Tom Spencer

JULY 7, 2023

I was assigned to a typical strategy engagement – should client X selling product Y increase sales in market Z? However, we struggled to calculate profitability over time, as the client had multiple kinds of products and used various procurement methods. When we asked the client to provide the needed data, they ghosted us.

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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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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

If you want to create the environment for high performance, you’d better understand the importance of business acumen and the financials behind the business. We believe that employees need to better understand the key factors that affect a company’s operations and financial strength to improve decision-making and strategy execution.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 27, 2011

European leaders are now using the same brand of financial wizardry which created the global financial crisis in the first place. Characterising the writedown of Greek debt as “private sector involvement” is more of the same financial manipulation, but it is also shrewd politics. Leave a Comment Now. Leave a Comment.

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Balance Sheet Consulting Case Interview Financial 89

LSA Global

JANUARY 20, 2023

Getting a Sales Meeting with an Executive is Just the First Step Once you’ve opened the door to a sales meeting with an executive meeting, know that executive buyers expect a much broader, more strategic focus than those prove-yourself meetings with lower-tiered contacts who want to discuss product features, benefits, and costs.

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Johanna Rothman

JUNE 9, 2020

I see the most product and program success when the various teams create transparency between them, the middle of the continuum. That's the full-product transparency. That's because the managers don't explain: Why this product. Why this product now, as opposed to any of the other work we could do.

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Women in Consulting

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

into office supplies, these items must now be put on the balance sheet and depreciated and tracked. There are two exceptions to the $200 limit: If the taxpayer has audited financial statements or filing statements with the SEC, they can have a limit of $5000. Instead of lumping items like cheap printers, phones, routers, etc.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

How can you boost your financial acumen? After all, if you’re trying to sell a product or strategy, you need to be able to demonstrate that it is both practical and high margin. “You are not going to be involved in running projects unless you understand the financials,” he says. .” Overcome your fears.

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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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Martinka Consulting

MARCH 5, 2021

Have a strong balance sheet. Have accurate and consistent financial statements (this often means don’t blend your business and personal checkbooks). Pay them a fair wage, have a good culture, and keep productivity high. For buyers, the financial statements are the starting point but they’re a long way from the end.

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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. Productivity. (6). A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. Posted by Consultant Ninja. at 7:39 PM. Labels: Analysis. Consulting. (88).

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

Financial fluctuations (“financial cycles”) that can end in banking crises such as the recent one last much longer than business cycles. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Yet financial cycles can go largely undetected. Historical evidence shows that this rarely happens following a balance sheet recession.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2013

China''s Move to Market-Set Rates Let''s step back to December 8 and look at China Relaxes Grip on Interest Rates China is relaxing its grip on interest rates with the launch of a financial instrument that allows banks to trade deposits with each other at market-determined prices. China’s credit boom is still in full swing.

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Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

Due to improved technology and rising productivity, the Federal Reserve has been able to juice the money supply for more than 70 years without it showing up too much in the price level. America is awash in debt, and higher rates will place many borrowers in financial distress. The measure of inflation has changed.

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MishTalk

APRIL 17, 2015

Others, such as Scott Sumner of Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts, argue that the Fed should adopt a goal for the growth of nominal gross domestic product, rather than focusing on a price index. Bernanke also made the case in his presentation for keeping the Fed’s balance sheet big in the aftermath of the financial crisis. [Is

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MishTalk

JANUARY 28, 2014

On January 15, Reuters reported China''s ICBC says won''t compensate investors in troubled shadow bank product. 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."

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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. As a result, USAA outperforms most competitors in the number of products held by its customers. Take a balance-sheet view. banking and insurance businesses.

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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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MishTalk

DECEMBER 25, 2013

Heading into 2014, Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets remains adamant that growth estimates for China are too high and that rebalancing (while necessary), implies lower growth than most expect. In theory these conditions can be counterbalanced by an explosion in productivity unleashed by the reforms.

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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. Countries may experience hyperinflation, which means rapidly rising consumer prices.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Imports among the world’s 20 largest economies have fallen as a share of their gross domestic product for four consecutive years. trillion, or 9%, over the past two years, and at just $646 billion, foreign direct investment in rich economies last year represented a 40% drop from the peak before the financial crisis.

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MishTalk

JANUARY 8, 2014

Participants were most concerned about the marginal cost of additional asset purchases arising from risks to financial stability, pointing out that a highly accommodative stance of monetary policy could provide an incentive for excessive risk-taking in the financial sector.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 12, 2015

financial conference in New York. Ally isn’t expected to start offering risky products the way GMAC did, according to Jeff Davis at Mercer Capital. Timeline of Ally's Actions Housing wire presents an interesting timeline of Ally's actions in Ally Financial Getting Back Into Mortgage Business.

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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. Various other products. Non-interest Income.

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MishTalk

JUNE 27, 2013

China Financial Markets. Financial Sense. Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets commented on the liquidity crunch and spike in SHIBOR a few days ago via email. Second, the way the crisis was handled should make it clear that volatility in the financial sector is suppressed by administrative measures. Burning Platform.

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MishTalk

JULY 16, 2014

Readers of our letters are familiar with our long-standing assessment that the cause of slower growth is the overly indebted economy with too much non-productive debt. Rather than repairing its balance sheet by reducing debt, the U.S. in the 1940s, has moved further away from financial stability. Japan, unlike the U.S.

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MishTalk

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Without paying banks interest to hold excess reserves idle in the banking system, the Fed could reduce its balance sheet by more than one-third (over $1.4 So it simply acts as a hot potato, encouraging yield-seeking speculation in the financial markets. Notice something.

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MishTalk

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Third-quarter Gross Domestic Product grew at a 1.5 My personal belief is the trucking industry needs to realize production of goods will have ups and downs,” Satish Jindel, principal of SJ Consulting , which closely tracks industry pricing, told Logistics Management. in October from 50.2 in September.

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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. The number of directors and officers would be reduced.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 26, 2014

In either case they reduce consumption demand relative to production. If together these two effects increase demand faster than lower rates increase production (as businesses take advantage of cheaper financing to expand production facilities), there is likely to be upward pressure on prices. The reason has to do with debt.

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Harvard Business

JULY 14, 2017

They grow faster, make more money, and are more valued than companies organized around products and services. A production process turns inputs into outputs and distributes them through a tightly controlled supply chain. Value is in the products and services themselves. We normally think of people as something to be managed.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 30, 2017

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. GE made a $4 billion bet on connecting industrial equipment through the internet of things and analytical software with a suite of products called Predix Cloud.

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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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MishTalk

APRIL 6, 2015

despite very accommodative financial conditions and record corporate profits, growth of business fixed investment has been tepid. Looking forward, my outlook for 2015 is that economic growth will be close to the pace of the past two years, supported by continued solid fundamentals and accommodative financial conditions.

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MishTalk

MARCH 17, 2014

Michael Pettis at China Financial Markets taught me much of what I know about global trade. But by taking purchasing power out of the hands of mass consumers, the savers denied to themselves the kind of effective demand for their products that would justify a reinvestment of their capital accumulations in new plants.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 30, 2017

Scholars from a number of fields have offered explanations for this transition, including globalization, technological change, declining unionization, heightened product market competition, and the rise of finance. And improved worker productivity and lower turnover frequently more than offsets these firms’ higher labor rates.

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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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