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

Harvard Business

The value of that carried interest, of course, depends on the performance of the business, its size, amount of debt used to finance the acquisition and the eventual pricing of a subsequent sale. This leaves us only with the cash flows that occur between the purchase and the eventual sale.

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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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A Refresher on Marketing ROI

Harvard Business

It’s about “delivering customers and sales.” That challenge, however, pales in comparison with the difficulty of measuring incremental financial value. To do this, you need to establish your sales baseline. What would our sales and profits have been if we didn’t spend on this marketing program?

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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.

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Shockingly Bad Fiscal Health of Chicago (and the Financial Engineering Chicago Uses to Hide that Fact)

MishTalk

Among other things, she handles the structuring and sale of bonds for schools across the state. Although most governments are required to balance their budgets on a cash flow basis each fiscal year, a structural budget gap can arise when recurring expenditures are greater than recurring revenues.