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

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“The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says. The most important concepts to grasp are “how to measure profitability, EBITDA, operating income, revenue, and operating expenses,” he says. Related Video. Go it alone.

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

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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.