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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. Operating income. Operating Expenses. Study the Balance Sheet. Cash flow.

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The age old tale of financial crises

Tom Spencer

These flies made their way into the citrus farms, destroying crops, causing a government quarantine and destruction of infected fruit. Moreover, balance sheet data from the Federal Reserve shows that the acquired assets have remained fairly consistent in value, indicating that the underlying assets were not altogether a lost cause.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: Reader Question: Does the.

MishTalk

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. Balanced Budget Ammendment Sign the Balanced Budget Petition. What Has Government Done to Our Money? Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it.

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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. Advocates have called for such a system for years, saying it is the cornerstone of further financial reform.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business

Problem-finding boards understand the three drivers of ungoverned incompetence — a collapse of competence, shortcomings in self-governance, and inadequate corporate governance — and why they can be so hard to detect. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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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

Government debt-to-GDP ratios have risen further; in several cases, they appear to be on an unsustainable path. This has been labelled the “second phase of global liquidity”, to differentiate it from the pre-crisis phase, which was largely centred on banks expanding their cross-border operations.