Brimstone Consulting

MARCH 12, 2020

After a decade of growing organic herbs and vegetables and raising farm animals, a family-run New England farm decided to pivot and produce high-end functional CBD products. This pivot required the organization to change its business model from wholesale agricultural commodities to the production and retail of consumer goods.

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Case Study Case Studies Cash Flow Retail 53

Tom Spencer

MARCH 17, 2023

This idea has been echoed by some of the most influential figures in the business and finance world, including Professor Michael Porter, Michael Lewis, and Warren Buffett. This is because such companies may engage in unethical practices, such as cutting corners on safety or quality in order to maximise short-term profits.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 31, 2017

If you’re not a numbers person, finance is daunting. 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. “The decision-makers will want to see a simple model that shows revenue, costs, overhead, and cash flow,” he says.

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Tom Spencer

JULY 21, 2018

During one of my internships I worked on a due diligence project, which involved conducting market research to help a PE firm decide whether to acquire a major stake in a joint venture owned by one of the largest telecom companies in Asia. This allows them to value the target company and determine a bid price. Image: Pexels.

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BCG

DECEMBER 15, 2016

Increasingly, managers find themselves in sometimes heated debate, pitted against their companies’ actuaries, product managers, risk and finance executives, and boards of directors. Many internal asset managers have become caught in the headlights of this rising scrutiny.

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Tom Spencer

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

After going through a handful of interviews through referrals, direct reach out from HR/hiring team, and LinkedIn/company website applications I would categorize my interviews into three buckets: Corporate strategy. While some companies would group corporate development and corporate strategy together a lot of them have it as separate teams.

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Interviews Case Interview Strategy Strategy 68

Harvard Business

JULY 19, 2016

The publicly traded, limited liability company is the engine of the modern western economy. It is our money that funds these companies, and, through investment institutions, we reap the dividends from their profits to pay for our pensions and other costs. Publicly traded companies have become essentially ownerless.

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Martinka Consulting

APRIL 26, 2019

Well, the median revenue of these companies was about $500,000 and the median selling price was about $250,000. Typically these are companies where the owner is behind the counter and if he or she hired someone to do that work they would go broke. 70% of medium sized companies will change hands (2008). Supplier’s company.

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LSA Global

MAY 9, 2019

It is not just the purview of finance to interpret the numbers that govern profit and loss; it behooves every employee to understand how and why the company makes money, spends money, and measures financial performance. Cash flow. With term definitions in hand, analyze your company’s balance sheet. Where to Start.

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Harvard Business

JULY 17, 2018

During Jeff Immelt’s tenure as CEO of General Electric, from 2001 until 2017, the company’s stock price fell by over 30%, a decline of roughly $150 billion in shareholder value. So, during GE’s long and steep decline, where was the company’s board of directors? The Board Had No Finance Committee.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! level, title, company size, industry, etc.) This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Before we get started. AND their psychographics (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 3, 2018

In a recent HBR article , we claimed that modern digital companies such as Uber, Facebook, and Alphabet play an increasingly important role in the economy, but their financial statements fail to capture company’s main value drivers. The first category should describe the amount spent on supporting current operations.

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Consulting Matters

JANUARY 7, 2019

However, there will be times when you have to feel the cash flow pressure and need to find clients.right now! level, title, company size, industry, etc.) This helps discern where to focus your time, money and efforts and keeps you from being busy but not productive. Before we get started. AND their psychographics (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

JUNE 8, 2018

The market caps of just four companies, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and Microsoft, now exceed $3 trillion. Their combined assets of $944 billion are an order of magnitude lower than the combined assets of $7,700 billion of the largest 3,177 companies in 1986, when the aggregate market capitalization reached $3 trillion for the first time.

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MishTalk

DECEMBER 11, 2014

Energy production is extremely capital intense, and often accompanied by negative free cash flow. These companies need money, and snake-oil salesmen attempt to get it for them. CJES), postponed financings this month as sentiment soured. oil production which requires abundant capital,” Lafakis said.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Even a star company like Nigeria’s online retailer Jumia ( known by some as the potential “African Amazon” ) is struggling to return profits to early investor Rocket Internet, of Germany. A few of these companies manage to transcend national boundaries and scale to a larger size. Factors of Production.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 29, 2018

Each of the new companies offers the hope of transforming the performance of the U.S. Instead, the finance office can allow the department to keep some of the savings it created, in excess of the original acquisition cost, in future year budgets. Gillian Blease/Getty Images. health care system.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

” The UK Government is launching an inquiry into buybacks , due to concerns that they “may be crowding out the allocation of surplus capital to productive investment.” A comprehensive survey of financial executives concluded that “repurchases are made out of the residual cash flow after investment spending.”

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Harvard Business

APRIL 26, 2017

Recent analysis by Bain and SAP found that only 7% of bank credit products could be handled digitally from end to end. Moreover, in instances where borrowers want to shop and compare myriad options in one place, they turn to online credit brokers like Fundera or Intuit’s QuickBooks Financing for a one-stop shopping experience.

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MishTalk

AUGUST 7, 2013

Get Involved The State of the Unions Finances: A Citizens Guide. So refraining from any forecast of what will happen in the near term, it’s sufficient to observe that the economic data is not nearly as strong as widely perceived, and the impact of QE on stock prices does nothing to improve the underlying cash flows.

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MishTalk

JULY 11, 2014

It could represent a hidden vulnerability, especially if backed by domestic currency cash flows derived from overextended sectors, such as property, or used for carry trades or other forms of speculative position-taking. Financing problems of non-financial corporations in EMEs can also feed into the banking system. trillion.

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Harvard Business

MAY 1, 2017

The global financial crisis prompted many companies to pull in their horns, hoard cash, trim costs, and take a wary view of large investments. Bain & Company’s Macro Trends Group carefully analyzed the global balance sheet and found that the world is awash in money. times global GDP) to more than $600 trillion (9.5

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Previously dominated by the likes of newspapers, magazines, gyms, utilities, and telecommunications firms, more products and services are being offered to more people through subscriptions than ever before. went public in June, then saw its stock price fall 70%, making it the worst performing IPO of a major company so far in 2017.

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Harvard Business

JULY 13, 2016

Lots of companies would love to implement a subscription model, especially one with a sticky online community component. For finance, short-term revenue gains do not justify poor treatment of members. Love their members more than their products. For sales, the moment of transaction is the start, not the finish line.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Companies deliver superior results when executives manage for long-term value creation and resist pressure from analysts and investors to focus excessively on meeting Wall Street’s quarterly earnings expectations. We’ve seen companies such as Unilever, AT&T, and Amazon succeed by sticking resolutely to a long-term view.

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