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Cash Flow Relief for Independent Consultants: the CARES Act & Other Ideas

Successful Independent Consulting

This article explains your options for cash-flow relief, whether you need it immediately or in the near future, and how to get it. There are several ways to get some cash-flow relief to help you pay your bills in the near term as a result of the $2 trillion CARES Act: 1. A stimulus payment from the U.S. government 2.

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Fool Me Once Or Fool Me All The Time

Martinka Consulting

First, five points from the article I found interesting and then some comparisons to other areas of business. A 1932 research paper showed firms had loaded up with cash and post-crash, “companies were flush with cash and investors beleaguered,” which they wouldn’t pay out. Adjusted Ebitda or adjusted earnings are the norm.

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How Competition Is Driving AI’s Rapid Adoption

Harvard Business

In comparison, absorption of AI might reach today’s level of digital absorption by 2027—in roughly ten years. About half of those will do so in half the time, and may more than double their operating cash flows by 2030. These companies could lose around 20% of cash flow by 2030 compared with today.

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Which MBAs Make More: Consultants or Small-Business Owners?

Harvard Business

To keep things simple, we’ll take advantage of our assumptions of no growth and a constant multiple and ignore the actual timing of the cash flows. This leaves us only with the cash flows that occur between the purchase and the eventual sale. In this example, the annual cash flow is $1.5

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Is Corporate Short-Termism Really a Problem? The Jury’s Still Out

Harvard Business

It is also the case that the companies generating the highest immediate cash flows, which should be overvalued on the myopia theory, historically have had the highest stock market returns , implying undervaluation rather than overvaluation. McKinsey tries to address this issue by doing comparisons within industries.

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CFO Branding 101

Free Agent CFO

In a recent example, he revealed that the prospect was controlling the conversation and appeared to have the upper hand with pricing since he was comparison shopping. You’re spending far too much time talking about fixing cash flow problems (remember, that’s typically a symptom of a far bigger problem).

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How Incentives for Long-Term Management Backfire

Harvard Business

With the best of intentions, many proxy advisors and long-term investors have widely blessed three years as appropriate, adopting three-year pay for performance as their standard comparison. Another company, in the agricultural technology sector, chose free cash flow as the primary long-term incentive measure.