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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. 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.

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The age old tale of financial crises

Tom Spencer

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. Post-failure balance sheets show that Lehmann Brothers actually had twenty billion dollars of assets in excess of its debts.

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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. Reader Question: Does the Fed Balance Sheet Properly Reflect QE Announcements? The feds balance sheet doesnt reflect it. Feds Balance Sheet. QE History.

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The 3 Company Crises Boards Should Watch For

Harvard Business

Their operating environment changes in a way they don’t recognize, or they take on a project that they believe is within their capability but isn’t. But as the organization grew, its operations became more complex. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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What is a Healthy Company?

Markovitz Consulting

Similarly, one of the primary drivers of GE’s fall from grace was the reckless pursuit of profits from its financing operations. But the deindustrialization of large swaths of the country over the past 40 years have shown the danger of just meeting that bare minimum. What makes for a healthy company?

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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. Many of these uses of bond proceeds are not eligible for tax-exempt financing under the federal tax code." The Corporate Fund is Chicago’s general operating fund.

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Laughable Eurozone Banking "Non-Union"; Expect Disorderly Breakup

MishTalk

A Financial Times analysis of the full banking union resolution process for a lender operating in three countries reveals the labyrinthine procedure that would still be required to wind up a bank. At the heart of the disagreement is what to do when so-called bank resolution funds, financed by the banking sector, run out of money.

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