Tom Spencer

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The travel and hospitality industries have been decimated, stock markets around the world have tanked, and governments struggle to combat this devil on so many fronts. During the dotcom bubble, the financial crisis, and the real estate bubble, what did consulting firms do? Commerce has ground to a halt.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

Our analysis was impossible without extensive internal data and financial statements. We repeated our request a week later, but they only provided a balance sheet from the previous year. Most companies will have historical data pursuant to the recording protocols of their industry.

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Tom Spencer

OCTOBER 26, 2019

building financial models like DCF, accretion/dilution, LBO, etc.). Increased market share : assuming the two companies are in the same industry, bringing their resources together may result in larger market share. Reduced labor costs : eliminating staffing redundancies can help reduce costs. Potential Drawbacks. Image: Pixabay.

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LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2023

Here are the three research-backed areas to focus on as you prepare: Know the Client’s Industry Executive buyers do not suffer fools. Know the Client’s Company Next you need to develop a deep understanding of your client company’s business within the context of their industry.

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Martinka Consulting

MAY 4, 2018

I recently had discussions with a client who would like to sell to one of his three competitors (given his industry, these are the only logical buyers). Have solid financial systems and accurate financial statements. You’d be surprised how often it isn’t the same.).

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Draghi Has it Backwards A director at a global financial company with offices worldwide pinged me in response to my post ECB''s €40bn Stimulus Gamble: ECB Pulls Out Bazooka, Cuts Rates, Buys Assets; Will this Stimulate Lending? An increase in the ECB''s balance sheet to that size would imply something on the order of one trillion euros.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Today, most global banks are diversified financial institutions with operations beyond the scope of normal banking, and may have a business mix more reflective of the following: Personal & Commercial Banking (Retail/Commercial) – this will be the main focus of this post. Non-interest Income. Funding and the Loan Mix.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 31, 2017

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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MishTalk

APRIL 12, 2015

Before the financial crisis, when Alan Greenspan, then chairman of the Fed, was insisting all was well with the banks, one Fed governor, the late Edward Gramlich, warned of mounting risks. The Global Capital Index illustrates how financial resiliency is still sorely lacking,” Vice Chairman Hoenig said. He was ignored.

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Consultant Ninja

MARCH 31, 2009

Heres my understanding of the current TARP/TARPII/PPIP/etc plans: The major "sick" banks wont lend to businesses, because their balance sheets are tied up with bad assets that they cant sell. I think what you say makes sense, but implementation of your idea requires quite an re-allocation of industry resources. at 7:39 PM.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

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.” Here are some strategies to improve your financial intelligence.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 12, 2016

Most of these companies are private and don’t publish their balance sheets. For example, Andreas and Daniel Sennheiser, the co-CEOs of audio equipment manufacturer Sennheiser, told me: It’s important to us to retain a high equity ratio and not to bounce from one financial quarter to the next.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Draghiz e: "The test is credible because the ultimate purpose of it is to restore or strengthen private sector confidence in the soundness of the banks, in the quality of their balance sheets" Mish : The test is credible because we say it is. Conclusion: expect another stress-free test.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Even in healthier financial times, such as now, firms often downsize because it is seen as a way to reduce costs, adjust structures, and create leaner, more efficient workplaces. Many of these effects may have long-term consequences, like reduced innovation, that are not captured in short-term financial metrics.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The financial services firm USAA prizes its relationships with customers and consistently earns the highest customer loyalty scores in the industry for both its U.S. telecommunications industry found that up to 60% of customers split their services across multiple providers for mobile phone, landline, TV, and internet services.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, the world''s largest bank by assets, said on Thursday that it has no plans to use its own money to repay investors in a troubled off-balance-sheet investment product that it helped to market." Industrial & Commercial Bank of China Ltd. Investors should have taken a hit.

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Harvard Business

MAY 28, 2018

Then a new CFO joined the company: Masashi Oka, a financial industry veteran who had played a key role in transforming Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group-owned Union Bank in the US. Nikon watched its profits sink and its stock price at one point fell below liquidation value. This time it was to investors that Oka looked.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Trucking Industry Entering a Profit-Killing Era of Overcapacity? As surface transportation’s peak period ends for the year, and trucking eyes the traditionally slowest time for the industry as first quarter 2016, economic signals are, at best, mixed. So far, the industry does not appear to be doing that. percent to $160.7

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Tom Spencer

MAY 9, 2020

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.

