when it needs an extra bit of power at the spot where the vehicle happens to be connected for charging. GW of renewable energy since the beginning of 2015, enough to power about half the state of Connecticut.

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