Harvard Business
MARCH 31, 2017
If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. Stop avoiding finance because you’re afraid of numbers. Think of it this way, “Finance is the way businesses keep score. “Finance and accounting are very simple. .” “Finance and accounting are very simple. Overcome your fears.
Tom Spencer
JULY 7, 2023
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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Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 27, 2011
Over the last few decades, countless risky financial products were sold to investors using harmless sounding terms like “credit default swap”, “mortgage backed security”, “special purpose vehicle” and “off-balance sheet financing”. Graduate Consulting Group. Previous post: Would a Bund by any other name smell as sweet?
Tom Spencer
NOVEMBER 17, 2018
My friends and I walked out of the Big Short several years ago feeling like a group of global financial crisis experts. Many an economics and finance course later, I see that the layers of complexities to the 2008 financial crisis are innumerable. We were shocked, how could no one have seen the collapse coming? It all seemed so clear.
MishTalk
NOVEMBER 20, 2013
trillion balance sheet is leveraged nearly 49-to-1. As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 As a group, these three banks have some €4 trillion in assets on their balance sheets, supported by €129.3 By contrast, J.P.
Tom Spencer
AUGUST 12, 2020
Below we will take a brief look at the mainstream view of macroeconomics, the nature of the Cantillon Effect, and how it leads to predictable – and some would say ‘unjust’ – enrichment of certain groups in a society at the expense of others. Mainstream Economics: Keynesianism. trillion over the last 5 months.
Harvard Business
OCTOBER 31, 2017
That strengthened investment banks’ balance sheets by forcing them to scale back and to change the nature of the risks they take. As a result, their balance sheets are half as large on a risk-adjusted basis, and the capital they hold against trading positions has doubled over the past decade, our research shows.
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