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Earnings Cheating Season: Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books?

MishTalk

Is Your Favorite Company Cooking the Books? In addition to his own excellent analysis, Albert linked to Montier''s C-Score: Are your favourite stocks cooking the books? Is there a growing divergence between net income and operating cash-flow? To help decide, Montier came up with six questions.

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Winning Isn’t Everything: The Art of Playing Well

Tom Spencer

Companies that operate with integrity are more likely to build sustainable business models, which ultimately benefit the company, its employees, society, and the environment. In 1988, he purchased a large stake in the company, seeing its strong brand, steady cash flow, and long-term growth potential.

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Financial Shenanigans Versus Incompetence

Martinka Consulting

We have a government with annual deficits of $1 trillion and with a lot more “off the books” because there are non-budget items. I’m working on a potential deal where the owner (and his advisors) setup five companies, two operating, one management, one for real estate, and one for equipment.

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Deals Should be Nothing but Common Sense

Martinka Consulting

Operating experience – Sam said be careful if you don’t have operating experience. You must use free cash flow to truly calculate ROI. As I said in the first paragraph, the comments in the webinar are the same as our thoughts and what’s in our books, podcasts, and newsletters.

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Growth by Acquisition Isn’t for Everybody

Martinka Consulting

In my book, Company Growth By Acquisition Makes Dollars & Sense I have a list of 19 reasons to consider growing by acquisition. Buying another company, assimilating it into your operation, and showing that the combined profits are greater than the two individual companies’ profits demonstrates to potential buyers that this can be done.

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Consultant Ninja: When "hedging" is just speculation: Management.

Consultant Ninja

The Company’s cash flows and results of operations have been adversely impacted by these factors as indicated by its net loss of $5.3 Just buying the calls would have been a much better (if more cash intensive up front) strategy. smoother P/L in the hedge book). March 5, 2009 at 9:35 AM. Post a Comment.

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Strong Economy – Strong Buy-Sell Market

Martinka Consulting

They’re betting they are smarter and better managers, leaders, and operators than their corporate bosses (usually these people are better than their bosses but get trapped in the corporate labyrinth) and they’ll benefit financially and emotionally with their own business (which most do). Ten-year amortization.