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MishTalk

APRIL 1, 2015

Kristi Culpepper, a bond guru, has gone over Chicago''s annual financial report, bond documents, investor presentations, and CAFRs. 28, as Bond Girl, she wrote a 1,650-word blog post for the Financial Times’ Alphaville on a proposed debtor-in-possession financing for bankrupt Detroit. She knows what she is talking about.

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Harvard Business

APRIL 14, 2016

But this new report, by estimating the risk to all financial assets and portfolios, finds a powerful middle ground that should get investor attention. When investors look at climate risk – if they do at all – they’ve focused mainly on what worldwide action to reduce carbon will do to the fossil fuel industry.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He radically transformed the company from a classic conglomerate that did everything to one that focused on its core industrial businesses. He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Jeff Immelt ran GE for 16 years. of the company.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

I don''t and neither does Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets. The Financial Times reports China house price surge raises prospect of steps to cool market. This means that the foreign currency reserves are simply the asset side of a balance sheet against which there are liabilities. Bullish Arguments.

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Markovitz Consulting

MAY 19, 2021

As with individuals, there will be disagreement over metrics, but clearly we have to consider financial performance, internal stakeholders (employees), and external stakeholders (community). It’s a lot more than a healthy balance sheet, although that’s certainly a necessary—but not sufficient—precondition.

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Harvard Business

JANUARY 16, 2017

Another CEO used prodigious management skills to successfully consolidate, grow, and dramatically increase the efficiency of a vertically integrated industrial company. To restore its balance sheet, it had to sell half the business. This appears to explain events at the industrial company. Shortcomings in Self-Governance.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

Think of platforms and networks in our digital age as the equivalent of electricity and motors in the industrial age. Every organization has five types of capital: human, financial, intellectual, physical, and relational. For most companies intellectual property is something that sits on their balance sheet.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Take, for example, computer-aided design software , which has greatly transformed the organization of work in many industries. It is clear that most corporate executives face a daunting set of challenges in dealing with the pressures of globalization, technological change, heightened competition, and financial performance targets.

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Harvard Business

JULY 12, 2017

While Edward Lloyd is largely credited with commercializing the insurance industry, with the creation of his namesake firm, Lloyd’s, over 330 years ago, the original concept of spreading risk (or “mutualizing”) goes back even further. Rather, they can become early adopters of the technology.

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MishTalk

JULY 13, 2015

This makes silver an unattractive element for high velocity payments as we subsidize the storage fee from our own operational balance sheet. The argument could be made that it is not a financial account if it is allocated gold only. Storage fees at GoldMoney are the lowest in the industry. Reader Mike Writes.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

It has been 10 years since the global financial crisis, and the fall-out continues in the industry that was at its epicenter: banking. There has been a truly dramatic retrenchment from foreign markets, making banking a rare case of an industry becoming less, rather than more, global.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Harvard Business

MARCH 14, 2017

Loyalty programs have proliferated across travel, retail, financial services, and other economic sectors. See More Videos > See More Videos > All loyalty programs are vulnerable to a blockchain revolution, but the travel industry is perhaps the most at risk. The average U.S. The Benefits of Disruption.

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MishTalk

OCTOBER 8, 2015

If China isn't going to expand its balance sheet anymore, that means it has to stop buying treasuries. When China stops expanding its balance sheet, that also means that the Chinese currency is going to appreciate, and China said it will allow that appreciation to happen. Now what does that mean? Inflation Tsunami?

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 18, 2017

These fears aren’t unfounded: managers across industries have cost targets and technology enables lower-value tasks to move from people to machines. This is true both for “on balance sheet” workers and the gig economy. Any CFO will look at multiple ways to reinvest financial capital.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

But while such information exchanges have become technically feasible, they are not yet financially beneficial to the information provider and difficult for the customer to value and incorporate into their management systems. Financially, organizations require new models to account for information assets beyond treating them as intangibles.

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MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets taught me much of what I know about global trade. The amount of debt globally has soared more than 40 percent to $100 trillion since the first signs of the financial crisis as governments borrowed to pull their economies out of recession and companies took advantage of record low interest rates.

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Tom Spencer

AUGUST 12, 2020

Responding to high levels of debt and financial instability, one would expect to see each bank try to protect itself by shrinking its loan book. This inadvertently fuels asset bubbles and financial instability. In 2020, the Fed has galloped over the precipice, increasing its balance sheet by around $2.8

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