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Unlocking Business Profit Potential

Business Consulting Agency

In this article, we’ll outline the essential steps to increase profits with the help of consulting services and emphasize the pivotal role of business consulting agencies in achieving financial success. Review income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow to identify areas that impact profitability.

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Overcoming Data Collection Challenges in Consulting

Tom Spencer

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? Our hypothesis was that increased sales volume would be associated with increased profitability due to economies of scale. Our analysis was impossible without extensive internal data and financial statements.

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

Harvard Business

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. How can you boost your financial acumen? ” Joe Knight, a partner and senior consultant at the Business Literacy Institute and the coauthor of Financial Intelligence , says that an absence of financial savvy is “career-limiting.”

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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

building financial models like DCF, accretion/dilution, LBO, etc.). Such transactions typically happen between two businesses that are about the same size and which recognize advantages the other offers in terms of increasing sales, efficiencies, and capabilities. Mergers occur when two companies join forces. Potential Drawbacks.

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How the Great Recession Changed Banking

Harvard Business

Many other financial firms including AIG, Fannie Mae, and Freddie Mac needed bail outs. It may feel as though the financial system hasn’t changed much in the decade since the downturn, but it has. Most of the regulation was meant to safeguard the financial system, and the taxpayers who had to bail it out, from another crisis.

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

MishTalk

Chicago finances are even worse than I thought which is saying quite a bit because I have written about the sorry state of Chicago finances on numerous occasion. Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. Who Is Kristi Culpepper?

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Descent of the Global Monetary System

Tom Spencer

When I studied economics at Sydney University in the early 2000s and financial economics at Oxford in the early 2010s, I learned pretty much the same thing about money; very little. For example, if the US government spends more than it collects in taxes, it can finance the budget deficit by selling bonds.

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