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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

This is a relatively simple exercise when analysts have access to rich enough data (say, a firm’s transaction log) – in such a case, we can directly observe how old each and every customer was, and there are time-tested models traditionally employed by actuaries to predict drop-off patterns by tenure across customer cohorts.

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How to Improve Your Finance Skills (Even If You Hate Numbers)

Harvard Business

“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. ” This can be a useful exercise, but don’t let it consume you, says Ruback. Case Study #1: Partner with a colleague in finance and experiment with numbers.

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