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Market Cycles

CaseInterview.com

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Boosting Business Profitability

Business Consulting Agency

This includes scrutinizing income statements, balance sheets, and cash flow statements. Consultants guide organizations in making strategic decisions that reduce waste and enhance resource allocation. They assist in developing competitive strategies to capitalize on market opportunities and gain a competitive edge.

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Coronavirus & Consulting Offers

Tom Spencer

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. You’d be foolish to think that every company is not having a conversation about how the virus impacts hiring and human resources. Commerce has ground to a halt.

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M&A deals – benefits and drawbacks

Tom Spencer

Depending on the firm and specific role this case could be very strategic and operational like doing a market entry/growth-type case or very technical (i.e. Increased market share : assuming the two companies are in the same industry, bringing their resources together may result in larger market share. Conclusion.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: Valuation

Tom Spencer

Building on information provided in Management Consulting: A Guide to the Profession , I highlight three approaches that a consultant can use when performing a valuation: Balance sheet valuation; Market based valuation; and. Valuation of discounted expected future cash flows.

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Consultant Ninja: A Simple Question about the Credit Markets.

Consultant Ninja

A Simple Question about the Credit Markets. 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. But wouldnt that be a better market result than letting the sick banks keep their share?

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

In the 2016 book The End of Accounting , NYU Stern Professor Baruch Lev claimed that over the last 100 years or so, financial reports have become less useful in capital market decisions. This becomes clear when you look at a company’s two most important financial statements: the balance sheet and the income statement.